Augst

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Augst
Coat of arms of Augst
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Canton of Basel-CountryCanton of Basel-Country Basel-Country (BL)
District : Liestal
BFS no. : 2822i1 f3 f4
Postal code : 4302
UN / LOCODE : CH AGT
Coordinates : 620645  /  264966 coordinates: 47 ° 32 '6 "  N , 7 ° 42' 46"  O ; CH1903:  620645  /  264966
Height : 275  m above sea level M.
Height range : 254–313 m above sea level M.
Area : 1.65  km²
Residents: 1024 (December 31, 2018)
Population density : 621 inhabitants per km²
Website: www.augst.ch
Augst - Hauptstrasse, Ergolzbrücke and old customs

Augst - Hauptstrasse, Ergolzbrücke and old customs
Location of the municipality
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Augst ( Swiss German : Augscht [ aʊkʃt ]) is a municipality in the Liestal district of the canton of Basel-Landschaft in Switzerland . The municipality was previously called Baselaugst - to distinguish it from the neighboring municipality of Kaiseraugst in the canton of Aargau . The border between Germany and Switzerland runs in the middle of the Rhine near Augst .

geography

The municipality of Augst is 275 m above sea level. M. at the northeastern end of the canton of Basel-Landschaft . The village extends over the gravel terrace on both sides of the Ergolz , which flows into the Rhine north of Augst. The Violenbach reaches the Ergolz near Augst . The Violenbach follows the canton border between the Basel area and the canton Aargau from its source on Halmet to Augst; from the confluence of the Violenbach in the Ergolz the border lies in this river to the Rhine.

To the west of the village, a narrow, approximately two and a half kilometer long bank strip on the Rhine belongs to Augst. The Augst-Wyhlen hydropower plant is located in this area .

Between the Ergolz and the Violenbach there is a plain about a square kilometer on which the higher quarters of the Roman city of Augusta Raurica stood.

The main road 3 from Basel to Rheinfelden and the Bözberg railway line run through the village . On the south side of the ancient city area, the A 2 motorway crosses the municipality in a west-east direction, and at the "Augst" junction, the A 3 motorway leaves the A 2 route, which it followed from Basel, and crosses the canton border to Rheinfelden.

The pier Augst BL Kraftwerk der Rheinschifffahrt is located near the power plant .

history

Historical aerial photo from 500 m by Walter Mittelholzer from 1925

The name Augst goes back to the Roman town of Augusta Raurica , located on the terrace spur between Ergolz and Violenbach from the 1st to the 3rd century .

In the Middle Ages , the Augst settlement was formed on the Ergolzbrücke, where the customs and a mill were located.

In 1431, knight Hans Reich von Reichenstein sold the village of Augst to Henman Offenburg of Basel with the consent of King Sigismund .

In 1442 the municipality of Augst was divided up and the part of the village on the right side of the Violenbach came to Austria with the Rheinfelden rule and was henceforth called Kaiseraugst . The part of the village on the left bank came into the possession of the city of Basel with the rule of Farnsburg in 1461 and has since been called Baselaugst or just Augst.

coat of arms

On a red background a silver lion head with a golden tongue and a golden crown. This is the coat of arms of the noblemen Pfirter von Liestal , who collected the bridge toll on the Ergolz in Augst in the 14th century .

Attractions

Panorama view from the front Wartenberg ruin in Muttenz to the power plant in Augst
Augst power plant

The ruins of the Roman city of Augusta Raurica lie in the municipal area of ​​Augst and that of Kaiseraugst AG . On a tour through the extensive area one encounters a theater, an amphitheater , temple , the forum , baths with water pipes, a pottery furnace, remains of a hypocaust heater , the city wall, a tomb, etc.

In an animal park, animal species are kept as they were to be found in the time of the Romans . In the Roman Museum in Augst , a reconstructed Roman villa, the large silver treasure is shown, which was uncovered during construction work in 1961 and recovered under adventurous circumstances.

Augst in the border triangle

photos

  • Main road

  • Lock and power station

  • Gasthaus Rössli

  • Primary school building

  • Augusta Raurica Museum

  • Roman theater by Augusta Raurica

literature

  • Jules Coulin : The Rössli in Augst. In: Heimatschutz = Patrimoine , Vol. 22, 1927, pp. 34–42 ( digitized version ).
  • Hans-Rudolf Heyer: The art monuments of the canton of Basel-Country, Volume II: The district of Liestal. Edited by the Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Bern 1974 (Art Monuments of Switzerland Volume 62). ISBN 3-7643-0727-7 . Pp. 5-24.
  • René Salathé u. a .: Augst and Kaiseraugst: Two villages - one story. 2 volumes. Publishing house of the Canton of Basel-Landschaft, Liestal 2007.

Web links

Commons : Augst  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Permanent and non-permanent resident population by year, canton, district, municipality, population type and gender (permanent resident population). In: bfs. admin.ch . Federal Statistical Office (FSO), August 31, 2019, accessed on December 22, 2019 .
  2. ↑ pier power station Augst Basel's passenger shipping AG