Beggingen is a

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in the canton of

Schaffhausen Schaffhausen (; gsw, Schafuuse; french: Schaffhouse; it, Sciaffusa; rm, Schaffusa; en, Shaffhouse) is a town with historic roots, a municipality in northern Switzerland, and the capital of the canton of the same name; it has an estimate ...

in Switzerland.

History

Beggingen is first mentioned in 1278 as ''Beggingen''. Later it was known as ''Beckingen'' and ''Böckingen''.

Coat of arms

The

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of the municipal

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is ''Vert two Ploughshares in pale touching in point.''Flags of the World.com
. Retrieved 4 December 2009

Geography

Beggingen has an area, , of . Of this area, 50.3% is used for agricultural purposes, while 45.1% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 4.4% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (0.2%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains). The municipality is located in the Schleitheim district. It is on the border with Germany and is north-east of Schleitheim in a valley on the west foot of the

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range.

Demographics

Beggingen has a population () of 512, of which 4.7% are foreign nationals. Of the foreign population, (), 73.3% are from

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, 3.3% are from

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, 6.7% are from

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, and 16.7% are from another country.Statistical Office of the Canton of Schaffhausen
. Retrieved 2 December 2009 Over the last 10 years the population has decreased at a rate of -4.8%. Most of the population () speaks German (97.2%), with English being second most common ( 0.8%) and Italian being third ( 0.4%).
. Retrieved 4 December 2009 The age distribution of the population () is children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 26.4% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 57.4% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 16.2%. In the

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the most popular party was the SVP which received 67.7% of the vote. The next two most popular parties were the SP (17.2%), and the FDP (15.2%) . The entire Swiss population is generally well educated. In Beggingen about 81.2% of the population (between age 25–64) have completed either non-mandatory upper secondary education or additional higher education (either university or a '' Fachhochschule''). In Beggingen, , 2.36% of the population is attending

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or another pre-school, 9.25% are attending a

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, 5.71% attend a lower level Secondary School, and 3.74% attend a higher level Secondary School. , 10% of the population belonged to the Roman

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and 81.2% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church. The historical population is given in the following table:

Industry

Beggingen has an unemployment rate of 0.42%. , there were 73 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 29 businesses involved in this sector. 17 people are employed in the

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and there are 7 businesses in this sector. 68 people are employed in the

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, with 13 businesses in this sector. the mid year average unemployment rate was 1%. There were 20 non-agrarian businesses in the municipality and 31.9% of the (non-agrarian) population was involved in the secondary sector of the economy while 68.1% were involved in the third. At the same time, 73.6% of the working population was employed full-time, and 26.4% was employed part-time. There were 72 residents of the municipality were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 25% of the workforce. there were 83 residents who worked in the municipality, while 140 residents worked outside Beggingen and 18 people commuted into the municipality for work. , there is 1 restaurant. The hospitality industry in Beggingen employs 3 people.

References

External links

* {{Authority control Municipalities of the canton of Schaffhausen