Brugg

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Brugg
Brugg coat of arms
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Kanton AargauKanton Aargau Aargau (AG)
District : Brugg
BFS no. : 4095i1 f3 f4
Postal code : 5200 Brugg
5222 Umiken
5116 Schinznach-Bad
UN / LOCODE : CH BGG
Coordinates : 657 898  /  259644 coordinates: 47 ° 29 '6 "  N , 8 ° 12' 25"  O ; CH1903:  657898  /  259644
Height : 352  m above sea level M.
Height range : 326-516 m above sea level M.
Area : 8.26  km²
Residents: i12,554 (December 31, 2019)
Population density : 1520 inhabitants per km²
Proportion of foreigners :
(residents without
citizenship ) 		28.4% (December 31, 2019)
Website: www.stadt-brugg.ch
Brugg from the Bruggerberg

Brugg from the Bruggerberg
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 Brugg
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Brugg ( brʊk ) is a small town and municipality in the Swiss canton of Aargau and the capital of the Brugg district . The city is located at the southern foot of the Jura and by Switzerland's moated castle , the confluence of the Aare , Reuss and Limmat rivers . It is 16 kilometers from Aarau , 27 kilometers from Zurich and 45 kilometers from Basel (as the crow flies).

The place name corresponds to the Swiss German word for "bridge". It is a secondary settlement name that refers to the medieval crossing of the Aare on the road from Zurich to Basel.

The village of Altenburg , which has belonged to Brugg since 1901, was the oldest demonstrable seat of power of the Counts of Habsburg , and until the relocation of the Habsburg center of power to Austria , Brugg was the urban center of the Habsburg heartland. Since the conquest of the Habsburg Aargau by the Confederates in 1415 and until 1798, Brugg was a Bernese subject town. Since 1798 it has belonged to the newly formed canton of Aargau in the Helvetic Republic.

Today Brugg is a regional center in north-western Switzerland and, together with the neighboring town of Windisch, a cantonal development focus . In the urban area there are extensive industrial and commercial areas, the headquarters of the Swiss Farmers' Association , a location for the University of Applied Sciences in Northwestern Switzerland and an arsenal for the engineering troops of the Swiss Army .

geography

Old town of Brugg an der Aare
Brugg and the surrounding area in the Siegfried Atlas (1880)
Historic aerial photo by Werner Friedli from 1958
Territorial development

The urban area extends from southwest to northeast in the Aare valley over a length of more than nine kilometers, but its maximum width is little more than one kilometer. The Aare separates two differently shaped landscapes, the Swiss Plateau on the south side and the Tabular Jura on the north side. The river has a gradient of around twenty meters on the approximately twelve-kilometer stretch in the municipality of Brugg.

In the southwest, on the right of the Aare, is the town of Schinznach-Bad , a district of Brugg since 2020. The headwater canal of the Wildegg – Brugg power plant , which is located in the municipality of Villnachern, begins near Schinznach-Bad . Alongside the canal, the «Wildischachen» area, which is shaped by floodplains on the old course of the Aare, extends over a length of several kilometers . To the east of it rises above the river valley the Wülpelsberg, at the highest point of which the Habsburg stands. Near Altenburg , the underwater canal of the Wildegg – Brugg power station joins the old Aare river north of the wooded “Schacheninsel”, which is dammed by an auxiliary weir. After a bend around the rocks of Altenburg, the Aare flows in an easterly direction through a 200-meter-long gorge with rapids, where the former municipal power station stands and where the Süssbach flows into the Aare. The river, which is usually up to 130 meters wide, passes next to the old town of Brugg a deep, only twelve meters wide incision in the limestone rock, over the narrowest point of which the old bridge leads.

To the east of the old town, the Aare leaves the narrow gorge and flows into the wide plain of the Schachen area at the Casino Bridge . It passes the «Aufeld» level on the southern edge. A narrow branch, in which the municipal boundary runs, separates the island of "Geissenschachen" from the plain. Below the island, on both sides of the river, there are still larger remaining areas of the alluvial forest. A pipeline bridge leads from Auschachen over the Aare to the sewage treatment plant, which is located in the middle of the forest. At the Auhof and to below the Vogelsang Bridge, new branches were built in the Schachen area from 1988 to 1989 to improve the dynamic development of the floodplain area.

Switzerland's moated castle is located on the eastern city limits . This is where three of the country's most important rivers flow together: First the Reuss flows into the Aare, and one and a half kilometers further north the Limmat . In the very north-east, at a narrow point between the Reinerberg ( 522  m above sea level ) and the mouth of the Limmat, is the village of Lauffohr .

To the north of the Aare, the settlement from Umiken to Lauffohr is concentrated on a narrow strip along the southern flank of the wooded Bruggerberg ( 516  m above sea level ). The plain south of Altenburg is almost completely built over with residential and commercial buildings and sports facilities up to the cantonal road. In the southeast, the von Brugg settlement has grown together with that of Windisch.

The area of ​​the municipality is 636 hectares , of which 174 hectares are forested and 334 hectares are built over. The highest point is the Bruggerberg at 516 meters, the lowest is at the mouth of the Limmat at 328 meters.

The neighboring communities of Brugg are: Riniken and Rüfenach in the north, Villigen in the northeast, Untersiggenthal and Gibstorf in the east, Windisch in the southeast, Hausen , Habsburg , Lupfig and Holderbank in the south as well as Schinznach , Veltheim and Villnachern in the west and Bözberg in the northwest.

