Gansingen is a

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in the district of Laufenburg in the

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Aargau Aargau ( ; ), more formally the Canton of Aargau (; ; ; ), is one of the Canton of Switzerland, 26 cantons forming the Switzerland, Swiss Confederation. It is composed of eleven districts and its capital is Aarau. Aargau is one of the most nort ...

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History

While some

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artifacts have been discovered, the village of Gansingen is first mentioned in 1240 as ''Gansungen''. Gansingen is located on the old road between the

Rhine The Rhine ( ) is one of the List of rivers of Europe, major rivers in Europe. The river begins in the Swiss canton of Graubünden in the southeastern Swiss Alps. It forms part of the Swiss-Liechtenstein border, then part of the Austria–Swit ...

valley and the

Aare The Aare () or Aar () is the main tributary of the High Rhine (its discharge even exceeds that of the latter at their confluence) and the longest river that both rises and ends entirely within Switzerland. Its total length from its source to i ...

valley over the ''Bürersteig''. Between 1700 and 1723 a number of

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ards emigrated to Gansingen. Until the creation of the

Helvetic Republic The Helvetic Republic (; ; ) was a sister republic of France that existed between 1798 and 1803, during the French Revolutionary Wars. It was created following the French invasion and the consequent dissolution of the Old Swiss Confederacy, ma ...

in 1797 it belonged to the court of Bernau in the

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of Laufenburg. Then, with the

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and the creation of the Canton of Aargau in 1803, it became part of the new Canton. In 1805, the pastor Johann Nepomuk Brentano built a girls' school in the village. In 1814, a fire raged through the village, and in 1829 the hamlet of Galten was destroyed by fire. The

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of St. George was first mentioned in 1240 and was replaced with a new building in the 19th century. Until 1802, the rights to appoint the parish priest and property rights to the land were held 1802 were in possession of the

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of Säckingen. Because of crop failures in the mid-19th Century, the village population decreased after a wave of emigration. Until the 20th Century, the major economic sources in Gansingen were agriculture and light manufacturing. Today, many residents commute into the region of Baden-Brugg and the Rhine valley. Gansingen P6A5416

Geography

Gansingen has an area, , of . Of this area, or 54.0% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 37.9% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 7.8% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.2% is either rivers or lakes.Swiss Federal Statistical Office-Land Use Statistics
2009 data accessed 25 March 2010 Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 4.1% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.7%. 35.5% of the total land area is heavily forested and 2.4% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 23.3% is used for growing crops and 26.5% is pastures, while 4.3% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is in rivers and streams. The municipality is located in the Laufenburg district, in the upper ''

Fricktal The Fricktal ("Frick Valley") is a region on Northwestern Switzerland, comprising the Laufenburg and Rheinfelden districts of the Swiss canton of Aargau. The region was known as ''Frickgau'' in the medieval period, ultimately from a Late Lati ...

''. It consists of the ''haufendorf'' village (an irregular, unplanned and quite closely packed village, built around a central square) of Gansingen and the

hamlets A hamlet is a human settlement that is smaller than a town or village. This is often simply an informal description of a smaller settlement or possibly a subdivision or satellite entity to a larger settlement. Sometimes a hamlet is defined f ...

of Büren and Galten.

Coat of arms

The

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of the municipal

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is ''Azure a Goose Argent rising beaked and membered Or on Coupeaux Vert''. This is an example of

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where the

goose A goose (: geese) is a bird of any of several waterfowl species in the family Anatidae. This group comprises the genera '' Anser'' (grey geese and white geese) and '' Branta'' (black geese). Some members of the Tadorninae subfamily (e.g., Egy ...

() represents part of the municipal name.

Demographics

Gansingen has a population () of . , 3.9% of the population are foreign nationals.Statistical Department of Canton Aargau -Bereich 01 -Bevölkerung
accessed 20 January 2010 Over the last 10 years (1997–2007) the population has changed at a rate of -0.1%. Most of the population () speaks German (96.7%), with English being second most common ( 0.6%) and French being third ( 0.5%).
accessed 3 May 2010 The age distribution, , in Gansingen is; 86 children or 9.0% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 123 teenagers or 12.9% are between 10 and 19. Of the adult population, 114 people or 11.9% of the population are between 20 and 29 years old. 107 people or 11.2% are between 30 and 39, 152 people or 15.9% are between 40 and 49, and 151 people or 15.8% are between 50 and 59. The senior population distribution is 114 people or 11.9% of the population are between 60 and 69 years old, 71 people or 7.4% are between 70 and 79, there are 30 people or 3.1% who are between 80 and 89, and there are 6 people or 0.6% who are 90 and older.Statistical Department of Canton Aargau -Bevölkerungsdaten für den Kanton Aargau und die Gemeinden (Archiv)
accessed 20 January 2010 the average number of residents per living room was 0.57 which is about equal to the cantonal average of 0.57 per room. In this case, a room is defined as space of a housing unit of at least as normal bedrooms, dining rooms, living rooms, kitchens and habitable cellars and attics. About 74.8% of the total households were owner occupied, or in other words did not pay rent (though they may have a

mortgage A mortgage loan or simply mortgage (), in civil law (legal system), civil law jurisdictions known also as a hypothec loan, is a loan used either by purchasers of real property to raise funds to buy real estate, or by existing property owners t ...

or a

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agreement).Urban Audit Glossary pg 17 , there were 19 homes with 1 or 2 persons in the household, 93 homes with 3 or 4 persons in the household, and 205 homes with 5 or more persons in the household. , there were 326 private households (homes and apartments) in the municipality, and an average of 2.8 persons per household. there were 204 single family homes (or 54.0% of the total) out of a total of 378 homes and apartments.Statistical Department of Canton Aargau
accessed 20 January 2010 There were a total of 7 empty apartments for a 1.9% vacancy rate. , the construction rate of new housing units was 1.1 new units per 1000 residents. In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SVP which received 36.4% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the CVP (31.2%), the SP (11.8%) and the FDP (8.2%). The entire Swiss population is generally well educated. In Gansingen about 73.8% of the population (between age 25–64) have completed either non-mandatory

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or additional higher education (either university or a ''

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''). Of the school age population (), there are 72 students attending

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, there are 55 students attending

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in the municipality. The historical population is given in the following table:

Economy

, Gansingen had an unemployment rate of 1.72%. , there were 92 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 29 businesses involved in this sector. 14 people are employed in the

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and there are 7 businesses in this sector. 83 people are employed in the

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, with 23 businesses in this sector. there were 470 workers who lived in the municipality. Of these, 348 or about 74.0% of the residents worked outside Gansingen while 46 people commuted into the municipality for work. There were a total of 168 jobs (of at least 6 hours per week) in the municipality.Statistical Department of Canton Aargau-Bereich 11 Verkehr und Nachrichtenwesen
accessed 21 January 2010 Of the working population, 12.1% used public transportation to get to work, and 57.2% used a private car.

Religion

From the , 703 or 75.8% were

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, while 145 or 15.6% belonged to the

Swiss Reformed Church The Protestant Church in Switzerland (PCS), formerly named Federation of Swiss Protestant Churches until 31 December 2019, is a federation of 25 member churches – 24 cantonal churches and the Evangelical-Methodist Church of Switzerland. The P ...

.Statistical Department of Canton Aargau – Aargauer Zahlen 2009
accessed 20 January 2010

References

External links

* {{Authority control Municipalities of Aargau