Menzingen is a

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in the canton of

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History

Menzingen is first mentioned around 1217-22 as ''Meincingin''. The traditionalist

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, which is juridically irregular with the

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over "doctrinal difficulties" with the teachings of the

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, is headquartered in Menzingen.

Geography

Menzingen has an area, , of . Of this area, 62.5% is used for agricultural purposes, while 28.3% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 7.6% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (1.5%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains). The municipality is located on a

moraine A moraine is any accumulation of unconsolidated debris (regolith and Rock (geology), rock), sometimes referred to as glacial till, that occurs in both currently and formerly glaciated regions, and that has been previously carried along by a gla ...

plateau between the

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and

Sihl The Sihl is a Switzerland, Swiss river that rises near the Druesberg mountain in the canton of Schwyz, and eventually flows into the Limmat in the centre of the Zürich, city of Zürich, after crossing the Zürich–Winterthur railway at . It has ...

rivers at an elevation of about . In 1848 the municipality of

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separated from Menzingen. It consists of the village of Menzingen and a number of

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and individual farm houses. It includes Edlibach and Finstersee and, until the late 1950s, was the highest destination of the then famous Zug tramways.

Demographics

Menzingen has a population (as of ) of . , 16.1% of the population was made up of foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years, the population has decreased at a rate of -1.6%. Most of the population () speaks German (88.8%), with Albanian being second most common (3.3%) and Serbo-Croatian being third (1.5%).Swiss Federal Statistical Office
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(11.6%). In Menzingen, about 69.3% of the population (between age 25–64) have completed either non-mandatory upper secondary education or additional higher education (either university or a ''

Fachhochschule A (; plural ), abbreviated FH, is a university of applied sciences (UAS), in other words a Hochschule, German tertiary education institution that provides professional education in many applied sciences and applied arts, such as engineering, te ...

''). Menzingen has an unemployment rate of 1.25%. , there were 288 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 107 businesses involved in this sector. 211 people are employed in the

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and there are 37 businesses in this sector. 1,066 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 133 businesses in this sector. The historical population is given in the following table:

References

{{Authority control Municipalities of the canton of Zug