Until the beginning of the 19th century, the urban area comprised only a tenth of today's municipal area. In 1823 the city of Brugg bought around a quarter of its territory from the neighboring community of Lauffohr , and in 1827 it acquired several properties from the village of Umiken . The municipality of Windisch sold the area around the train station to Brugg in 1863 and in 1912 also ceded the gas works area and the western tip of Geissenschachen on the Aare to it. In 1901 Altenburg was incorporated, and in 1970 the municipality of Lauffohr. Umiken became part of the city of Brugg in 2010, and since 2020 the area of ​​the previously independent municipality of Schinznach-Bad has also been part of the urban area in accordance with the municipal resolutions of 2018.

history

Before the city was founded

Finds from prehistoric times are sparse: two blades and fragments of a stone ax from the Neolithic and a sickle from the Bronze Age . In 58 BC BC (or shortly afterwards) the Helvetii , who had returned to the Central Plateau after the battle of Bibracte , founded the settlement of Vindonissa on the hill between the Aare and Reuss , in the area of ​​the neighboring municipality of Windisch.

The Romans built around 15 BC. A military station, which they expanded into a legionary camp from 14 AD . At that time the first wooden bridge was built over the Aare, over which the Roman road led to Augusta Raurica ( Augst ). It was the only place between Lake Thun and the confluence with the Rhine where the Aare could be bridged with a single tree trunk. There were two large burial grounds on Brugger's soil. So far around 350 Roman graves from the 1st century AD have been discovered. Archaeologists estimate the total at around 7,000.

Altenburg Castle

After the invasion of the Alemanni (259 to 270), Vindonissa was converted into a legionary camp again after almost 170 years of civilian settlement. In today's Altenburg district, a fort was built around 370 as a base in the hinterland of the Danube-Iller-Rhein-Limes . Between 401 and 406, the Romans finally withdrew from the Rhine area. The settlement of Alemanni in the Aargau area can be traced back to the 7th century.

In the late 10th century, an aristocratic family settled in Altenburg, possibly descending from the Alsatian Etichons . Count Lanzelin had the fort expanded into Altenburg . Around 1020, his son Radbot ordered the construction of the Habsburgs on the Wülpelsberg, three kilometers to the southwest. A few decades later, the family named themselves after this castle. Thus Altenburg was the first proven residence of the Habsburgs . When they acquired their own office between the Aare and Reuss rivers, they laid the foundation stone for their territory.

Center of rule of the Habsburgs

Black tower

The earliest recorded reference to Bruggo took place in 1064, when Count Werner I. the monastery Muri confirmed the possession of goods in the area. The exact year is controversial because the Acta Murensia was not made until 1160 and summarized various older documents. The place name comes from the Old High German (ze) brucco and means "at the bridge (nstelle)". At the end of the 12th century, on the orders of Count Albrechts III. the Black Tower , the oldest remaining building in the old town.

In the 13th century, the fortified bridge settlement took on more and more small-town features. From 1232 coins were minted, in 1273 there was talk of a customs office for the first time , at the latest from 1278 there was a mayor and in 1283 the market was mentioned for the first time. How important Brugg was for the Habsburgs at that time is shown by the fact that they moved out of the Habsburg, which had meanwhile become too small, around 1220/30 and then lived in Brugg. In 1242 the city is said to have been plundered by supporters of the Habsburg-Laufenburg sideline .

Rudolf I , who had spent many times in Brugg before his election as Roman-German King, granted the place city ​​rights on June 23, 1284 . At the same time he released Brugg from his own office. Brugg's town charter corresponded word for word to those of Aarau . Although the power center of the Habsburgs had shifted to Vienna a few years earlier , the relationship with Brugg remained close. The “Austria House” (later “Effingerhof”) served as a dump and headquarters during military conflicts in the Austrian foothills .

Assassination of Albrecht I, illustration from the 15th century

On May 1, 1308, King Albrecht I was murdered near the neighboring village of Windisch. To commemorate this event, his wife Elisabeth von Görz-Tirol donated the Königsfelden monastery (200 meters from the city limits). Albrecht's eldest daughter Agnes of Hungary , widow of the Hungarian King Andreas III. , lived there from 1317 and led the monastery to its economic boom. In 1348 she received from her brother Albrecht II the lordship rights over the city of Brugg and over the neighboring offices of Bözberg (with Lauffohr) and Eigenamt (with Altenburg). The rights reverted to the Dukes of Habsburg Austria after their death in 1364.

Although the city was firmly in the hands of the Habsburgs, there were beginnings of an independent policy. Brugg concluded castle rights agreements with Baden and Mellingen (both in 1351) and with the Wittichen monastery in the Kinzigtal (1353). The offices of Bözberg and Eigenamt came under the military leadership of the city in 1364. The Austrian military leaders gathered their armed forces in Brugg several times, for example Duke Leopold III in 1386 . before the battle of Sempach .

15th century

Duke Friedrich IV fell out of favor at the Council of Constance in 1415 after he had given the antipope John XXIII. had helped escape. King Sigismund then asked the Confederates to conquer Aargau in the name of the empire. Bern did not hesitate long and immediately dispatched troops. The Bruggers let the Bernese march into their city on April 29, 1415 without a fight. In return, the city's traditional rights were not affected.

The city and its own office were now in the extreme northeast of the Bernese subject area, the Bernese Aargau . After the battle of Sempach, the Habsburgs pledged the Schenkenberg rule, which had emerged from the Bözberg office, to followers. This resulted in a legally complicated situation for Brugg, because the suburbs and the forest on the Bruggerberg were north of the Aare and therefore outside the jurisdiction of Bern. Brugg always had to come to terms with the respective owners of the Schenkenberg estate.

The Bruges Murder Night on July 30, 1444: Depiction of the attack in the illustrated chronicle by Diebold Schilling the Younger (1513)

King Friedrich III. allied itself with Zurich in the Old Zurich War in 1443 and demanded the return of the Aargau. The people of Bruges hoped for an upswing from the return of the Austrian rulers, because since the conquest by Bern the economic dynamism had slackened because of the border location. When Zurich was besieged in June 1444 by the troops of the rest of the Confederation, the French King Charles VII dispatched the Armagnaks . To make it easier for them to get to Zurich, Brugg was attacked on the night of July 29th to 30th, 1444. A small troop led by Baron Thomas von Falkenstein sneaked up from the Bruggerberg, penetrated the city by means of a ruse, looted all the houses and set some of them on fire. Numerous townspeople were abducted and later released for ransom.

