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Heiden is a village and a municipality in the canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden in Switzerland. Its Biedermeier village around the church square is listed as a heritage site of national significance.<ref>Swiss inventory of cultural property of national and regional significance (1995), p. 54.</ref>
HistoryEdit
Heiden is first mentioned in 1461 as guot genant Haiden.<ref name=HDS>Template:HDS</ref>
Heiden, Lutzenberg, and Wolfhalden originally were parts of a single municipality named the Kurzenberg. Around 1650, Heiden and Wolfhalden could not agree about control over the local church. This led to the creation of a separate church in each village in 1652, making them independent. In 1658 the Kurzenberg was split into the three separate municipalities in defiance of the canton government. Their borders were officially established in 1666–67.<ref>Template:HDS</ref>
The founder of the Red Cross, Henry Dunant, spent his last years in Heiden. The former president of the ICRC, Jakob Kellenberger, was also born in Heiden.
GeographyEdit
Heiden has an area, Template:As of, of Template:Convert. Of this area, 52.4% is used for agricultural purposes, while 30.6% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 16.8% is settled (buildings or roads), and the remainder (0.3%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciersm or mountains).<ref name=SFSO/>
The municipality is located in the former District of Vorderland on the Kurzenberg. It consists of the village of Heiden and several hamlets near the village.
DemographicsEdit
The historical population is given in the following table:<ref name=HDS/><ref name="AR"/> Template:Historical populations
Heiden had a population (Template:As of) of 4,052, of which about 18.3% were foreign nationals.<ref name=Kurzstats>Brief Statistics for the half-canton Template:Webarchive Template:In lang accessed 15 September 2009</ref> Over the previous 10 years, the population had decreased at a rate of -4.2%.
Most of the population (Template:As of) spoke German (88.7%), with Croatian being second most common (5.9%), and Italian being third most common (1.1%).<ref name=SFSO>Swiss Federal Statistical Office Template:Webarchive accessed 15-Sep-2009</ref>
Template:As of, the gender distribution of the population was 48.5% male, and 51.5% female.<ref name=AR/>
The age distribution, Template:As of, in Heiden was; 311 people or 7.7% of the population were between 0–6 years old. 512 people or 12.6% were 6–15, and 219 people or 5.4% were 16–19. Of the adult population, 168 people or 4.1% of the population were between 20 and 24 years old. 1,179 people or 29.0% were 25–44, and 966 people or 23.8% were 45–64. The senior population distribution was 491 people or 12.1% of the population were between 65 and 79 years old, and 217 people or 5.3% were over 80.<ref name=AR>Appenzell Outer Rhodes website Template:Webarchive Template:In lang accessed 15 September 2009</ref>
In the 2007 federal election the FDP received 65% of the vote.<ref name=SFSO/>
In Heiden about 68.3% of the population (between age 25–64) have completed either non-mandatory upper secondary education or additional higher education (either university or a Fachhochschule).<ref name=SFSO/>
Heiden has an unemployment rate of 1.61%. Template:As of, there were 93 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 37 businesses involved in this sector. 708 people were employed in the secondary sector and there were 41 businesses in this sector. 1,428 people were employed in the tertiary sector, with 189 businesses in this sector.<ref name=SFSO/>
TransportationEdit
An hourly rack railway, the S25 service operated by Appenzell Railways for St. Gallen S-Bahn, leads from Heiden to the port of Rorschach (Template:Rws) on Lake Constance, Template:Convert below. It uses the Rorschach-Heiden railway line. Two stations exist in the municipality, Template:Rws and Template:Rws.
Heiden is also connected by several frequent Swiss PostAuto lines.
Notable residentsEdit
- Henry Dunant (1828–1910), co-founder of the Red Cross, received the first Nobel Peace Prize.
- Heinrich Frenkel (1860–1931), neurologist
- Sonja Nef (born 1972), Olympic skier
- Carlo Schmid-Sutter (born 1950), politician
- Hugo Thiemann (1917–2012), research and development manager
- Ruth Westheimer (born Karola Siegel, 1928–2024; known as "Dr. Ruth"), German-American sex therapist, talk show host, author, professor, Holocaust survivor, and former Haganah sniper.
ReferencesEdit
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