Döttingen 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 Döttingenf .
Döttingen
Coat of arms of Döttingen
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Kanton AargauKanton Aargau Aargau (AG)
District : Zurzachw
BFS no. : 4304i1 f3 f4
Postal code : 5312
UN / LOCODE : CH DOT
Coordinates : 661 525  /  269 245 coordinates: 47 ° 34 '16 "  N , 8 ° 15' 23"  O ; CH1903:  661,525  /  two hundred and sixty-nine thousand two hundred and forty-five
Height : 328  m above sea level M.
Height range : 316-516 m above sea level M.
Area : 6.93  km²
Residents: 4149 (December 31, 2019)
Population density : 599 inhabitants per km²
Proportion of foreigners :
(residents without
citizenship ) 		43.2% (December 31, 2019)
Website: www.doettingen.ch
Aare bridge Döttingen - Kleindöttingen

Aare bridge Döttingen - Kleindöttingen
Location of the municipality
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Döttingen ( Swiss German : ˈtœtːigə ) is a municipality in the Swiss canton of Aargau . It belongs to the Zurzach district and is located in the lower Aare valley, around five kilometers south of the border with Germany . The community is known as the location of the Beznau nuclear power plant .

geography

The Aare forms the western boundary of the municipality and flows in a northerly direction. In the southwest lies the island of Beznau, artificially created by building a canal, with the nuclear power plant and the Aare power plant . The extensive Unterwald forest area extends near Beznau. The village center is located immediately north of the confluence of the Surb and the Aare. The development has completely merged with that of the neighboring community of Klingnau .

The Surbtal , which extends east-west, is bordered on both sides by steep slopes: In the north rises the 484 meter high Hornbuck, which merges into the 515 meter high Aemmeribuck. Both are foothills of the Acheberg, which belongs to the Table Jura . The south and south-west slopes are planted with grapevines . To the south of the Surb lies the Ruckfeld, an extensive plateau that is bordered on its edges by very steep slopes up to 70 meters high.

The area of ​​the municipality is 693 hectares , of which 244 hectares are forested and 185 hectares are built over. The highest point is at 515 meters on the Aemmeribuck (elevation on the Achenberg plateau), the lowest at 318 meters on the Aare. Neighboring communities are Klingnau in the north, Bad Zurzach in the northeast, Tegerfelden in the east, Würenlingen in the south and Böttstein in the west.

history

Exchange agreement between the St. Blasien Monastery and Baron Ulrich von Klingen for the island of Beznau and a hill (today's town of Klingnau)
Aerial view (1956)

Various finds prove a settlement in the Neolithic . During the Roman era there were two manors here . One was on the Sonnenberg, where the military route Vindonissa - Tenedo ran; the site discovered in 1916 contained a wide range of ceramics. The other manor was discovered in 1930 during excavations near the cemetery. Both were destroyed by raiding Alemanni around 260 .

The town of Totingen was first mentioned in a document in 1239, when Ulrich von Klingen exchanged the island of Beznau for a gravel hill located downstream on which the town of Klingnau now stands. The place name comes from the Old High German Tettingun and means "among the people of the Tetto". The monastery of St. Blasien was an important landowner . The diocese of Constance exercised lower jurisdiction from 1269 . In 1415 the Confederates conquered Aargau, replaced the Habsburgs as sovereigns and took over the blood jurisdiction from them . Döttingen was now in the Klingnau office of the County of Baden , a common rule .

In March 1798 the French took Switzerland and proclaimed the Helvetic Republic . Döttingen was initially a municipality in the short-lived canton of Baden . During the Second Coalition War , the front line between the French and Austrians ran through the middle of the Aare valley. On August 17, 1799, Austrian troops tried to cross the Aare near Döttingen. From the mouth of the Surb they took the French army under artillery fire on the other side of the river . The French returned fire and were able to prevent the bridge from being built. The villages of Kleindöttingen and Eien were completely destroyed and several dozen people died.

Döttingen has belonged to the canton of Aargau since 1803. The opening of the Turgi – Koblenz – Waldshut railway by the Swiss Northeastern Railway on August 18, 1859 meant that the farming and winegrowing village gradually turned into an industrial location. Nonetheless, the population stagnated throughout the 19th century, as many residents became impoverished and were forced to emigrate. Then, however, a constant growth set in. In the 1960s alone, the population increased by over forty percent; From 1970 to 2000 the development stagnated, since then an increase has been observed again.

In 1902 the Aare power station Beznau was put into operation on the island of Beznau south of the village , straightening a branch of the Aare and creating an artificial island. An oil thermal power plant followed in 1948. In 1957, planning began for Switzerland's first nuclear power plant . After four years of construction, block 1 of the Beznau nuclear power plant started producing electricity in 1969 , and the identically constructed Beznau 2 block followed in 1972. The resulting tax revenues made Döttingen one of the most tax-efficient communities in the canton for a few years.

