Dallenwil 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 canton of Nidwalden in Switzerland.

History

Dallenwil is first mentioned about 1199-1210 as ''Tellewilare'' or ''Telliwilare''. In 1850 it was known as ''Thalwyl'' and it wasn't until 1913 that it became Dallenwil.

Geography

Dallenwil has an area, , of . Of this area, 53.7% is used for agricultural purposes, while 38% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 4.6% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (3.7%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains). The municipality is located along the old cantonal highway from

Stans Stans () is the capital of the canton of Nidwalden (Nidwald) in Switzerland. The official language of Stans is German (spoken there in the variety of Swiss Standard German), but the main language is the local variant of Alemannic Swiss German. ...

Wolfenschiessen Wolfenschiessen is a village and municipalities of Switzerland, municipality in the Cantons of Switzerland, canton of Nidwalden in Switzerland. Besides the village of Wolfenschiessen itself, the municipality includes the settlements of Altzellen, B ...

and around the

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Demographics

Dallenwil has a population (as of ) of . , 7.1% of the population was made up of foreign nationals.Nidwalden Statistical Office-Population
accessed 4 September 2009 Over the last 10 years the population has grown at a rate of 2.8%. Most of the population () speaks German (95.8%), with Albanian being second most common ( 1.4%) and Serbo-Croatian being third ( 0.7%).
accessed 04-Sep-2009 the gender distribution of the population was 51.0% male and 49.0% female. there are 607 households, of which 336 households (or about 55.4%) contain only one or two individuals. 82 or about 13.5% are large households, with at least five members.Nidwalden Statistical Office-Municipalities
accessed 4 September 2009 In the

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the most popular party was the FDP which received 81.6% of the vote. Most of the rest of the votes went to local small right-wing parties (15.1%). The entire Swiss population is generally well educated. In Dallenwil about 68.2% of the population (between age 25–64) have completed either non-mandatory upper secondary education or additional higher education (either University or a '' Fachhochschule''). Dallenwil has an unemployment rate of 0.92%. , there were 145 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 52 businesses involved in this sector. 165 people are employed in the

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and there are 18 businesses in this sector. 245 people are employed in the

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, with 50 businesses in this sector. The historical population is given in the following table:

Transport

Dallenwil is served by Dallenwil station on the Luzern–Stans–Engelberg line.

Lucerne S-Bahn The Lucerne S-Bahn (german: S-Bahn Luzern) is an S-Bahn-style commuter rail network focusing on Lucerne, Switzerland. Opened on 12 December 2004, the network forms part of the Central Switzerland S-Bahn project (german: S-Bahn Zentralschweiz, lin ...

S4 service provides two trains per hour to and from Lucerne, and the hourly InterRegio service between Lucerne and Engelberg also stops in Stans.

Sights

The main sights of Dallenwil are the ski and summer resort ''Wiesenberg/Wirzweli'', the church ''St. Laurentius'', and the pilgrimage chapel ''Wiesenberg''.

References

External links

Dallenwil.ch
official website * {{Authority control Municipalities of Nidwalden