Auenstein AG

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AG is the abbreviation for the canton of Aargau in Switzerland and is used to avoid confusion with other entries of the name Auensteinf .
Auenstein
Coat of arms of Auenstein
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Kanton AargauKanton Aargau Aargau (AG)
District : Brugg
BFS no. : 4091i1 f3 f4
Postal code : 5105
Coordinates : 652 551  /  251997 coordinates: 47 ° 25 '0 "  N , 8 ° 8' 6"  O ; CH1903:  652551  /  251997
Height : 374  m above sea level M.
Height range : 348–770 m above sea level M.
Area : 5.68  km²
Residents: 1606 (December 31, 2019)
Population density : 283 inhabitants per km²
Proportion of foreigners :
(residents without
citizenship ) 		12.6% (December 31, 2019)
Website: www.auenstein.ch
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View of Auenstein
Location of the municipality
Deutschland Kanton Solothurn Bezirk Aarau Bezirk Baden Bezirk Bremgarten Bezirk Laufenburg Bezirk Lenzburg Bezirk Zurzach Auenstein AG Birr AG Birrhard Bözberg AG Bözen Brugg Effingen Elfingen Habsburg AG Hausen AG Lupfig Mandach Mönthal Mülligen AG Remigen Riniken Rüfenach Schinznach Thalheim AG Veltheim AG Villigen Villnachern Windisch AGMap of Auenstein
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Auenstein (older Gauenstein; in local dialect : [ ˈg̊æʊ̯əˌʒ̊tæɪ̯ ]) is a municipality in the Swiss canton of Aargau . It belongs to the Brugg district and around three kilometers northwest of Lenzburg an der Aare .

geography

The village lies between the northern bank of the Aare and the southern slope of the 772 meter high Gislifluh , an elevation of the southernmost chain of the Folded Jura . The slope, which is very steep in places, is mostly forested, but has several forest pastures. The Gisifluh merges towards the east into the increasingly flatter Veltheimerberg, on whose eastern slope there is a quarry . Barely one and a half kilometers east of Auenstein lies the district of Au ( 352  m above sea level ) with another 1 km² quarry. In the Aare there is a wooded island about two kilometers long and a maximum of fifty meters wide, which was created by alluvial debris.

The area of ​​the municipality is 568 hectares , of which 257 hectares are covered with forest and 120 hectares are built over. The highest point is on the Gisifluh at 772 meters, the lowest at 350 meters on the Aare. The municipality of Auenstein is part of the Aargau Jura Park, a "Regional Nature Park of National Importance". Neighboring communities are Schinznach and Veltheim in the north, Möriken-Wildegg in the east, Rupperswil in the south, Biberstein in the west and Thalheim in the north-west.

history

The first reliable documented mention of the place name took place in 1299 ( Ůlr. Gowenstein ). It probably comes from a combination of the words ahd. Gawi / gewi / gowi , mhd. Göu (w) / gou (w) 'Gau, fertile land on the water' and stone 'stone, rock'. Around 1200 the small Auenstein Castle was built on the Aue . The builders are not known with certainty, probably it was the gentlemen von Gowenstein. The castle, which had come into the possession of the Lords of Reinach at the beginning of the 14th century , was burned down by the Bernese in 1389 during battles between the Confederates and the Habsburgs .

Historic aerial photo by Werner Friedli from 1953

In 1415 the confederates conquered Aargau. Auenstein now belonged to the subject area of ​​the city of Bern, the so-called Bernese Aargau . The village formed its own judicial district in the Lenzburg district , but did not belong to the city itself, but to wealthy Bernese families. In 1528 the Bernese introduced the Reformation . After Auenstein had changed hands several times, in 1732 the heirs of General Johann Ludwig von Erlach sold the entire property to the city of Bern, which thereby gained complete control of the village and then assigned it to the office of Kasteln .

This direct rule lasted only a few decades. In March 1798 the French took Switzerland, ousted the «Gracious Lords» of Bern and proclaimed the Helvetic Republic . Auenstein has been part of the canton of Aargau since then. The viticulture , who had been in earlier centuries the main occupation of the population declined in the late 19th century because of the phylloxera epidemic almost to insignificance down, but can again recently experienced a boom.

For centuries the village was only connected to the right bank of the river by a ferry and a footbridge. This only changed in 1870 when the bridge to Wildegg was built. In 1942, at the same time as the Rupperswil-Auenstein hydropower plant , there was also a bridge over to Rupperswil . After 1950, Auenstein developed into an attractive residential community thanks to its south-facing slope. There has been a sharp increase in the number of inhabitants since 1990 in particular.

Attractions

Auenstein Castle
reformed Church

The Auenstein Castle stands on a small rock by the river. After the castle was destroyed in 1389, the castle ruins came into the possession of the new canton in 1803. The canton later sold them to private individuals. The castle was made habitable again in 1858 by adding additional floors and was given its current castle-like shape in 1928/29.

