Küttigen () 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 the district of

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of 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 ...

in Switzerland.

History

Küttigen is first mentioned in 1036 as ''Chutingen'' though this comes from a 14th Century copy of the original. In 1045 it was mentioned as ''Chutingun''.

Geography

Küttigen has an area, , of . Of this area, 36% is used for agricultural purposes, while 50.4% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 13% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (0.6%) is non-productive (rivers or lakes). The municipality is located in the Aarau district between 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 ...

river and the

Jura Mountains The Jura Mountains ( ) are a sub-alpine mountain range a short distance north of the Western Alps and mainly demarcate a long part of the French–Swiss border. While the Jura range proper (" folded Jura", ) is located in France and Switzerla ...

. It consists of the village of Küttigen and the

hamlet ''The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark'', often shortened to ''Hamlet'' (), is a Shakespearean tragedy, tragedy written by William Shakespeare sometime between 1599 and 1601. It is Shakespeare's longest play. Set in Denmark, the play (the ...

of Horen.

Coat of arms

The

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of the municipal

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is ''Per bend Sable a Bend sinister Argent and Or.''

Demographics

Küttigen has a population (as of ) of . , 14.9% of the population was made up of foreign nationals.Statistical Department of Canton Aargau -Bereich 01 -Bevölkerung
accessed 20 January 2010 Over the last 10 years the population has grown at a rate of 8.2%. Most of the population () speaks German (89.4%), with Italian being second most common (2.5%) and Albanian being third ( 2.1%).
accessed 26-January-2010 The age distribution, , in Küttigen is; 532 children or 9.8% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 600 teenagers or 11.1% are between 10 and 19. Of the adult population, 591 people or 10.9% of the population are between 20 and 29 years old. 757 people or 14.0% are between 30 and 39, 942 people or 17.4% are between 40 and 49, and 728 people or 13.5% are between 50 and 59. The senior population distribution is 672 people or 12.4% of the population are between 60 and 69 years old, 370 people or 6.8% are between 70 and 79, there are 186 people or 3.4% who are between 80 and 89, and there are 25 people or 0.5% who are 90 and older.Statistical Department of Canton Aargau -Bevölkerungsdaten für den Kanton Aargau und die Gemeinden (Archiv)
accessed 20 January 2010 , there were 185 homes with 1 or 2 persons in the household, 1,014 homes with 3 or 4 persons in the household, and 879 homes with 5 or more persons in the household. The average number of people per household was 2.28 individuals. there were 1,122 single family homes (or 43.4% of the total) out of a total of 2,586 homes and apartments.Statistical Department of Canton Aargau
accessed 20 January 2010 In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SVP which received 30.1% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SP (22%), the FDP (15.9%) and the

Green Party A green party is a formally organized political party based on the principles of green politics, such as environmentalism and social justice. Green party platforms typically embrace Social democracy, social democratic economic policies and fo ...

(9.4%). The entire Swiss population is generally well educated. In Küttigen about 79.6% of the population (between ages 25 and 64) have completed either non-mandatory

upper secondary education Secondary education is the education level following primary education and preceding tertiary education. Level 2 or ''lower secondary education'' (less commonly ''junior secondary education'') is considered the second and final phase of basic e ...

or additional higher education (either university or a ''

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''). Of the school age population (), there are 382 students attending

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, there are 167 students attending secondary school in the municipality. The historical population is given in the following table:

Economy

, Küttigen had an unemployment rate of 1.66%. , there were 98 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 23 businesses involved in this sector. 351 people are employed in the

secondary sector In macroeconomics, the secondary sector of the economy is an economic sector in the three-sector theory that describes the role of manufacturing. It encompasses industries that produce a finished, usable product or are involved in constructi ...

and there are 39 businesses in this sector. 607 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 ...

, with 130 businesses in this sector. there was a total of 2,634 workers who lived in the municipality. Of these, 2,089 or about 79.3% of the residents worked outside Küttigen while 491 people commuted into the municipality for work. There were a total of 1,036 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

Religion

From the , 1,213 or 24.1% are

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, while 2,724 or 54.2% 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 ...

. Of the rest of the population, there are 21 individuals (or about 0.42% of the population) who belong to the Christian Catholic faith.Statistical Department of Canton Aargau - Aargauer Zahlen 2009
accessed 20 January 2010

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kuttigen Kuttingen