Industrial culture on the Aabach

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Signet of the industrial culture path on the Aabach on an information board

Industrial culture on the Aabach is the name of a route to objects of industrial culture along the lower reaches of the Aabach in the Swiss canton of Aargau and at the same time the name of the association that oversees this historical mediation project.

history

In the old industrial landscape of the Seon - Lenzburg - Wildegg region , which arose on the Aabach, the structural change became more and more noticeable from the second half of the 20th century. For this reason, some people from the region interested in economic history founded the Industriekultur am Aabach Association in 2002 with the aim of better representing industrial history in public and documenting the still existing technical-historical facilities in the Aabach Valley and, if possible, as historical monuments of technology and the economy.

Together with private companies, the municipalities on the Aabach, the cantonal preservation of monuments and the Association of Aargau Museums and Collections VAMUS, the Industriekultur am Aabach Association has since been investigating company histories , securing information about the various technology applications in the area from the Seetal to the Aare and organizing a tour equipped with information signs from Hallwilersee to Wildegg train station.

geography

The technology sites developed through the industrial route are in the communities of Seengen , Seon , Lenzburg , Niederlenz and Möriken-Wildegg . Most of the commercial facilities and factories were built because of the hydropower available on the Aabach . The small river has a gradient of 100 meters on the approx. 19 kilometer stretch from the Hallwilersee and from the regulating weir at Hallwyl Castle to the confluence with the Aare. With the runoff from a considerable catchment area, it has enabled the construction of numerous hydropower plants since the Middle Ages and the construction of factories with mechanically driven machines since the 18th century . After the introduction of water turbines and later electrical energy , most of the waterworks on the Aabach were modernized. Some of them continue to drive small power plants to this day and even after several production plants have been shut down.

In addition to the facilities that are dependent on water power, the Aabach Valley also has technical monuments from the history of transport , especially railway structures from the 19th and 20th centuries, and important socio-historical monuments of the residential culture associated with industrial history.

route

object local community Time of origin description image
Hallwyl Castle Mill Seengen middle Ages Formerly the Zwingmühle of Seengen and the surrounding area Seengen Castle Mill 2012-09-28 02.jpg
Upper Mill Seon Seon Grain mill until 1942, tobacco pounder Seon Upper Mill kk.jpg
spinning Seon 19th century Textile factory, later cigar factory
Mill in the lower village Seon middle Ages KGS Seon-lower-Muehle- (26) .JPG
Sawmill Seon 19th century
Machine factory Seon Seon Maschinenfabrik Werkstätte.jpg
Colored weaving mill Müller Seon 1836 Textile factory (until 1996) Seon Business Park Oholten 2016.jpg
Sigismühle Seon middle Ages Flour mill, 19th century paper mill Sigismühle Kraftwerk Unterwasserkanal.jpg
Lenzburg oxygen works Lenzburg 1911 Messer Schweiz AG since 2003
Textile factory Lenzburg 1857 Cardboard factory since 1901, demolished in 2014
Hämmerli weapons factory Lenzburg 1848 1973 to SIG , 2001 production in Lenzburg shut down Lenzburg former arms factory Hämmerli am Aabach.jpg
Hemp grater Lenzburg 18th century Textile factory, later a pasta factory Lenzburg Textile and Pasta Factory Aabachkanal.jpg
Upper mill Lenzburg 17th century Flour mill Lenzburg ObereMuehle.jpg
Miller's house Lenzburg Around 1780 House of the entrepreneur Gottlieb Hünerwadel 201105 Müllerhaus 001.JPG
Bleach Lenzburg Commercial area Lenzburg Bleiche-Areal Aabach.jpg
Medium mill Lenzburg middle Ages Flour mill Lenzburg Middle Mill 2016.jpg
City train station Lenzburg 1883 Seetalbahn , canceled in 2004
Rail tunnel Lenzburg 1870 Former underpass of the Seetalbahn under the SBB dam Lenzburg-former-railway-tunnel.jpg
Canning Factory Hero Lenzburg Since 1886 Former industrial area with new buildings Lenzburg Transformation Hero-Areal 2016.jpg
Lower mill Lenzburg Until 1914 Sawmill, successor: Wisa-Gloria 2015-07-01 Sägestrasse45WisaGloriaHauptgebäude.JPG
Wisa-Gloria Lenzburg 1914 Lenzburg Wisa-Gloria Sägeareal 2016.jpg
Wisa-Gloria steam engine Lenzburg 1903 Sulzer steam engine
Mechanical workshop / nail factory Lenzburg 19th century Metal processing Lenzburg factory building at Autobahnbrücke.jpg
Workers' houses Lenzburg 20th century Next to the A1 motorway bridge Niederlenz workers' houses Autobahn.jpg
Swiss linen industry / Hetex yarn Niederlenz 18th century India printing, 1810 spinning and weaving, later synthetic fiber weaving Niederlenz Hetex condition 2016.jpg
Mill Niederlenz middle Ages Grain mill, later with tobacco pounder and plaster mill Niederlenz inscription former mill.jpg
Ribbon weaving Niederlenz 1839 Textile factory Niederlenz ribbon weaving mill on the Aabach.jpg
Horn canal Niederlenz, Möriken-Wildegg 19th century Irrigation and factory canal Aabach sewer inlet Niederlenz.jpg
Manufactory Laué Möriken-Wildegg 1775 India manufactory, 1920 copper wire insulation factory, 1969 to the cable works Brugg Wildegg Manufaktur Laué.jpg
Laué house Möriken-Wildegg Factory owner's villa Wildegg house Laué O.jpg
Hellmühle Möriken-Wildegg 16th century, 1690 Flour mill Wildegg Hellmühle 2016.jpg
Wildegg train station Möriken-Wildegg 1858 Station of the Northeastern Railway Wildegg station tracks towards NO.jpg
Jura cement factory Möriken-Wildegg 1890 Jura cement factories Wildegg cement factory jc.jpg
Wildegg signal box Möriken-Wildegg 1995 Mechanical lever interlocking of the SBB Wildegg railway signal box from SW 2016.jpg

See also

literature

  • Kurt Badetscher: Mills on the Aabach. In: Lenzburger Neujahrsblätter 68, 1997, pp. 24–66.
  • Alice Gehrig: The hammer forge in Seengen. In: Heimatkunde aus dem Seetal 81, 2008, pp. 23–36.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Purpose of the association
  2. ^ Website of the Lower Seon Mill
  3. The Wildegg signal box is maintained by the Altes Stellwerk Wildegg association.