Alberswil

Alberswil
State :	Switzerland
Canton :	Lucerne (LU)
Constituency :	Willisau
BFS no. :	1121
Postal code :	6248
Coordinates :	642 576  /  222 266 coordinates: 47 ° 9 '0 "  N , 8 ° 0' 0"  O ; CH1903:  six hundred forty-two thousand five hundred seventy-six  /  two hundred and twenty-two thousand two hundred and sixty-six
Height :	522  m above sea level M.
Height range :	510–654 m above sea level M.
Area :	3.53  km²
Residents:	662 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	188 inhabitants per km²
Proportion of foreigners : (residents without citizenship )	13.1% (December 31, 2,015)
Website:	www.alberswil.ch
Location of the municipality

Alberswil ( Swiss German : [ ˈɑʊ̯b̥əɾʓˌʋɪʊ̯ ]) is a municipality in the Willisau constituency in the canton of Lucerne in Switzerland .

geography

Alberswil is a street village on the western edge of the Wauwilermoos plain and lies at the foot of a hill called Kasteln. The place consists of the districts Kasteln , Ober- and Unterdorf , and Burgrain . Of the municipal area of ​​358 ha, 73.7% is agricultural land, 18.2% consists of forest and wood and a further 7.8% of the municipality is used as settlement area.

Neighboring communities of Alberswil are Ettiswil in the east, Gettnau in the west, Schötz in the north and Willisau in the south.

population

The number of inhabitants grew strongly from 1798 to 1850 from 279 to 429 people. Thereafter it fluctuated between 400 and 500 people until 1960. In 1970 a low point was reached with 360 inhabitants. Since then, the population has been growing steadily.

languages

German is the main language in Alberswil and is used as a colloquial language by 91.40% of the residents. Albanian with 4.59% and Turkish with 1.91% are the largest language minorities.

Religions - denominations

Originally the entire population consisted of members of the Roman Catholic Church. In 2000, 78.97% of the population were Roman Catholic Christians. Religious minorities were the 9.37% Evangelical Reformed Christians, the 4.21% Muslims and the 2.68% non-denominational.

Origin - nationality

At the end of 2014, 569 of the 643 inhabitants were Swiss and 74 (= 11.5%) were foreigners. The population consisted of 88.5% Swiss citizens. At the end of 2014, the foreign residents came from Serbia including Kosovo (31.1%), Germany (16.2%), Turkey (16.2%), Portugal (4.1%), Spain (4.1%) and Italy (1.4%). 13.5% came from the rest of Europe and 13.5% came from outside Europe.

history

Aerial photo from 300 m by Walter Mittelholzer (1931)

Alberswile is mentioned for the first time in a toboggan from Einsiedeln Abbey from 1217 to 1222 and in 1236 in a letter of protection from Pope Gregory IX. for Engelberg Abbey. The place name is probably a combination of the Old High German personal name A (tha) lbert and the term -wīlāri, which is common in Alemannic foundations , to designate new court settlements.

The first known owners of Kasteln Castle , to which Alberswil belonged, were the lords of Lenzburg . These were followed in 1258 by the Counts of Kyburg . In 1273 the heiress Anna von Kyburg, who was married to Eberhard von Habsburg, sold this inheritance to Rudolf von Habsburg. Between 1275 and 1415, various feudal lords ruled on behalf of the Habsburgs . In 1415 the area came to Lucerne, and the last Habsburg liege lord Peter von Luternau accepted the castle rights of the city of Lucerne in 1416 . The rule of Kasteln was ruled directly from Lucerne only since 1644. On May 23, 1653, when the peasants marched in during the Peasants' War, the last inhabitant of the otherwise empty Kasteln Castle, a fire guard, fled . The farmers made the castle uninhabitable by covering the roof. The Kasteln Castle became a ruin. In 1884 the community of Alberswil, which had belonged to the Willisau office since 1803, went bankrupt after building a poor institution and a citizens' asylum in Gut Burgrain. The municipality was administered from 1888–1898 by the Canton of Lucerne.

politics

Municipal council

The Alberswil municipal council consists of three members and is set up as follows:

• Erika Oberli-Gut ( CVP ): Mayor
• Josef Häfliger (CVP): Mayor; Finance, education, construction and security
• Josef Christen ( FDP ): Social Director

Cantonal elections

In the 2015 Cantonal Council elections for the Canton of Lucerne, the share of the vote in Alberswil was: CVP 44.2%, SVP 26.3%, FDP 26.0%, GPS 1.7%, SP 1.3%, glp 0.4%.

