Möriken-Wildegg

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Möriken-Wildegg
Coat of arms of Möriken-Wildegg
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Kanton AargauKanton Aargau Aargau (AG)
District : Lenzburgw
BFS no. : 4203i1 f3 f4
Postal code : 5103
Coordinates : 656095  /  251 895 coordinates: 47 ° 24 '56 "  N , 8 ° 10' 55"  O ; CH1903:  656095  /  two hundred and fifty-one thousand eight hundred ninety-five
Height : 383  m above sea level M.
Height range : 347–647 m above sea level M.
Area : 6.61  km²
Residents: 4502 (December 31, 2019)
Population density : 681 inhabitants per km²
Proportion of foreigners :
(residents without
citizenship ) 		21.2% (December 31, 2019)
Website: www.moeriken-wildegg.ch
The estate of Wildegg Castle, Möriken in the background

The estate of Wildegg Castle, Möriken in the background
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Möriken-Wildegg (officially called Möriken until 1951 ; Swiss German : ˈmørkχə ˌʋɪldˈɛk ) is a municipality in the Swiss canton of Aargau . It belongs to the Lenzburg district and is located in the center of the canton at the confluence of the Aabach and the Aare .

geography

The community consists of the two districts Wildegg ( 359  m above sea level ) and Möriken ( 387  m above sea level ), which are a little more than a kilometer apart. While Wildegg is located at the confluence of the Aabach and the Aare , Möriken is a little further up in the Bünztal on a gravel terrace at the foot of the Chestenberg , which is up to 647 meters high , a foothill of the Chain Jura . The terrain rises steeply above the plain on which the village of Möriken is located up to a narrow ridge running in an east-west direction. The foothills of the ridge extend to the southwest to Wildegg Castle and to the east to Brunegg Castle .

The Bünz flows in a small depression below Möriken to the northwest, although this section of the river is one of the few that has not been straightened. During a major flood in May 1999, the Bünz washed away around four hectares of cultivated land, and within a few hours a floodplain with gravel and gravel surfaces, steep banks and islands was created. The canton, municipalities and landowners then decided to keep the new floodplain area. In the center of Wildegg the Bünz flows into the Aabach coming from Lenzburg , which crosses under the railway line from Brugg to Aarau and then flows into the Aare from the right. Here the Aare changes its direction of flow from east to north.

The area of ​​the municipality is 661 hectares , of which 234 hectares are forested and 172 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 Veltheim and Holderbank in the northwest, Lupfig and Birr in the north, Brunegg in the northeast, Othmarsingen in the southeast, Lenzburg and Niederlenz in the south, Rupperswil in the southwest and Auenstein in the west.

history

View of Wildegg, on the right the Laué India factory (1800)
Aerial view of Möriken (1962)

In the late Bronze Age there was a small village settlement on the ridge of the Chestenberg. Log buildings and traces of a bronze foundry workshop are proven. In 2004, a team from Cantonal Archeology in Aargau excavated a Roman manor on Römerweg.

The village of Möriken goes back to an Alemannic foundation. In 1292 it was first mentioned as Mörinkon . An indirect reference to the locality contains a document from 1283, which Ulricus de Moerinchon lists as a witness. The place name was Moringhofun in Old High German , which means "at the courts of the Mor clan". Towards the end of the 12th century the counts of leaving Habsburg on the rocky ridge above the bottleneck on the right side of the Aare the Burg Wildegg establish the exact date of construction is unknown. The name Wildecken was first handed down in 1242, goes back to the Old High German "(ze demo) wildun ekko" and means "on the sloping mountain slope".

Ecclesiastically, Möriken was part of the Staufberg parish on the hill of the same name . In 1415 the confederates conquered Aargau. Möriken now belonged to the subject area of ​​the city of Bern , the so-called Berner Aargau . In 1528 the Bernese introduced the Reformation . Although the village formed its own judicial district in the Lenzburg district as early as the 15th century , it always remained economically dependent on the Wildegger castle lords. These owned most of the forest, a domain with over 100 hectares of farmland, vineyards on the mountainside and a mill at the valley exit. The village of Wildegg later developed around this mill. From 1483 , the Effinger family from Brugg ruled the Wildegg for eleven generations .

