Emmetten 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 Nidwalden, also Nidwald (german: Kanton Nidwalden, ; rm, Chantun Sutsilvania; french: Canton de Nidwald; it, Canton Nidvaldo) is one of the 26 cantons forming the Swiss Confederation. It is composed of eleven municipalities and the seat of the ...

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

Emmetten is first mentioned about 1160 as ''Empnoten''.

Geography

Emmetten has an area, , of . Of this area, 37.9% is used for agricultural purposes, while 45.8% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 2.6% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (13.7%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains). The municipality is located along the cantonal highway between

Beckenried Beckenried is a municipality in the canton of Nidwalden in Switzerland. History The first settlers in what would become Beckried were from Alamanni tribes that moved into the area over 2000 years ago.

and

Seelisberg Seelisberg is a municipality in the canton of Uri in Switzerland. History The Rütli meadow, according to legend the site of the original oath foundational to the Old Swiss Confederacy, is situated in the territory of the municipality. The Seeli ...

on both sides of the ''Egg'' crossing over the edge of

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Demographics

Emmetten has a population (as of ) of . , 15.4% 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 3.7%. Most of the population () speaks German (91.8%), with English being second most common ( 1.8%) and Italian being third ( 1.5%).
accessed 04-Sep-2009 the gender distribution of the population was 53.4% male and 46.6% female. there are 487 households, of which 310 households (or about 63.7%) contain only one or two individuals. 36 or about 7.4% are large households, with at least five members.Nidwalden Statistical Office-Municipalities
accessed 4 September 2009 In the

2007 federal election This electoral calendar 2007 lists the national/federal direct elections held in 2007 in the de jure and de facto sovereign states and their dependent territories. Referendums are included, although they are not elections. By-elections are not i ...

the most popular party was the FDP which received 87.1% of the vote. Most of the rest of the votes went to local small right-wing parties (9.9%). In Emmetten about 69.1% 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 ...

''). The historical population is given in the following table:

Industry

Emmetten has an unemployment rate of 0.94%. , there were 75 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 27 businesses involved in this sector. 38 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 construction. ...

and there are 9 businesses in this sector. 198 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 42 businesses in this sector.

Sights

The main sights of Emmetten are: the ''St. Anna'' chapel in ''Schöneck'', the church ''St. Jakob und St. Theresia'', the chapel of the holy cross with frescos of ''danse macabre'' in ''Sagendorf'', and the chapel in ''Erlen''.

References

{{Authority control Municipalities of Nidwalden