Although this event caused only a few deaths, it was hyped up to a real massacre by the opponents of Zurich and referred to as the "Brugger Murder Night". In retaliation, the Bernese and Solothurn residents destroyed the Falkensteiner castle near Niedergösgen a few weeks later . The Armagnaks were stopped in the battle of St. Jakob an der Birs . The attack on Brugg subsequently turned out to be strategically completely useless. On September 5, 1445, Zurich troops planned another raid on the city; however, they could be spotted and repelled early on, whereupon they plundered the surrounding villages.

In 1451 Thuringia von Aarburg sold the Schenkenberg estate to Hans and Markwart von Baldegg. There were more and more disputes between Brugg and the Baldeggern about usage rights on the Bruggerberg. The Baldeggers, who had demonstratively allied themselves with Austria, regarded the area north of the Aare as their personal property and were bothered by the rights of the city. Bern finally had enough of the constant harassment against its subject city and in 1460 conquered the rule of Schenkenberg. Now the inhabitants of the villages north of Brugg had also become subjects of Bern. On the outskirts, however, this changed little, because the border had only been moved a few kilometers to the north. The armed conflicts had a lasting impact on the city's economic strength. In the eighty years after the «Brugger Mordnacht», the population decreased by almost half, and surrounding cities were also able to expand the catchment area of ​​their markets at the expense of Bruges.

In the Bern area

Within the state of Bern , Brugg held a special position as a «municipal city». Brugg was not assigned to any bailiwick and enjoyed great autonomy . At the head of the city were two mayors who alternately took over the chair every two years. Together with seven other people, they formed the “Small Council”, which took on the various administrative tasks. Among them was the “Great Council” with twelve members, which exercised a control function. All councilors came from the ranks of the 32-member "small bell". Its members, however, were all appointed by the Small Council itself, so that unsuccessful candidates had no chance of receiving higher political offices, except through bribery. A few influential families shared the lucrative posts among themselves. The disempowered citizens only had the right to choose the pastor. The «maiding», the citizens' meeting, was purely symbolic.

Brugg in 1642: Depiction of Matthäus Merian in the Topographia Helvetiae, Rhaetiae et Valesiae

In January 1528, Bern decided to introduce the Reformation . Votes on the choice of denomination took place in all cities and regional bailiffs. While the neighboring bailiffs voted for the Reformation, on March 1st in Brugg there was a majority of five votes in favor of staying with Catholicism . But Brugg was isolated on this question and a few days later had to bow to massive political pressure from Bern.

The city school, which had existed since at least 1396, was converted into an official Latin school after the Reformation . It served mainly to prepare for the theological academy in Bern. It was financed through income from the dissolved Königsfelden monastery. The Latin school produced an above-average number of pastors and scholars, which is why Brugg was nicknamed «Prophet City».

Despite the subject status, the city tried again and again to extend its own influence to surrounding areas. Since the 13th century she had the patronage of the church in Mönthal . In 1588 Johann Georg von Hallwyl, later Bishop of Basel , sold two thirds of the parishes of Bözberg and Rein to the city, as well as one third of the lower jurisdiction in Villnachern . Brugg acquired in 1616 also from the Hall Wylern the rule Trostburg in Wynental . However, Bern did not tolerate the increase in power of its subject city and took over the rights of rule.

Salt house and Hofstattbrunnen

During a plague epidemic in 1541 around 180 people died, a quarter of the population. By 1611 the population rose again to a high of 930, about the same as almost two hundred years earlier. The last and most momentous plague epidemic lasted from September 1667 to January 1669, when 514 people or over 60 percent of the population died. A momentous accident occurred on September 1, 1626 when a ship sailing on the Aare in the direction of Zurzach capsized. Over 100 people drowned, 47 of them from Brugg. Only around 1840 did the population return to that of 1611.

Handicrafts have always been predominant in the urban economic structure . It was primarily geared towards the needs of the population in the area, with the increasing expansion of the traffic routes also for those passing through (especially after the construction of the Bözberg pass road between 1773 and 1779). There were no guilds with political influence. In the 18th century the trade in salt became very important. The salt house, built in 1732, was one of the largest salt depots in the Swiss Confederation; in addition to the Bernese Aargau , it also supplied the county of Baden and the free offices .

Revolutionary years

The political demands for equality and human rights after the beginning of the French Revolution met with great approval in Brugg. But the authorities feared the loss of their influence and forbade public discussions. That is why interested citizens met since 1796 in a club with the code name "Billard Club". In this the ideas of the French Revolution were discussed and the transfer to Brugg discussed.

When the French troops were advancing further and further at the beginning of 1798 and the end of Bern rule was in sight, a revolutionary committee took power in Brugg. After the French troops led by General Guillaume-Marie-Anne Brune marched into Bern on March 5, the delegates of the major cantons constituted the Helvetic Republic on April 12 in Aarau .

19th century

Brugg around 1810
Station staff at the end of the 19th century
Exercising soldiers, ca.1895
Vehicles and equipment of the Swiss engineering troops in Brugg

In the central Swiss state , the cantons were purely administrative units, which were further subdivided into districts and municipalities . Brugg lost all privileges and was now the district capital in the canton of Aargau. The revolutionary mood quickly evaporated. The Second Coalition War in 1799, when the front ran through the Aare Valley and hundreds of French soldiers were quartered in the houses of the city, contributed to this. When the French withdrew from Switzerland for a few months in 1802, the adherents of the old order had the upper hand. During the Stecklikkrieg , farmers from the area looted the armory. With the mediation act signed by Napoleon Bonaparte on March 19, 1803 , Brugg finally became the district capital in the canton of Aargau.

