
Niederwil is a
municipality
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in the district of
Bremgarten in the
canton of
Aargau
Aargau ( ; ), more formally the Canton of Aargau (; ; ; ), is one of the Canton of Switzerland, 26 cantons forming the Switzerland, Swiss Confederation. It is composed of eleven districts and its capital is Aarau.
Aargau is one of the most nort ...
in
Switzerland
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.
History
The first traces of human settlement near Niederwil are several scattered
neolithic
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stones axes. During the
Roman era
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, there was a small settlement. Near the church is the ruins of a Roman era wall, and there was a Roman treasury at what is now ''Riedmatte''. An iron spearhead from the 7th Century was discovered in the municipality, but all details of the discovery have been lost.
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The village of Niederwil is first mentioned in 924 as ''Wilare''. The rights to ]high justice
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were held throughout the High
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and Late Middle Ages
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by the Counts of Lenzburg. Following their extinction, the rights were held by the House of Habsburg
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, and after the 1415 conquest of Aargau, they were held by the Old Swiss Confederation
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. The rights to low justice were held by Schänis Abbey in Gaster.[
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Geography
Niederwil has an area, , of . Of this area, 53% is used for agricultural purposes, while 30.4% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 14.1% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (2.5%) is non-productive (rivers or lakes).[
The municipality is located in the Bremgarten district on the left bank of the ]Reuss Reuss may refer to:
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river. It consists of the village of Niederwil and since 1901, the village of Nesselnbach and the former ''Gnadental'' convent
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Coat of arms
The blazon
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of the municipal coat of arms
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is ''Per fess on a Bar Sable a Barrulet countercompony Gules and Argent, chief Gules two Bends Argent and base Vert a Barrulet wavy Argent.''
Demographics
Niederwil has a population (as of ) of . , 14.8% 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 9.8%. Most of the population () speaks German (92.7%), with Albanian being second most common ( 2.0%) and Italian being third ( 1.9%).
accessed 28-February-2010
The age distribution, , in Niederwil is; 254 children or 10.6% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 381 teenagers or 15.9% are between 10 and 19. Of the adult population, 284 people or 11.9% of the population are between 20 and 29 years old. 280 people or 11.7% are between 30 and 39, 458 people or 19.1% are between 40 and 49, and 341 people or 14.2% are between 50 and 59. The senior population distribution is 224 people or 9.4% of the population are between 60 and 69 years old, 113 people or 4.7% are between 70 and 79, there are 50 people or 2.1% who are between 80 and 89, and there are 9 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
the average number of residents per living room was 0.61 which is about equal to the cantonal average of 0.57 per room. In this case, a room is defined as space of a housing unit of at least as normal bedrooms, dining rooms, living rooms, kitchens and habitable cellars and attics. About 59.7% of the total households were owner occupied, or in other words did not pay rent (though they may have a mortgage
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or a rent-to-own
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agreement). , there were 90 homes with 1 or 2 persons in the household, 288 homes with 3 or 4 persons in the household, and 403 homes with 5 or more persons in the household. The average number of people per household was 2.72 individuals.[ there were 550 single family homes (or 56.4% of the total) out of a total of 976 homes and apartments.][Statistical Department of Canton Aargau]
accessed 20 January 2010 There was a total of 1 empty apartment for a 0.1% vacancy rate. , the construction rate of new housing units was 8.1 new units per 1000 residents.[
In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SVP which received 41.3% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the CVP (18.6%), the SP (12.7%) and the FDP (12%).][
In Niederwil about 77.2% of the population (between age 25-64) have completed either non-mandatory upper secondary education or additional higher education (either university or a '']Fachhochschule
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'').[ Of the school age population (), there are 197 students attending ]primary school
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, there are 131 students attending secondary school in the municipality.[
The historical population is given in the following table:]
Heritage sites of national significance
The former Cistercian
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convent of ''Gnadenthal'' as well as the ''Gnadenthalerstrasse'' are listed as Swiss heritage sites of national significance.
Economy
, Niederwil had an unemployment rate of 1.93%. , there were 86 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 21 businesses involved in this sector. 230 people are employed in the secondary sector
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and there are 21 businesses in this sector. 554 people are employed in the tertiary sector
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, with 59 businesses in this sector.[
there was a total of 2,921 workers who lived in the municipality. Of these, 1,978 or about 67.7% of the residents worked outside Bremgarten while 1,915 people commuted into the municipality for work. There were a total of 2,858 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 Of the working population, 8.7% used public transportation to get to work, and 60.8% used a private car.[
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Religion
From the , 1,479 or 59.9% were Roman Catholic
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, while 662 or 26.8% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church
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. Of the rest of the population, there were 5 individuals (or about 0.20% of the population) who belonged to the Christian Catholic faith.[Statistical Department of Canton Aargau - Aargauer Zahlen 2009]
accessed 20 January 2010
References
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