Hitzkirch

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Hitzkirch
Coat of arms of Hitzkirch
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Canton lucerneCanton lucerne Lucerne (LU)
Constituency : Hochdorf
BFS no. : 1030i1 f3 f4
Postal code : 6284 Gelfingen
6284 Sulz
6285 Hitzkirch
6285 Retschwil
6289 Hämikon
6289 Müswangen
6295 Mosen
Coordinates : 662376  /  230810 coordinates: 47 ° 13 '31 "  N , 8 ° 15' 44"  O ; CH1903:  662376  /  230810
Height : 498  m above sea level M.
Height range : 449–878 m above sea level M.
Area : 24.66  km²
Residents: 5316 (December 31, 2018)
Population density : 216 inhabitants per km²
Proportion of foreigners :
(residents without
citizenship ) 		14.7% (December 31, 2,015)
Website: www.hitzkirch.ch
Location of the municipality
Hallwilersee Baldeggersee Gütschweiher Sempachersee Steinibuelweier Rotsee Vierwaldstättersee Zugersee Kanton Aargau Kanton Schwyz Kanton Zug Kanton Zürich Wahlkreis Entlebuch Wahlkreis Luzern-Land Wahlkreis Luzern-Stadt Wahlkreis Sursee Aesch LU Altwis Ballwil Emmen LU Ermensee Eschenbach LU Hitzkirch Hitzkirch Hochdorf LU Hohenrain Inwil Rain LU Römerswil Rothenburg LU Schongau LUMap of Hitzkirch
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Hitzkirch (in the Lucerne German local dialect Hitzchilch, Hitzchiuch [hɪtsχɪʊ̯χ] , [hɪtsχʏʊχ] ) is a political municipality in the constituency of Hochdorf in the Swiss canton of Lucerne .

It is located in the Lucerne Seetal between Hallwilersee and Baldeggersee , around 20 km north (as the crow flies) of Lucerne , 25 km south-west of Zurich and 60 km south-east of Basel . Since the municipal merger in 2009 with Gelfingen , Hämikon , Mosen , Müswangen , Retschwil and Sulz , Hitzkirch is the third largest municipality in the Seetal in terms of population and the largest in terms of area.

Hitzkirch became known through the fruit processing company Hitzkirch, later Granador AG and the cantonal teachers' seminar. Heidegg Castle in Gelfingen , the Alte Schmitte and the megalithic tower in Richensee , the early Baroque parish church of Hitzkirch and the Teutonic Knights Coming with the Knight's Hall are considered cultural monuments . The heights of the Lindenberg in Hämikon , Müswangen and Sulz are popular as a vantage point, hiking and cross-country skiing area .

geography

In addition to the village, the hamlets Bleulikon (1 km north; 553  m above sea level ) and Richensee (1 km south-west; 470  m above sea level ), as well as some groups of houses and individual farms, also belonged to the earlier community . The northern border of the village is formed by the Gerbebach, the southern border by the Schliessbach . The Aabach flows west of Richensee . This brook leaves the Baldeggersee and flows after a short run at Mosen into the Hallwilersee.

The lowest point of today's municipality is in Mosen ( 450  m above sea level ), the highest on Lindenberg ( 878  m above sea level ) Mosen is an exclave and is separated from the Hitzkirch municipality by the municipalities of Altwis and Ermensee .

67.1% of the community area is used for agriculture. 8.8% is settlement area and 23.8% is covered with forest and wood.

Since the merger of Hitzkirchertal, Hitzkirch has bordered Aesch , Altwis , Beromünster , Ermensee , Hohenrain , Römerswil and Schongau in the canton of Lucerne and the communities of Beinwil (Freiamt) , Buttwil and Geltwil in the canton of Aargau .

Community merger

A first merger project with ten other municipalities ( Aesch , Altwis , Ermensee , Gelfingen , Hämikon , Mosen , Müswangen , Retschwil , Schongau , Sulz ) was rejected by the voters in a ballot on May 21, 2006, a follow-up project with 7 municipalities (Gelfingen, Hämikon, Hitzkirch, Mosen , Müswangen, Retschwil, Sulz ) adopted on November 25, 2007 and completed on January 1, 2009.

population

Population development
year Residents
1678 413
1798 632
1850 766
1860 686
1870 779
1880 743
1888 720
1900 738
1910 819
1920 782
1930 857
1941 919
1950 1,000
1960 1,173
1970 1,468
1980 1,648
1990 2,044
2000 2,293
2002 2,213
2003 2,247
2004 2,219
2005 2,227

Before the merger, the community had around 2,200 inhabitants, and since then there have been over 5,000.

