Mutschellen

Mutschellen
	Bremgarten-Dietikon-Bahn on the way up on the west side
Pass height	551 m above sea level M.
expansion	Street
	profile
	Map (Aargau)
Coordinates	670.16 thousand / 246155 coordinates: 47 ° 21 '45 " N , 8 ° 22' 3" O ; CH1903: six hundred and seventy thousand one hundred and sixty / 246155

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The Mutschellen (also outdated Mutschällen ) is a Swiss passport in the Bremgarten district of the canton of Aargau near the border with the canton of Zurich .

Location and origin

It connects the Reuss valley in the west with the Limmat valley in the east. The three communities Berikon , Rudolfstetten-Friedlisberg and Widen meet directly on the Mutschellen . The three villages have grown together so strongly on Mutschellen that only those who are familiar with the area can say exactly where the municipal boundaries run. One always speaks of the Mutschellen or on the Mutschellen . Never in Mutschellen , there is no village Mutschellen.

The Mutschellen is a glacier moraine that was formed during the Würm Ice Age . At this time the Reuss Glacier and the Linth Glacier advanced northward to the Rhine. The glaciers left deep furrows and, on their retreat, left behind long ranges of hills (north-south) and several lakes such as Lake Zurich and Lake Hallwil . The pressure of the two glaciers also created the Mutschellen with the Heitersberg, which is up to 800 meters high . The Egelsee lies in a hollow high above the Mutschellen .

During construction activities, you come across sometimes huge boulders from the Gotthard massif . A particularly beautiful specimen weighing around 100 tons is on the area of the Berikon primary school. This boulder was encountered in the 1990s when a new school building was being built.

Infrastructure

The area around the top of the pass and the entire west side of the pass are heavily built up. At the top of the pass there are several petrol stations and the Mutschellen restaurant of the same name. In addition to many small traders, numerous Swiss retailers and several banks are represented on Mutschellen. The station square was redesigned in 2007. A new building was built with various shops and a new post office .

traffic

The pass is around 11 km long and lies on the important main road number 1 Zurich - Bern , which also connects Dietikon with Bremgarten AG . It is a well-developed first-class road. The Mutschellen junction is a traffic junction at which the main road Zurich – Bern and the road Birmensdorf – Baden cross. The Mutschellen is made accessible by BDWM Transport AG with the Bremgarten-Dietikon-Bahn (BD) and with buses from PostBus Schweiz . The train station directly at the top of the pass has always been called Berikon-Widen and not Mutschellen .

The pass is still considered an important link from Zurich to Aargau. When the A1 motorway did not yet exist, the Mutschellen was not only on the main connection between Zurich and Bern, it was also the only pass on this route.

Transport-related projects

The construction of a base tunnel from Dietikon to Bremgarten has already been planned several times. The high costs have so far never allowed this project to take concrete shape.

The level crossing at the junction in the direction of Berikon causes problems, especially during rush hour, as a train crosses the street every 5 minutes at peak times. There are ideas to make the railway disappear on both sides in a tunnel in front of the pass in order to relieve the road and create additional building land.

In the 1960s, many private railways in Switzerland were closed. This also threatened the Bremgarten-Dietikon-Bahn . Instead of a railway line over the pass, there would have been space for a four-lane expressway.

post Office

The Swiss Post led to the 1990s for the Mutschellen own ZIP code , namely 8968 Mutschellen . What was special about it was that, based on the address, you didn't know whether the person was living in Berikon, Widen or Rudolfstetten. This often led to confusion. The postcode 8968 was removed and people were given the postcode of their municipality of residence. But because the term Mutschellen is still relatively well known throughout Switzerland, residents and especially the local companies and businesses are still allowed to use Mutschellen and to have themselves entered in the phone book.

history

Due to its location, the Mutschellen has been an important transition between the Reuss and Limmat valleys for thousands of years. Various finds show that people lived here as early as the Neolithic Age . With the construction of the Bremgarten-Dietikon-Bahn in 1902, a new era began for Mutschellen. It took around fifty years before a real construction boom set in. Until the middle of the twentieth century, Mutschellen was a kind of hamlet . Only after the Second World War did the neighboring communities slowly grow together and a new center emerged around the pass.

In the last few years the communities on the Mutschellen have intensified their cooperation. Also Oberwil-Lieli is also part because of its participation in regional projects on the Mutschellen communities, although it has no share in the pass. We work closely together on many levels, such as education, security and pensions. From the conglomerate of the four communities, an urban center has emerged in recent years, which has the dimensions of a small town with around 13,000 inhabitants. A merger with the purpose of such a town Mutschellen is currently not sought. Rather, one would like to intensify bilateral cooperation.

Military importance

The transition has always been considered strategically important. The Limmat line was intended to act as a natural barrier to the western central plateau in the event of a German attack. The many bunkers and anti-tank barriers that are still preserved today are a reminder of the great importance of the pass in World War II.

The Swiss writer Max Frisch was stationed several times with his artillery unit on Mutschellen during his active service in 1939/45 . He describes this in his two works Dienstbüchlein and Schweiz ohne Army? A palaver .

Mutschellen (bottom right) at Föhn

Web links

Mutschellen.ch