Ennetbürgen is a municipality in the canton of Nidwalden in Switzerland.

History

thumb|Aerial view (1956)

Ennetbürgen is first mentioned by 1190 as Burgin. In 1799, it became Enet-Bürgen and in 1836, Ennerbürgen. Since 1850, the official name has been Ennetbürgen. Over the last 10 years the population has grown at a rate of 8%. Most of the population () speaks German (94.2%), with Serbo-Croatian being second most common ( 1.2%) and Italian being third ( 0.9%). , the gender distribution of the population was 51.4% male and 48.6% female.

, there are 1,583 households, of which 994 households (or about 62.8%) contain only one or two individuals. 131 or about 8.3% are large households, with at least five members.

In the 2007 federal election, the most popular party was the FDP which received 88.2% of the vote. Most of the rest of votes went to local small right-wing parties (9.8%).

{| class="wikitable"

|-

! year

! population

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| 1850

| 880

|-

| 1870

| 972

|-

| 1880

| 898

|-

| 1900

| 923

|-

| 1950

| 1,446

|-

| 1960

| 1,917

|-

| 1970

| 2,350

|-

| 1980

| 2,716

|-

| 1990

| 3,529

|-

| 2000

| 3,976

|-

| 2005

| 4,198

|-

|}

Sights

thumb|Chapel of St. Jost

The main sights of Ennetbürgen are: the chapel St. Jost, and the clergy house

St. Jost.

References