Origin - nationality

At the end of 2014, of the 5,069 inhabitants, 4,319 were Swiss and 750 (= 14.8%) were foreigners. The population consisted of 85.2% Swiss citizens. At the end of 2014, the foreign residents came from Germany (20.7%), Serbia including Kosovo (19.5%), Italy (6.5%), Turkey (3.3%), Portugal (2.8%) and Spain (1.3%). 30.1% came from the rest of Europe and 15.7 % came from outside Europe.

history

Church in Hitzkirch

The oldest finds date from the time between 8000 and 5000 BC. The remains of a Roman manor and Alemanni graves from the 7th / 8th centuries were found under the church of Hitzkirch. Century found. A first church is mentioned in 1084. The place is mentioned under the name de Hiltis-chilche 1230 in the marriage certificate of Count Hartmann the Elder of Kyburg for the first time under the current name. The meaning of the place name is "Church of Hilti".

The Kyburgs ruled from 1173 to 1263. After they died out, the Habsburgs took over . They finally had to surrender them in 1415, the area was conquered by the city of Lucerne . Until then, Hitzkirch had belonged to the Habsburg office of Richensee. As early as 1425, the people of Lucerne had to give up their supremacy and the place came under the Free Offices of Aargau until 1798 .

Under the leadership of the Teutonic Order-Kommende Hitzkirch , founded in 1237, the Hitzkirchertal converted to the new, reformed faith in 1528 , but was forcibly re-Catholicized again in 1532. Since then, the people of Hitzkirch have also been called Wagglitalers. In 1653 the community took an active part in the Great Peasants' War . The Hitzkirchertal is divided into “Harte” and “Linde”. In 1665 the village burned down and one person died. Today an inscription on the village fountain commemorates this event.

In 1798 the place became part of the newly founded canton of Baden , but in 1803 it was again allocated to the canton of Lucerne in exchange with Merenschwand . In 1806 the Teutonic Knights Coming were repealed (today the coat of arms of Hitzkirch is still reminiscent of the Teutonic Knights: it combines the Lucerne coat of arms with the black cross of the Teutonic Knights) and a few decades later the teachers' seminar was housed in the rooms of the Coming Coming.

In 1832 the secondary school was opened in Hitzkirch. The old cemetery by the church became too small for the steadily growing population of Hitzkirch, so it was moved to its new location in 1837.

The cantonal teacher training college started operations in 1868. In 1883 the community was opened up by the Seetalbahn, which had been planned since 1868.

The community was incorporated into the newly created Hochdorf Office . In 1897, the previously independent town of Richensee merged with the municipality of Hitzkirch. Electric light was introduced in the village in 1906.

Aerial photograph by Walter Mittelholzer (1923)

The civil defense training center was built in Richensee in 1972 and was used until the end of 2005.

The economic boom of the 1970s led to a strong expansion of the residential area. The first apartment blocks were built along the road to Richensee and on the slopes of the Lindenberg above the village, mainly single-family houses. At around the same time, the five-storey residential and commercial building “Zentrum” with a wholesaler branch, clothing store and doctor's office was built on the western edge of the village. Until the end of the 1980s, most of the shops were on Luzernerstrasse and Aargauerstrasse as well as below the village church, but the center of the village shifted in the 1990s after the construction of the Kreuzmatt retirement and nursing home and other residential and commercial buildings with a community office, village café, Post office, police station and other shops and businesses in the vicinity of the center .

In 2003, the canton of Lucerne celebrated its 200 years as the youngest municipality and therefore a memorial stone was erected on Hiltiplatz. In 2007, the Hitzkirch Intercantonal Police School (IPH) was opened in the former seminar .

politics

Municipal council

The following five people are elected for the 2016-2020 legislative period:

  • David Affentranger ( CVP ): Mayor
  • Rebekka Renz (CVP): Construction, Environment, Economy
  • Daniel Eugster ( SP ): Finance and Taxes
  • Luzia Ineichen (CVP): Education, culture and sport
  • Hugo Beck ( FDP ): Health and Social Affairs

and Benno Felder (CVP) as community clerk .

Cantonal elections

In the 2015 cantonal elections in the canton of Lucerne, the share of the vote in Hitzkirch was: CVP 30.4%, SVP 28.9%, FDP 20.8%, SP 11.8%, GPS 4.8%, glp 2.8%.

National Council elections

In the Swiss parliamentary elections in 2015, the share of the vote in Hitzkirch was: SVP 32.9%, CVP 29.4%, FDP 15.3%, SP 10.0%, GPS 5.6%, glp 4.3%, BDP 1, 4%.

economy

In the early modern period , the residents of Hitzkirch were primarily active in agriculture, viticulture and small businesses. Painters, shopkeepers, glaziers, watchmakers, shoemakers, tanners and saddlers can be found in the 16th and 17th centuries. When the traffic routes in the direction of Bern and Zurich as well as Lucerne and Lenzburg gained in importance in the 18th century, a trader also set up shop. Carl Anton Corragioni built the baroque house below the village church in 1761.

