Bellikon

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Bellikon
Bellikon coat of arms
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Kanton AargauKanton Aargau Aargau (AG)
District : to bathew
BFS no. : 4022i1 f3 f4
Postal code : 5454
Coordinates : 668 330  /  249 089 coordinates: 47 ° 23 '21 "  N , 8 ° 20' 37"  O ; CH1903:  six hundred sixty-eight thousand three hundred and thirty  /  249 089
Height : 589  m above sea level M.
Height range : 494–788 m above sea level M.
Area : 4.94  km²
Residents: 1554 (December 31, 2019)
Population density : 315 inhabitants per km²
Proportion of foreigners :
(residents without
citizenship ) 		9.9% (December 31, 2019)
Mayor : Daniela Widmer
Website: www.bellikon.ch
Bellikon parish hall

Bellikon parish hall
Location of the municipality
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Bellikon (in local dialect : [ ˈb̥ælikχə ]) is a municipality in the Swiss canton of Aargau . It belongs to the Baden district and is located between Baden and Mutschellen .

geography

The village is located high above the Reuss valley on the southwest slope of the Heitersberg . The slope descends fairly evenly. With the exception of a small plateau on which the village center is located, there are hardly any flat spots. About one kilometer north of the village center, at an altitude of 635 meters, is the elongated district of Hausen, which has now merged with Bellikon, which is further down. Individual farms are scattered across the entire municipality.

The municipal area is 494 hectares , of which 139 hectares are forested and 53 hectares are built over. The highest point is on the ridge of the Heitersberg at 787 meters, the deepest at 500 meters on the north-western boundary of the municipality. Neighboring communities are Remetschwil in the north, Spreitenbach in the northeast, Bergdietikon in the east, Widen in the south, Eggenwil in the southwest and Künten in the west.

history

The area of ​​today's Bellikon was already settled in Roman times. Here the Roman road ran between the legionary camp Vindonissa ( Windisch ) and Turicum ( Zurich ). During excavations under the direction of Walter Drack in 1934 bricks came to the south of the village. In 1941, with the help of interned Polish soldiers, an estate was excavated, documented and then covered again. Objects of art found indicate that the house was built at the end of the 1st century and was inhabited until the early 4th century (see Villa Rustica (Bellikon) ).

Aerial view (1952)

In the middle of the 6th century, Alemannic settlers settled down and cleared extensive forest areas. The earliest reliable evidence for Bellikon comes from the early 13th century ( ad Pellichon 11 sol. In festo ); the mentions in two older documents (1189 predium Bellenchon ; 1179 predium Pellinchon cum pertinentiis suis ) are partly attributed to Bellingen on the Upper Rhine, but in view of the places Urdorf and Spreitenbach also mentioned there probably also refer to Bellikon. The place name consists of an Old High German personal name Ballo / Pallo or Paldo extended by the suffix -ing- and the base word hof attached to it in the plural dative ( -ing-hovun > -ikon ) and means something like «at the courtyards of the Ballo clan / Paldo ».

Bellikon and Hausen had to pay tithes to the monasteries of Muri , Murbach and Wettingen and the Agnesspital in Baden . From around 1300 the Habsburgs held the blood jurisdiction . In 1415 the Swiss conquered Aargau, and the villages now belonged to the Rohrdorf district in the county of Baden , a common rule . The lower jurisdiction changed hands several times, together with Bellikon Castle . In March 1798 the French took Switzerland and proclaimed the Helvetic Republic . Bellikon was then a municipality in the short-lived canton of Baden . In 1803 it was merged with Hausen and has belonged to the canton of Aargau ever since.

Bellikon remained a small farming village until the second half of the 20th century, and the number of inhabitants rose only slightly. But then the scenic location of Bellikon was discovered, and the village went through a stormy development due to its proximity to Zurich . The number of residents has increased more than three and a half times since 1960. In 1974 the SUVA opened a rehabilitation clinic . The old parish church of St. Joseph had become too small, which is why it was demolished in 1977 and replaced with a modern new building.

