Gallenkirch

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Gallenkirch
Gallenkirch coat of arms
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Kanton AargauKanton Aargau Aargau (AG)
District : Brugg
Residential municipality : Bozbergi2
Postal code : 5224
former BFS no. : 4098
Coordinates : 651 829  /  258 948 coordinates: 47 ° 28 '45 "  N , 8 ° 7' 34"  O ; CH1903:  six hundred and fifty-one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine  /  two hundred fifty-eight thousand nine hundred and forty-eight
Height : 565  m above sea level M.
Residents: 131 (December 31, 2012)
Proportion of foreigners :
(residents without
citizenship ) 		k, A,% (December 31, 2019)
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Gallenkirch (Switzerland)
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Parish before the merger on January 1, 2013

Gallenkirch (in the Swiss German local dialect: ˈgɑləˌχɪlχ ) is a village in the Swiss canton of Aargau . It was an independent municipality in the Brugg district until the end of 2012 and was incorporated into the new municipality of Bözberg on January 1, 2013 .

geography

Gallenkirch is a little more than five kilometers west of the district capital, on a gently undulating plateau in the Tabular Jura . Less than half a kilometer to the west is the 560 meter high Bözberg Pass , the transition between Aare Valley and Fricktal . In the northwest there is a deep ravine , in which one of the source streams of the Sissle rises. In the southwest the terrain slopes down to the Sagenmülital. The area of ​​the former municipality was 137 hectares . The highest point was at 582 meters in the Holzmatten area, the lowest at 490 meters in the Tobel. Neighboring communities were Unterbözberg in the northeast, Linn in the south and Effingen in the northeast.

history

It was first mentioned as gall milk in 1338 in a document from the Säckingen women's monastery . The place name comes from the Old High German (ze) Gallinkirihhun and means "at the church of Gallus". According to a legend, the Irish monks Columban and Gallus are said to have stopped here in 612. A few weeks later, and around 150 kilometers to the east, Gallus founded a hermitage, from which the city of St. Gallen developed. The Gallus Chapel was built as a memorial, hence the name of the village. However, the chapel was abandoned in the Middle Ages and converted into a residential building, the Gallushaus, which still exists today.

In 1460, the city of Bern acquired the rulership rights over the village from the Säckingen monastery in order to secure the important pass crossing over the Bözberg on the border with Upper Austria . Gallenkirch was now part of the Thalheim judicial district within the Schenkenberg district and thus part of the Bernese Aargau . In 1528 the Bernese introduced the Reformation . In March 1798 the French took Switzerland, ousted the «Gracious Lords» of Bern and proclaimed the Helvetic Republic . Gallenkirch has been part of the canton of Aargau since then. Between 1850 and 1980 the population fell by almost 40 percent. It has almost doubled since then, but Gallenkirch is still one of the smallest Aargau villages to this day.

On December 2, 2011, the community assembly approved the merger agreement with the neighboring communities of Linn, Oberbözberg and Unterbözberg. The voters confirmed this decision on March 11, 2012 in a vote with 75 to 7 votes. The four municipalities merged on January 1, 2013 to form the new municipality of Bözberg .

coat of arms

The blazon of the former municipal coat of arms reads: "Split from yellow with a branched brown wooden trunk and from blue with a pawed yellow cross." The cross is reminiscent of a former Gallus chapel, the log indicates St. Gall , who, according to legend, was carried by a bear. The coat of arms was introduced in 1953; the request to change the color of the log to heraldic correct red or black was rejected by the community assembly in 2002.

population

The population developed as follows:

year 1764 1850 1900 1930 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010
Residents 66 109 92 76 79 69 65 69 97 121 133

On December 31, 2012, 131 people lived in Gallenkirch, 9.2% of them foreigners. In the 2000 census, 55.4% described themselves as Reformed and 27.3% as Roman Catholic ; 17.3% were non-denominational or of other faiths. 95.9% stated German as their main language.

traffic

Gallenkirch is located about 250 meters south of the main road 3 from Basel over the Bözbergpass to Zurich and is connected to it by two side roads. The Postbus line runs through the village from Brugg train station to Linn . Postbuses on the Brugg– Frick line also stop on the main road .

Attractions

literature

Web links

Commons : Gallenkirch  - 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. ↑ 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. 167-169 .
  3. ^ National map of Switzerland, sheet 1069, Swisstopo
  4. ↑ Linn, Gallenkirch, Ober- and Unterbözberg merge to form the municipality of Bözberg. Aargauer Zeitung , March 11, 2012, accessed on March 11, 2012 .
  5. ^ 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. 161 .
  6. ↑ 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 9, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Swiss Federal Census 2000: Economic resident population by religious affiliation as well as by districts and municipalities. (Excel) Statistics Aargau, archived from the original on October 8, 2018 ; accessed on June 10, 2019 .
  8. ↑ 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 10, 2019 .