Adligenswil

Adligenswil
Coat of arms
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Location of Adligenswil
Coordinates: 47°04′N 08°22′E / 47.067°N 8.367°E / 47.067; 8.367Coordinates: 47°04′N 08°22′E / 47.067°N 8.367°E / 47.067; 8.367
Country	Switzerland
Canton	Lucerne
District	Lucerne
Government
• Mayor	Ursi Burkart-Merz CVP/PDC
Area
• Total	6.99 km2 (2.70 sq mi)
Elevation	532 m (1,745 ft)
Population (Dec 2015)
• Total	5,348
• Density	770/km2 (2,000/sq mi)
Postal code	6043
SFOS number	1051
Surrounded by	Dierikon, Ebikon, Küssnacht (SZ), Lucerne, Meggen, Udligenswil
Website	www.adligenswil.ch Profile (German), SFSO statistics

Adligenswil is a municipality in the district of Lucerne in canton of Lucerne in Switzerland. It is east of the city of Lucerne and borders on canton Schwyz.

Adligenswil is a spread out community on the north side of the valley of the Würzenbach river. 3 kilometers (1.9 mi) to the south-west, the Würzenbach flows into Lake Luzerne. The western part of the municipality is drained into the Ron valley. The main settlement, Adligenswil is located in a depression between Mount Dietschiberg and Mount Dottenberg, Stuben is on the western border of the municipality, and Dottenberg is on the slope of the hill of the same name.

Adligenswil has an area of 7 km² (2.7 sq mi). Of this area, 54.5% is used for agricultural purposes, while 24.3% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 19.5% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (1.7%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains). In the 1997 land survey^[update], 24.32% of the total land area was forested. Of the agricultural land, 51.65% is used for farming or pastures, while 2.86% is used for orchards or vine crops. Of the settled areas, 11.87% is covered with buildings, 1.14% is industrial, 1.14% is classed as special developments, 2% is parks or greenbelts and 3.29% is transportation infrastructure. Of the unproductive areas, 0.14% is unproductive standing water (ponds or lakes), 0.29% is unproductive flowing water (rivers) and 1.29% is other unproductive land.

The neighboring municipalities are Dierikon to the north, Udligenswil to the north-east, Küssnacht to the east, Meggen to the south, Lucerne in the south-west and Ebikon in the north-west.

The community was first mentioned in 1210 by its historic name Adalgeswile. Until the 13th century, Adligenswil, as well as all the area nearest to Lucerne, was under the control of Lucerne and the Alsatian Murbach Abbey. In 1291, Lucerne fell to the Habsburgs. Between the Battle of Morgarten (1315) and the Battle of Sempach (1386), the Habsburg influence gradually declined. In 1406, Lucerne acquired control of the "Vogtei" of the Habsburgs, to which Adligenswil belonged. Adligenswil was made its own parish in 1861.