Lupfig

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Lupfig
Coat of arms of Lupfig
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Kanton AargauKanton Aargau Aargau (AG)
District : Brugg
BFS no. : 4104i1 f3 f4
Postal code : 5242 Lupfig
5246 Joke
Coordinates : 657 629  /  254802 coordinates: 47 ° 26 '29 "  N , 8 ° 12' 9"  O ; CH1903:  six hundred and fifty-seven thousand six hundred and twenty-nine  /  254802
Height : 395  m above sea level M.
Height range : 376–647 m above sea level M.
Area : 8.45  km²
Residents: 3141 (December 31, 2019)
Population density : 372 inhabitants per km²
Proportion of foreigners :
(residents without
citizenship ) 		18.8% (December 31, 2019)
Website: www.lupfig.ch
Lupfig

Lupfig
Location of the municipality
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Lupfig ( Swiss German : ˈlʊpfig ) is a municipality in the Swiss canton of Aargau . It belongs to the Brugg district and is four kilometers south of the district capital.

geography

The community is located on the western edge of the Birrfeld , an extensive plain between the Aare in the west and the Reuss in the east. The plain shows no significant elevation and is used intensively for agriculture. The eastern two-thirds of the elongated municipal area are completely flat, there is a regional airport. In the north, the 434 meter high Guggerhübel seals off the Birrfeld from the Hausener valley. In the far northeast, Lupfig has a small part of the 500 meter high Eiteberg. The western third lies on the sometimes steep northern slope of the Chestenberg , an up to 647 meter high foothills of the Folded Jura east of the Aare, which separates the Birrfeld from the Bünztal . Lupfig has grown together completely with Birr, the borders between these once separate villages can no longer be made out.

The area of ​​the municipality is 845 hectares , of which 234 hectares are forested and 200 hectares are built over. The highest point is at 647 meters on the ridge of the Chestenberg, the deepest at 386 meters on the plain. Neighboring communities are Hausen and Habsburg in the north, Mülligen in the east, Birrhard in the southeast, Birr and Möriken-Wildegg in the south, Holderbank in the southwest and Brugg in the west.

history

Aerial photo from 700 m by Walter Mittelholzer (1920)

The earliest traces of settlement are a water pipe leading to the Roman legion camp Vindonissa (see water pipes of Vindonissa ) and Alemannic graves. Lupfanch was first mentioned in a document in 1273, when Count Rudolf I von Habsburg temporarily left the village to the Wettingen monastery for usufruct in order to pay debts . The place name comes from the Middle High German (ze dem) lupfenden cheek and means "on the rising slope". In the Middle Ages, Lupfig belonged to the Eigenamt , the oldest possession of the Habsburgs , whose headquarters are only a few kilometers away on the Wülpelsberg. In 1397 they transferred the land and court rule to the Königsfelden monastery in Windisch .

After the conquest of Aargau by the Confederates in 1415, the city of Bern took over the rule and the self-office was now part of the subject areas in the Bernese Aargau . In 1528 the Bernese introduced the Reformation and dissolved the Königsfelden monastery. They converted their own office to the Landvogtei Königsfelden and then exercised all rights. In March 1798 the French took Switzerland, ousted the «Gracious Lords» of Bern and proclaimed the Helvetic Republic . Since then, Lupfig has belonged to the canton of Aargau.

From the middle of the 18th century, the farmers increased their income by working from home , first in cotton processing, then in the 19th century for the straw weaving industry . From 1880 to 1940 there was a stone grinding shop as a supplier for the watch industry. The connection to the railway network took place on June 1, 1882 with the opening of the Brugg - Hendschiken line of the Aargau Southern Railway . Until 1950 Lupfig remained an agricultural village with a stagnating population.

At the 1964 national exhibition in Lausanne , urban planners presented ambitious plans for a garden city “Birrfeld” with 15,000 inhabitants. The project corresponded to the belief in progress of the 1960s, but was never realized. Until around 1980, growth was concentrated in the neighboring municipality of Birr . Since then, large companies have also set up shop in Lupfig and the population has more than doubled since then. The Bözberg motorway , which opened in 1996, is particularly beneficial for this growth. The merger with the neighboring community of Scherz took place on January 1, 2018 .

Attractions

coat of arms

The blazon of the municipal coat of arms reads: "In blue three yellow ears." On the municipal seal of 1811, a coat of arms with sheaves of corn and ears of corn was used for the first time, which symbolize the fertile soils of the Birrfeld. In 1964 the sheaves were left out because they looked disproportionate.

population

The population developed as follows:

year 1764 1850 1900 1930 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010
Residents 363 736 582 605 637 693 893 954 1349 1819 2177

On December 31, 2019, 3,141 people lived in Lupfig, the proportion of foreigners was 18.8%. In the 2015 census, 34.0% described themselves as Reformed and 29.9% as Roman Catholic ; 36.1% were non-denominational or of other faiths. In the 2000 census, 89.4% stated German as their main language, 3.5% Italian , 1.3% Serbo-Croatian , 0.8% each of Albanian , English and Spanish and 0.7% French .

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 Brugg District Court is the first instance responsible for legal disputes . Lupfig belongs to the Friedensrichterkreis VIII (Brugg).

economy

According to the company structure statistics (STATENT) collected in 2015, Lupfig has around 2,150 jobs, of which 2% are in agriculture, 21% in industry and 77% in the service sector. Like the neighboring town of Birr, Lupfig is also heavily industrialized. The best-known companies are the car importer AMAG , the magnet manufacturer Arnold Magnetic Technologies and the large-scale bakery Hiestand .

traffic

Birrfeld Airfield

Kantonsstrasse 280 from Wohlen to Brugg runs east of the center through the industrial zone. From this the canton road 399 branches off to Schinznach-Bad . The A3 motorway crosses the plain to the north of the village, the motorway junction is about two kilometers northeast of the village. There is a train station in the industrial zone, where regional trains to Aarau , Muri and Baden stop. A post bus line connects Birr with Brugg train station . On weekends there is a night bus from Brugg via Birr to Mülligen or Habsburg .

Far to the east is the Birrfeld airfield ( ICAO identifier LSZF), one of the most important airfields for general aviation in Switzerland and the home airfield for various aviation groups . It has a 727 m long runway and a flying school.

education

The community has a kindergarten and a school center with primary school , secondary school and secondary school . The district school can be attended in Windisch . The closest grammar schools are the Baden Cantonal School and the Wettingen Cantonal School .

literature

Web links

Commons : Lupfig  - 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 1070 and 1090, Swisstopo.
  5. ↑ Standard area statistics - municipalities according to 4 main areas. Federal Statistical Office , November 26, 2018, accessed on June 11, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Lupfig and Scherz say yes: green light for first merger in self-employment . In: az Aargauer Zeitung . June 10, 2016 ( aargauerzeitung.ch [accessed October 18, 2017]).
  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. 205 .
  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 June 11, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Resident population by religious affiliation, 2015. (Excel) In: Population and Households, Community Tables 2015. Statistics Aargau, accessed on June 11, 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 June 11, 2019 .
  11. ↑ circles of justice of the peace. Canton of Aargau, accessed on June 18, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Statistics of the corporate structure (STATENT). (Excel, 157 kB) Statistics Aargau, 2016, accessed on June 11, 2019 .
  13. ^ Birrfeld airfield