Remetschwil is a

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in the district of

Baden Baden (; ) is a historical territory in South Germany, in earlier times on both sides of the Upper Rhine but since the Napoleonic Wars only East of the Rhine. History The margraves of Baden originated from the House of Zähringen. Baden is ...

in the canton of

Aargau Aargau, more formally the Canton of Aargau (german: Kanton Aargau; rm, Chantun Argovia; french: Canton d'Argovie; it, Canton Argovia), is one of the 26 cantons forming the Swiss Confederation. It is composed of eleven districts and its capita ...

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

Remetschwil is first mentioned in 1184 as ''Reimiswilare''. In 1854 the independent municipality was created when Rohrdorf split into

Niederrohrdorf Niederrohrdorf is a Municipalities of Switzerland, municipality in the district of Baden (district, Aargau), Baden in the Cantons of Switzerland, canton of Aargau in Switzerland. History Niederrohrdorf is first mentioned in 1179 as ''Rordorf''. ...

Oberrohrdorf Oberrohrdorf is a municipality in the district of Baden in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland. History Oberrohrdorf is first mentioned in 1179 as ''Rordorf''. Around 1303-08 it was mentioned as ''ze Oberen-Rordorf''. The hamlet of Staret ...

and Remetschwil.Amtliches Gemeindeverzeichnis der Schweiz
published by the Swiss Federal Statistical Office accessed 14 January 2010

Geography

Remetschwil has an area, , of . Of this area, 59.2% is used for agricultural purposes, while 24.2% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 16.4% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (0.3%) is non-productive (rivers or lakes). The municipality is located in the Baden district, on the south-west flank of the Heitersberg. It consists of the village of Remetschwil and the

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of Busslingen in the

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valley and Sennhof on the Heitersberg.

Coat of arms

The

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of the municipal

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is ''Per fess Or a Buck passant regardant Gules and Gules a Royal Orb Or.''Flags of the World.com
accessed 12-February-2010

Demographics

Remetschwil has a population (as of ) of . , 12.3% of the population was made up of foreign nationals.Statistical Department of Canton Aargau -Bereich 01 -Bevölkerung
accessed 20 January 2010 Over the last 10 years the population has grown at a rate of 20.6%. Most of the population () speaks German (93.8%), with Italian being second most common ( 1.4%) and Albanian being third ( 0.9%).
accessed 12-February-2010 The age distribution, , in Remetschwil is; 226 children or 11.5% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 266 teenagers or 13.6% are between 10 and 19. Of the adult population, 189 people or 9.7% of the population are between 20 and 29 years old. 224 people or 11.4% are between 30 and 39, 423 people or 21.6% are between 40 and 49, and 308 people or 15.7% are between 50 and 59. The senior population distribution is 208 people or 10.6% of the population are between 60 and 69 years old, 78 people or 4.0% are between 70 and 79, there are 28 people or 1.4% who are between 80 and 89,and there are 7 people or 0.4% who are 90 and older.Statistical Department of Canton Aargau -Bevölkerungsdaten für den Kanton Aargau und die Gemeinden (Archiv)
accessed 20 January 2010 , there were 30 homes with 1 or 2 persons in the household, 206 homes with 3 or 4 persons in the household, and 390 homes with 5 or more persons in the household. The average number of people per household was 2.72 individuals. there were 449 single family homes (or 58.5% of the total) out of a total of 768 homes and apartments.Statistical Department of Canton Aargau
accessed 20 January 2010 In the

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the most popular party was the SVP which received 34.4% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the CVP (18.2%), the FDP (16.3%) and the SP (14.4%). In Remetschwil about 85.9% 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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''). Of the school age population (), there are 164 students attending

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in the municipality. The historical population is given in the following table:

Economy

, Remetschwil had an unemployment rate of 2%. , there were 43 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 15 businesses involved in this sector. 173 people are employed in the

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and there are 24 businesses in this sector. 183 people are employed in the

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, with 54 businesses in this sector. there were 959 total workers who lived in the municipality. Of these, 800 or about 83.4% of the residents worked outside Remetschwil while 232 people commuted into the municipality for work. There were a total of 391 jobs (of at least 6 hours per week) in the municipality.Statistical Department of Canton Aargau-Bereich 11 Verkehr und Nachrichtenwesen
accessed 21 January 2010

Religion

From the , 830 or 47.2% are

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, while 568 or 32.3% 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 ...

. Of the rest of the population, there are 6 individuals (or about 0.34% of the population) who belong to the Christian Catholic faith.Statistical Department of Canton Aargau - Aargauer Zahlen 2009
accessed 20 January 2010

References

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