Augarten (Rheinfelden)

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Augarten is a district of Rheinfelden in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland . The settlement was built between 1971 and 1976 and has around 3,000 inhabitants.

location

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The Augarten district is located around two kilometers west of the old town of Rheinfelden on a plain at 279 m above sea level. M. To the north is he by the Rhine or the Hauptstrasse 3 / 7 , on the south by the railway line Basel - Zurich ( Bözberg railway line limited). The Augarten is not structurally connected with the rest of the city and forms a self-contained development with several high-rise buildings. Around 3,000 people live here on an area of ​​around 20 hectares , which corresponds to a population density of 15,000 inhabitants / km².

Emergence

In the 1950s there were almost exclusively single-family houses and villas in Rheinfelden outside the old town. Multi-family houses were a rarity and in 1960 the municipal assembly refused to build high-rise buildings. After it had been predicted that Rheinfelden could have up to 20,000 inhabitants at the beginning of the 21st century (in 2015 there were around 12,500), the municipality zoned large building land in 1965. When the autobahn reached the small town in 1966, this prompted several companies in the pharmaceutical and chemical industries to expand from Basel to the lower Fricktal . As Rheinfelden increasingly developed into a sub-center within the Basel agglomeration with the autobahn , this resulted in an acute housing shortage. In order to offer the employees enough living space in the vicinity of the production facilities, the large chemical companies in Basel started planning large-scale developments at various locations.

In 1967 the company Ciba-Geigy (now Novartis ) commissioned the Gelpke and Düby offices to plan a settlement in the Weiherfeld area, which was initially designated as "R 1000". The local community made 20 hectares available under building rights (the area had been cleared during the Second World War in the course of the cultivation battle). The municipal council initially opposed the project. He feared that a satellite far from the city center would upset social life; In addition, there is already enough developed building land. However, the community assembly approved the project on September 22, 1969 with a large majority, especially since local business representatives had advocated it.

The groundbreaking ceremony took place in 1971 and within two years 1,050 residential units were built, spread over six high-rise buildings, 55 multi-family houses and 170 single-family houses. The 1973 oil crisis meant that there was initially little demand for the apartments, as the owner had set the rent much higher than promised due to inflation. In 1976 more than a fifth of the apartments were vacant; they were not fully occupied until four years later. In 2003 Novartis sold the Augarten estate to Credit Suisse .

traffic

The Augarten district is very well developed in terms of transport. Main street 3/7 runs north of the Augarten between Basel and Zurich. The A3 motorway runs to the south of the settlement. From this, the A861 branches off west of the Augarten , which crosses the Rhine on the Rheinfelder Brücke and leads to Germany on the A98 . The Rheinfelden West junction is located directly in front of the customs crossing .

With the timetable change in December 2008, the Augarten district received its own S-Bahn stop. This is where the S1 line of the Basel S-Bahn stops , which runs from Basel to Frick or Laufenburg . The Augarten is also accessed by bus routes 84 (Rheinfelden – Kaiseraugst) and 85 (Rheinfelden SBB – Augarten), both of which are operated by Postbus Nordwestschweiz.

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Coordinates: 47 ° 33 '  N , 7 ° 46'  E ; CH1903:  624826  /  two hundred and sixty-six thousand three hundred ninety