Holderbank 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 in the name Holderbankf .
Holderbank
Holderbank coat of arms
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Kanton AargauKanton Aargau Aargau (AG)
District : Lenzburgw
BFS no. : 4199i1 f3 f4
Postal code : 5113
Coordinates : 654 938  /  253 652 coordinates: 47 ° 25 '53 "  N , 8 ° 10' 1"  O ; CH1903:  six hundred and fifty-four thousand nine hundred thirty-eight  /  two hundred fifty-three thousand six hundred fifty-two
Height : 365  m above sea level M.
Height range : 345–647 m above sea level M.
Area : 2.33  km²
Residents: 1377 (December 31, 2019)
Population density : 591 inhabitants per km²
Proportion of foreigners :
(residents without
citizenship ) 		33.2% (December 31, 2019)
Website: www.holderbank.ch
Holderbank

Holderbank
Location of the municipality
Hallwilersee Kanton Luzern Kanton Solothurn Bezirk Aarau Bezirk Baden Bezirk Bremgarten Bezirk Brugg Bezirk Kulm Bezirk Muri Bezirk Laufenburg Bezirk Zofingen Ammerswil Boniswil Brunegg Dintikon Egliswil Fahrwangen Hallwil Hendschiken Holderbank AG Hunzenschwil Lenzburg Meisterschwanden Möriken-Wildegg Niederlenz Othmarsingen Rupperswil Schafisheim Seengen Seon Staufen AGMap of Holderbank
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Holderbank ( Swiss German : ˈhoudərˌbɑŋkχ ) is a municipality in the Swiss canton of Aargau . It belongs to the Lenzburg district and is located on the Aare halfway between Lenzburg and Brugg .

geography

The elongated village is located in a narrow strip of land between the Aare and the steep western slope of the Chestenberg ( 647  m above sea level ), a foothill of the Chain Jura . The narrow rocky ridge begins at Wildegg Castle, right next to the southern municipal boundary, first runs about a kilometer in a north-northeast direction and then turns suddenly to the east. An extension of the Scherzberg connects to this ridge in the north. A short valley stretches between the two mountains and is characterized by numerous gravel pits and quarries .

The area of ​​the municipality is 233 hectares , of which 95 hectares are forested and 67 hectares are built over. The highest point is at 647 meters on the ridge of the Chestenberg, the deepest at 350 meters on the Aare. Neighboring communities are Brugg and Schinznach in the north, Lupfig in the east, Möriken-Wildegg in the south and Veltheim in the west.

history

Halderwang was first mentioned in a document in 1259. The place name is made up of the Old High German words holuntar (elder) and wang (slope). In the deed, Count Rudolf I von Habsburg (later the German king) and his cousin Count Gottfried von Habsburg-Laufenburg had a record of the fiefdoms of the Alsatian monastery of Murbach they owned. Shortly before his death in 1291, Rudolf I bought the Holderbank farm and numerous other estates from the monastery, including the city of Lucerne . The farm subsequently developed into a small village. The lower jurisdiction was in the hands of the respective residents of Wildegg Castle .

In 1415 the confederates conquered Aargau. Holderbank now belonged to the subject area of ​​the city of Bern , the so-called Berner Aargau . The village formed part of the judicial district of Möriken in the Lenzburg district , which was administered for more than three hundred years by the Effinger family , the Wildegger castle lords. In 1528 the Bernese introduced the Reformation . From the beginning of the 18th century, the village was viewed as a community that was detached from Möriken. In March 1798 the French took Switzerland, ousted the «Gracious Lords» of Bern and proclaimed the Helvetic Republic . Holderbank has been part of the canton of Aargau since then.

Aerial view (1964)

At the beginning of the 19th century, the residents of Holderbank were active in agriculture or worked in the textile factories in Wildegg and Niederlenz . A calico printing company was opened in 1835, but it ceased in the 1890s. The railway line between Aarau and Brugg , opened on May 15, 1858 by the Schweizerische Nordostbahn , ran directly past the village, but the community tried several times in vain to find a train station; the closest was in Wildegg. In 1897 a lime factory started operations. The Effingerhort , a rehabilitation house for alcohol addicts, has existed since 1911 .