The Reformed Church , built in Gothic and late Gothic styles, was first mentioned in a document in 1302, but foundations in Romanesque style from the 11th century exist . The choir in its current form dates from the late 15th century, the nave was enlarged in 1651. Exterior renovations were carried out in 1893 and 1943, and interior renovations in 1951/52 and 2004. Due to its poor condition, the church tower had to be thoroughly renovated in 1984.

coat of arms

The blazon of the municipal coat of arms reads: "Split from red with two white roses with yellow clusters and green sepals and from white". The seal used since 1804 showed a little heraldic landscape representation. When various associations used the old coat of arms of the Lords of Gowenstein on their flags, the municipality had no choice but to introduce it in 1964.

population

The population developed as follows:

year 1764 1803 1850 1900 1930 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010
Residents 309 447 752 719 743 864 896 1165 1166 1176 1359 1526

On December 31, 2019, 1606 people lived in Auenstein, the proportion of foreigners was 12.6%. In the 2015 census, 52.7% described themselves as Reformed and 16.6% as Roman Catholic ; 30.7% were non-denominational or of other faiths. 93.4% said German as their main language in the 2000 census , 2.2% Serbo-Croatian , 1.8% Albanian and 0.7% English .

Politics and law

The assembly of those entitled to vote, the municipal assembly , exercises legislative power. The executing authority is the five-member municipal council . He is elected by the people in the majority procedure, his term of office is four years. The parish council leads and represents the parish. To this end, it implements the resolutions of the municipal assembly and the tasks assigned to it by the canton. The Brugg District Court is the first instance responsible for legal disputes . Auenstein belongs to the Friedensrichterkreis VIII (Brugg).

economy

According to the company structure statistics (STATENT) collected in 2015, Auenstein has around 270 jobs, 6% of them in agriculture, 43% in industry and 51% in the service sector. Most of the workers are commuters and work in the larger surrounding communities.

Limestone and marl , which are processed in the Jura-Cement factory in neighboring Wildegg , are extracted in two large quarries in the Auenstein municipality . Viticulture also has a certain importance : On the sunny southern slope of the Gisliflue, an area of ​​9.2 hectares is planted with vines, with the Riesling × Sylvaner and Blauburgunder varieties predominating.

traffic

Auenstein is located away from through traffic on Kantonsstrasse 471, which follows the left bank of the Aare and is much less busy than the roads south of the river. A bridge just beyond the eastern border of the municipality leads over to Wildegg . The connection to the public transport network is via a post bus line from Wildegg train station to Schinznach-Dorf .

education

In Auenstein there is a kindergarten and a school house in which the primary school is taught. The Realschule and the secondary school can be attended in Veltheim , the district school in Schinznach-Dorf . The closest grammar schools are the Alte Kantonsschule and the Neue Kantonsschule , both in Aarau .

Personalities

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cantonal population statistics 2019. Department of Finance and Resources, Statistics Aargau, March 30, 2020, accessed on April 2, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Cantonal population statistics 2019. Department of Finance and Resources, Statistics Aargau, March 30, 2020, accessed on April 2, 2019 .
  3. ^ Beat Zehnder: The community names of the canton of Aargau . Historical sources and linguistic interpretations. In: Historical Society of the Canton of Aargau (Ed.): Argovia . Annual journal of the Historical Society of the Canton of Aargau. tape 100 / II . Verlag Sauerländer, Aarau 1991, ISBN 3-7941-3122-3 , p. 65 f . The phonetic transcription used : gáu̯əštę̢̀i̯ .
  4. ↑ a b Gabrielle Schmid: Auenstein AG (Brugg) 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. 106. Quoted phonetic transcription : [ ˈgæʊəˌʃtæɪ ].
  5. ^ National map of Switzerland, sheet 1089, Swisstopo.
  6. ↑ Standard area statistics - municipalities according to 4 main areas. Federal Statistical Office , November 26, 2018, accessed on June 12, 2019 .
  7. ^ Joseph Galliker, Marcel Giger: Municipal coat of arms of the Canton of Aargau . Lehrmittelverlag des Kantons Aargau, book 2004, ISBN 3-906738-07-8 , p. 107 .
  8. ↑ Population development in the municipalities of the Canton of Aargau since 1850. (Excel) In: Eidg. Volkszählung 2000. Statistics Aargau, 2001, archived from the original on October 8, 2018 ; accessed on June 12, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Resident population by religious affiliation, 2015. (Excel) In: Population and Households, Community Tables 2015. Statistics Aargau, accessed on June 12, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Swiss Federal Census 2000: Economic resident population by main language as well as by districts and municipalities. (Excel) Statistics Aargau, archived from the original on August 12, 2018 ; accessed on June 12, 2019 .
  11. ↑ circles of justice of the peace. Canton of Aargau, accessed on June 18, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Statistics of the corporate structure (STATENT). (Excel, 157 kB) Statistics Aargau, 2016, accessed on June 12, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Grape harvest control 2018 Canton Aargau. (PDF, 2.4 MB) Agricultural Center Liebegg, 2019, accessed on June 12, 2019 .
  14. ^ Charles Knapp, Maurice Borel, Victor Attinger, Heinrich Brunner, Société neuchâteloise de geographie (editor): Geographical Lexicon of Switzerland . Volume 1: Aa - Emmengruppe . Verlag Gebrüder Attinger, Neuenburg 1902, p. 102, keyword Auenstein   ( scan of the lexicon page ).