Trub
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| Population | 1,359 (Dec 2012)[1] | |||||||||
| - Density | 22 /km2 (57 /sq mi) | |||||||||
| Area | 62.03 km2 (23.95 sq mi)[2] | |||||||||
| Elevation | 790 m (2,592 ft) | |||||||||
| Postal code | 3556 | |||||||||
| SFOS number | 0908 | |||||||||
| Surrounded by | Eggiwil, Escholzmatt (LU), Hergiswil bei Willisau (LU), Langnau im Emmental, Luthern (LU), Marbach (LU), Romoos (LU), Sumiswald, Trubschachen | |||||||||
| Website | www.trub.ch SFSO statistics | |||||||||
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Trub is one of the largest municipalities of Switzerland (62 km²) in size, but not in population. It is located in the Emmental region of the canton of Bern in the administrative district of Emmental.
Geography
Trub has an area, as of 2009, of 62.03 km2 (23.95 sq mi). Of this area, 25.1 km2 (9.7 sq mi) or 40.5% is used for agricultural purposes, while 34.74 km2 (13.41 sq mi) or 56.0% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 1.43 km2 (0.55 sq mi) or 2.3% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.49 km2 (0.19 sq mi) or 0.8% is either rivers or lakes and 0.21 km2 (0.081 sq mi) or 0.3% is unproductive land.[3]
Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 1.1% and transportation infrastructure made up 1.1%. 53.3% of the total land area is heavily forested and 2.7% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 2.5% is used for growing crops and 24.9% is pastures and 13.0% is used for alpine pastures. All the water in the municipality is in rivers and streams.[3]
Demographics
Trub has a population (as of 31 December 2012) of 1,359.[1] As of 2007, 1.7% of the population was made up of foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years the population has decreased at a rate of -11.2%. Most of the population (as of 2000) speaks German (99.5%), with Serbo-Croatian being second most common ( 0.1%) and Swedish being third ( 0.1%).
In the 2007 election the most popular party was the SVP which received 72.4% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the Green Party (7.7%), the SPS (7.5%) and the FDP (3.8%).
The age distribution of the population (as of 2000) is children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 29.1% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 53.6% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 17.3%. In Trub about 57.3% of the population (between age 25-64) have completed either non-mandatory upper secondary education or additional higher education (either university or a Fachhochschule).
Trub has an unemployment rate of 1.01%. As of 2005, there were 454 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 150 businesses involved in this sector. 74 people are employed in the secondary sector and there are 18 businesses in this sector. 141 people are employed in the tertiary sector, with 29 businesses in this sector.[4]
Today, Trub has just under 1,500 inhabitants (2007), but as a result of centuries of emigration from the Emmental region, over 43,000 people are registered as citizens of Trub[citation needed] and about 1 in 160 Swiss citizens[citation needed] trace their ancestry back to this community, one of them being the 2002 Nobel Chemistry laureate, Kurt Wüthrich. The main attraction[citation needed] of the Fankhauser farm house in Trub dates back to 1601 and is the origin of the Fankhauser and Funkhouser families, which have since migrated to Virginia, United States as well as the Frankhouser family in Pennsylvania, United States.
Some of the Amish of the United States emigrated from the Trub region.
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Swiss Federal Statistical Office - STAT-TAB, online database – Datenwürfel für Thema 01.2 - Bevölkerungsstand und -bewegung (German) accessed 29 August 2013
- ↑ Arealstatistik Standard - Gemeindedaten nach 4 Hauptbereichen
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Swiss Federal Statistical Office-Land Use Statistics 2009 data (German) accessed 25 March 2010
- ↑ Swiss Federal Statistical Office accessed 15 July 2009
External links
Media related to Trub at Wikimedia Commons