In March 1798 the French took Switzerland, ended the Ancien Régime in the Confederation and established the Helvetic Republic . Möriken-Wildegg has been part of the canton of Aargau since then. Wildegg developed into an important scene of the industrial revolution in Switzerland in the 18th and 19th centuries . Especially the company Laué & Cie. drove the development forward when it began to print in color on cotton cloths ( indienne ). In 1848, hat-making began in Wildegg. On May 15, 1858, the municipality was connected to the Swiss railway network when the Brugg - Aarau line was opened with a train station in Wildegg.

In 1889 a cement factory was built ; Quarries in the nearby Jura hills and the Aare provided the necessary raw materials ( limestone , clay marl , water ). On October 1, 1895, the Seetalbahn from Lenzburg reached Wildegg station (closed on June 2, 1984 and replaced by a bus service). In the 20th century, other industries settled, including a copper wire insulation plant and a durum wheat mill . Historically valuable parts of the old factories are under monument protection . Several stations on the industrial culture trail on the Aabach are reminiscent of the technical history of Wildegg . In contrast to Wildegg, Möriken retained its rural character for a long time. The district has developed into a preferred residential area in recent decades.

Attractions

Wildegg Castle before the renovation in 2011
Parish Church of St. Antonius

The Wildegg Castle , located on a rocky foothills of the Chestenberg, essentially consists of a well-preserved castle from the 12th century with a keep and palas . In the 17th century the castle was enlarged and converted into a baroque residential palace. Castle owner Julie von Effinger died in 1912 without any descendants. She bequeathed the castle with all its furnishings and the associated domain to the Swiss Confederation, which handed the entire estate over to the Swiss National Museum for management. The castle domain has belonged to a foundation set up by the Canton of Aargau since 2011 and is managed by the Museum Aargau .

The parish church consecrated to Saint Anthony , probably built around 1200, on an elevated land spur near the Bünz was first mentioned in 1428, demolished in 1949 and replaced by a larger new building at the same place (today's Reformed Church Möriken ). In 1966/69 the architect Justus Dahinden built the new Catholic Antonius Church on the left-hand side of Bünzufer in Wildegg .

The villa district in Wildegg emerged at the beginning of the industrialization era, when the factory owners had representative residential buildings built in the classical and neo-Gothic style. These include the Dolder house (built in 1785 for Johann Rudolf Dolder ), the Lauégut (1790), the Amslergut (1800) and the Isler house (1825). Opposite the Gasthof Bären there is a small spa garden, which was inaugurated in 1977. The center of the system is the 117 meter deep, accessible iodine well, which was drilled in 1832. Up until the early 1960s, 40 to 60 liters of iodine water were bottled here every day and sold as health-promoting natural water. The chimney of the Wildegg cement works is 125 meters high and is one of the highest in Switzerland.

coat of arms

The blazon of the municipal coat of arms reads: "In yellow Mohrenkopf with red lips and earrings over a floating red six mountain." The Mohr , a popular interpretation of the name Möriken, first appeared on a boundary stone in 1592. As Wildegg became more and more important, the desire arose to include this place in the coat of arms. This happened in June 2002 when the Effinger family's red Sechsberg was inserted as a Wildegg symbol.

population

The population developed as follows:

year 1764 1850 1900 1930 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010
Residents 426 821 1161 1750 2134 2399 2867 2858 3406 3413 4012

On December 31, 2019, 4502 people lived in Möriken-Wildegg, the proportion of foreigners was 21.2%. In the 2015 census, 39.6% described themselves as Reformed and 24.6% as Roman Catholic ; 35.8% were non-denominational or of other faiths. In the 2000 census, 90.6% stated German as their main language, 2.8% Italian , 1.7% Serbo-Croatian , 0.8% Turkish , 0.7% Albanian and 0.6% 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 District Court of Lenzburg is the first instance responsible for legal disputes . Möriken-Wildegg belongs to the Friedensrichterkreis XI (Lenzburg).

economy

According to the company structure statistics (STATENT) collected in 2015, Möriken-Wildegg has around 1,600 jobs, 2% of them in agriculture, 30% in industry and 68% in the service sector. Economic activities and industry are concentrated in the Wildegg district. The most important companies are the copper wire insulation works founded in 1920, the durum wheat mill of Migros and the Jura-Cement works . The district of Möriken is primarily a residential area, but also has several service companies. Most of the employed are commuters and work in the local area, for example in Lenzburg , Brugg and Aarau .

