municipality
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in the district of
Winterthur
, neighboring_municipalities = Brütten, Dinhard, Elsau, Hettlingen, Illnau-Effretikon, Kyburg, Lindau, Neftenbach, Oberembrach, Pfungen, Rickenbach, Schlatt, Seuzach, Wiesendangen, Zell
, twintowns = Hall in Tirol (Austria), La ...
Zürich
Zürich () is the list of cities in Switzerland, largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zürich. It is located in north-central Switzerland, at the northwestern tip of Lake Zürich. As of January 2020, the municipality has 43 ...
in Switzerland.
History
Elsau is first mentioned in 1043 as ''Elnesouva''. On 23 April 1398 Count '' Donat von Toggenburg, Herr zu Brettengow und Tavas'' donated the church of ''Elsow'' as benefice for the new ''Allerheiligenaltar'' at the grave of the Toggenburg family in the
Rüti Abbey Rüti, which comes from the Old High German word , meaning " clearing", is a popular name for towns in the German speaking part of Switzerland. It can refer to the following:
*Rüti, Glarus in Glarus
*Rüti, Zürich in Zürich
*:Rüti Reformed Chu ...
, for the ''salvation of his daughter soul Menta von Toggenburg'' who died shortly before, as well as further lands and goods in the present ''Weinland'' district of the canton of Zürich, confirmed among others by ''Ruodolf von Bonstetten'' from ''
Ustra
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SPS
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Law and government
* Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures of the WTO
* NATO Science for Peace and Security
* Single Payment Scheme, an EU agricultural subsidy
* The Standard Procurement System, fo ...
(17.4%), the FDP (14.7%) and the CSP (10.5%).
The age distribution of the population () is children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 25.4% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 61.4% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 13.2%. The entire Swiss population is generally well educated. In Elsau about 80.2% of the population (between age 25-64) have completed either non-mandatory upper secondary education or additional higher education (either university or a ''
Fachhochschule
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''). There are 1143 households in Elsau.
Elsau has an unemployment rate of 2.33%. , there were 67 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 26 businesses involved in this sector. 237 people are employed in the
secondary sector
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and there are 42 businesses in this sector. 464 people are employed in the
tertiary sector
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, with 102 businesses in this sector.Swiss Federal Statistical Office accessed 14-Aug-2009 55.2% of the working population were employed full-time, and 44.8% were employed part-time. accessed 4 August 2009
there were 817
Catholics
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and 1633
Protestants
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in Elsau. In the 2000 census, religion was broken down into several smaller categories. From the , 59.7% were some type of Protestant, with 56.1% 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 3.6% belonging to other Protestant churches. 23.7% of the population were Catholic. Of the rest of the population, 0% were Muslim, 4.3% belonged to another religion (not listed), 2.4% did not give a religion, and 9.6% were atheist or agnostic.
The historical population is given in the following table:
Transport
The railway stations of Räterschen and Schottikon both lie within the municipality of Elsau. Both stations are stops on line S35 of the
Zürich S-Bahn
The Zürich S-Bahn (german: S-Bahn Zürich) system is a network of rail lines that has been incrementally expanded to cover the ZVV area, which comprises the entire canton of Zürich and portions of neighbouring cantons (Aargau, Glarus, ...