The «Aargauische Portlandcementfabrik» (today LafargeHolcim ) , founded in 1912, contributed most to the economic upturn in the community . This later took the name of the local community, developed over the decades into the largest cement company in the world and made the name Holderbank known worldwide. During the heyday at the beginning of the 1960s, the main factory in Holderbank had 300 employees who produced 400,000 tons of cement and 25,000 tons of lime annually. The raw materials required for this were extracted directly on site or on the other side of the river in Veltheim and Auenstein .

In 1974 the ceramic factory founded in 1933 had to be closed. In 1975 the Holderbank Group announced the gradual relocation of cement production to Rekingen and Würenlingen . The community acquired the quarry area from the group, which still divides the village into two halves. From 1990 the site was filled with excavated material; a new village center is to be built here in the near future.

Attractions

The Holderbank church was first mentioned in 1275 and served as a burial place for the Effinger family , the Wildegger castle lords. The late Gothic font from around 1470 with the coat of arms of Hans Heinrich von Ballmoos, Mr. zu Wildegg and Wartenstein is important. In 1701/02, the Bern architect Samuel Jenner built a completely new building in the late Baroque style.

coat of arms

The blazon of the municipal coat of arms reads: "In red, green elderberry bush with five white flower umbels, surrounded by a white round bench." This is a so-called speaking coat of arms; this first appeared on the municipal seals of the 19th century. The latest research is based on a misinterpretation of the place name; the ending -bank does not stand for a bench, but for a slope.

population

The population developed as follows:

year 1764 1850 1900 1930 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010
Residents 155 281 303 550 622 722 774 813 812 804 904

On December 31, 2019, 1,377 people lived in Holderbank, the proportion of foreigners was 33.2%. In the 2015 census, 29.6% described themselves as Roman Catholic and 23.9% as Reformed ; 46.5% were non-denominational or of other faiths. In the 2000 census, 83.7% stated German as their main language, 5.0% each Italian and Serbo-Croatian and 1.4% each Albanian and English .

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 District Court of Lenzburg is the first instance responsible for legal disputes . Holderbank belongs to the Friedensrichterkreis XI (Lenzburg).

economy

According to the company structure statistics (STATENT) collected in 2015, Holderbank has around 760 jobs, of which 1% in agriculture, 13% in industry and 86% in the service sector. The largest employer is FIXIT AG, which produces plaster of paris , mortar and concrete . The LafargeHolcim Group (formerly Holderbank) has stopped producing cement at its place of origin and is only represented here by the company foundation and a general contractor for the construction of cement factories.

traffic

Holderbank is conveniently located on main road 5 from Aarau via Brugg to Waldshut , about five kilometers from the Aarau-West junction of the A1 motorway. Since 1999 the village has had a stop on the SBB railway line Olten –Aarau – Brugg, which replaced a bus line operated by Regionalbus Lenzburg .

education

The community has a kindergarten and a school house where primary school is taught. All upper levels of the compulsory elementary school ( junior high school , secondary school , district school ) can be attended in Möriken-Wildegg . The closest grammar schools are the Alte Kantonsschule and the Neue Kantonsschule , both in Aarau .

Personalities

literature

Web links

Commons : Holderbank AG  - 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. 73-74 .
  4. ^ National map of Switzerland, sheets 1089 and 1090, Swisstopo.
  5. ↑ Standard area statistics - municipalities according to 4 main areas. Federal Statistical Office , November 26, 2018, accessed on May 22, 2019 .
  6. ^ Michael Stettler, Emil Maurer: Die Kunstdenkmaeler des Kantons Aargau . Ed .: Society for Swiss Art History. Volume II: The districts of Lenzburg and Brugg. Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel 1953.
  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. 178 .
  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 22, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Resident population by religious affiliation, 2015. (Excel) In: Population and Households, Community Tables 2015. Statistics Aargau, accessed on May 22, 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 10, 2018 ; accessed on May 22, 2019 .
  11. ↑ circles of justice of the peace. Canton of Aargau, accessed on June 20, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Statistics of the corporate structure (STATENT). (Excel, 157 kB) Statistics Aargau, 2016, accessed on May 22, 2019 .