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27-584: The village of Lungern lies 750 metres (2,460 ft) above sea level in the highest part of the canton of Obwalden, on the eastern shore of the Lake of Lungern and at the foot of the Brünig Pass . It is the highest village of the Sarneraa-Valley, in a basin open only to the north and surrounded on all other sides by steep and woody inclinations and rocks. To the south-west the municipality extends to

54-520: A sawmill. Within 80 years the hard-won land was lost to a new dam: in 1922 a company named CKW built and started running a power station located at the lake. Nowadays the local power station (EWO) produces electricity from the power of the water of the Lungerersee. In 1942 the railroad line over the Brünig pass was electrified. Nowadays the village of Lungern has about 2120 inhabitants. The population

81-510: Is contained in a tax register for the diocese of the bishop of Konstanz in Germany dating from the year 1275. It is mentioned as Lutigern and also as de Lungern . In 1861 it became easier to reach the village with the construction of the old road over the Brünig pass . A quarter century later, in 1886, the first mail carriages came over the pass. However, this only lasted two years, in 1888

108-437: Is fairly new, about 110 years old, because the old one was destroyed in a flood of the lake. Chapels are located in the center of the village (Dorfkapelle), Obseekapelle, Kapelle Bürglen, Kapelle Breitenfeld and Kappele Krummelbach. The main sights of Lungern are: The Brünig railway line passes through the municipality, on its route between Interlaken and Lucerne . Both Lungern station and Kaiserstuhl OW station are on

135-421: Is stable, so there is a rise in the ratio of elderly to total population. In fact 17.5% of the total population of Lungern are of a pensionable age, compared with an average of 12% in the canton. If work opportunities remain limited this will likely grow even further in the future. Lungern has a population (as of 31 December 2020) of 2,138. As of 2007, 8.6% of the population was made up of foreign nationals. Over

162-620: The Global Industry Classification Standard and the Industry Classification Benchmark are used to classify businesses that participate in the service sector. Unlike governmental classification systems, the first level of market-based classification systems divides the economy into functionally related markets or industries. The second or third level of these hierarchies then reflects whether goods or services are produced. For

189-735: The North American Industrial Classification System (NAICS), the Statistical Classification of Economic Activities in the European Community (NACE) in the EU and similar systems elsewhere. These governmental classification systems have a first-level of hierarchy that reflects whether the economic goods are tangible or intangible. For purposes of finance and market research , market -based classification systems such as

216-630: The primary economic sector and about 66 businesses involved; 443 people were employed in the secondary sector and there were 27 businesses involved; 394 people were employed in the tertiary sector , with 54 businesses. About 24% of the workers were involved in agriculture and forestry, 40% were considered artisans or craftsman. Of the rest of the working population, 13% were in commercial business or teaching staff, 12% were self-employed and 11% were domestic and hotel employees. Economically, agriculture, forestry and wood-working are predominant. Agriculture comprises cattle-breeding and dairy-farming. All of

243-789: The Brünig Pass. On its north-western side, the municipal boundary is set by the Wilerhorn and Höch Gumme mountains, and includes the whole of the Lake of Lungern. To the east, the boundary reaches as far as the Hochstollen and Chingstuel mountains, and includes the Güpfi mountain and part of the Kleine Melchtal valley. Besides the village of Lungern, the municipality includes the settlements of Kaiserstuhl and Bürglen that lie at

270-654: The Obsee sector of Lungern together with many smaller companies, ensures that companies in Lungern provide employment not just for the inhabitants of the village but the Sarner-Aa valley and the Haslital . The historical population is given in the following table: From 1961 to 1990, Lungern had an average of 149.5 days of rain per year and on average received 1,491 mm (58.7 in) of precipitation . The wettest month

297-588: The United States, 70 per cent of the workforce works in the service sector; in Japan, 60 per cent, and in Taiwan, 50 per cent. These are not necessarily busboys and live-in maids. Numerous of them are in the skilled category. They are earning as much as manufacturing employees, and often more. Economies tend to follow a developmental progression that takes them from heavy reliance on agriculture and mining, toward

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324-646: The agricultural farms are cultivated by native highlanders, and they are mainly situated not in the bottom of the valley but on its slopes. Lungern has a large industrial sector with the main employers being Gasser Felstechnik  [ Wikidata ] with 300 employees specialising in securing rockfaces preventing rockfalls and landslides, neue Holzbau AG (70+ employees) specialising in pre-fabricated wooden constructions and engineered wood products, H-P Gasser Membranbau (80+ employees) specialising in membrane structures and skylights and Sutter Fahrzeugbau who are specialists in coachwork and commercial vehicles. Located in

351-459: The customers rather than transforming the physical goods. The production of information has been long regarded as a service, but some economists now attribute it to a fourth sector, called the quaternary sector . It is sometimes hard to determine whether a given company is part of the secondary or the tertiary sector. It is not only companies that have been classified as part of a sector in some schemes, since governments and their services (such as

