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

History

Ennetmoos is first mentioned in 1311 or 1315 as Ennetmooss. Over the last 10 years the population has grown at a rate of 6.5%. Most of the population () speaks German (94.8%), with Serbo-Croatian being second most common ( 1.4%) and Italian being third ( 1.1%). the gender distribution of the population was 52.0% male and 48.0% female.

there are 671 households, of which 364 households (or about 54.2%) contain only one or two individuals. 92 or about 13.7% are large households, with at least five members.

In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the FDP which received 90% of the vote. Most of the rest of the votes went to local small right-wing parties (9.3%).

{| class="wikitable"

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! year

! population

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| 1850

| 712

|-

| 1880

| 689

|-

| 1888

| 763

|-

| 1900

| 699

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| 1950

| 849

|-

| 1980

| 1,347

|-

| 1990

| 1,763

|-

| 2000

| 1,915

|-

| 2005

| 1,953

|-

|}

Sights

The main sights of Ennetmoos are: the church St. Jakob, the chapel St. Leonhard in Rohren, the chapel St. Magnus in Allweg, a monument (Überfalldenkmal) in Allweg, ruins at Rotzberg, the Stanserhorn mountain and resort, and the pilgrimage route St. Jakobsweg.

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