Sirnach

Sirnach is a municipality in the district of Münchwilen in the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland.

Geography

Sirnach has an area, as of 2009, of 12.41 square km. Of this area, 6.69 km2 (2.58 sq mi) or 53.9% is used for agricultural purposes, while 3.09 km2 (1.19 sq mi) or 24.9% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 2.37 km2 (0.92 sq mi) or 19.1% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.09 km2 (22 acres) or 0.7% is either rivers or lakes and 0.2 km2 (0.077 sq mi) or 1.6% is unproductive land.

Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 9.4% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 0.8% and transportation infrastructure made up 0.5%. while parks, green belts and sports fields made up 7.5%. Out of the forested land, 22.8% of the total land area is heavily forested and 2.1% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 50.1% is used for growing crops, while 3.8% is used for orchards or vine crops. Of the water in the municipality, 0.6% is in lakes and 0.2% is in rivers and streams.

In 1997 Horben, Sirnach and Wiezikon merged with Sirnach.

Religion

From the 2000 census, 3,094 or 48.7% were Roman Catholic, while 1,794 or 28.2% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church. Of the rest of the population, there were 3 Old Catholics (or about 0.05% of the population) who belonged to the Christian Catholic Church of Switzerland there are 159 individuals (or about 2.50% of the population) who belong to the Orthodox Church, and there are 240 individuals (or about 3.77% of the population) who belong to another Christian church. There were 3 individuals (or about 0.05% of the population) who were Jewish, and 519 (or about 8.16% of the population) who are Islamic. There are 33 individuals (or about 0.52% of the population) who belong to another church (not listed on the census), 288 (or about 4.53% of the population) belong to no church, are agnostic or atheist, and 226 individuals (or about 3.55% of the population) did not answer the question.