Nesselnbach

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Nesselnbach
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Kanton AargauKanton Aargau Aargau (AG)
District : Bremgarten
Residential municipality : Niederwili2 w1
Postal code : 5524
Coordinates : 664307  /  248959 coordinates: 47 ° 23 '18 "  N , 8 ° 17' 25"  O ; CH1903:  664307  /  248959
Height : 390  m above sea level M.
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Nesselnbach is a village in the Swiss canton of Aargau . It is located on the left edge of the Reuss Valley on the eastern slope of the Wagenrain and has around 500 inhabitants. Until 1901 Nesselnbach was an independent community in the Bremgarten district and has since been part of the Niederwil community .

history

The village was probably established as an Alemannic settlement in the middle of the 8th century . Nezelinispah was first mentioned in a document in 893. In a complaint from the Fraumünster in Zurich , it was noted in which places people liable to pay the tax lived and how they had evaded their duty to pay. In the Middle Ages exercised Habsburg , the court rights from. The lower jurisdiction was initially with the knights of Hedingen , until Johann von Hedingen sold them in 1297 to the Gnadenthal monastery, which is located in the municipality .

In 1415 the Swiss conquered the Aargau and Nesselnbach belonged to the Niederwil office in the free offices , a common rule . In 1529 all residents converted to the Reformation , but two years later after the Second Kappel War they had to accept the Catholic denomination again. From 1670 Nesselnbach was a fiefdom of the Zug councilor dynasty Zurlauben , until the rights reverted to the monastery in 1726. In March 1798 the French took Switzerland and proclaimed the Helvetic Republic . Nesselnbach now formed a municipality in the short-lived canton of Baden . In 1803 Nesselnbach came to the newly created canton of Aargau.

After the Gnadenthal monastery had already been closed from 1841 to 1843 as a result of the Aargau monastery dispute, it was finally abolished in 1876 by a resolution of the Aargau Grand Council during the Kulturkampf . The premises served as a tobacco factory for a few years, and a nursing home has been set up there since 1894 . On October 17, 1900, the Great Council decided against the will of both community assemblies to merge Nesselnbach with Niederwil. This measure came into force on January 1, 1901. Ecclesiastically, Nesselnbach has always belonged to the parish of Niederwil. In 1910 , the government council rejected a request from various residents of Nesselnbach to separate from Niederwil .

Attractions

Holy Cross Chapel
Parish before the merger on January 1, 1901

On the western edge of the village is the Heiligkreuz Chapel, which was built in an avant-garde style in 1957 and replaced a dilapidated previous building. The chapel consists of red brick walls on a concrete base and has colored glass facades. A tent-like roof made of Moselle slate spans over it . The chapel is dominated by a massive, free-standing concrete cross.

About one kilometer east of the village is the former Cistercian convent Gnadenthal on the Reuss . A nursing home is attached to the monastery with its late baroque church and cloister.

economy

The largest biogas plant in Switzerland is located in Nesselnbach and is operated by Recycling Energie AG.

traffic

Nesselnbach is located on Kantonsstrasse 296 from Mellingen to Bremgarten . Two postbus lines run through the village from Baden train station to Bremgarten and from Wohlen train station via Stetten to Mellingen Heitersberg train station . On weekends there is a night bus from Baden to Bremgarten.

literature

  • Peter Felder: The art monuments of the canton of Aargau . Ed .: Society for Swiss Art History . Volume IV: Bremgarten district. Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel 1967, ISBN 3-906131-07-6 .
  • Felix Müller: Niederwil in Freiamt . Ed .: Residential community Niederwil. Niederwil 1993.

Web links

Commons : Nesselnbach  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Andreas C. Müller: Artistic avant-garde attracted those willing to marry. Horizons, accessed December 22, 2010 .
  2. ↑ Yves Demuth: Is the plastic cover really necessary for cucumbers? In: observer.ch . April 25, 2019, accessed May 11, 2019 .