Kohler (Wisconsin)

Sheboygan County

55-40275

Kohler is a village in Sheboygan County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. In the 2000 census, the population was 1,926. The numbers of Kohler are those of the metropolitan area of Sheboygan (Metropolitan Statistical Area ) are considered.

Geography

The town lies on the Sheboygan River. According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has an area of 14.4 km ², of which 14.1 km ² land and 0.3 km ² (1.98 %) water.

Demography

Data from the 2000 census:

The population density was 136.7 inhabitants per km ². The 792 residential units corresponded to an average density of 56.2 per square kilometer.

There were 568 families and 737 households out of which 38.7 % had children living in the household under 18 years, 71.4 % were married and living together, 3.9% resulted in a single woman 's budget and 22.9 % were no families. 21.0 % of all households were made up of individuals and 10.3 % have someone living 65 -year-old or older people. The average household size was 2.61 and the average family size was 3.06.

The ages, the population of the town distributed out with 28.8 % under 18, 3.3 % from 18 to 24, 27.5 % 25-44, 27.9% from 45 to 64 years and 12.5 % were 65 years or older. The average age was 40 years. The proportion of men was 92.2 %; aged 18 and over, 93.0 %.

The median income for a household of the township was $ 75,000, and the median income for a family was $ 86,123. Males had a median income of $ 53,839 compared with 32,188 for females. The per capita income for Kohler was $ 39,355. About 2.6 % of families and 2.8 % of the population were below the poverty line, including 3.4% of young people under the age of 18 and 3.9 % of those age 65 or over.

Notable people

Economy

The largest employer in Kohler is the Kohler Company, a manufacturer of products for sanitary facilities; the place itself was created by the company as a planned city in 1912 after Kohler had the operation from downtown Sheboygan in the then rural area west of the town moved.

In addition to the factory, the company Kohler also owns the tourist hotel and recreational facilities of the American Club, whose golf area includes the investments of the Blackwolf Run and Whistling Straits near Haven ( Wisconsin). In the years 1934 and 1954, the Kohler strikes took place in Kohler.

Formation

1899, a year before his death, the founder of the things John Michael Kohler Kohler ( 1844-1900 ) four miles west of the former Sheboygan bought about 20 hectares of farm area where he created the new production of the company. His son Walter Jodok Kohler (1875-1940), who ran the company until 1937, wanted to prevent an architectural mishmash before his company gates and decided in 1912, on the west side of the plants an attractive industrial model village for the Kohler employees - called Kohler Village - leave to emerge.

He commissioned the renowned landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. with the planning of the nation's first and much-publicized in the media retort settlements with large green spaces.

1916 received the German -born architect and city planner Werner Hegemann ( 1881-1936 ) the contract for the construction of the remarkable settlement.

In 1929 Walter Kohler by also derived from the Bregenzerwald architect Kaspar Albrecht at the edge of the model village called Forest House, a copy of the parental home of John M. Kohler in Schnepfau (Vorarlberg) build.

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