After the Seetalbahn and the Richensee train station opened in 1883, the fruit processing cooperative founded in 1902 built its first operational building east of the train station. The cider factory expanded considerably in the course of the 20th century. It took over some beverage manufacturers and merged with others. This is how Granador AG came into being in 1987 and Unidrink in 2005. In 2008 the company was renamed Ramseier Suisse AG and the headquarters relocated to Oberkirch . The former Granador building has been empty since then. Various solutions are up for discussion: from sale to further commercial use.

After the unsuccessful establishment of a shoe factory in the 1960s, various industrial companies mainly settled at two locations in the 1970s: a ventilation and air conditioning manufacturer and a car dealer built a ventilation and air conditioning unit west of the Seetalbahn, while the administration and production buildings of were built in the field on the road to Ermensee Manometer AG (manufacturing of measuring devices), and a factory for the manufacture and processing of hard metals. By the end of the century, these expanded considerably and further operational and administrative buildings were built, mainly for local businesses.

traffic

Hitzkirch is well connected to the public transport network. It has its own stop on the Lucerne – Lenzburg railway line (also known as the Seetalbahn ). The community is also the starting point for the Hitzkirch – Schongau and Hitzkirch – Müswangen bus routes.

The village and the district of Richensee are on the main road from Lucerne to Lenzburg, the hamlet of Bleulikon off the main traffic routes. The closest motorway connections are Sursee (A2) and Inwil (A1) and Emmen-Nord (A2).

Attractions

On the day of the ascent there is the tradition of a ride around.

photos

  • View of Hitzkirch

  • railway station

  • Parish Church and Elizabeth Chapel

  • Kremer House

  • Trottenmatt school building

  • Sports hall Aargauerstrasse

  • Memorial stone JG Krauer

  • Old school house

  • Inner courtyard of the coming

  • Skate park

Personalities

Born in Hitzkirch

With reference to Hitzkirch

  • Johann Caspar Bagnato (1696–1757), Baroque builder, created the Teutonic Knights Coming Hitzkirch
  • Johann Baptist von Eptingen (1714–1783), headed the German Order Coming Hitzkirch
  • Jakob Xaver Müller (1869–1933), politician, member of the Swiss National Council, attended the teachers' seminar in Hitzkirch
  • Ludwig Fischer (1877–1962), teacher and dialectology, attended the teachers' seminar in Hitzkirch
  • Alfred Bögli (1912–1998), geographer, mineralogist and cave researcher, worked at the Hitzkirch teacher training college, died in Hitzkirch
  • Joseph Röösli-Fähndrich (1935–2018), composer, church musician and music teacher, attended the teachers' seminar in Hitzkirch
  • Thomas Bucheli (* 1961), meteorologist and television presenter, grew up in Hitzkirch
  • Damian Müller (* 1984), politician, lives in Hitzkirch
  • Stefan Knežević (* 1996), soccer player, started playing soccer at FC Hitzkirch

literature

Web links

Commons : Hitzkirch  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Permanent and non-permanent resident population by year, canton, district, municipality, population type and gender (permanent resident population). In: bfs. admin.ch . Federal Statistical Office (FSO), August 31, 2019, accessed on December 22, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Permanent resident population according to nationality category, gender and municipality ( memento of the original from January 1, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Permanent resident population)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bfs.admin.ch
  3. ^ Linguistic Atlas of German-speaking Switzerland , Volume V 1b
  4. ↑ a b Lexicon of Swiss municipality names, p. 447.
  5. ↑ Height information according to the map of the geoportal canton Lucerne .
  6. ↑ Balance of the permanent resident population according to demographic components, institutional structure, nationality and gender (Federal Statistical Office, STAT-TAB)
  7. ↑ LUSTAT: Community profile Hitzkirch ( Memento of the original from June 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lustat.ch
  8. ^ Hitzkirch Online. In: hitzkirch.ch. Retrieved February 1, 2018 .
  9. ↑ CVP nominates successor candidate for the parish council. In: Lucerne newspaper . Retrieved February 1, 2018 .
  10. ↑ LUSTAT: Community profile Hitzkirch ( Memento of the original from May 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lustat.ch
  11. ↑ National Council elections 2015: strength of the parties and voter turnout by municipality. In: Results of the National Council elections 2015. Federal Statistical Office, 2016, accessed on June 1, 2016 .
  12. ↑ Othmar Wey and Waltraud Hörsch: Hitzkirch (community). In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . Section Medieval and modern times.
  13. ↑ Driveway ride