Risch-Rotkreuz

Risch is a municipality of about 11,200 inhabitants in the canton of Zug, Switzerland, also promoted as Risch-Rotkreuz. Four villages, Rotkreuz, Risch, Buonas and Holzhäusern, belong to it. On 24 November 2007 it was decided to promote the municipality as Risch-Rotkreuz, because the village of Rotkreuz had become much bigger than Risch. The municipality lies between the Lake of Zug and the river Reuss, with the Rooterberg forming part of it in the south, and many little rivers and two little lakes flow through it. Risch had an area, as of 2006, of 14.8 square kilometres, of which 61 percent is used for agricultural purposes, 15.4 percent is forested and 21.3 percent is settled.