Langrickenbach

Langrickenbach is a municipality in the district of Kreuzlingen in the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland.

[4] Langrickenbach has an area, as of 2009[update], of 10.85 square kilometers (4.19 sq mi).

Of the rest of the land, 0.79 km2 (0.31 sq mi) or 7.3% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.03 km2 (7.4 acres) or 0.3% is either rivers or lakes.

Parks, green belts and sports fields made up 2.9%.

[5] The municipality is located in the Kreuzlingen district at the intersection of the Sulgen-Altnau and Amriswil-Konstanz roads.

It consists of the village of Langrickenbach (with the sections of Belzstadel and Unter-Greut) and the settlements of Dünnershaus, Herrenhof, Illighausen, Schönenbaumgarten and Zuben.

Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks German (97.3%), with Italian being second most common ( 0.5%) and Romansh being third ( 0.4%).

[7] The age distribution, as of 2009[update], in Langrickenbach is; 114 children or 10.3% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 189 teenagers or 17.1% are between 10 and 19.

[12] In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SVP which received 57.74% of the vote.

In the federal election, a total of 359 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 47.5%.

[13] The historical population is given in the following table:[3][14] As of  2007[update], Langrickenbach had an unemployment rate of 1.65%.

[8] From the 2000 census[update], 252 or 24.5% were Roman Catholic, while 586 or 57.0% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church.

The lower and upper primary levels begin at about age 5-6 and last for 6 years.

At the lower primary level, there were 22 children or 47.8% of the total population who were female, and 6 or 13.0% who were not Swiss citizens.

Aerial view (1954)
Herrenhof village in Langrickenbach