At the beginning of the 19th century Brugg became a stronghold of liberalism . Bruges politicians played a leading role in building the new canton. As an outward sign of the spirit of optimism, the city moat was filled in in 1811 and almost all fortifications were torn down between 1829 and 1840. The steep gradient of the main street, the most important street through the old town, hindered the carts and was compensated in 1836 under the direction of the later world-famous engineer Alois Negrelli von Moldelbe . In 1823, Brugg signed a contract with Lauffohr : the neighboring municipality sold around a quarter of its territory for 1,669 francs. In 1827, the city of Umiken acquired the land near the Brunnenmühle near the suburb and waived rights to wood and fields in the “Umiker Schachen”.

The initially positive mood towards the challenges of modernity gave way to a conservative mentality and the people of Bruges concentrated on their supposed strengths of craft, trade and commerce. The political will was lacking for the establishment of industry . The Bruges bourgeoisie also harbored prejudices against factory workers. Neighboring villages such as Windisch and Turgi , where large textile factories were built, benefited from this hesitation .

The Swiss Northeastern Railway extended on 29 September 1856, the railway line Zurich-Baden , the first railway in Switzerland, up to Brugg. The canton capital Aarau was reached on May 15, 1858. Economically, the railway initially brought disadvantages because the haulage business, which lived from transit traffic over the Bözbergpass , largely collapsed. The people of Bruges also complained that the train station was a ten-minute walk away, which caused additional damage to the city. The Windischer, however, complained that the station was called "Brugg", although it was in their municipality.

The cause of this dispute was the complicated borderline between the two communities. The only part of the city was the “Burgerziel”, a narrow strip of land around the former city wall. To the south of it was the "Ehfäde", a special agricultural area that was entirely privately owned by the citizens of Bruges. Although all changes of ownership had to be approved by Brugg, the area belonged to Windisch in terms of tax law and politics. The city had tried again and again in vain to acquire the threads. In 1856, the cantonal government found that the existence of two different municipal boundaries was no longer up to date and struck the Ehfäde Windisch. But the neighboring community was in financial straits and in 1863 sold this area, on which the train station had been built, to Brugg for 25,000 francs.

With the construction of two more routes, Brugg became a railway junction: the Bözbergbahn to Basel was opened on August 2nd, 1875, the Aargau Southern Railway opened the route to Hendschiken on June 1st, 1882 . Although there were now excellent transport links and enough building land, industry was still slow to develop. In 1864 a printing works was built, but the "Effingerhof", the former city residence of the Habsburgs, had to give way. Another striking building, the Hallwyler Fortress, was demolished in 1883 and replaced by a schoolhouse. The new water supply was built in 1882, the municipality's own Brugg power station in 1892 , the sewer system from 1896 and the gas works in 1911 .

The city's military tradition was established in 1848. The pontoon troops stationed here drilled in the old town and were initially housed in private houses. After numerous complaints, the cantonal government decided in 1856 to convert the former granary into a barracks . Between 1876 and 1878 a military training area was built at the Geissenschachen and in 1898 a new barracks complex. Brugg thus became the center of the Swiss engineering troops .

20th century

The breakthrough in industrial development came in 1892 with the commissioning of the municipal power station on the Aare, which was in operation until 1952. Numerous industrial companies set up shop in quick succession and Brugg experienced an economic boom. But the city soon felt the disadvantages of the narrow boundaries of the city area again. Between 1898 and 1901, twelve small communities in the canton of Aargau were merged against their will, as they did not seem economically viable and could not fulfill the tasks required by law. Altenburg was also affected by this development . Although the municipal assembly voted against it with 42 to 2 votes, the incorporation into the city of Brugg was completed on January 1, 1901 according to the resolution of the Grand Council of the Canton of Aargau. This enabled Brugg to double its area.

"House of the Swiss Farmers", seat of the Swiss Farmers' Association

The agriculture had never played a significant role, but various circumstances led to the turn of the century to the rise Bruggs for "Bauer metropolis". The “ Agricultural Winter School ”, a training center for farmers, was opened in 1887 and in 1901 moved into a new building on Baslerstrasse. It is a coincidence that Brugg became the seat of the Swiss Farmers' Association in 1900 : the wife of the association's president, Ernst Laur, came from Brugg and did not want to move away under any circumstances, which is why the association moved its headquarters here from Bern. The small farmer's secretariat developed into one of the most powerful interest groups in Switzerland. Since the railroad was built, the cattle trade also played an important role, especially with cattle . By 1930 the market hall developed into an important supra-regional transshipment point; the cattle market was closed in 1997 and moved to Brunegg .

The Catholics, whose proportion of the population had risen sharply due to the influx of factory workers, were given their own place of worship again in 1907 (almost 400 years after the Reformation). In 1911 the municipal gasworks went into operation (shut down in 1967), and Windisch ceded a plot of land on the Aare free of charge. The economic boom ended during the First World War and many residents lived below the subsistence level. During the national strike in November 1918, work was stopped in all factories. The global economic crisis also resulted in high unemployment and the closure of some businesses. Under the impact of the takeover of the Nazi party in Germany came in 1933 in Brugg to several rallies of the National Front with up to 3000 participants (and counter-events). A local NSDAP group was active from 1935 to 1939 ; the members were all German workers.

After the Second World War brought restrictions again, a phase of boom began after the war that was to last for three decades. The rapid economic development led to the planning of large public building projects, which were not implemented, such as a four-lane expressway and the total urban redesign of the area south of the old town. A large inland shipping port with two docks in Aufeld would have been built if the Hochrhein and Aare ( Trans-Helvetic Canal ) had been made navigable for a long time .

