Risch

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Risch

Total population

506

Coordinates47.13°, 8.46°

Demographic figures from Swiss Federal Statistical Office. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

Overview

Risch is a municipality in the canton of Zug in Switzerland. It is also promoted as Risch-Rotkreuz. Four villages belong to the municipality Risch. On 24 November 2007, it was decided to promote the municipality as Risch-Rotkreuz. The change was made because the village Rotkreuz has become much bigger than Risch.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Notable people from here

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Joseph Niklaus Bütler

Swiss artist (1822-1885)

Hans Hürlimann

member of the Swiss Federal Council (1918–1994)

Jost von Silenen

Swiss politician, roman-catholic bishop of Grenoble (1435-1498)

Peter Schilliger

Swiss politician

Alois Gügler

Swiss theologian (1782-1827)

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Karl Weber

Swiss ingenieur and amateuer archaeologist

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Andreas Gefe

Swiss illustrator and comics artist

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Arnold Imhof

Swiss painter

Peter von Hertenstein

Swiss dean and soldier (died 1510)

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Albert Kuhn

Swiss art historian (1839-1929)

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Franz Jenny

Swiss university teacher (1895-1977)

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Fredi Lüscher

Swiss pianist (1943-2006)

Josef Bürgi

Swiss politician (1864-1932)

Hans Emmenegger

Swiss artist (1866-1940)

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Hekuran Kryeziu

Swiss association football player

Jan Bühlmann

Swiss model

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Nearby places in Zug

• Buonas
  0.8 mi away · pop. 753
• Rotkreuz
  1.6 mi away · pop. 8,518
• Holzhäusern
  1.9 mi away · pop. 662
• Oberwil
  2.4 mi away
• Walchwil
  3.3 mi away · pop. 3,731
• Hünenberg
  3.4 mi away · pop. 8,846
• Cham
  3.4 mi away
• Zug
  3.5 mi away · pop. 29,251
• Arbach
  4.2 mi away
• Steinhausen
  4.6 mi away · pop. 9,258
• Inwil
  4.7 mi away
• Allenwinden
  4.8 mi away

Browse all places in Zug →

Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Official Identifiers