Honau, Switzerland
Honau is a municipality in the constituency Lucerne Land of the canton of Lucerne in Switzerland.
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Geography
The community is located between Reuss and Rooterberg between Lucerne and train. From the area of only 124.86 ha 68.6 % are agricultural land, 19.2% forest and woodland and merely 9.6 % is used as a settlement area.
The highest point of the municipality is located at 652 m asl on Rooterberg, the deepest on the Reuss to 403 m asl
Neighboring municipalities are Gisikon, Inwil and Root in the canton of Lucerne, in the Canton of Risch train and Dietwil in the canton of Aargau.
Population
1798 Honau had only 81 inhabitants. This number grew to 1880 to 155 persons on, long stagnated and then fell in 1970 to 84 inhabitants. Since the opening of the motorway connection Gisikon in 1986, a marked increase in population is recorded.
Languages
Almost the entire population are ( as of 2000) in German as the main language, namely 94,06 % of the inhabitants. Smaller linguistic minorities constitute 3.75%, the Albanian -speaking and 0.94 % of the population, which communicate mainly in Portuguese.
Religions - faiths
The population was originally purely Catholic. Through migration religious minorities were added. Today ( as of 2000) is only a narrow majority of 60.31 % of the population are Roman Catholic; 20.63 % are Protestant. Non-Christian minorities are the 10 % non-religious and 5.31% Muslims.
Origin and nationalities
In 2000, owned 91.25 % of the population Swiss citizenship (of which 88.44 % only the Swiss Pass). Immigrant minorities make up the 4.06% people (including dual citizens 4.06% ) from Serbia and Montenegro; 1.56% ( 1.56% ) come from Macedonia. In addition, you will find German, Portuguese and Austrian. End of 2003, the proportion of foreigners was 10.9 %.
Parish council
In the council sit (as of 2012 local elections on 6 May 2012) three non-executive members. These are:
- Amade Koller, mayor and ministries construction / waste management / water supply
- Sandra Linguanti - Hurter, Ministry of Social Affairs and Social Welfare, Health, Guardianship and Civil Law
As well as
In the elections to the cantonal parliament in 2003, the votes were distributed as follows: a decade ago, barely -present SVP won 43.09 % of the vote, the CVP 23.50%, 15.72%, the FDP. The Social Democrats were 11.39%, the Green Alliance 5.46%.
Economy
Even thirty years ago, the population earned their money almost exclusively in agriculture. Although today ( as of 2001) still work 23.6 % of the workforce in agriculture. Industry and trade are hardly present (1.1% of the workforce ), while 75.3 % find work in service occupations. After 51 Zupendlern face 134 commuters ( esp. direction train, Lucerne, Zurich and root ). A packaging company and a company from the automotive industry are the largest employers. More employers are GlasOne AG and was built in 2010 Aldi store.
Traffic
The motorway connection Gisikon is merely 1 km away. Connection to public transport is from the SBB stations Gisikon-Root and Red Cross or by bus line 110 from " Honau deer " after high village or the Red Cross.
History
For the first time Honau is indirectly mentioned in 1344 in a document where a " Ulrico de Honowa " appears as a witness. Together with Gisikon Honau shared the fate of the neighbors. Various gentlemen as lords of the Habsburgs and in 1422 the acquisition by Lucerne as part of the bailiwick of Habsburg. In Sonderbundskrieg of 1847 Honau suffered by the fighting between the troops of the Special Covenant and federal soldiers considerable damage.
Train
1747 Honau received a schoolhouse. Today ( 2003/ 2004) include the 36 students to the total school Gisikon - Honau, while the 19 secondary school students go to school in Root. President of the school board is Otto Noger ( Gisikon ).
Attractions
Built in 1647 St. Eligius 's Chapel has late Renaissance altars from the workshop of N. Geissler. Another attraction is the Gasthof Zum Hirschen.