A controversial political issue during the 1960s was the incorporation of Lauffohr . Over two thirds of the inhabitants of this community lived in the rapidly growing part of the village of Au. This bordered directly on Brugg and was at that time clearly separated from the old village center by a wide, unbuilt area. The residents of the Au felt drawn to Brugg and therefore sought a community merger. In the September 1962 vote, 97 voters were for and 64 against the merger. Brugg's interest in the small rural community was limited and 494 yes votes were compared to 409 no votes. This rather tight result and the then very strong emphasis on municipal autonomy prompted the Grand Council not to recognize the result. In the Lauffohr municipal council elections in August 1965, all seats went to merger advocates and the topic remained topical. In a second vote on the union of municipalities in April 1969, the result in Brugg was 1,095 yes to 397 no, in Lauffohr 113 yes to 100 no. In the meantime, the Grand Council had changed its stance on church mergers and confirmed the result. The merger finally took place on January 1, 1970.

The oil price crisis of 1973 resulted in an economic structural change towards the service sector: companies such as Georg Fischer AG relocated production, others such as Traugott Simmen AG (the most renowned furniture manufacturer in Switzerland in the 1950s and 1960s) went bankrupt. The crisis also undermined most of the lofty plans. Only the shopping centers Neumarkt I and Neumarkt II (1975 and 1982) as well as the "Middle Bypass" (1980) with the new casino bridge over the Aare, which effectively relieved the old town of through traffic, were realized.

21st century

Pedagogical college

The development of Bruggs into an important educational location began at the end of the 1950s. In 1958 the «Agricultural Winter School» moved to Gränichen . It was replaced by the «women's school», in which handicraft, housekeeping and kindergarten teachers were trained. The teachers' seminar (1973) and finally the pedagogical college (2001) developed from this. The cantonal technical center was built in Windisch . On January 1, 2006, both institutions were merged into the Northwestern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences . In 2013, after a planning phase lasting several years, the Brugg-Windisch Campus was opened. With over 3000 students, the only location of the Northwestern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences in the canton of Aargau is the largest educational center between Basel, Bern and Zurich. Together with the municipality of Windisch, the city of Brugg owns the campus hall in the main building. With up to 800 seats, it is the largest hall in the Brugg district.

In the health sector, however, Brugg was unable to exploit its locational advantage. In September 2003 the Aargau government council announced that the district hospital, which opened in 1913, would have to close for reasons of economy. Thereupon fierce resistance arose in the region, the climax was a demonstration with over 6000 participants in February 2005 (by far the largest protest rally in the history of Bruges). But on March 8, the Grand Council approved the closure at the end of September 2005 and the conversion into a nursing home, which meant the loss of 300 jobs. This marked the end of a long tradition that began in 1450 with the opening of the Heiliggeistspital. The nursing home was never built, but the Brugg Medical Center was set up on a private initiative in 2005, providing outpatient medical services on the premises of the former district hospital.

Because the settlement areas of Brugg and Windisch have grown together completely and the two communities are always working closer together due to the extensive “Vision Mitte” project, the call for a community merger arose. In May 2006, both municipal parliaments clearly approved a popular initiative calling for merger negotiations to begin. But a referendum was held against this decision. The referendum took place on September 24, 2006; the initiative was clearly rejected with a majority of 63%. The main reasons given for the rejection of a municipality merger were the large differences in the tax burden and the debt burden of the municipality of Windisch. The question of a possible merger between Brugg and Windisch is currently not topical.

These processes had no influence on the integration of Umiken into the urban area. A study presented by the city council in March 2007 showed positive effects of a possible community merger. On June 27, 2008, the residents' council approved the contract governing the merger between Umiken and Brugg. This decision was confirmed in the vote on September 28, 2008 with 1748 to 224 votes (88.6% yes share), in Umiken with 330 to 55 votes (85.7%). The merger took place on January 1, 2010.

Brugg is a local authority of the possible Jura-Ost nuclear waste storage facility . The preliminary investigations and soundings for a storage facility for high-level waste (HAA storage facility) in the Brugg region have been running since 1983. The area named by NAGRA Jura-Ost has an optimal storage perimeter, which is largely in the area of ​​the municipality of Bözberg and is prohibited from municipalities touched by Brugg in the northwest. The Federal Council is expected to decide in 2018 whether the area will remain in the selection process.

On March 4, 2018, the voters of Brugg and Schinznach-Bad approved the merger of the two communities on January 1, 2020. The Brugg Schinznach merger project was officially launched in 2015 when the municipal assembly of Schinznach-Bad and the Brugg residents' council approved the project loans. On August 17, 2015, the project management was constituted, made up of four representatives from each of the two municipalities and the head of the municipal department of the canton of Aargau. Compared to the schedule planned at that time, the votes at the ballot boxes took place six months earlier.

Attractions

Old town

Tower of ref. Church and archive tower
Armory

The old town of Brugg was built at the narrow point of the Aare and consists of two parts. The much larger bell-shaped part lies south of the Aare on a gently sloping slope, the much smaller suburb north of the Aare at the foot of the Bruggerberg. Almost all buildings are made of shell limestone . The fortifications are only fragmentary, mostly integrated into the development and broken up by windows and passageways. The archive tower and the lower half of the stork tower on the west side and a corner tower on the north side of the suburb have been preserved from the towers.

The oldest building in the city is the Black Tower , a 25.70 meter high tower built at the end of the 12th century . The tower, which was built as a bridgehead, consists partly of building material from the Vindonissa legionary camp . In 1535 it was increased by several meters. The town hall, built in the late Gothic style in 1579, is attached to it .

The center of the church district on the west side is the Reformed town church . The oldest surviving part, a tower integrated into the former city fortifications, was built around 1220. Between 1479 and 1518, the building was expanded in four construction stages into a late Gothic complex with three naves , side chapels and a choir . The church has served the Reformed parish of Brugg since 1528. The interior design dates from 1641/42. The town church was given its present form between 1734 and 1740 when it was extensively rebuilt in the baroque style. In 1896 new windows were installed, which are decorated with the coats of arms of the old Bruges city families.

