Dorf is a

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in the district of Andelfingen in the canton of

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. The

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Dorf Dorf may refer to: * Dorf (surname) * Dorf (character), portrayed by Tim Conway * ''Dorf'', German term for 'village', see Town#Germany * Dorf, Germany (disambiguation), various settlements * Dorf, Switzerland, a small town * DORF (film festi ...

'' means “village”.

History

Dorf is first mentioned in 1044 as ''Dorf'', though the document that mentions this is a copy from 1347.

Dorf

Because Dorf simply means village in German, there are a number of Dorfs throughout Switzerland, Germany and Austria. In Switzerland, Dorf is the only municipality with this name. There are a number of smaller villages or

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s with either an entire name of Dorf/''Dorfli'' or ending in -dorf.

Geography

Dorf has an area of . Of this area, 52.7% is used for agricultural purposes, while 40.6% is forested. The rest of the land, (6.7%) is settled. The municipality is located at the entrance to the Flaacker river valley.

Demographics

Dorf has a population (as of ) of . , 6.7% of the population was made up of foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years the population has grown at a rate of 20.3%. Most of the population () speaks German (95.4%), with English being second most common ( 1.3%) and Serbo-Croatian being third ( 1.3%). In the 2007 election the most popular party was the SVP which received 55.5% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the

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(9.5%), the local small left-wing parties (9%) and the CSP (8.5%). The age distribution of the population () is children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 27.3% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 63.9% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 8.8%. The entire Swiss population is generally well educated. In Dorf about 84.6% of the population (between age 25-64) have completed either non-mandatory upper secondary education or additional higher education (either university or a ''

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''). Dorf has an unemployment rate of 1.2%. , there were 42 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 14 businesses involved in this sector. 30 people are employed in the

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and there are nine businesses in this sector. 73 people are employed in the

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, with 15 businesses in this sector.Swiss Federal Statistical Office
accessed 27-Jul-2009 The historical population is given in the following table:

Dorf in popular fiction

*Dorf is mentioned in Jostein Gaarder's ''Solitaire Mystery''.

References

External links

Official Gemeinde Dorf website
* {{Authority control Municipalities of the canton of Zürich