Altenburg near Brugg

State :

Switzerland

Canton :

Aargau (AG)

District :

Brugg

Residential municipality :

Brugg

Postal code :

5200

Coordinates :

657 053 / 259 307 coordinates: 47 ° 28 '55 " N , 8 ° 11' 44" O ; CH1903: six hundred and fifty-seven thousand and fifty-three / two hundred and fifty-nine thousand three hundred and seven

Height :

343 m above sea level M.

Altenburg

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Altenburg is a district of Brugg in the Swiss canton of Aargau . Until the forced merger in 1901 by the Grand Council , it was an independent community in the Brugg district .

geography

The village lies on the edge of the gravel terrace over the Aare . The Altenburg settlement core can still be recognized today as a village, while the younger quarters merge seamlessly into the settlement structure of Brugg.

The municipal area was relatively small with an area of 187 hectares . It stretched over three and a half kilometers along the Aare , but was only about 300 meters wide on average.

history

ocher: the former municipality of Altenburg

Around the year 370 the Romans built a fort on the Aare. It was created on the rock head at the bend of the Aare as part of the Danube-Iller-Rhein-Limes system. However, some coin finds suggest that a settlement may have arisen on the square at the beginning of the 4th century. Between 401 and 406, the Romans abandoned the building.

In the late 10th century, an aristocratic family settled in Altenburg, possibly descending from the Alsatian Etichons . Count Lanzelin had the walls of the fort, which are still largely preserved, expanded into a castle, of which individual components can still be seen in today's youth hostel Schlösschen Altenburg . Around 1020 his son Radbot ordered the building of the Habsburgs on the Wülpelsberg, three kilometers to the southwest . A few decades later, the family took the name of this castle. Thus Altenburg is the first demonstrable residence of the Habsburgs .

Altinburch was first mentioned in a document in 1254. In this document, Gertrud von Regensberg, with the consent of her sons Gotfrid, Rudolf, Otto and Eberhard, handed over her property in Altenburg, Obernburg, Hausen , Birrhard and Birrenlauf (today Schinznach-Bad ) to the Teutonic Order Commander Beuggen . Since her husband Rudolf the Silent had already died at this point in time, it cannot be determined whether it was actually a question of Regensberg property or whether it was inherited from her husband.

Parish before the merger on January 1, 1901

In the Middle Ages the village belonged to Eigenamt , the oldest possession of the Habsburgs. In 1397 they transferred the land and judicial rule over this area to the Königsfelden monastery in Windisch . In 1415 the self-office became a subject of the city of Bern and was thus in the so-called Bernese Aargau . After the Reformation was introduced in 1528, the monastery was secularized . Bern converted its own office to the Landvogtei Königsfelden and now exercised all rights. In March 1798, the French took Switzerland, suspended the old rulers and established the Helvetic Republic . Since then, Altenburg has belonged to the canton of Aargau.

Until the end of the 19th century, Altenburg was an almost exclusively agricultural community; Working from home for the textile industry provided a modest additional income. The construction of the Bözberg line , which opened in 1875, had far-reaching consequences: the railway bridge over the Aare to Umiken still shapes the townscape today. The original iron structure was renewed twice and replaced by a modern concrete bridge in 1995. The embankment to the bridge cut off a larger area from the rest of the community. The Brugg power plant, which was built on the Aare in 1892 , had an upstream channel with the water intake on Altenburg soil.

Between 1898 and 1901, the canton of Aargau dissolved twelve small communities against their will because they did not seem economically viable and could not fulfill the tasks required by law. This also included Altenburg. Although the community assembly voted against it with 42 to 2 votes, the incorporation of Brugg was completed on January 1, 1901 according to a resolution of the Grand Council . This enabled the city of Brugg to double the urban area. Today the northern part of the former municipality is built over with residential areas. In the south, in Wildischachen, an extensive industrial zone was created, the swimming pool in 1937 and the indoor swimming pool in 1982.

Attractions

population

Altenburg Castle

The population developed as follows:

year	1764	1850	1870	1888	1900
Residents	125	191	216	162	293

literature

Victorine von Gonzenbach: Altenburg, Aargau, Switzerland . In: Richard Stillwell et al. a. (Ed.): The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites. Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ 1976, ISBN 0-691-03542-3 .
Pro Vindonissa: Company Annual Report 2003, article by Darko Milosavljevic.
New year papers of the city of Brugg, 1942.

Web links

Commons : Altenburg bei Brugg - collection of images, videos and audio files

Martin Hartmann, Andreas Steigmeier : Altenburg (AG). In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

Individual evidence

↑ ZGORh. Vol. 28, p. 115.

[1] ZGORh. Vol. 28, p. 115.