378-610: The development of manufacturing (e.g. automobiles, textiles, shipbuilding , steel) and finally toward a more service-based structure. The first economy to follow this path in the modern world was the United Kingdom . The speed at which other economies have made the transition to service-based (or " post-industrial ") economies has increased over time. Historically, manufacturing tended to be more open to international trade and competition than services. However, with dramatic cost reduction and speed and reliability improvements in

405-539: The economy The tertiary sector of the economy , generally known as the service sector , is the third of the three economic sectors in the three-sector model (also known as the economic cycle). The others are the primary sector ( raw materials ) and the secondary sector ( manufacturing ). The tertiary sector consists of the provision of services instead of end products . Services (also known as " intangible goods ") include attention, advice, access, experience and affective labour . The tertiary sector involves

432-432: The last 10 years the population has grown at a rate of 2.6%. Most of the population (as of 2000) speaks German (94.8%), with Albanian being second most common (2.2%) and French third (0.7%). As of 2000 the gender distribution of the population was 49.7% male and 50.3% female. In 2000 there were 681 households in Lungern. In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was just classed as other, which received 41.7% of

459-482: The last 100 years, there has been a substantial shift from the primary and secondary sectors to the tertiary sector in industrialized countries. This shift is called tertiarisation . The tertiary sector is now the largest sector of the economy in the Western world , and is also the fastest-growing sector. In examining the growth of the service sector in the early nineties, the globalist Kenichi Ohmae noted that: In

486-607: The line and in the municipality; and in 2013 were served by one train per hour in each direction. Lake of Lungern Lake Lungern ( German : Lungerersee , also spelled Lungernsee or Lungerensee ) is a natural lake in Obwalden , Switzerland which is named after the town Lungern on its shore. The lake is drained by the Sarner Aa river , which flows through the Sarnersee and into Lake Lucerne . The lake

513-463: The northern end of the lake, and Obsee on the south-western end of the lake. The municipal district of Lungern has an area of 46.33 square kilometres (11,450 acres), of which 6.48 square kilometres (1,600 acres) are meadow and tilled land, 19.2 square kilometres (4,700 acres) are pastureland, 15.97 square kilometres (3,950 acres) are wooded and the remaining 2.91 square kilometres (720 acres) are unproductive. The first legal proof of Lungern's existence

540-540: The police or military), as well as nonprofit organizations (such as charities or research associations), can also be seen as part of that sector. To classify a business as a service, one can use classification systems such as the United Nations ' International Standard Industrial Classification standard, the United States ' Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) code system and its new replacement,

567-446: The provision of services to other businesses as well as to final consumers. Services may involve the transport , distribution and sale of goods from a producer to a consumer, as may happen in wholesaling and retailing , pest control or financial services . The goods may be transformed in the process of providing the service, as happens in the restaurant industry. However, the focus is on people by interacting with them and serving

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594-507: The railroad from Brienz to Alpnachstad (now part of Alpnach ) opened. In 1887 the Eibach river flooded causing damage to the old village church. Six years later, in 1893, was the consecration of the neo-gothic style church. At the end of the 18th century the population of Lungern lowered the level of the lake, with great effort and over many years, in order to improve living conditions. The works created new land for agriculture, housing, and

621-514: The transportation of people and the communication of information, the service sector now includes some of the most intensive international competition, despite residual protectionism . Service providers face obstacles selling services that goods-sellers rarely face. Services are intangible, making it difficult for potential customers to understand what they will receive and what value it will hold for them. Indeed, some, such as consultants and providers of investment services, offer no guarantees of

648-419: The value for the price paid. Since the quality of most services depends largely on the quality of the individuals providing the services, "people costs" are usually a high fraction of service costs. Whereas a manufacturer may use technology, simplification, and other techniques to lower the cost of goods sold, the service provider often faces an unrelenting pattern of increasing costs. Product differentiation

675-550: The vote. The next three most popular parties were the SVP (26.2%), the CVP (25.6%) and the SPS (6.5%). In Lungern about 71.5% of the population (between ages 25 and 64) have completed either non-mandatory upper secondary education or additional higher education (either university or a Fachhochschule ). Lungern has an unemployment rate of 0.6%. In 2005, there were 156 people employed in

702-438: Was August, during which Lungern received an average of 163 mm (6.4 in) of precipitation and over an average of 14.4 days. The month with the most days of precipitation was June, with an average of 14.7, but with only 158 mm (6.2 in) of precipitation. The driest month was October, with an average of 88 mm (3.5 in) of precipitation over 14.4 days. There is one Catholic church and five chapels. The church

729-404: Was originally much larger, and covered a large part of the valley it is situated in. Starting in 1836, its level was lowered by 36 metres (118 ft) through an artificial drainage tunnel with a length of 380 metres (1,250 ft). It is used as a reservoir . This article related to a lake in Obwalden is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Tertiary sector of

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