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On 1 January 2013 the former municipalities of Heinrichswil-Winistorf and Hersiwil merged to form the new municipality of Drei H\u00f6fe.[1]Table of Contents       (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4History[edit]Geography[edit]Coat of arms[edit]Demographics[edit]Politics[edit]Economy[edit]Religion[edit]Education[edit]References[edit]External links[edit]History[edit]    Hersiwil is first mentioned in 1324 as Hersenwile.  It formed a double municipality with Heinrichswil until 1798, when Winistorf joined the other two to form the triple municipality of Hersiwil-Heinrichswil-Winistorf.  In 1854 it split into three, separate, independent municipalities.  In 1993, Heinrichswil and Winistorf merged again, but Hersiwil remained independent.[2]Geography[edit]  road sign, entrance to Hersiwil    “Neuhaus” Hauptstrasse 36, Hersiwil, home of Jakob Gerber [1856-1935], mayor and district judge         (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4Hersiwil, typical old farmhouse, built in 1776, named “Gerber Haus”    old postcard from Hersiwil, dated 1900Hersiwil had an area, as of 2009[update], of 1.43 square kilometers (0.55\u00a0sq\u00a0mi).  Of this area, 0.97\u00a0km2 (0.37\u00a0sq\u00a0mi) or 67.8% is used for agricultural purposes, while 0.32\u00a0km2 (0.12\u00a0sq\u00a0mi) or 22.4% is forested.   Of the rest of the land, 0.09\u00a0km2 (22 acres) or 6.3% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.02\u00a0km2 (4.9 acres) or 1.4% is either rivers or lakes and 0.01\u00a0km2 (2.5 acres) or 0.7% is unproductive land.[3]Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 2.8% and transportation infrastructure made up 3.5%.  Out of the forested land, all of the forested land area is covered with heavy forests.  Of the agricultural land, 43.4% is used for growing crops and 21.0% is pastures, while 3.5% is used for orchards or vine crops.  All the water in the municipality is flowing water.[3]The agricultural former municipality is located in the Wasseramt district.Coat of arms[edit]The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Or a Ploughshare doubled Sable.[4]Demographics[edit]Hersiwil has a population (as of 2011[update]) of 190.[5]  As of 2008[update], 1.7% of the population are resident foreign nationals.[6] Over the last 10 years (1999\u20132009 ) the population has changed at a rate of 7.1%.  It has changed at a rate of 5.3% due to migration and at a rate of -2.4% due to births and deaths.[7]Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks German (167 or 99.4%) with the rest speaking Portuguese[8]As of 2008[update], the gender distribution of the population was 48.4% male and 51.6% female.  The population was made up of 87 Swiss men (47.8% of the population) and 1 (0.5%) non-Swiss men.  There were 93 Swiss women (51.1%) and 1 (0.5%) non-Swiss women.[9] Of the population in the municipality 66 or about 39.3% were born in Hersiwil and lived there in 2000.  There were 61 or 36.3% who were born in the same canton, while 34 or 20.2% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 4 or 2.4% were born outside of Switzerland.[8]In 2008[update] there was 1 live birth to Swiss citizens and were 2 deaths of Swiss citizens.  Ignoring immigration and emigration, the population of Swiss citizens decreased by 1 while the foreign population remained the same.  There was 1 Swiss woman who migrated back to Switzerland.  At the same time, there was 1 non-Swiss woman who migrated from another country to Switzerland.  The total Swiss population change in 2008 (from all sources, including moves across municipal borders) was an increase of 2 and the non-Swiss population increased by 1.  This represents a population growth rate of 1.7%.[6]The age distribution, as of 2000[update], in Hersiwil is; 18 children or 10.7% of the population are between 0 and 6 years old and 31 teenagers or 18.5% are between 7 and 19.  Of the adult population, 7 people or 4.2% of the population are between 20 and 24 years old.  58 people or 34.5% are between 25 and 44, and 30 people or 17.9% are between 45 and 64.  The senior population distribution is 18 people or 10.7% of the population are between 65 and 79 years old and there are 6 people or 3.6% who are over 80.[10]As of 2000[update], there were 69 people who were single and never married in the municipality.  There were 83 married people, 10 widows or widowers and 6 people who are divorced.[8]As of 2000[update], there were 61 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.7 persons per household.[7] There were 14 households that consist of only one person and 7 households with five or more people.  Out of a total of 62 households that answered this question, 22.6% were households made up of just one person and there were 2 adults who lived with their parents.  Of the rest of the households, there are 15 married couples without children, 27 married couples with children There were 2 single parents with a child or children.  There was 1 household that was made up of unrelated people and 1 household that was made up of some sort of institution or another collective housing.[8]In 2000[update] there were 37 single family homes (or 66.1% of the total) out of a total of 56 inhabited buildings.  There were 6 multi-family buildings (10.7%), along with 11 multi-purpose buildings that were mostly used for housing (19.6%) and 2 other use buildings (commercial or industrial) that also had some housing (3.6%).  Of the single family homes 6 were built before 1919, while 10 were built between 1990 and 2000.  The greatest number of single family homes (10) were built between 1991 and 1995.[11]In 2000[update] there were 66 apartments in the municipality.  The most common apartment size was 5 rooms of which there were 15.  There were no single room apartments and 36 apartments with five or more rooms.  Of these apartments, a total of 61 apartments (92.4% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 2 apartments (3.0%) were seasonally occupied and 3 apartments (4.5%) were empty.[11]  As of 2010[update], the construction rate of new housing units was 0 new units per 1000 residents.[7]The historical population is given in the following chart:[2][12]Politics[edit]In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the CVP which received 30.17% of the vote.  The next three most popular parties were the FDP (20%), the SP (18.64%) and the Green Party (15.93%).  In the federal election, a total of 86 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 61.0%.[13]Economy[edit]As of \u00a02008[update], Hersiwil had an unemployment rate of 8%.  As of 2008[update], there were 11 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 4 businesses involved in this sector.  1 person was employed in the secondary sector and there was 1 business in this sector.  4 people were employed in the tertiary sector, with businesses in this sector.[7] There were 86 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 43.0% of the workforce.In 2008[update] the total number of full-time equivalent jobs was 16.  The number of jobs in the primary sector was 6, all of which were in agriculture.  The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 9 of which 1 was in manufacturing and 8 were in construction.  The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 1, in the movement and storage of goods.[14]In 2000[update], there were 13 workers who commuted into the municipality and 66 workers who commuted away.  The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 5.1 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering.[15] Of the working population, 61.6% used public transportation to get to work, and 74.4% used a private car.[7]Religion[edit]From the 2000 census[update], 102 or 60.7% were Roman Catholic, while 52 or 31.0% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church.  10 (or about 5.95% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic or atheist, and 4 individuals (or about 2.38% of the population) did not answer the question.[8]Education[edit]In Hersiwil about 80 or (47.6%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 16 or (9.5%) have completed additional higher education (either university or a Fachhochschule).  Of the 16 who completed tertiary schooling, 81.3% were Swiss men, 12.5% were Swiss women.[8]As of 2000[update], there was one student in Hersiwil who came from another municipality, while 29 residents attended schools outside the municipality.[15]References[edit]External links[edit]Wikimedia Commons has media related to Hersiwil.     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4"},{"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki2\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Enzyklop\u00e4die"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki2\/hersiwil-wikipedia\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Hersiwil – Wikipedia"}}]}]