Giswil

Giswil is first mentioned in the 11th century, as Kisevilare.

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The municipality is located on the southern end of Lake Sarnen. It consists of the village sections of Grossteil, Kleinteil, Rudenz and Diechtersmatt, as well as scattered farm houses and hamlets. To the south-west, the municipality rises up to the summits of the Giswilerstock, Brienzer Rothorn, Arnihaaggen and Höch Gumme. The Glaubenbielen Pass crosses to Sörenberg in the Entlebuch region of the canton of Lucerne.{{cite map | publisher = Swiss Confederation | title = map.geo.admin.ch | url = http://map.geo.admin.ch/?zoom=5&X=187092.99&Y=650433.24&lang=en&topic=ech&bgLayer=ch.swisstopo.pixelkarte-farbe&catalogNodes=457,510&layers=ch.swisstopo.swissboundaries3d-gemeinde-flaeche.fill | accessdate = 2014-10-27}}

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Giswil has an area, {{as of|2006|lc=on}}, of {{convert|85.9|km2|sqmi|sp=us}}. Of this area, 35.9% is used for agricultural purposes, while 53.3% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 2.2% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (8.7%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers , or mountains).

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Giswil has a population (as of {{Swiss populations date|CH-OW}}) of {{Swiss populations|CH-OW|1403}}.{{Swiss populations ref|CH-OW}} {{as of|2007}}, 8.9% of the population was made up of foreign nationals.[http://www.statistik-obwalden.ch/index.cfm?navid=78&docid=78 Canton Obwalden Statistics] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110707003126/http://www.statistik-obwalden.ch/index.cfm?navid=78&docid=78 |date=July 7, 2011 }} accessed 2 September 2009 {{in lang|de}} After a period of poverty and emigration in the late 19th century, where the population stagnated at about 1600 persons, the population increased quite continuously in the 20th century. Over the past 40 years the population has increased by 38%, mainly because economic conditions in the region and public transport to Luzern have improved so that the migration balance definitely changed its sense towards immigration. Most of the population ({{as of|2000|lc=on}}) speaks German (95.5%), with Serbo-Croatian being second most common ( 1.0%) and Portuguese being third ( 0.8%).[http://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/portal/en/index/regionen/02/key.html Swiss Federal Statistical Office] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160105172441/http://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/portal/en/index/regionen/02/key.html |date=January 5, 2016 }} accessed 03-Sep-2009 {{as of|2000}} the gender distribution of the population was 50.9% male and 49.1% female. {{as of|2000}} there are 1,250 households in Giswil.

In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SVP which received 35.9% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the CVP (26.2%), the SPS (19.4%) and the rest of the votes went to other parties (18.6%).

In Giswil about 68.2% of the population (between age 25–64) have completed either non-mandatory upper secondary education or additional higher education (either university or a Fachhochschule).

Giswil has an unemployment rate of 1.24%. {{as of|2005}}, there were 329 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 125 businesses involved in this sector. 335 people are employed in the secondary sector and there are 53 businesses in this sector. 467 people are employed in the tertiary sector, with 84 businesses in this sector.

The historical population is given in the following table:{{HDS|742|Giswil}}

Giswil is served by Giswil station on the Brünig line, an inter-regional narrow-gauge railway from Interlaken to Lucerne. The hourly InterRegio train between Interlaken and Lucerne stops at the station, which is also the terminus of the half-hourly Lucerne S-Bahn S5 service from Lucerne.

The A8 motorway passes to the south of the town, through the Giswil Tunnel.

The main sights of Giswil are two ruins (Rosenberg and Rudenz), as well as traditional farmhouses in the scattered settlement Grossteil. {{Citation needed|date=February 2015}}

Giswil has an average of 144.1 days of rain per year and on average receives {{convert|1311|mm|in|abbr=on}} of precipitation. The wettest month is August during which time Giswil receives an average of {{convert|168|mm|in|abbr=on}} of precipitation. During this month there is precipitation for an average of 14.4 days. The month with the most days of precipitation is June, with an average of 14.4, but with only {{convert|146|mm|in|abbr=on}} of precipitation. The driest month of the year is January with an average of {{convert|79|mm|in|abbr=on}} of precipitation over 14.4 days.{{cite web |url=http://www.meteoswiss.admin.ch/web/de/klima/klima_schweiz/tabellen.html |title=Temperature and Precipitation Average Values-Table, 1961–1990 |accessdate=8 May 2009 |publisher=Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology – MeteoSwiss |language=German, French, Italian |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090627163841/http://www.meteoswiss.admin.ch/web/de/klima/klima_schweiz/tabellen.html |archivedate=27 June 2009 }}, the weather station elevation is 489 meters above sea level.

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