Attractions

Bellikon Castle
St. Joseph's Church
Half-timbered house in Bellikon

To the west of the village center stands Bellikon Castle in an extensive park , built in the second half of the 14th century by the Krieg patrician family from Zurich . Since 1605 there have been several changes of ownership, at the beginning of the 20th century the castle served temporarily as a health resort. The four-storey building is late Gothic and has a circular stair tower attached to it . To the east of this is the castle chapel, built in 1676. Individual farmhouses from the 18th and 19th centuries have been preserved in the old village center.

coat of arms

The blazon of the municipal coat of arms reads: "In blue and white castle with stepped gable and roofed round tower attached to the left." In a chronicle from 1548 and on the map of the canton of Zurich from 1667, the village was mistakenly assigned the coat of arms of the Lords of Bellikon (today Bad Bellingen im Breisgau ), a yellow coat of arms with a black bar. In 1827 the municipality introduced the coat of arms with the image of Bellikon Castle. The current shape was established in 1965.

population

The population developed as follows:

year 1799 1850 1900 1930 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010
Residents 305 440 377 340 434 426 627 905 1035 1303 1576

On December 31, 2019, 1554 people lived in Bellikon, the proportion of foreigners was 9.9%. In the 2015 census, 36.6% described themselves as Roman Catholic and 24.5% as Reformed ; 38.9% were non-denominational or of other faiths. 94.3% stated German as their main language in the 2000 census , 1.1% Serbo-Croatian and 0.8% each English and Italian .

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 Baden District Court is responsible for litigation in the first instance . Bellikon belongs to the Friedensrichterkreis V (Mellingen).

economy

SUVA rehabilitation clinic

According to the company structure statistics (STATENT) collected in 2015, Bellikon has around 700 jobs, 4% of them in agriculture, 4% in industry and 92% in the service sector. By far the largest employer and taxpayer in the community is SUVA , which operates a rehabilitation clinic with over 200 beds here . Many employees work in the agglomerations of Baden or Zurich .

traffic

Bellikon is located on Kantonsstrasse 282 from Baden to the Mutschellen -Passhöhe. A post bus line connects the village with the Baden train station and the Berikon - Widen station (connection to the Bremgarten-Dietikon railway ). There is also a post bus line from Widen via Bellikon to Mellingen Heitersberg station (connection to the Zurich S-Bahn ) and a Limmat Bus express bus line from Oberrohrdorf via Bellikon and the Uetliberg tunnel to Zurich Enge station . On weekends there is a night bus from Baden via Bellikon to Berikon-Widen.

education

The community has a kindergarten and a school house where primary school is taught. Bellikon has founded a school association with three neighboring communities to manage the Realschule , the secondary school and the district school. Students from Bellikon therefore go to school in Niederrohrdorf, in the Rohrdorferberg district school. The closest grammar schools are the Baden Cantonal School and the Wettingen Cantonal School .

Personalities

  • Ernst Kaufmann (1895–1943), racing cyclist
  • Robert Blum (1900–1994), composer and conductor, lived in Bellikon for a long time and died
  • Gregor Stähli (* 1968), skeleton driver, lives in Bellikon
  • Daniela Widmer (* 1983), author, kidnapping victim, mayor of Bellikon since 2019

literature

Web links

Commons : Bellikon  - 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. ↑ a b 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. 77 f . The phonetic transcription used : bé͈likxə .
  4. ↑ a b Gabrielle Schmid / Andres Kristol: Bellikon AG (Baden) in: Dictionnaire toponymique des communes suisses - Lexicon of Swiss community 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. 134. Quoted phonetic transcription : [ ˈbælikχə ].
  5. ^ National map of Switzerland, sheet 1090, Swisstopo.
  6. ↑ Standard area statistics - municipalities according to 4 main areas. Federal Statistical Office , November 26, 2018, accessed on June 2, 2019 .
  7. ^ Martin Hartmann, Hans Weber: The Romans in Aargau . Verlag Sauerländer, Aarau 1985, ISBN 3-7941-2539-8 , p. 164 .
  8. ↑ Hoegger: The monuments of the Canton of Aargau. Volume VI. Pp. 340-348.
  9. ^ 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. 113 .
  10. ↑ 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 2, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Resident population by religious affiliation, 2015. (Excel) In: Population and Households, Community Tables 2015. Statistics Aargau, accessed on June 2, 2019 .
  12. ↑ 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 10, 2018 ; accessed on June 2, 2019 .
  13. ↑ circles of justice of the peace. Canton of Aargau, accessed on June 18, 2019 .
  14. ↑ Statistics of the corporate structure (STATENT). (Excel, 157 kB) Statistics Aargau, 2016, accessed on June 2, 2019 .