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Coat of arms of Hermetschwil squadrons
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Kanton AargauKanton Aargau Aargau (AG)
District : Bremgarten
Residential municipality : Bremgarteni2
Postal code : 5626
former BFS no. : 4069
Coordinates : 668 528  /  242 718 coordinates: 47 ° 19 '54 "  N , 8 ° 20' 43"  O ; CH1903:  six hundred sixty-eight thousand five hundred and twenty-eight  /  two hundred and forty-two thousand seven hundred eighteen
Height : 404  m above sea level M.
Residents: 1128 (December 31, 2013)
Proportion of foreigners :
(residents without
citizenship ) 		k, A,% (December 31, 2019)
Hermetschwil, seen from the squadrons

Hermetschwil, seen from the squadrons
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Hermetschwil-Staffeln (Switzerland)
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Hermetschwil-Staffeln ( Swiss German : ˌhɛrmətˈʃʋiːl-ˈʃtɑfːlə ) is a village in the Swiss canton of Aargau and was an independent municipality in the Bremgarten district until the end of 2013 . In 2014 Hermetschwil-Staffeln merged with Bremgarten . Until 1953 the community was officially called Hermetschwil .

geography

The former municipality consists of the roughly equal districts Hermetschwil and Staffeln. Hermetschwil is located on the left bank of the Reuss , Staffeln immediately to the west of it, but separated by a step of about 30 meters high. This district is located on a molasse hill formed by the Reuss glacier , which merges into a plain. The Reuss, which flows from southeast to northwest, is more of a stagnant body of water near Hermetschwil, as the river is dammed further north at the Bremgarten-Zufikon power station . In the far east, the former community had a share in the Flachsee , an artificially created lake which is an ideal habitat for endangered bird and amphibian species and is under nature protection. There a flood protection dam limits the western bank.

The area of ​​the former municipality was 334 hectares . The highest point was at 475 meters in the Leerbächer area west of Staffeln, the deepest at 380 meters on the Reuss. Until December 31, 2013, neighboring communities were Bremgarten and Zufikon in the north, Unterlunkhofen in the east, Rottenschwil and Besenbüren in the south, Bünzen in the west and Waltenschwil in the north-west.

history

Aerial photo (1947)
Parish before the merger on January 1, 2014
Hermetschwil Monastery

The name Hermenswil first appeared in the Muri list of goods in 1064 . The place name comes from the Old High German Hermuoteswilari and means "Hofsiedlung des Hermuot". The place name Staffeln appeared for the first time in 1281, is derived from the Old High German (ze) Staffalun and means "at the terrain steps ". The Muri Monastery, founded in 1027, was initially a double convent . Towards the end of the 12th century, the nuns moved to Hermetschwil to the newly founded Benedictine Abbey of St. Martin. The Hermetschwil monastery received property from Muri and various rulership rights in the Reuss valley. The nuns gained the right to self-government around 1300, but remained under the sovereignty of the Muri monastery.

In the Middle Ages the lower jurisdiction lay with the Muri monastery, the blood jurisdiction with the Habsburgs . In 1415 the Swiss conquered Aargau and Hermetschwil was now the main place of the "Krummamt" in the Free Offices , a common rule . The population converted to the Reformation in 1529 , but was re-Catholicized in 1531 after the Second Kappel War . In March 1798 the French took Switzerland and proclaimed the Helvetic Republic . Hermetschwil was a municipality in the short-lived canton of Baden , since 1803 it has belonged to the canton of Aargau. In the course of the Aargau monastery dispute, the canton closed the monastery in 1841, but reversed this step in 1843. During the Kulturkampf , the monastery was closed again in 1876 and converted into a children's home. Since 1985 the monastery has been inhabited by nuns again. The community itself remained agricultural well into the 20th century.

The population stagnated and increased only slightly after 1950. From the late 1980s, Hermetschwil-Staffeln was drawn into the sprawling agglomeration of the city of Zurich . Lively construction activity began, which more than doubled the population. On December 15, 2011, the community assembly approved the merger agreement with the neighboring community of Bremgarten. The voters confirmed this decision on March 11, 2012 in a vote with 246 to 208 votes. The merger took place on January 1, 2014.

Attractions

Wooden bridge over the Reuss

The Benedictine Abbey of St. Martin (see Hermetschwil Monastery ) is characteristic of the site. The trapezoidal monastery complex near the banks of the Reuss is enclosed by a circular wall and, in addition to the monastery church, includes several buildings from the 16th to 18th centuries. The late Baroque house of the Donat Abbt family, which received the Aargau Heritage Protection Prize in 1999, is located in the Hermetschwil district. A covered wooden bridge for pedestrians leads over the Reuss and enables hikes around the Flachsee .

coat of arms

The blazon of the former municipal coat of arms reads: "Yellow snake crowned in blue, tongued with black." Originally a linden tree was seen on the coat of arms, which goes back to a centuries-old tree in the village center. Since the tree had to be felled in 1939, the coat of arms lost its original meaning. Therefore, from 1964, the community carried the coat of arms of the Hermetschwil monastery.

population

The population developed as follows:

year 1850 1900 1930 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010
Residents 346 389 383 379 412 473 498 592 1087 1105

On December 31, 2013, 1128 people lived in Hermetschwil-Staffeln. At the 2000 census, 55.5% were Roman Catholic and 28.5% were Reformed; 1.0% belonged to other faiths. 96.0% said their main language was German, 1.3% Italian, 0.7% French.

traffic

Hermetschwil-Staffeln is located on Kantonsstrasse 296 between Bremgarten and Muri . From Bremgarten, where there is a connection to the Bremgarten-Dietikon-Bahn , a post bus line leads to both districts.

literature

  • Anne-Marie Dubler: The rule of the Hermetschwil monastery from the beginning until 1798 ; Sauerländer, Aarau 1968; ( Argovia , 80); Diss. Phil. Univ. Basel.
  • Peter Felder: The art monuments of the canton of Aargau . Ed .: Society for Swiss Art History . Volume IV: Bremgarten district. Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel 1967, ISBN 3-906131-07-6 .
  • Dieter Kuhn: Hermetschwil-Staffeln - history and stories . Ed .: Residential and local community of Hermetschwil-Staffeln. Hermetschwil 2000.

Web links

Commons : Hermetschwil-Staffeln  - 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. 192-194 .
  3. ↑ a b Beat Zehnder, community names of the canton Aargau, pp. 405–406
  4. ^ National map of Switzerland, sheet 1090, Swisstopo
  5. ^ Community merger sealed: Bremgarten and Hermetschwil-Staffeln say yes. Aargauer Zeitung , March 11, 2012, accessed on March 11, 2012 .
  6. ↑ Fields: The Art Monuments of the Canton of Aargau, Volume IV: Bremgarten District. Pp. 225-267.
  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. 174 .
  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 May 15, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Swiss Federal Census 2000: Economic resident population by religious affiliation as well as by districts and municipalities. Statistical Office of the Canton of Aargau, archived from the original on November 5, 2012 ; Retrieved August 24, 2012 .
  10. ↑ Swiss Federal Census 2000: Economic resident population by main language as well as by districts and municipalities. Statistical Office of the Canton of Aargau, archived from the original on November 5, 2012 ; Retrieved August 24, 2012 .