Kerns, Switzerland

Kerns is a village in the canton of Obwalden in Switzerland.

History

Kerns is first mentioned in 1036 as Chernz though this mention is from a 14th Century copy of the original document. After 1101 it was normally mentioned as Chernes. Over the last 10 years the population has grown at a rate of 7.9%. Most of the population () speaks German (96.2%), with Albanian being second most common ( 1.3%) and Portuguese being third ( 0.5%).

thumb|left|Chapel at Melchsee-Frutt with the [[Graustock mountain peak in the background]]

the gender distribution of the population was 49.8% male and 50.2% female. there are 1,700 households,

The historical population is given in the following table: