Münchwilen AG

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Münchwilen
Münchwilen coat of arms
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Kanton AargauKanton Aargau Aargau (AG)
District : Laufenburgw
BFS no. : 4172i1 f3 f4
Postal code : 4333
Coordinates : 639395  /  265 291 coordinates: 47 ° 32 '14 "  N , 7 ° 57' 43"  O ; CH1903:  639395  /  two hundred sixty-five thousand two hundred and ninety-one
Height : 343  m above sea level M.
Height range : 289–504 m above sea level M.
Area : 2.46  km²
Residents: 951 (December 31, 2019)
Population density : 387 inhabitants per km²
Proportion of foreigners :
(residents without
citizenship ) 		28.4% (December 31, 2019)
Website: www.muenchwilen-ag.ch
Münchwilen AG

Münchwilen AG

Location of the municipality
Deutschland Kanton Basel-Landschaft Kanton Solothurn Bezirk Aarau Bezirk Baden Bezirk Brugg Bezirk Lenzburg Bezirk Rheinfelden Bezirk Zurzach Eiken Frick AG Gansingen Gipf-Oberfrick Herznach Hornussen AG Kaisten AG Laufenburg AG Mettauertal Münchwilen AG Oberhof AG Oeschgen Schwaderloch Sisseln Ueken Wittnau AG Wölflinswil ZeihenMap of Münchwilen
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Münchwilen ( Swiss German : ˌmʏnχˈʋilə ) is a municipality in the Swiss canton of Aargau . It belongs to the Laufenburg district and is located in the center of the Fricktal region , near the border with Germany .

geography

The village is located a little more than a kilometer southeast of the Rhine on a raised terrace. Immediately south of the village center, the Joshalde and the Holengraben rise steeply into the air. Both hills are separated from each other by a deeply cut, south-running side valley with a length of one kilometer. At the end of the valley, the two hills unite the broad plateau of the Tafeljura belonging Eicker mountain. North of the village center, spatially separated by the main road, two railway lines and the motorway, the community has a share of the flat Sisslerfeld; there is a large industrial zone.

The area of ​​the municipality is 246 hectares , of which 75 hectares are forested and 83 hectares are built over. The highest point is 504  m above sea level. M. on the plateau of the Eickerberg, the deepest at 300  m above sea level. M. in Sisslerfeld. Neighboring communities are Sisseln in the north, Eiken in the east, Schupfart in the south, Obermumpf in the southwest and Stein in the west.

history

Aerial photo of Stein (left) and Münchwilen (right) from 3000 m by Walter Mittelholzer (1922)

Individual finds, such as the ruins of a building complex discovered in 1963, suggest that the area around today's village was already settled by the Romans . The complex had an inner courtyard and bathing facilities, possibly a rest stop ( mansio ) on the road between Vindonissa and Augusta Raurica .

Munchwille was first mentioned in a document in 1306 in the Habsburg land register . About 200 years earlier, a hermitage is said to have been built around today's Ursula's chapel by monks from the nearby Säckingen monastery . This is reflected in the meaning of the village name, which is Munihwilari in Old High German ("Hofsiedlung der Mönche"). The Habsburgs pledged after Waldshuterstrasse War of 1468, the entire Fricktal of Burgundy . When the Burgundians were defeated by the Confederates during the Burgundian Wars , Münchwilen came under Austrian rule again in 1477.

After the imperial reform of the Austrian Emperor Maximilian I in 1491, Münchwilen belonged to Upper Austria and was located in the Fricktal region, a subordinate administrative unit of the Rheinfelden cameramen (from 1752 in the Upper Office of Breisgau ). In the 17th century there were hardly any longer times of peace. The Rappenkrieg , a peasant uprising, lasted from 1612 to 1614. The Thirty Years War , which also affected the Fricktal between 1633 and 1638, threw the village back in its economic development. Foreign troops also moved through the region during the War of the Palatinate Succession (1688–1697).

In 1797 the Fricktal became a French protectorate after the Peace of Campo Formio . During the Second Coalition War , the front line between the armies of France and Austria ran here . On February 20, 1802, Münchwilen became a municipality in the Frick district of the Fricktal canton , which joined the Helvetic Republic in August . Sebastian Fahrländer , a doctor from Ettenheim , was granted citizenship of Münchwilen in 1798 and appointed himself governor of this short-lived canton. The municipality has belonged to the canton of Aargau since February 19, 1803.

The Bözberg Railway was opened on August 2, 1875, and the railway line to Koblenz , which was opened on August 1, 1892, branches off immediately north of the village center. But the train station is in the neighboring municipality of Stein , and so Münchwilen remained an agricultural village until the middle of the 20th century. Due to the settlement of industrial companies in Sisslerfeld, the population doubled between 1950 and 1980, but has remained stable since then.

coat of arms

The blazon of the municipal coat of arms reads: «Monk striding in blue with hat, habit with hood, belt and sandals (all brown), holding a white pilgrim's staff turned outwards in his right hand; Face, hands and feet are white. " When the church in Eiken was rebuilt in 1873, a pane of glass with the Münchwilens coat of arms was used, showing a monk with a black robe in white. Later, however, the monk appeared in an unfavorable color combination, since the brown violates the color rules of heraldry . The municipal meeting in 2002 rejected the cleanup proposed by the State Archives .

Attractions

Village fountain in Münchwilen
View towards Stein AG in the west

population

The population developed as follows:

year 1768 1850 1900 1930 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010
Residents 105 227 246 268 295 372 461 602 614 587 747

On December 31, 2019, 951 people lived in Münchwilen, the proportion of foreigners was 28.4%. In the 2015 census, 41.9% described themselves as Roman Catholic and 21.6% as Reformed ; 36.5% were non-denominational or of other faiths. 97.1% said German as their main language in the 2000 census .

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 Laufenburg is the first instance responsible for legal disputes . Münchwilen belongs to the Friedensrichterkreis X (Mettau).

Municipal council Official title
Bruno Tüscher Mayor
Sabrina Keller Vice-Captain
Roland Oeschger Municipal council
Fabian Bianchi Municipal council
Dieter Zimmermann Municipal council

economy

According to the corporate structure statistics (STATENT) collected in 2015, Münchwilen has around 460 jobs, of which 1% in agriculture, 75% in industry and 24% in the service sector. The extensive industrial zone with numerous SMEs is located in Sisslerfeld. Many of the employed people commute and work in the larger neighboring communities in Fricktal or in the agglomeration of the city of Basel .

traffic

Münchwilen is on Hauptstrasse 3 between Basel and Zurich , whereby the village center is not directly affected by through traffic. There is a junction for the A3 motorway at Eiken three kilometers away . The connection to the public transport network is provided by a post bus line between the Frick and Stein-Säckingen train stations .

education

The community has a kindergarten and a primary school . Both the district school and the secondary school and the Realschule can be attended in Frick . The closest grammar schools are in Aarau ( old canton school and new canton school ); Due to an intercantonal agreement, young people from parts of the Fricktal can also complete the grammar school in Muttenz ( Canton Basel-Landschaft ) or in Basel .

Web links

Commons : Münchwilen  - 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. 291-293 .
  4. ^ National map of Switzerland, sheet 1069, Swisstopo.
  5. ↑ Standard area statistics - municipalities according to 4 main areas. Federal Statistical Office , November 26, 2018, accessed on May 11, 2019 .
  6. ^ Martin Hartmann, Hans Weber: The Romans in Aargau . Verlag Sauerländer, Aarau 1985, ISBN 3-7941-2539-8 , p. 186-187 .
  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. 223 .
  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 8, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Resident population by religious affiliation, 2015. (Excel) In: Population and Households, Community Tables 2015. Statistics Aargau, accessed on May 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 May 8, 2019 .
  11. ↑ circles of justice of the peace. Canton of Aargau, accessed on June 19, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Statistics of the corporate structure (STATENT). (Excel, 157 kB) Statistics Aargau, 2016, accessed on May 8, 2019 .