National Council elections

In the Swiss parliamentary elections 2015, the share of the vote in Alberswil was: SVP 33.9%, CVP 32.3%, FDP 26.8%, SP 3.3%, glp 1.4%, BDP 0.9%, Greens 0, 7%.

economy

The number of people in employment was 289 in 2000. 29 commuters were compared to 203 commuters (scattered throughout the region). The population used to work in agriculture and in several mills. The latter industry has died out. Today (as of 2001) there are still 19 farms, which provide 39.8% of employees with a job. 18.6% find a livelihood in industry and trade and 41.6% in service occupations.

traffic

Alberswil is served by public transport from Nebikon to Willisau. The nearest train stations are Nebikon ( Lucerne-Olten route ) and Willisau (Langenthal-Lucerne route). The Dagmersellen and Sursee motorway connections are 8 and 10 km away, respectively.

education

The community has a kindergarten and a primary school in which 18 and 64 pupils, respectively, studied in the 2003/2004 school year. From the 7th grade onwards, the students from Alberswil go to school in neighboring Ettiswil.

Attractions

See also : List of cultural assets in Alberswil

The castle ruins of Kasteln are historically the most important sight. It was partially restored from 1996 to 2001 by a patrons' association. Also worth seeing is the early baroque Kasteln country palace, which was built in 1682 by the then governor of Willisau, Heinrich von Sonnenberg. The T-shaped building with the two garden pavilions is an early example of the baroque country seat in the canton of Lucerne. The castle is still owned by the family.

The chapel of St. Blasius stands on the Burgrain hill . It is first mentioned in 1309 as the property of the Disentis Monastery. After several changes of ownership, it came to the St. Urban Monastery. Today's chapel, whose steep proportions are still in keeping with the Gothic style, was built like the country palace in 1682. The interior furnishings, especially the high altars and the old coffered ceilings in the nave and in the choir, are well worth seeing and still come from the original chapel.

The court Burgrain, located on the same hill, was from 1873 to 1962 poorhouse and citizens asylum. The Willisau Agricultural School then took over the estate and built the Swiss Museum of Agriculture and Agricultural Technology there in 1974.

The Agricultural Museum Alberswil , also known as the Agricultural Museum Burgrain , opened in 1974 and provides an insight into the work of Swiss farmers and the development of agricultural technology and shows the changes in agriculture over the past few decades.

Impressions

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  Entrance to the village of Alberswil coming from Schötz

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  Bus stop at the entrance to the village of Alberswil

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  Burgrain with the chapel of St. Blasius

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  Chapel of St. Blaise

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  Chapel of St. Blaise, interior view

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  Kastelen Castle

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  Kastelen ruins

literature

• Art monuments of Switzerland. Canton lucerne. Volume V, pages 6-17. Basel, 1959.
• Franz Daxecker : A letter from P. Johann Baptist Cysat SJ - documents on the legal history of Kasteln Castle near Alberswil in the canton of Lucerne, Switzerland. In: Collective sheet of the Historisches Verein Ingolstadt, 104th vol., 251–256, 1995

Web links

Commons : Alberswil  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of the municipality of Alberswil
• Agricultural Museum Burgrain on seetal-plus.ch
• Community profile of the cantonal statistical office (PDF, 115 kB)
• Waltraud Hörsch: Alberswil. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

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. ↑ Permanent resident population by nationality category, gender and municipality ( memento from January 1, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (permanent resident population)
3. ↑ ^{a b} Andres Kristol: Alberswil LU (Willisau) in: Dictionnaire toponymique des communes suisses - Lexicon of Swiss municipality names - Dizionario toponomastico dei comuni svizzeri (DTS | LSG). Center de dialectologie, Université de Neuchâtel, Verlag Huber, Frauenfeld / Stuttgart / Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-7193-1308-5 and Éditions Payot, Lausanne 2005, ISBN 2-601-03336-3 , p. 80. Specified phonetic transcription: [ ˈⱭʊbərʓˌʋɪʊ ].
4. ↑ Balance of the permanent resident population according to demographic components, institutional structure, nationality and gender (Federal Statistical Office, STAT-TAB)
5. ^ LUSTAT: Community profile Alberswil ( Memento from May 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
6. ^ LUSTAT: Community profile Alberswil ( Memento from May 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
7. ↑ National Council elections 2015: strength of the parties and voter turnout by municipality. In: Results of the National Council elections 2015. Federal Statistical Office, 2016, accessed on June 3, 2016 .