Menzingen is a municipality in the

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Zug , neighboring_municipalities = Cham, Baar, Walchwil, Steinhausen, Unterägeri , twintowns = Fürstenfeld (Austria), Kalesija (Bosnia-Herzegowina) Zug (Standard German: , Alemannic German: ; french: Zoug it, Zugo r ...

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

Menzingen is first mentioned around 1217-22 as ''Meincingin''. The traditionalist Society of Saint Pius X, which is juridically irregular with the Vatican over "doctrinal difficulties" with the teachings of the Second Vatican Council, 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 A moraine is any accumulation of unconsolidated debris (regolith and rock), sometimes referred to as glacial till, that occurs in both currently and formerly glaciated regions, and that has been previously carried along by a glacier or ice shee ...

plateau between the Lorze and Sihl rivers at an elevation of about . In 1848 the municipality of

Neuheim Neuheim is a municipality in the canton of Zug in Switzerland. History Neuheim is first mentioned in 1080 as ''Niuheim''. In 1173 the parish church of St. Blasien was built and Neuheim became the center of the parish of Neuheim. The parish wa ...

separated from Menzingen. It consists of the village of Menzingen and a number of hamlets 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

Green Party A green party is a formally organized political party based on the principles of green politics, such as social justice, environmentalism and nonviolence. Greens believe that these issues are inherently related to one another as a foundation ...

(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 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 ...

''). 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 secondary sector and there are 37 businesses in this sector. 1,066 people are employed in the tertiary sector, with 133 businesses in this sector. The historical population is given in the following table:

References

{{Authority control Municipalities of the canton of Zug