Emmen, Switzerland
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| Population | 27,274 (December 2005) | |||||||||
| - Density | 1,339 /km² (3,468 /sq.mi.) | |||||||||
| Area | 20.37 km² (7.9 sq mi) | |||||||||
| Elevation | 427 m (1,401 ft) | |||||||||
| Postal code | 6032 | |||||||||
| SFOS number | 1024 | |||||||||
| Localities | Emmen-Dorf, Emmenbrücke | |||||||||
| Surrounded by | Buchrain, Ebikon, Eschenbach, Littau , Lucerne , Neuenkirch, Rothenburg | |||||||||
| Website | www.emmen.ch | |||||||||
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Emmen is a municipality in the district of Hochdorf in the canton of Lucerne in Switzerland.
It is part of the metropolitan area of Lucerne. The municipality also includes Emmenbrücke.
The main industry is the Steel-Industrie, EMMI (Switzerland's biggest Cheese-Corporation) as well as a division of Ruag, the Swiss Army supplier. There is the so called ´golden triangle´ of the sewage plant, the air force base and the waste incinerating plant.
[edit] The naturalization law
The city of Emmen hit international headlines in 2001 when it announced new naturalization law. While there are minimal requirements for obtaining Swiss citizenship by naturalization set at the federal level, such as the requirement to live and work for 12 years and speak the local language, many Swiss cantons and communities are free to introduce more stringent requirements. Until 2001 naturalization was run by the popularly elected committee. But Emmen decided to run nationalization process by the citizens themselves, requiring from the potential citizens to pass a series of tests and public interview when subjecting citizenship applications to the public vote. This process prevented many of the ex-Yugoslavs, the largest ethnic group among candidates (Emmen has one of the largest of ex-Yugoslav community in Switzerland), from getting the citizenship. Human rights campaigners said the public interviews and the voting were degrading. In July 2003, the practice was ruled discriminatory and unconstitutional by the Supreme Court [1]. Emmen, since has returned to previous system of the naturalization committees.
[edit] Population by nationality
| Population by nationality (2000 census) | ||
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| Nationality | Residents | with dual citizens |
| Switzerland | 18'171 | 19'456 |
| Serbia-Montenegro | 2'332 | 2'408 |
| Italy | 1'299 | 1'811 |
| Croatia | 678 | 741 |
| Bosnia-Herzegowina | 711 | 727 |
| Spain | 500 | 564 |
| Portugal | 449 | 461 |
| Sri Lanka | 286 | 334 |
| Macedonia | 320 | 326 |
| Germany | 212 | 295 |
| Turkey | 152 | 169 |
| Austria | 89 | 123 |
[edit] External links
- Official Website
- BBC report on the Emmen citizenship tests
- Emmen in German, French and Italian in the online Historical Dictionary of Switzerland.
- Emmenbrücke in German, French and Italian in the online Historical Dictionary of Switzerland.
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