Lohn 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

Schaffhausen Schaffhausen (; gsw, Schafuuse; french: Schaffhouse; it, Sciaffusa; rm, Schaffusa; en, Shaffhouse) is a list of towns in Switzerland, town with historic roots, a municipalities of Switzerland, municipality in northern Switzerland, and 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

Lohn is first mentioned in 1238 as ''Lône''.

Coat of arms

The

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of the municipal

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is ''Gules a Ploughshare Argent.''

Geography

Lohn has an area, , of . Of this area, 56.6% is used for agricultural purposes, while 35.7% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 7.4% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (0.4%) is non-productive (rivers or lakes). The municipality is located in the Reiat district. It consists of the ''haufendorf'' village (an irregular, unplanned and quite closely packed village, built around a central square) of Lohn on a plateau of the Reiat hills.

Demographics

Lohn has a population () of 765, of which 4.8% are foreign nationals. Of the foreign population, (), 71.9% are from

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, 9.4% are from

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, 3.1% are from

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, and 15.6% are from another country.Statistical Office of the Canton of Schaffhausen
accessed 2 December 2009 Over the last 10 years the population has grown at a rate of 5.7%. Most of the population () speaks German (97.0%), with French being second most common ( 0.6%) and Spanish being third ( 0.5%).
accessed 15-December-2009 The age distribution of the population () is children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 24.1% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 61.1% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 14.8%. In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SVP which received 51.6% of the vote. The next two most popular parties were the FDP (24.3%), and the SP (24.1%) . The entire Swiss population is generally well educated. In Lohn about 85.7% 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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''). In Lohn, , 1.55% of the population attend

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or another pre-school, 8.23% attend a

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, 5.12% attend a lower level Secondary School, and 3.73% attend a higher level Secondary School. , 14.8% of the population belonged to the

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and 72.9% belonged 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 ...

. The historical population is given in the following table:

Economy

Lohn has an unemployment rate of 0.49%. , there were 21 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 7 businesses involved in this sector. 45 people are employed in the

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and there are 10 businesses in this sector. 36 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 17 businesses in this sector. the mid year average unemployment rate was 0.5%. There were 27 non-agrarian businesses in the municipality and 60.5% of the (non-agrarian) population was involved in the secondary sector of the economy while 39.5% were involved in the third. At the same time, 72.8% of the working population was employed full-time, and 27.2% was employed part-time. There were 81 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 34.6% of the workforce. there were 77 residents who worked in the municipality, while 245 residents worked outside Lohn and 33 people commuted into the municipality for work. , there is 1 restaurant and the hospitality industry in Lohn employs 2 people.

Education

The Schule Büttenhardt-Lohn, including a preschool campus in Lohn, Lohn and primary campuses in

Büttenhardt Büttenhardt (pronunciation: ˈbʏttənˌhaɐt) is a municipality in the canton of Schaffhausen in Switzerland. History Büttenhardt is first mentioned in 1238 as ''Butinhart''. The village became part of Switzerland in the 14th century. The ...

(years 1-3) and Lohn (years 4-6), serves Büttenhardt.Schule
" Büttenhardt. Retrieved on 6 January 2017. The Büttenhardt and Lohn primary schools consolidated in the 2008-2009 school year.Schulbildung in Lohn
" Lohn, Schaffhausen. Retrieved on 7 January 2017. Büttenhardt children began attending the Lohn preschool in the 2009-2010 school year.

References

{{Authority control Municipalities of the canton of Schaffhausen