Berg am Irchel is a

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

in the district of Andelfingen in the canton of

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Switzerland ). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...

History

Berg am Irchel is first mentioned around 1100 as ''Berga''. In 1243 it was mentioned as ''Berge''.

Geography

Berg am Irchel has an area of . Of this area, 48.2% is used for agricultural purposes, while 44.8% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 5.7% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (1.3%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains). The municipality is located on a terrace on the northern slope of the

Irchel :''Irchel is also the name of a hill in the city of Zürich, and of a campus of University of Zurich, Zürich University located there.'' The Irchel is an elevation in the Canton of Zürich, located at the Rhine between the Töss (river), Töss and ...

elevation. It includes the village of Berg Gräslikon (which left Buch am Irchel in 1855 to join Berg). In 1619 Oberdorf left the municipality, in 1775 Schloss Schollenberg left and in 1788 Ziegelhütte left as well, all three joining

Flaach Flaach is a municipality in the district of Andelfingen in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland. History Flaach is first mentioned in 1044 as ''Flacha'', though the only surviving copy of the document dates from 1347. Geography Flaach has an a ...

Demographics

Berg am Irchel has a population (as of ) of . , 3.8% of the population was made up of foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years the population has grown at a rate of 4.3%. Most of the population () speaks German (95.3%), with English being second most common ( 1.0%) and Albanian being third ( 1.0%). In the 2007 election the most popular party was the SVP which received 52.3% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the CSP (11.3%), the

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(10.2%) and the

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(9.5%). The age distribution of the population () is children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 28.3% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 61.1% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 10.6%. The entire Swiss population is generally well educated. In Berg am Irchel about 79.2% 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 ''Fachhochschule'' (; plural ''Fachhochschulen''), abbreviated FH, is a university of applied sciences (UAS), in other words a German tertiary education institution that provides professional education in many applied sciences and applied arts ...

''). Berg am Irchel has an unemployment rate of 0.3%. , there were 57 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 28 businesses involved in this sector. 28 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 12 businesses in this sector. 43 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 second ...

, with 13 businesses in this sector.Swiss Federal Statistical Office
accessed 27-Jul-2009 The historical population is given in the following table: : including Gräslikon, though until 1855 it was part of Buch am Irchel.

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* * Municipalities of the canton of Zürich {{Authority control