Unteriberg is a village and

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 Schwyz District in the

canton of Schwyz The canton of Schwyz (german: Kanton Schwyz rm, Chantun Sviz; french: Canton de Schwytz; it, Canton Svitto) is a canton in central Switzerland between the Alps in the south, Lake Lucerne to the west and Lake Zürich in the north, centred on ...

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 ...

. Besides the village of Unteriberg, the municipality includes the villages of Studen, Waag, Stöcken and Herti.

History

Unteriberg is first mentioned around 1217-22 as ''Yberge''. Until the separation, in 1884, into Unteriberg and

Oberiberg Oberiberg is a village and municipality in Schwyz District in the canton of Schwyz in Switzerland. The municipality comprises the village of Oberiberg and the hamlet and ski area of Hoch-Ybrig. History Oberiberg is first mentioned around 1217-22 ...

the independent municipality was known simply as Iberg. Unteriberg is the hometown of noted ski racer

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Geography

The municipality of Unteriberg lies in the valleys of the

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 flow ...

Waag A weighhouse or weighing house is a public building at or within which goods are weighed. Most of these buildings were built before 1800, prior to the establishment of international standards for weights, and were often a large and representative ...

and Minster rivers, at the southern end of the artificial

Sihlsee __NOTOC__ The Sihlsee (in English sometimes called ''Lake Sihl'') is an artificial lake in the Swiss canton of Schwyz, near the town of Einsiedeln. The lake was created by damming the river Sihl and flooding a section of the upper Sihl Valley. T ...

. The villages of Unteriberg, Stöcken and Herti all lie on the Minster river close to its confluence with the Waag. The village of Waag is on its namesake river, whilst Studen is on the Sihl. To the south of the municipality is the mountain of

Druesberg The Druesberg (or ''Drusberg'') is a mountain located north of Pragel Pass in the Schwyzer Alps and the canton of Schwyz. It lies on the range between Unteriberg and Muotathal. The skiing and hiking area Hoch-Ybrig lies to the north-west of th ...

, whose northern slopes are shared between Unteriberg and the neighbouring municipality of

. To the east is the

Fluebrig The Fluebrig (2,098 m) is a mountain massif of the Schwyzer Alps, located east of Unteriberg in the canton of Schwyz The town of Schwyz (; french: Schwytz; it, Svitto) is the capital of the canton of Schwyz in Switzerland. The Federal C ...

mountain. The municipality has an area, , of . Of this area, 44.4% is used for agricultural purposes, while 35.1% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 2.9% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (17.6%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains).

Demographics

Unteriberg has a population (as of ) of . , 5.4% of the population was made up of foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years the population has grown at a rate of 4.7%. Most of the population () speaks German (98.2%), with Portuguese being second most common ( 0.4%) and Albanian being third ( 0.3%).Swiss Federal Statistical Office
accessed 31-Aug-2009 the gender distribution of the population was 50.6% male and 49.4% female. The age distribution, , in Unteriberg is; 708 people or 31.9% of the population is between 0 and 19. 638 people or 28.7% are 20 to 39, and 628 people or 28.3% are 40 to 64. The senior population distribution is 151 people or 6.8% are 65 to 74. There are 72 people or 3.2% who are 70 to 79 and 23 people or 1.04% of the population who are over 80.Canton Schwyz Statistics
accessed 27 August 2009 there are 802 households, of which 194 households (or about 24.2%) contain only a single individual. 75 or about 9.4% are large households, with at least five members. In the 2007 election the most popular party was the SVP which received 76% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the CVP (10.1%), the FDP (6.8%) and the

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(5%). In Unteriberg about 55.9% 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 ...

''). Unteriberg has an unemployment rate of 1.18%. , there were 133 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 57 businesses involved in this sector. 229 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 38 businesses in this sector. 284 people are employed in the tertiary sector, with 75 businesses in this sector. From the , 1,880 or 84.7% are

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, while 189 or 8.5% 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 10 individuals (or about 0.45% of the population) who belong to the Orthodox Church. There are 21 (or about 0.95% of the population) who are

Islam Islam (; ar, ۘالِإسلَام, , ) is an Abrahamic religions, Abrahamic Monotheism#Islam, monotheistic religion centred primarily around the Quran, a religious text considered by Muslims to be the direct word of God in Islam, God (or ...

ic. 70 (or about 3.15% of the population) belong to no church, are

agnostic Agnosticism is the view or belief that the existence of God, of the divine or the supernatural is unknown or unknowable. (page 56 in 1967 edition) Another definition provided is the view that "human reason is incapable of providing sufficient ...

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, and 50 individuals (or about 2.25% of the population) did not answer the question. The historical population is given in the following table:

References

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