Berikon

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Berikon
Berikon coat of arms
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Kanton AargauKanton Aargau Aargau (AG)
District : Bremgarten
BFS no. : 4062i1 f3 f4
Postal code : 8965
Coordinates : 670.52 thousand  /  244841 coordinates: 47 ° 21 '2 "  N , 8 ° 22' 19"  O ; CH1903:  six hundred seventy thousand five hundred and twenty  /  244841
Height : 554  m above sea level M.
Height range : 503–671 m above sea level M.
Area : 5.38  km²
Residents: 4757 (December 31, 2019)
Population density : 884 inhabitants per km²
Proportion of foreigners :
(residents without
citizenship ) 		18.2% (December 31, 2019)
Website: www.berikon.ch
Berikon

Berikon
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Berikon (in local dialect : [ ˈb̥ɛɾkχə ]) is a municipality in the Swiss canton of Aargau . It belongs to the Bremgarten district and is located immediately south of the Mutschellen pass on the border with the canton of Zurich .

geography

The municipality of Berikon extends from the Mutschellenpass at the foot of the Hasenberg in a south-easterly direction on the Holzbirrliberg ridge above the Reuss valley . The roughly two-kilometer-long village consists (from northwest to southeast) of the districts Mutschellen, Unterberikon and Oberberikon, which have grown together in recent decades, but also with the neighboring communities of Rudolfstetten-Friedlisberg , Widen and Zufikon . The Rummelbach rises in Oberberikon and flows into the Reppisch after three kilometers in the municipality of Dietikon .

The area of ​​the municipality is 538 hectares , of which 176 hectares are covered with forest and 118 hectares are built over. The highest point is at 670  m above sea level. M. in the Allmend area on the eastern border of the municipality, the lowest at 522  m above sea level. M. in the Schlossmatt on the southern border of the municipality. Neighboring communities are Rudolfstetten-Friedlisberg in the north, Birmensdorf in the east, Oberwil-Lieli in the south, Zufikon in the west and Widen in the north-west.

history

Individual finds indicate a settlement during the Neolithic period. Berikon is documented several times around the middle of the 12th century as Percheim / Bercheim . The place name probably comes from the Old High German bërg-heim and describes the place as an elevated dwelling. In the course of time it changed via Berchein and Berkein to Berken, documented in the 14th century, and finally appears in 1675 as Berekhen .

In the Middle Ages, the village served as a court of justice for the Habsburgs in the Freiamt Affoltern , the gallows stood in the Mattenhof area. In the 14th century Berikon was a fiefdom of the Counts of Habsburg-Laufenburg , who passed it on to the Lords of Schönenwerd near Dietikon . In 1374 the city of Bremgarten acquired the lower jurisdiction and set up a subordinate bailiwick that lasted until 1798.

Aerial view (1966)

When Aargau was conquered by the Confederates in 1415, Berikon came under the rule of the city of Zurich and was then divided in 1471. Oberberikon came to the basement office , while Unterberikon was assigned to the office Rohrdorf of the county of Baden . In March 1798, the French invaded Switzerland and proclaimed the Helvetic Republic . Both communities came to the short-lived canton of Baden . When the canton of Aargau was founded in 1803, the resident communities were reunited, but the separation into two local communities lasted until 1906.

On May 1, 1902, after the opening of the Bremgarten-Dietikon-Bahn , Berikon was connected to the railway network with a stop on the Mutschellen. Until the end of the 1950s, Berikon remained a modest farming village with only a slight increase in population. But then, helped by the proximity to Zurich, an unprecedented construction boom set in. Between 1960 and today, the population quadrupled. Berikon grew together with the neighboring communities and is now part of the agglomeration of Zurich.

Attractions

St. Mauritius Church

A chapel dedicated to Saint Mauritius had existed since at least 1420. Until 1860, Berikon belonged to the parish of Oberwil. South of the old chapel, the parish church of St. Mauritius was built from 1856 according to plans by Joseph Caspar Jeuch . The inauguration of this hall church in neo-Gothic style took place in 1862. Because of the danger of collapse, the bell tower had to be completely renovated in 1903/04, at the same time the nave was lengthened and the choir and sacristy were rebuilt . A geology trail can be found in the Gunzenbühl area.

coat of arms

The blazon of the municipal coat of arms reads: "White-stemmed green clover leaf." This coat of arms first appeared on the official municipal seal in 1811. According to a report from 1872, the clover leaf should refer to three courtyards that merged and thus laid the foundation for today's municipality.

population

The population developed as follows:

year 1850 1900 1930 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010
Residents 549 701 767 900 1156 1593 2314 3765 4358 4571

On December 31, 2019, 4757 people lived in Berikon, the proportion of foreigners was 18.2%. In the 2015 census, 40.4% described themselves as Roman Catholic and 23.3% as Reformed ; 36.3% were non-denominational or of other faiths. In the 2000 census, 92.6% stated German as their main language, 1.6% Italian , 1.0% French , 0.7% Albanian and 0.6% each English and Spanish .

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 Bremgarten District Court is primarily responsible for legal disputes . Berikon belongs to the Friedensrichterkreis VII (Bremgarten).

economy

A little more than 330 small and medium-sized enterprises ( SMEs ) offer around 1,500 jobs in Berikon according to the corporate structure statistics (STATENT) collected in 2015, 3% of them in agriculture, 11% in industry and 86% in the service sector. However, the majority of the working population works in the city of Zurich or in the nearby Limmat Valley .

traffic

The main road 1 over the Mutschellen is one of the most important main roads in Switzerland. From the top of the pass, Kantonsstrasse 282 leads in the direction of Baden, and Kantonsstrasse 411 through Berikon in the direction of Jonen . The village will be bypassed on Kantonsstrasse 263 (Sädelstrasse) from Bremgarten to Birmensdorf in the south. At Birmensdorf, around three kilometers away, there is a connection to the Zurich western bypass, the A4 motorway .

The Berikon-Widen station of the Bremgarten-Dietikon-Bahn from Dietikon to Wohlen is on the Mutschellen pass. From there, Postbuses go to Baden and Zurich-Wiedikon , as well as a Limmat Bus express bus from Oberrohrdorf via Berikon and the Uetliberg tunnel to Zurich-Enge train station . On weekends night buses run from Dietikon via Berikon to Oberwil-Lieli and from Dietikon via Mutschellen to Wohlen and Sarmenstorf .

education

The community has four kindergartens and three schoolhouses in which all levels of compulsory elementary school are taught ( primary school , secondary school , secondary school and district school ). The closest grammar school is the Cantonal School in Wohlen .

Personalities

  • Rainer Huber (* 1948), Aargau government councilor, mayor for 15 years, honorary citizen
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View of Berikon and the Alps from Föhn (December 2004)

literature

Web links

Commons : Berikon  - 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. 82 f . The phonetic transcription used : bę́rkxə .
  4. ↑ a b Gabrielle Schmid: Berikon AG (Bremgarten) 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. 141. The phonetic transcription given: [ ˈBɛrkχə ].
  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 May 12, 2019 .
  7. ↑ 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. 6-7 .
  8. ^ 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. 116 .
  9. ↑ 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 May 12, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Resident population by religious affiliation, 2015. (Excel) In: Population and Households, Community Tables 2015. Statistics Aargau, accessed on May 10, 2019 .
  11. ↑ 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 May 12, 2019 .
  12. ↑ circles of justice of the peace. Canton of Aargau, accessed on June 20, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Statistics of the corporate structure (STATENT). (Excel, 157 kB) Statistics Aargau, 2016, accessed on May 12, 2019 .