Latin school

The former Latin school is located directly next to the church . The three-story baroque-style building dates from 1638/40, the rear wall formed part of the city fortifications. The front has a colorful, humanistic monumental painting that rarely occurs in this form . Allegorical female figures represent theology and the “ seven liberal arts ” ( grammar , arithmetic , geometry , rhetoric , dialectics , astronomy and music ). The cartouches under the window sills are decorated with verses from the Bible in German, Latin, Greek and Hebrew.

In the south-eastern part of the old town is the Hofstatt, the only larger square. The former armory (built in 1673) stands on the north side . The baroque building stands out from the alley front with its stair tower in front with a Welscher hood (a component that is very seldom found in German-speaking Switzerland). The south side of the Hofstatt is flanked by the dominant salt house (built in 1732), in which salt was stored until the middle of the 19th century; apart from the attic there is only one room with twelve supporting columns.

Most of the houses in the old town date from the 16th to 18th centuries and have Gothic or Baroque style elements. Rococo decorations occur occasionally. The «Bürgerasyl» ( Hospital , 1747), the Landschreiberei der Vogtei Schenkenberg (1606), the Kornhaus (1697), the «Roter Bären» house (1750) and the «Hirschen» house (approx. 1750) deserve special mention . The "carpenter's house" in the suburbs was partly built in the classical style (1805).

Outside the old town

Red House
River landscape near Brugg

The southern end of the old town is the “ Red House” , an inn that has existed since the 15th century and was enlarged in 1840 after the Obertorturm (the second landmark of the city) was demolished.

The first building in Brugg to be built outside the city walls is the town house (also called “Palais Frölich”). It was built in 1748/49 on behalf of Johann Jakob Frölich, who had become wealthy as Lord Sandwich's private secretary . The baroque building with a mansard roof is richly decorated with rococo elements both inside and outside . Since 1909 it has been the seat of the city administration and the city council. To the west of it is the city park with two classical economic buildings.

The Schilplinhaus was built in 1810 in the late Rococo phase and was acquired by the Swiss Farmers' Association in 1928 . In place of the barn of the Schilplinhaus, the “House of the Swiss Farmer”, a large administrative building, was built in 1947/48. The Catholic Church of Brugg, which is consecrated to the former city patron St. Nikolaus , was built in 1905 according to plans by Adolf Gaudy in neo-baroque style and extensively renovated in 1952.

Around one kilometer west of the old town in Altenburg, on a rock head at the bend in the Aare, is the Altenburg castle . A small castle was built on the ruins of a Roman fort in the Middle Ages. The highest preserved Roman wall in Switzerland is integrated into the west wall of the tower house, but most of the structure of the complex dates from the 16th century. The “Schlössli” has served as a youth hostel since 1943 .

The church in Umiken, dedicated to St. Mauritius , was first mentioned in 1254. The masonry of the nave is in Romanesque and Gothic styles. The church tower was replaced by a new building after 1488, and the choir was built in 1521. The terrace settlement Mühlehalde in Umiken (built 1963–1971) was considered a much-noticed project for new forms of living.

The Limmat – Wasserschloss industrial culture trail is a themed trail that leads from Wettingen to Brugg to 44 monuments of industrial history. In Brugg itself, these are the Altenburg railway bridge , the former power station, the Brugg train station , the factories of the Brugg cable works and the former gas works.

The 1981 indoor swimming pool in the Brugg swimming pool is one of the main works of the Swiss civil engineer Heinz Isler . The south-western settlement area of ​​Brugg has several groups of high-rise buildings.

In Badschachen, below the village of Schinznach-Bad, is the area of ​​the Schinznach public thermal baths with a spa hotel and a rehabilitation clinic.

coat of arms

Coat of Arms (1542)

The blazon of the city coat of arms reads: "In white, black bridge, reinforced with two roofed black towers, the right one higher and with a careful machicolation". The symbol of the city is depicted on the coat of arms, the higher Black Tower on the right and the lower Customs Tower on the left side of the Aare, with the bridge in between. It should be noted that the mentioned in the blazon machicolation actually a bay window , and that the customs tower was canceled 1836th

The oldest known depiction is that on the city seal from 1311. Numerous changes to the coat of arms followed. Some of these corresponded to the structural changes to the buildings and the bridge, such as B. can be seen in the illustration on the left. Over time, several versions co-existed. In 1964, the city council decided to standardize and a year later the coat of arms was given its current stylized form. The city colors are black and white. The city coat of arms remains unchanged as the district coat of arms .

population

The population developed as follows (from 1830 with Altenburg , from 1970 with Lauffohr , from 2010 with Umiken ) :

year 1400 1529 1611 1669 1754 1803 1850 1900 1930 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010
Residents 940 440 930 380 761 604 1142 2339 4502 5508 6683 8635 8911 9482 9143 10,408

The following information relates to the sum of the municipalities of Brugg and Umiken.

On December 31, 2019, 12,554 people lived in Brugg, the proportion of foreigners was 28.4%. In the 2015 census, 28.1% described themselves as Reformed and 26.5% as Roman Catholic ; 45.4% were non-denominational or of other faiths. 84.8% stated German as their main language in the 2000 census , 2.8% Italian , 2.2% Serbo-Croatian , 1.7% Albanian , 1.1% French , 1.0% Turkish and 0.8% each English , Portuguese and Spanish .

The proportion of foreigners is around five percent above the cantonal average. Between 1850 and 1950 the absolute number was always around 300 people. It then increased fivefold by 1970. After a long period of stagnation, the percentage has been increasing again since around 1990. In 2015, the citizens of the following countries were most frequently represented among the 3,127 foreigners at the time: Germany (17.9%), Kosovo (14.1%), Italy (12.2%), Turkey (8.6%), Serbia (6.8%) and Portugal (4.0%). In 1900 the vast majority of the population (83 percent) belonged to the Reformed denomination. The proportion of Catholics increased sharply from 1950, due to the immigration of workers from Catholic areas of Switzerland, but above all from the Mediterranean countries. Today not even a third of the population of the former “city of the prophets” is reformed.

