Ingenbohl (

High Alemannic High Alemannic is a dialect of Alemannic German spoken in the westernmost Austrian state of Vorarlberg and in Switzerland and Liechtenstein. Language area The High Alemannic dialects are spoken in Liechtenstein and in most of German-speakin ...

: ''Ingäbohl'') is a

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality ...

in Schwyz District in the

canton of Schwyz The canton of Schwyz (german: Kanton Schwyz rm, Chantun Sviz; french: Canton de Schwytz; it, Canton Svitto) is a canton in central Switzerland between the Alps in the south, Lake Lucerne to the west and Lake Zürich in the north, centred o ...

in Switzerland.

History

Ingenbohl is first mentioned in 1387 as ''uff Ingenbol''.

Geography

Ingenbohl has an area, , of . Of this area, 31% is used for agricultural purposes, while 49.1% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 16.1% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (3.8%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains). Ingenbohl is located along the Lake of Lucerne. It consists of the village of Ingenbohl and the hamlets of Brunnen, Wilen, Schränggigen and Unterschönenbuch as well as scattered farm houses.

Demographics

Ingenbohl has a population (as of ) of . , 19.4% of the population was made up of foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years the population has grown at a rate of 16.1%. Most of the population () speaks German (88.9%), with Serbo-Croatian being second most common ( 3.5%) and Italian being third ( 2.4%).Swiss Federal Statistical Office
accessed 28-Aug-2009 the gender distribution of the population was 45.2% male and 54.8% female. The age distribution, , in Ingenbohl is; 1,724 people or 23.0% of the population is between 0 and 19. 2,069 people or 27.7% are 20 to 39, and 2,325 people or 31.1% are 40 to 64. The senior population distribution is 667 people or 8.9% are 65 to 74. There are 470 people or 6.3% who are 70 to 79 and 227 people or 3.03% of the population who are over 80. There is one person in Ingenbohl who is over 100 years old.Canton Schwyz Statistics
accessed 27 August 2009 there are 2,899 households, of which 892 households (or about 30.8%) contain only a single individual. 148 or about 5.1% are large households, with at least five members. In the 2007 election the most popular party was the SVP which received 38.1% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the CVP (29.4%), the SPS (16.1%) and the FDP (12.2%). The entire Swiss population is generally well educated. In Ingenbohl about 68.5% 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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''). Ingenbohl has an unemployment rate of 1.8%. , there were 109 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 39 businesses involved in this sector. 452 people are employed in the

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and there are 61 businesses in this sector. 2,127 people are employed in the

tertiary sector The tertiary sector of the economy, generally known as the service sector, is the third of the three economic sectors in the three-sector model (also known as the economic cycle). The others are the primary sector ( raw materials) and the secon ...

, with 272 businesses in this sector. Ingenbohl Mythen

From the , 5,813 or 77.7% are

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, while 661 or 8.8% belonged to the

Swiss Reformed Church The Protestant Church in Switzerland (PCS), (EKS); french: Église évangélique réformée de Suisse (EERS); it, Chiesa evangelica riformata in Svizzera (CERiS); rm, Baselgia evangelica refurmada da la Svizra (BRRS) formerly named Federation o ...

. Of the rest of the population, there are 5 individuals (or about 0.07% of the population) who belong to the

Christian Catholic The Christian Catholic Church of Switzerland is an Old Catholic denomination in Switzerland. This denomination is part of the Union of Utrecht (Old Catholic). Recent developments In 1871 the Zürich Catholic community planned to build a chu ...

faith, there are 191 individuals (or about 2.55% of the population) who belong to the Orthodox Church, and there are less than 5 individuals who belong to another Christian church. There are 5 individuals (or about 0.07% of the population) who are

Jewish Jews ( he, יְהוּדִים, , ) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The ...

, and 276 (or about 3.69% of the population) who are Islamic. There are 59 individuals (or about 0.79% of the population) who belong to another church (not listed on the census), 300 (or about 4.01% of the population) belong to no church, are

agnostic Agnosticism is the view or belief that the existence of God, of the divine or the supernatural is unknown or unknowable. (page 56 in 1967 edition) Another definition provided is the view that "human reason is incapable of providing sufficie ...

atheist Atheism, in the broadest sense, is an absence of belief in the existence of deities. Less broadly, atheism is a rejection of the belief that any deities exist. In an even narrower sense, atheism is specifically the position that there no ...

, and 168 individuals (or about 2.25% of the population) did not answer the question. The historical population is given in the following table:

Transport

Brunnen railway station, on the

Gotthard railway The Gotthard railway (german: Gotthardbahn; it, Ferrovia del Gottardo) is the Swiss trans-alpine railway line from northern Switzerland to the canton of Ticino. The line forms a major part of an important international railway link between nort ...

, is served by hourly InterRegio trains, and by lines S2 of the

Stadtbahn Zug The Zug Stadtbahn (german: Stadtbahn Zug) is an S-Bahn-style commuter rail network centred on Zug, Switzerland. Opened on 12 December 2004, the network forms part of the Central Switzerland S-Bahn project (german: S-Bahn Zentralschweiz, links=no) ...

, which operates hourly between Zug, Arth-Goldau and

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, and S3 of the S-Bahn Luzern, which operates hourly to

Lucerne Lucerne ( , ; High Alemannic: ''Lozärn'') or Luzern ()Other languages: gsw, Lozärn, label= Lucerne German; it, Lucerna ; rm, Lucerna . is a city in central Switzerland, in the German-speaking portion of the country. Lucerne is the capital o ...

References

External links

* {{Authority control Municipalities of the canton of Schwyz