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Schattdorf

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subject_name	Schattdorf
image_photo	Bälmeten.jpg
municipality_type	municipality
imagepath_flag	CHE Schattdorf Flag.svg
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canton	Uri
iso-code-region	CH-UR
district	n.a.
coordinates
postal_code	6467
municipality_code	1213
area	16.27
elevation	481	elevation_description=
population		populationof =	popofyear =
website	www.schattdorf.ch
mayor		mayor_asof=	mayor_party=
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neighboring_municipalities	Attinghausen, Bürglen, Erstfeld, Silenen, Spiringen, Unterschächen

| iso-code-region = CH-UR |}} Schattdorf is a village and a municipality in the canton of Uri in Switzerland.

History

Schattdorf is first mentioned in 1248 as Sachdorf.

Geography

Schattdorf has an area, , of 16.3 km2. Of this area, 33.6% is used for agricultural purposes, while 37.7% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 11% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (17.8%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains).

The municipality is located along the Reuss between the Schächenbach and the Reuss. The village is located on the valley floor but stretches up the mountain side to the hamlet of Haldi which is 1079 m above sea level.

Demographics

Schattdorf has a population (as of ) of . , 6.5% of the population was made up of foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years the population has decreased at a rate of -4.7%. Most of the population () speaks German (94.7%), with Serbo-Croatian being second most common ( 1.5%) and Italian being third ( 0.9%). the gender distribution of the population was 51.0% male and 49.0% female.

In the 2007 federal election the FDP party received 87.6% of the vote.

In Schattdorf about 64.7% of the population (between age 25-64) have completed either non-mandatory upper secondary education or additional higher education (either university or a Fachhochschule).

Schattdorf has an unemployment rate of 0.74%. , there were 125 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 50 businesses involved in this sector. 1,003 people are employed in the secondary sector and there are 44 businesses in this sector. 1,075 people are employed in the tertiary sector, with 92 businesses in this sector.

The historical population is given in the following table:

year	population
1743	602
1799	650
1811	628
1850	822
1900	1,128
1950	2,217
1970	3,292
1980	4,516
1990	4,802
2000	4,897
2005	4,829
2007	4,814

Notable people

John Z'graggen, missionary priest and linguist

References

{{as of. 1997. link. (2011-07-07 {{in lang). de accessed 8 September 2009
[http://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/portal/en/index/regionen/02/key.html Swiss Federal Statistical Office] accessed 09-Sep-2009
[http://www.ur.ch/dateimanager/09.06.09_01_espop_2007.pdf Uri Population statistics] {{Webarchive. link. (2011-07-07 {{in lang). de accessed 8 September 2009
{{HDS. 702. Schattdorf
[http://www.ur.ch/dateimanager/09.06.25_uri-in-zahlen.pdf Uri in Numbers 2009/10 edition] {{in lang. de accessed 8 September 2009
Pawley, Andrew. "In Memoriam, John (Hans) Z’graggen, 1932–2013." ''Oceanic Linguistics'' 53, no. 1 (2014): 170-175. {{doi. 10.1353/ol.2014.0009.

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