Politics and law

The Political Municipality (called community of residents in the canton of Aargau) performs all municipal tasks that have not been declared to be the sphere of activity of another type of municipality (for example, the parishes of the regional churches ) by superordinate law .

legislative branch

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A total of 50 seats

Since 1966, instead of a community assembly that is common in smaller communities, the community parliament, the residents ' council, elected by the Bruges voters , has represented the concerns of the population. It consists of 50 members who are each elected for four years by proportional representation. He is responsible for approving the tax rate , the budget, the annual accounts, the annual report and the loans. It also issues regulations, controls the conduct of office of the executive and decides on naturalizations . The residents' councils can submit parliamentary proposals ( motion , postulate , small questions ). The residents 'council is headed by the president, who is elected for a two-year term of office (see list of Brugg residents' council presidents ).

The graph on the right shows the distribution of seats after the election on September 24, 2017. In previous elections, the parties achieved the following number of seats:

Political party 1965 1969 1973 1977 1981 1985 1989 1993 1997 2001 2005 2009 2013 2017
FDP 16 13 16 16 19th 17th 16 16 17th 15th 15th 13 13 13
SP 11 12 13 14th 14th 15th 10 10 10 10 9 8th 9 10
SVP 3 2 2 3 2 2 3 2 4th 8th 6th 11 11 9
CVP 9 7th 9 9 8th 10 9 6th 6th 6th 9 6th 7th 6th
Green - - - - - - 5 6th 5 6th 6th 6th 5 6th
EPP 1 2 3 3 4th 3 6th 5 6th 5 5 4th 3 3
GLP - - - - - - - - - - - 2 2 3
LdU 3 7th 5 5 3 1 - - - - - - - -
Team 67 - 2 2 - - - - - - - - - - -
Car party - - - - - - - 3 - - - - - -
Non-party 7th 5 - - - 2 1 2 2 - - - - -

Various elements of direct democracy can also be found at the level of the resident community . The population is entitled to optional and compulsory referendums as well as the popular initiative .

executive

Stadthaus (Palais Frölich), seat of the city council and the city administration

The executing authority is the five-member city ​​council . He is elected by the people for four years in a majority process . The city council leads and represents the local community. To this end, it implements the resolutions of the residents' council and the tasks assigned to it by the canton.

The five city councils for the 2018-2021 term are:

  • Barbara Horlacher (GPS), mayor
  • Leo Geissmann (CVP), Vice-Minister
  • Willi Däpp (SP)
  • Jürg Baur (CVP)
  • Reto Wettstein (FDP)

Judiciary

The Brugg District Court is the first instance responsible for legal disputes . Brugg is the seat of Friedensrichterkreis VIII, which covers the entire district. In addition, the city has been the seat of the regional public prosecutor's office for the districts of Brugg and Zurzach since 2011 .

National elections

In the 2019 Swiss parliamentary elections, the share of the vote in Brugg was: SP 20.6%, SVP 19.3%, FDP 16.1%, Greens 15.3%, glp 8.8%, CVP 8.4%, EPP 5, 0%, BDP 2.6%, team 65+ 2.0%.

Town twinning

Since 1913, Rottweil in the German state of Baden-Württemberg has been the twin town of Brugg. The men's choirs in both cities gave the impetus after reciprocal visits to the cities. The aim of this initiative was to recall the former status of Rottweil as a place facing the old Swiss Confederation . After the Second World War, the city of Brugg supported the needy population of Rottweil.

economy

Cable reels from Kabelwerke Brugg

According to the corporate structure statistics (STATENT) collected in 2015, there were around 8,200 jobs in Brugg, of which 0.2% in agriculture, 16.2% in industry and 83.6% in the service sector. From 1920 on (first company census), industry provided around half of all jobs. From the beginning of the 1970s, this proportion fell to less than a fifth due to structural change. Agriculture always played a marginal role. More than a third of the workplaces in the district are concentrated in the main town, resulting in a strong flow of commuters (around three quarters of all employees are inbound commuters ).

The cable works Brugg are a globally active company in the field of cable systems , rope technology, piping systems and process control. The company with over 1300 employees is named after the place where it was founded, has its headquarters here and is represented in 16 countries.

There are also around 950 small and medium-sized companies . Rütschi Fluid AG is a leading manufacturer of water and chemical pumps. Other important companies are Jost Brugg AG (electrical installations) and the printing works Seetal Schaller AG and Effingerhof AG. The internet provider green.ch , the architecture and planning office Metron, BEA + Poly-Verlag , Creabeton-Produktions AG and the steel construction company Wartmann Holding are known nationwide . The Neumarkt I and Neumarkt II shopping centers at the train station are important for the retail trade in the entire region. The anchor tenant in Neumarkt I, managed by Privera , is the Migros Aare cooperative .

Brugg is the seat of the Swiss Farmers' Association , Agriexpert and the Swiss Rural Women's Association . The arsenal of the engineering troops of the Swiss Army , which has been expanded since 1876, is also important as an employer. The local radio station Radio Argovia broadcast from a studio in Brugg from 1990 until it moved to Aarau in 2005 .

traffic

Brugg train station

Road traffic

Brugg is an important traffic junction. Two major road connections intersect here, Hauptstrasse 3 ( Basel - Zurich - Chur - Chiavenna ) and Hauptstrasse 5 ( Lausanne - Biel / Bienne - Waldshut ). Four kilometers south of Brugg, between Hausen and Lupfig , there is a connection to the A3 motorway . Another four kilometers further south there is a connection to the A1 at Mägenwil . The Autobahn 3 crosses the municipality north of Schinznach-Bad in a wide arc on the 1230 meter long double Aare valley bridge between the Habsburgtunnel and the Schinznacherfeld tunnel. The north portal of the Habsburgtunnel with the company building is located in the municipality of Brugg.

