municipality
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in the ''Wahlkreis'' (constituency) of
Wil
Wil () is the capital of the ''Wahlkreis'' (constituency) of Wil in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland.
Wil is the third largest city in the Canton of St. Gallen, after the city of St. Gallen and Rapperswil-Jona, a twin city that merged in ...
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 ...
. It merged into
Wil
Wil () is the capital of the ''Wahlkreis'' (constituency) of Wil in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland.
Wil is the third largest city in the Canton of St. Gallen, after the city of St. Gallen and Rapperswil-Jona, a twin city that merged in ...
Bronschhofen is first mentioned in 796 as ''Pramolveshova''.
Geography
Bronschhofen had an area, , of . Of this area, 65.3% is used for agricultural purposes, while 22.1% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 12% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (0.5%) is non-productive (rivers or lakes).
The former municipality is located in the Wil ''Wahlkreis.'' It consists of the villages of Bronschhofen and Rossrüti as well as the
hamlets
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of Maugwil, Trungen and the pilgrimage site of Dreibrunnen.
Coat of arms
The
blazon
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of the municipal
coat of arms
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is ''Sable a Snail Shell Or.''
Demographics
Bronschhofen had a population (as of 2011) of 4,654.Canton of St. Gallen Statistics Office ''Wohnbevölkerung (bis 2011)'' accessed 1 May 2012 , about 20.6% of the population was made up of foreign nationals. Of the foreign population, (), 74 are from
Germany
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, 249 are from
Italy
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Austria
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, 26 are from
Turkey
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, and 90 are from another country.Der Kanton St. Gallen und seine Menschen in Zahlen - Ausgabe 2009 accessed 30 December 2009 Over the last 10 years the population has grown at a rate of 9.6%. Most of the population () speaks German (88.8%), with Italian being second most common ( 3.4%) and Albanian being third ( 3.1%). accessed 20-January-2010 Of the Swiss national languages (), 3,815 speak
German
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* Germany (of or related to)
**Germania (historical use)
* Germans, citizens of Germany, people of German ancestry, or native speakers of the German language
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**Ger ...
Italian
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, and 5 people speak Romansh.
The age distribution, , in Bronschhofen is; 572 children or 13.3% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 561 teenagers or 13.1% are between 10 and 19. Of the adult population, 641 people or 14.9% of the population are between 20 and 29 years old. 757 people or 17.6% are between 30 and 39, 623 people or 14.5% are between 40 and 49, and 575 people or 13.4% are between 50 and 59. The senior population distribution is 317 people or 7.4% of the population are between 60 and 69 years old, 181 people or 4.2% are between 70 and 79, there are 63 people or 1.5% who are between 80 and 89, and there are 6 people or 0.1% who are between 90 and 99, and 1 person who is 100 or more.Canton St. Gallen Statistics-Hauptergebnisse der Volkszählung 2000: Regionen- und Gemeindevergleich-Personen accessed 30 December 2009
there were 449 persons (or 10.4% of the population) who were living alone in a private dwelling. There were 998 (or 23.2%) persons who were part of a couple (married or otherwise committed) without children, and 2,510 (or 58.4%) who were part of a couple with children. There were 243 (or 5.7%) people who lived in single parent home, while there are 18 persons who were adult children living with one or both parents, 8 persons who lived in a household made up of relatives, 24 who lived household made up of unrelated persons, and 47 who are either institutionalized or live in another type of collective housing.
In the
2007 federal election
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the most popular party was the SVP which received 40.4% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the CVP (21.1%), the FDP (11.8%) and the SP (10%).
The entire Swiss population is generally well educated. In Bronschhofen about 73.4% of the population (between age 25-64) have completed either non-mandatory upper secondary education or additional higher education (either university or a ''
Fachhochschule
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''). Out of the total population in Bronschhofen, , the highest education level completed by 816 people (19.0% of the population) was
Primary
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, while 1,758 (40.9%) have completed Secondary, 452 (10.5%) have attended a
Tertiary
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The period began with the demise of the non-avian dinosaurs in the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event, at the start ...
school, and 168 (3.9%) are not in school. The remainder did not answer this question.
The historical population is given in the following table:
Heritage sites of national significance
The
pilgrimage
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, Bronschhofen had an unemployment rate of 2.26%. , there were 171 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 57 businesses involved in this sector. 669 people are employed in the
secondary sector
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and there are 58 businesses in this sector. 731 people are employed in the
tertiary sector
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, with 115 businesses in this sector.
the average unemployment rate was 4.5%. There were 221 businesses in the municipality of which 56 were involved in the secondary sector of the economy while 113 were involved in the third.
there were 647 residents who worked in the municipality, while 1,800 residents worked outside Bronschhofen and 1,138 people commuted into the municipality for work.St Gallen Canton statistics-Commuters accessed 31 December 2009
Religion
From the , 2,390 or 55.6% are
Roman Catholic
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*Roman people, the people of ancient Rome
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, while 1,079 or 25.1% belonged to the
Swiss Reformed Church
The Protestant Church in Switzerland (PCS), (EKS); french: Église évangélique réformée de Suisse (EERS); it, Chiesa evangelica riformata in Svizzera (CERiS); rm, Baselgia evangelica refurmada da la Svizra (BRRS) formerly named Federation o ...
. Of the rest of the population, there are 2 individuals (or about 0.05% of the population) who belong to the Christian Catholic faith, there are 68 individuals (or about 1.58% of the population) who belong to the Orthodox Church, and there are 119 individuals (or about 2.77% of the population) who belong to another Christian church. There is 1 individual who is
Jewish
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, and 244 (or about 5.68% of the population) who are
Islam
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ic. There are 11 individuals (or about 0.26% of the population) who belong to another church (not listed on the census), 258 (or about 6.00% of the population) belong to no church, are
agnostic
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or
atheist
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, and 125 individuals (or about 2.91% of the population) did not answer the question.
Wil
Wil () is the capital of the ''Wahlkreis'' (constituency) of Wil in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland.
Wil is the third largest city in the Canton of St. Gallen, after the city of St. Gallen and Rapperswil-Jona, a twin city that merged in ...
and
Weinfelden
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Weinfelden is an old town, which was known during Ancient Rome, Roma ...
Bronschhofen
Bronschhofen is a former municipality in the ''Wahlkreis'' (constituency) of Wil in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland. It merged into Wil on 1 January 2013.Bronschhofen AMP.
Notable people
* Josef Flammer (born 1948) an ophthalmologist and a glaucoma specialist; long-time director of the Eye Clinic at Basel University Hospital