Steinhausen, Switzerland

Steinhausen is a municipality and town in the canton of Zug, Switzerland. It is first mentioned in 1173 as Steinhusin. The municipality lies on the north-west edge of the flood plain of the Lorze river and consists of the village of Steinhausen and the hamlets of Bann and Erli, covering about 5 square kilometres, half of it farmland. Steinhausen railway station is a stop on the Zurich S-Bahn line S5, about 43 minutes from Zurich main station, and a second station, Steinhausen Rigiblick, opened in 2012. Most residents speak German, and by the 2005 count the secondary sector employed about 2,185 people and the tertiary sector about 3,078.