The supraregional through traffic no longer runs through the old town, but via the "Middle Bypass", consisting of a tunnel under the cemetery and the casino bridge over the Aare. The new "Southwest bypass Brugg" (under construction from 2019 to 2021) connects the cantonal roads K112 (Aarauerstrasse) and K 118 near Hausen south of the Brugg residential and commercial area and the railway lines; the new road enables the removal of level crossings on Aarauerstrasse.

A total of nineteen bridges and footbridges lead over the Aare and its tributaries near Brugg.

Postbus lines lead from the train station to Bad Zurzach , Birr , Döttingen , Frick , Laufenburg , Linn , Mellingen , Mönthal , Remigen , Scherz , Schinznach-Bad , Thalheim and Unterwindisch .

railroad

The Brugg railway station is a junction of several railway lines. The two most important are the Bözberg line to Basel with the large bridge over the Aare and the Baden – Brugg – Aarau railway line . Another route leads through the Birrfeld to Othmarsingen and Lenzburg ; it connects Brugg with the former Aargau Southern Railway to Rotkreuz and Immensee and has served as a main axis of international freight traffic through the Gotthard since the direct connection Villnachern-Brugg Süd was built in 1969.

Express trains run through Brugg to Basel , Bern , Zurich HB and Zurich Airport . Regional trains run to Aarau (via Wildegg or Lenzburg), in the direction of Baden / Wettingen and to Muri . Brugg is also the terminus of the S12 line of the Zurich S-Bahn .

In Schinznach-Bad there is a stop on the Brugg-Aarau railway line.

On weekends, two night S-Bahn lines operate on the lines Winterthur –Zürich HB – Baden – Brugg – Lenzburg – Aarau and Basel – Rheinfelden – Frick – Brugg. There are also night buses to Villigen - Riniken , Schinznach - Thalheim and Birr - Habsburg / Mülligen .

Culture and leisure

Vindonissa Museum

Institutions

The “Salzhaus Brugg” association organizes various cultural events in the building of the same name, which once served as a salt store; The focus is on rock and pop concerts with bands and musicians known throughout Switzerland. The Odeon cultural center houses one of the city's two cinemas as well as a hall for theater , readings by authors and concerts. The municipal library and an art gallery are located in the Zimmermannhaus in the suburbs . The Piccadilly youth center is dedicated to open youth work . The metal band Burning Witches comes from Brugg .

The Vindonissa Museum deals with the history of Vindonissa , the front section of the Art Nouveau building erected in 1912 is modeled on the gate of this Roman legionary camp. The local history museum is located in the former arsenal, which uses numerous everyday objects to bring the history of the Brugg district closer.

Sports

In Brugg there is an outdoor pool (since 1937) and an indoor pool (since 1982). The outdoor and indoor swimming pool in Brugg above Altenburg with a large shell construction by the engineer Heinz Isler is used for a variety of water sports events. There are numerous sports clubs. The Jiu Jitsu & Judo Club Brugg is a sixteen-time team Swiss champion in judo, including ten championship titles in a row (2007–2016). The national center of the Swiss Judo & Ju-Jitsu Association is also located in Brugg. The FC Brugg played from 2005 for 5 years in the first league , the third highest football -Liga Switzerland, but now only the third in the league, the seventh highest in Switzerland. He plays his home games in the Au Stadium. There are also athletics facilities in the Au Stadium.

The Association of Swiss River Walkers, now the Swiss Canoe Association , was founded in Brugg in 1925 . The Brugg Canoe Club was founded in 1966. The Brugg canoeist Sabine Eichenberger has been extremely successful at international level since the 1990s.

In 2010, the city of Brugg and the canton of Aargau built the modern sports training center Mülimatt on Gaswerkstrasse next to the Aare, based on a concept by the Ticino architects Studio Vacchini Architetti .

regional customs

The most important local festival is the Rodenzug , which takes place on the first Thursday in July. Allegedly this move has been going on since the 16th or 17th century. The festival has its origins in a widespread custom, the cutting of new rods for school-age youth. Many elements of the festival have been handed down from ancient times. Every year, the Brugg confetti splinter guild organizes the Brugg Carnival. The Schützenpavillon in Brugg is built as a self-supporting structure around a dancing linden tree and forms a striking center of the town's customs.

education

The educational offer in Brugg is diverse. All levels of compulsory elementary school are taught in the city schools. There are seven kindergartens and seven school houses. The primary school is taught in the Au-Erle, Bodenacker, Umiken and Stapferschulhaus (named after Philipp Albert Stapfer ), the secondary school in the Langmatt school, the secondary school in the Freudenstein school and the district school in the Hallwyler school (which was built on the site of the former Hallwyler fortress ). The Brugg Vocational and Training Center (BWZ) combines vocational school (technology / nature and business) and adult education. There is also a city music school . Brugg does not have a grammar school. Middle school students from the Brugg region attend the Old Canton School Aarau , the New Canton School Aarau , the Canton School Baden or the Canton School Wettingen .

Brugg is of cross-cantonal importance for education as a municipality where the University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland (together with Windisch ) is located. In 2013, the new Brugg-Windisch campus south of the Brugg train station was ready to move into. This includes the College of Education FHNW , the University of Applied Sciences FHNW , the School of Business FHNW, the campus library and the Directorate Bureau and Services FHNW. The Brugg-Windisch campus has seven buildings in 2016. Around 3,000 students and around 1,000 employees work there. 14 Bachelor and Master courses are offered. The Brugg-Windisch location is the most important educational location within the Basel-Bern-Zurich triangle.

Personalities

Born in Brugg

Lived in Brugg

Honorary citizen

  • 1932: Fritz Zaugg , Government Councilor of the Canton of Aargau
  • 1932: Albert Süss, mayor
  • 1936: Walter Dübi, director of the Brugg cable works
  • 1960: Ernst Laur , first director of the farmers' association

literature

Web links

Commons : Brugg  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Bruck in the Topographia Helvetiae, Rhaetiae et Valesiae (Matthäus Merian)  - sources and full texts

Individual evidence

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