traffic

Wildegg is located at the intersection of Hauptstrasse 5 between Aarau and Brugg and Hauptstrasse 26 through the Seetal . The motorway-like expressway T5 leads to the Aarau-West junction of the A1 motorway at Hunzenschwil and on to Aarau. There are further motorway connections at Mägenwil and Lenzburg . Wildegg station is on the main railway line Olten –Aarau – Brugg– Zurich . Two bus routes operated by Regionalbus Lenzburg operate between the Wildegg and Lenzburg train stations . Another bus line runs from Lenzburg via Möriken to Brunegg . On weekends there is a night bus from Lenzburg via Möriken and Mägenwil to Othmarsingen .

education

The municipality has four kindergartens and two school centers in which all levels of compulsory elementary school are taught ( primary school , secondary school , secondary school , district school ). The closest grammar schools are the Old Canton School and the New Canton School , both in Aarau .

Culture

The operetta tradition is known far beyond the municipality's borders . There have been theater performances since 1891 and music theater since 1925. The construction of a new community hall in 1959 offered professional framework conditions and laid the foundation for the sustainable success that continues to this day. There are 30 performances each season with a total of 20,000 visitors. The maintenance of a little-known repertoire has proven to be a special feature of the Möriken-Wildegg operetta. In 2001, for example, Jacques Offenbach's work The Daughter of the Tambour Major even had a Swiss premiere. One of the many associations is also the Möriken-Wildegg music society, which performs with an affiliated majorette group (one of the few in Switzerland).

Personalities

In Möriken-Wildegg were born:

Other people related to the municipality:

  • Yul Brynner (1920–1985), American actor; was a world-famous citizen of Möriken-Wildegg. His mother was Russian and his father was a Swiss consul in Russia and originally came from Möriken. Brynner visited his home parish for the first time in 1967 and made a generous donation for the community's own holiday home on Bettmeralp .
  • Ernst Brugger (1914–1998), Federal Councilor, was a citizen of Möriken-Wildegg
  • Paul Karrer (1889–1971) Swiss chemist and Nobel Prize winner, spent his youth in Wildegg
  • Jack Säuberli (* 1947), composer, citizen of Möriken-Wildegg, spent his childhood and adolescence in Möriken
  • Milena Moser (* 1963), writer
  • Ruth Ramstein (* 1950), winner of the Prix ​​Courage

literature

Web links

Commons : Möriken-Wildegg  - 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 National map of Switzerland, sheets 1089 and 1090, Swisstopo.
  4. ↑ Bünzaue Möriken. Construction, Transport and Environment Department of the Canton of Aargau, accessed on May 22, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Standard area statistics - municipalities according to 4 main areas. Federal Statistical Office , November 26, 2018, accessed on May 22, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Swiss archeology 29.2006.2
  7. ^ 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. 280-281 .
  8. ↑ Zehnder, Community names of the Canton of Aargau, pp. 464–465
  9. ↑ Christoph Reding, Felix Ackermann, Felix Müller: Wildegg Castle . In: Society for Swiss Art History (Ed.): Swiss Art Guides . tape 926 . Bern 2013, ISBN 978-3-03797-099-7 .
  10. ↑ Max Baumgartner ( inter alia): On the dedication of the St. Antonius Church Wildegg November 1, 1969. Baden 1969.
  11. ^ 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.
  12. ↑ The second highest chimney in Aargau is now topless. Aargauer Zeitung , September 28, 2017, accessed on May 22, 2019 .
  13. ^ 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. 218 .
  14. ↑ 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 .
  15. ↑ Resident population by religious affiliation, 2015. (Excel) In: Population and Households, Community Tables 2015. Statistics Aargau, accessed on May 22, 2019 .
  16. ↑ 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 .
  17. ↑ circles of justice of the peace. Canton of Aargau, accessed on June 20, 2019 .
  18. ↑ Statistics of the corporate structure (STATENT). (Excel, 157 kB) Statistics Aargau, 2016, accessed on May 22, 2019 .
  19. ↑ Möriken-Wildegg operetta
  20. ↑ a b Kian Ramezani: In 1957 the first «Aargauer» won an Oscar - and nobody knew that he was Swiss. Aargauer Zeitung , February 21, 2015, accessed on May 22, 2019 .