Trasadingen
{{Infobox Swiss town
| subject_name = Trasadingen
| municipality_type = municipality
| image_photo = Trasadingen 144.JPG
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| canton = Schaffhausen
| iso-code-region = CH-SH
| district = n.a.
|coordinates = {{coord|47|40|N|8|25|E|display=inline,title}}
| postal_code = 8219
| municipality_code = 2973
| area = 4.14
| elevation = 403|elevation_description=
| population = 585 |populationof = December 2008 | popofyear = 2008
| website = www.trasadingen.ch
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| neighboring_municipalities= Eggingen (DE-BW), Hallau, Klettgau (DE-BW), Wilchingen
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Trasadingen is a municipality in the canton of Schaffhausen in Switzerland.
Geography
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Trasadingen has an area, {{as of|2006|lc=on}}, of {{convert|4.1|km2|sqmi|abbr=on}}. Of this area, 76.3% is used for agricultural purposes, while 12.2% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 11% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (0.5%) is non-productive (rivers or lakes).
Coat of arms
The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Argent, a Vine Vert fructed Azure issuant from a Cross pattee of the second and in chief dexter a Cross pattee Sable and sinister a Sickle proper.[http://www.fotw.us/flags/ch-sh033.html Flags of the World.com] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110605035237/http://www.fotw.us/flags/ch-sh033.html |date=2011-06-05 }} accessed 30-December-2009
Demographics
Trasadingen has a population ({{as of|2008|lc=on}}) of 585, of which 13.7% are foreign nationals. Of the foreign population, ({{as of|2008|lc=on}}), 61.7% are from Germany, 23.5% are from Italy, 1.2% are from Turkey, and 13.6% are from another country.[http://www.statistik.sh.ch/index.php?id=10032 Statistical Office of the Canton of Schaffhausen] {{in lang|de}} accessed 2 December 2009 Over the last 10 years the population has grown at a rate of 2.6%. Most of the population ({{as of|2000|lc=on}}) speaks German (96.8%), with Italian being second most common ( 0.8%) and English being third ( 0.4%).[http://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/portal/en/index/regionen/02/key.html Swiss Federal Statistical Office] accessed 30-December-2009
The age distribution of the population ({{as of|2008|lc=on}}) is children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 23.8% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 59.1% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 17.1%.
In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SVP which received 46.6% of the vote. The next two most popular parties were the SP (28.4%), and the FDP (25%) .
In Trasadingen about 83.5% of the population (between age 25–64) have completed either non-mandatory upper secondary education or additional higher education (either university or a Fachhochschule). In Trasadingen, {{as of|2007|lc=on}}, 1.72% of the population attend kindergarten or another pre-school, 5.66% attend a Primary School, 3.95% attend a lower level Secondary School, and 2.23% attend a higher level Secondary School.
{{as of|2000}}, 21.7% of the population belonged to the Roman Catholic Church and 61.7% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church.
The historical population is given in the following table:
| class="wikitable" |
| year
! population |
|---|
| 1990
| 560 |
| 2000
| 562 |
Transportation
There is a border crossing into Germany at Trasadingen town with Erzingen in Klettgau municipality, Baden-Württemberg state. Both have railway stations on the High Rhine Railway: {{rws|Trasadingen}} and {{stn|Erzingen (Baden)}}, respectively.
Economy
Trasadingen has an unemployment rate of 1.82%. {{as of|2005}}, there were 61 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 23 businesses involved in this sector. 93 people are employed in the secondary sector and there are 6 businesses in this sector. 74 people are employed in the tertiary sector, with 22 businesses in this sector.
{{as of|2008}} the mid year average unemployment rate was 1%. There were 29 non-agrarian businesses in the municipality and 57% of the (non-agrarian) population was involved in the secondary sector of the economy while 43% were involved in the third. At the same time, 67.1% of the working population was employed full-time, and 32.9% was employed part-time. There were 158 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 45.6% of the workforce. {{as of|2000}} there were 82 residents who worked in the municipality, while 162 residents worked outside Trasadingen and 75 people commuted into the municipality for work.
{{as of|2008}}, there are 2 restaurants and the hospitality industry in Trasadingen employs 8 people.
References
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{{Commons category|Trasadingen}}
{{Municipalities of the canton of Schaffhausen}}
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