Egg is a

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in the district of

Uster Uster (High Alemannic: ''Uschter'') is a town and the capital of the Uster District in the Swiss canton of Zürich. It is the third largest town in the canton of Zürich, with almost 35,000 inhabitants, and is one of the twenty largest towns ...

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

Egg is first mentioned in 775 as ''Echa''.

Personalities

* Hausi A. Muller (born 1955), Professor, Associate Dean Research, University of Victoria *

Peter Wuffli Peter A. Wuffli (born 26 October 1957) is a Swiss businessman who was appointed president and chief executive officer of UBS, UBS AG in December 2001 after serving as the chief executive of UBS Asset Management and the company's chief financial o ...

(born 1957), Manager * Brigitte Oertli (born 1962), Skier *

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(born 1929), Managerin * Billy Meier (born 1936), Egger Abfallbärtli

Geography

Egg has an area of . Of this area, 58.1% is used for agricultural purposes, while 23.2% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 18.1% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (0.6%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains). housing and buildings made up 12.9% of the total area, while transportation infrastructure made up the rest (5.2%). Of the total unproductive area, water (streams and lakes) made up 0.3% of the area. 12.8% of the total municipal area was undergoing some type of construction. The lowest elevation in the municipality is the Greifensee at . The highest point in the municipality is the Pfannenstiel at . Egg is located in the Pfannenstiel region.Kanton Zürich, Statistisches Amt: Region Pfannenstiel

Districts

There are three villages in Egg: ''Hinteregg'' (population: 1,500), ''Egg'' (population: 4,800) and Esslingen (population: 1,500). There are also smaller settlements (called ''Aussenwacht''): ''Rällikon'', ''Innervollikon'', ''Usservollikon'', ''Niederesslingen'', ''Rohr'', ''Schaubigen'', ''Eichholz'', ''Neuhaus'', and ''Guldenen''.

Coat of arms

The coat of arms shows two entwined hands in blue, coming out of silver clouds. It was created at the beginning of the 19th century, influenced by the

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. It symbolizes the motto of the Revolution: ''Freedom'', ''Equality'' and ''Brotherhood''.

Demographics

Egg has a population (as of ) of . , 17.1% of the population was made up of foreign nationals. the gender distribution of the population was 47.6% male and 52.4% female. Over the last 10 years the population has grown at a rate of 11.5%. Most of the population () speaks German (87.5%), with Italian being second most common ( 2.5%) and English being third ( 2.4%). In the 2007 election the most popular party was the SVP which received 37.2% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the

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(16.2%), the FDP (15.9%) and the CSP (10.5%). The age distribution of the population () is children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 23.8% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 63.9% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 12.3%. In Egg about 82% 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 ...

''). There are 3068 households in Egg. Egg has an unemployment rate of 1.85%. , there were 207 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 70 businesses involved in this sector. 567 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 63 businesses in this sector. 1404 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 251 businesses in this sector.Swiss Federal Statistical Office
accessed 14-Aug-2009 47.9% of the working population were employed full-time, and 52.1% were employed part-time.
accessed 4 August 2009 there were 2349

Catholics The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.3 billion baptized Catholics worldwide . It is among the world's oldest and largest international institutions, and has played a ...

and 3412

Protestants Protestantism is a branch of Christianity that follows the theological tenets of the Protestant Reformation, a movement that began seeking to reform the Catholic Church from within in the 16th century against what its followers perceived to b ...

in Egg. In the 2000 census, religion was broken down into several smaller categories. From the , 48.8% were some type of Protestant, with 46% belonging 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 ...

and 2.8% belonging to other Protestant churches. 29.2% of the population were Catholic. Of the rest of the population, 0% were Muslim, 4.6% belonged to another religion (not listed), 2.7% did not give a religion, and 14% were atheist or agnostic. The historical population is given in the following table:

Transport

The town centre of

is connected to Egg with a special tramway — the

Forchbahn The Forch railway (german: Forchbahn, FB, Frieda ) is a local railway line in the Swiss canton of Zürich. It is owned and operated by the Forchbahn AG, and is branded as line S18 of the Zürich S-Bahn. The standard Zürcher Verkehrsverbund (ZVV ...

. Egg is connected by the Autostrasse A52 to

Zumikon Zumikon is a municipality in the district of Meilen in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland. It is located in the Pfannenstiel region.Hinwil Hinwil is a municipality in the district of Hinwil in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland. History The village Hinwil from which the later municipality took its name is first mentioned in 745 as ''Hunichinwilari'', in a donation made by Beat ...

References

External links

* {{Authority control Municipalities of the canton of Zürich