Industrial culture on the Aabach
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 |
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Hallwyl Castle Mill | Seengen | middle Ages | Formerly the Zwingmühle of Seengen and the surrounding area | |
Upper Mill Seon | Seon | Grain mill until 1942, tobacco pounder | ||
spinning | Seon | 19th century | Textile factory, later cigar factory | |
Mill in the lower village | Seon | middle Ages | ||
Sawmill | Seon | 19th century | ||
Machine factory | Seon | |||
Colored weaving mill Müller | Seon | 1836 | Textile factory (until 1996) | |
Sigismühle | Seon | middle Ages | Flour mill, 19th century paper mill | |
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 | |
Hemp grater | Lenzburg | 18th century | Textile factory, later a pasta factory | |
Upper mill | Lenzburg | 17th century | Flour mill | |
Miller's house | Lenzburg | Around 1780 | House of the entrepreneur Gottlieb Hünerwadel | |
Bleach | Lenzburg | Commercial area | ||
Medium mill | Lenzburg | middle Ages | Flour mill | |
City train station | Lenzburg | 1883 | Seetalbahn , canceled in 2004 | |
Rail tunnel | Lenzburg | 1870 | Former underpass of the Seetalbahn under the SBB dam | |
Canning Factory Hero | Lenzburg | Since 1886 | Former industrial area with new buildings | |
Lower mill | Lenzburg | Until 1914 | Sawmill, successor: Wisa-Gloria | |
Wisa-Gloria | Lenzburg | 1914 | ||
Wisa-Gloria steam engine | Lenzburg | 1903 | Sulzer steam engine | |
Mechanical workshop / nail factory | Lenzburg | 19th century | Metal processing | |
Workers' houses | Lenzburg | 20th century | Next to the A1 motorway bridge | |
Swiss linen industry / Hetex yarn | Niederlenz | 18th century | India printing, 1810 spinning and weaving, later synthetic fiber weaving | |
Mill | Niederlenz | middle Ages | Grain mill, later with tobacco pounder and plaster mill | |
Ribbon weaving | Niederlenz | 1839 | Textile factory | |
Horn canal | Niederlenz, Möriken-Wildegg | 19th century | Irrigation and factory canal | |
Manufactory Laué | Möriken-Wildegg | 1775 | India manufactory, 1920 copper wire insulation factory, 1969 to the cable works Brugg | |
Laué house | Möriken-Wildegg | Factory owner's villa | ||
Hellmühle | Möriken-Wildegg | 16th century, 1690 | Flour mill | |
Wildegg train station | Möriken-Wildegg | 1858 | Station of the Northeastern Railway | |
Jura cement factory | Möriken-Wildegg | 1890 | Jura cement factories | |
Wildegg signal box | Möriken-Wildegg | 1995 | Mechanical lever interlocking of the SBB |
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
- ↑ Purpose of the association
- ^ Website of the Lower Seon Mill
- ↑ The Wildegg signal box is maintained by the Altes Stellwerk Wildegg association.