Menzingen is a

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in the canton of

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in Switzerland.

History

Menzingen is first mentioned around 1217-22 as ''Meincingin''. The traditionalist

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, which is said to have broken with the

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over "doctrinal difficulties" with the teachings of the

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, is headquartered in Menzingen.

Geography

Menzingen has an area, , of . Of this area, 62.5% is used for agricultural purposes, while 28.3% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 7.6% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (1.5%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains). The municipality is located on a moraine plateau between the

Lorze The Lorze is the main river of the Canton of Zug, Switzerland. It flows from Ägerisee through Lake Zug into the Reuss Reuss may refer to: * Reuss (surname) *Reuss (river) in Switzerland *Reuss (state) or Reuß, several former states or countries ...

and

Sihl The Sihl is a Swiss river that rises near the Druesberg mountain in the canton of Schwyz, and eventually flows into the Limmat in the centre of the city of Zürich. It has a length of , including the Sihlsee reservoir, through which the river f ...

rivers at an elevation of about . In 1848 the municipality of Neuheim separated from Menzingen. It consists of the village of Menzingen and a number of

hamlets A hamlet is a human settlement that is smaller than a town or village. Its size relative to a parish can depend on the administration and region. A hamlet may be considered to be a smaller settlement or subdivision or satellite entity to a lar ...

and individual farm houses. It includes Edlibach and Finstersee and, until the late 1950s, was the highest destination of the then famous Zug tramways.

Demographics

Menzingen has a population (as of ) of . , 16.1% of the population was made up of foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years, the population has decreased at a rate of -1.6%. Most of the population () speaks German (88.8%), with Albanian being second most common (3.3%) and Serbo-Croatian being third (1.5%).Swiss Federal Statistical Office
accessed 22-Sep-2009 In the

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, the most popular party was the SVP which received 31.6% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the CVP (30.6%), the FDP (19.8%) and the

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(11.6%). In Menzingen, about 69.3% of the population (between age 25–64) have completed either non-mandatory upper secondary education or additional higher education (either university or a '' Fachhochschule''). Menzingen has an unemployment rate of 1.25%. , there were 288 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 107 businesses involved in this sector. 211 people are employed in the

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and there are 37 businesses in this sector. 1,066 people are employed in the

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, with 133 businesses in this sector. The historical population is given in the following table:

References

{{Authority control Municipalities of the canton of Zug