Besenbüren is a
municipality
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The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...
in the district of
Muri in the
canton of
Aargau in
Switzerland.
History
The first indication of human settlement near Besenbüren are
paleo- and
mesolithic items that were discovered in the ''Forenmoos''. The modern municipality of Besenbüren is first mentioned in the
Acta Murensia, which was first drawn up in 1160 but included a number of various older documents, as ''Besenbürren''.
[ The major landholders in the ]Middle Ages
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in Besenbüren were Muri and Engelberg Abbeys. Under the Habsburgs it belonged to the Muri district. After 1415 it belonged to the Boswil district. The rights that the Hermann of Heidegg received after the conquest of the Aargau by the Swiss Conderation remained with his family until 1617, when they were transferred to Muri Abbey.
In the 19th century, agricultural employment and the straw plaiting industry provided nearly all the jobs in the municipality. In the second half of the 19th century the population decreased as a result of fires, emigration and land scarcity. The bad traffic situation and the small territory led to no industrial development. In 1990, the agricultural sector still provided 33% of the jobs, while the services sector provides 47%.[
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Geography
Besenbüren has an area, , of . Of this area, or 66.4% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 19.7% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 12.2% is settled (buildings or roads) and or 0.4% is unproductive land.[Swiss Federal Statistical Office-Land Use Statistics]
2009 data accessed 25 March 2010
Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 1.3% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 5.5% and transportation infrastructure made up 4.2%. Out of the forested land, all of the forested land area is covered with heavy forests. Of the agricultural land, 55.5% is used for growing crops and 9.7% is pastures, while 1.3% is used for orchards or vine crops.[
The municipality is located in the Muri district on the western edge of the ''Wagenrain''. It consists of the village of Besenbüren.
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Coat of arms
The blazon
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of the municipal coat of arms
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is ''Or on a Mount serrated Vert a Birch tree issuant proper between two issuant cranberry blossoms proper.''
Demographics
Besenbüren has a population () of , 5.9% of the population are foreign nationals.[Statistical Department of Canton Aargau -Bereich 01 -Bevölkerung]
accessed 20 January 2010 Over the last 10 years (1997–2007) the population has changed at a rate of 42%. Most of the population () speaks German (97.2%), with English being second most common ( 0.6%) and Finnish being third ( 0.4%).
accessed 23-May-2010[Statistical Department of Canton Aargau -Bevölkerungsdaten für den Kanton Aargau und die Gemeinden (Archiv)]
accessed 20 January 2010
the average number of residents per living room was 0.55 which is about equal to the cantonal average of 0.57 per room. In this case, a room is defined as space of a housing unit of at least as normal bedrooms, dining rooms, living rooms, kitchens and habitable cellars and attics. About 66.1% of the total households were owner occupied, or in other words did not pay rent (though they may have a mortgage
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or a rent-to-own agreement).
, there were 16 homes with 1 or 2 persons in the household, 53 homes with 3 or 4 persons in the household, and 108 homes with 5 or more persons in the household.[ , there were 183 private households (homes and apartments) in the municipality, and an average of 2.7 persons per household.][ there were 166 single family homes (or 65.1% of the total) out of a total of 255 homes and apartments.][Statistical Department of Canton Aargau]
accessed 20 January 2010 There were a total of 0 empty apartments for a 0.0% vacancy rate.[
In the ]2007 federal election
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the most popular party was the SVP which received 46.8% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the CVP (21.5%), the SP (11.7%) and the Green Party
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Greens believe that these issues are inherently related to one another as a foundation f ...
(7.1%).[
The historical population is given in the following table:]
Heritage sites of national significance
The ''Speicher'' (warehouse
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) on Zentralstrasse is listed as a Swiss heritage site of national significance.
Economy
, Besenbüren had an unemployment rate of 1.5%. , there were 36 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 17 businesses involved in this sector. 14 people are employed in the secondary sector
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and there are 6 businesses in this sector. 41 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 10 businesses in this sector.[
there were 261 workers who lived in the municipality. Of these, 207 or about 79.3% of the residents worked outside Besenbüren while 38 people commuted into the municipality for work. There were a total of 92 jobs (of at least 6 hours per week) in the municipality. Of the working population, 6.6% used public transportation to get to work, and 59.5% used a private car.][
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Religion
From the , 277 or 55.8% were Roman Catholic
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* Ancient Rome, Roman civilization from 8th century BC to 5th century AD
* Roman people, the people of ancient Rome
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, while 133 or 26.8% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church.[Statistical Department of Canton Aargau - Aargauer Zahlen 2009]
accessed 20 January 2010
Education
The entire Swiss population is generally well educated. In Besenbüren about 76.6% of the population (between age 25-64) have completed either non-mandatory upper secondary education or additional higher education (either university or a '' Fachhochschule'').[ Of the school age population (), there are 58 students attending ]primary school
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in the municipality.[Swiss Federal Statistical Office, list of libraries]
accessed 14 May 2010
References
External links
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Municipalities of Aargau
Cultural property of national significance in Aargau