Attractions

Coat of arms of the von Tettingen family

coat of arms

The blazon of the municipal coat of arms reads: "Divided and split twice by yellow and black." The Döttingen municipal coat of arms was originally the coat of arms of the Lords of Tettingen, who came from the Lake Constance area near Dettingen and owned goods in the lower Aare valley in the Middle Ages. The exact meaning is not known. The introduction took place in 1930.

population

Population development

The population developed as follows:

year 1799 1850 1900 1930 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010
Residents 825 1098 974 1271 1738 2356 3380 3264 3298 3241 3749

On December 31, 2019, 4,149 people lived in Döttingen, the proportion of foreigners was 43.2%. In the 2015 census, 47.6% described themselves as Roman Catholic and 12.3% as Reformed ; 40.1% were non-denominational or of other faiths. In the 2000 census, 75.9% said their main language was German , 7.8% Italian , 4.4% Albanian , 3.2% Turkish , 3.0% Serbo-Croatian and 2.1% Portuguese .

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 Zurzach District Court is the first instance responsible for legal disputes . Döttingen belongs to the XVII (Zurzach) judges' circle.

economy

Beznau nuclear power plant

According to the corporate structure statistics (STATENT) collected in 2015, Döttingen has around 2150 jobs, of which 2% in agriculture, 51% in industry and 47% in the service sector. The most important employer is the Beznau nuclear power plant . Wood processing and the manufacture of furniture are also important. Many people in employment are commuters and work in the neighboring communities of the lower Aare valley or in the Brugg / Baden region .

The formerly dominant viticulture came to a standstill for more than two decades from 1900 because of the phylloxera that was introduced . After that, however, they ventured a modest new beginning. Today an area of ​​16.6 hectares is planted with vines on the western slope of the Hornbuck and on the southern slope of the upstream Littibuck. Around twenty different varieties are grown , with Blauburgunder , Pinot gris and Sauvignon Blanc being the most common. Since 1950, a winegrowers festival has been held every year in October , which has become the largest in German-speaking Switzerland.

traffic

Döttingen station

The busy main road 5 from Brugg through the lower Aare valley to Koblenz runs through Döttingen, with a bypass road since 1987 relieving the village center of through traffic. It crosses with the main road 17 through the Surbtal . A bridge leads over the Aare to Kleindöttingen .

Döttingen has a train station on the SBB - Turgi – Koblenz – Waldshut line , with direct trains to Baden , Waldshut and Bad Zurzach . Until the construction of the Klingnau train station , the station was called Döttingen-Klingnau, and since then it has been called Döttingen . Postbuses run from the train station to Baden, Brugg , Laufenburg , Mandach and Niederweningen . On weekends, a night bus runs from Baden via the Surbtal and Döttingen to Bad Zurzach. In 1915 a railway connection to Niederweningen was planned under the working title Surbtalbahn , but it was never implemented.

education

The community has two kindergartens and three school houses in which the primary school , the junior high school and the secondary school are taught. The district school can be attended in Klingnau . The closest grammar schools are the Baden Cantonal School and the Wettingen Cantonal School .

Personalities

literature

Web links

Commons : Döttingen  - 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 . In: Historical Society of the Canton of Aargau (Ed.): Argovia . tape 100 . Verlag Sauerländer, Aarau 1991, ISBN 3-7941-3122-3 , p. 250-253 .
  4. ↑ a b National map of Switzerland, sheet 1050, Swisstopo.
  5. ↑ Standard area statistics - municipalities according to 4 main areas. Federal Statistical Office , November 26, 2018, accessed on June 14, 2019 .
  6. ^ Martin Hartmann, Hans Weber: The Romans in Aargau . Verlag Sauerländer, Aarau 1985, ISBN 3-7941-2539-8 , p. 167 .
  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. 143 .
  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 14, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Resident population by religious affiliation, 2015. (Excel) In: Population and Households, Community Tables 2015. Statistics Aargau, accessed on June 14, 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 14, 2019 .
  11. ↑ circles of justice of the peace. Canton of Aargau, accessed on June 14, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Statistics of the corporate structure (STATENT). (Excel, 157 kB) Statistics Aargau, 2016, accessed on June 13, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Grape harvest control 2018 Canton Aargau. (PDF, 2.4 MB) Agricultural Center Liebegg, 2019, accessed on June 14, 2019 .
  14. ↑ Winzerfest Döttingen. Association Winzerfest Döttingen, 2019, accessed on June 14, 2019 .