Anglicon

State :

Switzerland

Canton :

Aargau (AG)

District :

Bremgarten

Residential municipality :

Well

Postal code :

5611

Coordinates :

662 213 / 246349 coordinates: 47 ° 21 '54 " N , 8 ° 15' 44" O ; CH1903: six hundred sixty-two thousand two hundred and thirteen / 246349

Height :

411 m above sea level M.

Anglicon

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Anglikon is a village in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland . It is located on the right edge of the Bünztal on the southwest slope of the Wagenrain and has around 1000 inhabitants. Anglikon was an independent community in the Bremgarten district until 1914 and has been part of the Wohlen community ever since .

history

The ridge above the village was first settled during the Hallstatt period. The Historical Society Freiamt came across burial mounds from the 6th century BC during archaeological excavations in Häslerhau in the 1920s . Furthermore, Roman wall remains came to light. Anglincon was first mentioned in a document in 1263. The village belonged to the high court of Lenzburg of the Habsburgs , after the conquest by the Confederates in 1415 to the office of Villmergen in the free offices . From the middle of the 13th century who practiced Hallwyler the lower courts in 1436 acquired the Monastery Wettingen this right.

In 1678 Beat Jakob I. Zurlauben , governor and land clerk of the Free Offices, bought the Twing Anglikon and one year later merged it with the hamlet of Hembrunn to form a Fideikommiss . After the Helvetic Republic was proclaimed , Anglikon became an independent municipality in the short-lived canton of Baden and has belonged to the Bremgarten district of the canton of Aargau since 1803. The community was economically dependent on agriculture , and there was also a dye works. In 1885 the lesbian activist Anna Vock was born in Anglikon .

In 1911, the cantonal government obliged Anglikon to build a school, regardless of the tight financial situation. The construction costs far exceeded the budget, so that the municipality of Anglikon had no choice but to strive for a merger with the neighboring municipality of Wohlen. Against the express resistance of Wohlens, who shied away from assuming the debt burden and the infrastructure costs, the Grand Council decided on October 29, 1912 to merge. After two unsuccessful appeals by the Wohler municipal council, Anglikon, which had an area of 216 hectares and then had around 420 inhabitants, was merged on January 1, 1914. Anglikon was part of the Villmergen parish until 1917 and then also came to Wohlen.

Attractions

chapel

Several buildings from the 19th century have been preserved in Anglikon. The rural character has been preserved, especially along Unterdorfstrasse. Otherwise, modern single-family houses and isolated apartment blocks characterize the village. The chapel in the village center was first mentioned in 1515. In 1746 a new baroque building was built, which Gerold Haimb , prince abbot of the Muri monastery , consecrated in 1748 in honor of St. Francis Xavier . The north-east facing chapel is evenly structured by arched windows and has a bell tower with a hexagonal pointed helmet. In the choir there is a blue, red and gray marbled column altar in the Louis-Seize style; the altarpiece shows St. Francis Xavier donating his baptism.

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Parish before the merger on January 1, 1914

Anglikon is on Kantonsstrasse 280 from Wohlen in the direction of Brugg . From this the canton road 285 branches off to Villmergen . The village is accessed from the Wohlen station by a post bus line to Hägglingen and a local bus line.

Web links

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

Anne-Marie Dubler : Anglikon. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

Individual evidence

^ Anne-Marie Dubler , Jean-Jacques Siegrist : Wohlen - History of law, economy and population of an early industrialized community in Aargau . In: Argovia , annual journal of the Historical Society of the Canton of Aargau . tape 86 . Verlag Sauerländer, Aarau 1975, ISBN 3-7941-1367-5 , p. 39-41 .
↑ Dubler, Siegrist, pp. 598-599
↑ Peter Felder: The art monuments of the canton Aargau . Ed .: Society for Swiss Art History . Volume IV: Bremgarten district. Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel 1967, ISBN 3-906131-07-6 , p. 430-431 .
↑ Chapel Anglikon , Roman Catholic parish Wohlen

[1] Anne-Marie Dubler , Jean-Jacques Siegrist : Wohlen - History of law, economy and population of an early industrialized community in Aargau . In: Argovia , annual journal of the Historical Society of the Canton of Aargau . tape 86 . Verlag Sauerländer, Aarau 1975, ISBN 3-7941-1367-5 , p. 39-41 .

[2] Dubler, Siegrist, pp. 598-599

[3] Peter Felder: The art monuments of the canton Aargau . Ed .: Society for Swiss Art History . Volume IV: Bremgarten district. Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel 1967, ISBN 3-906131-07-6 , p. 430-431 .

[4] Chapel Anglikon , Roman Catholic parish Wohlen