Oberbözberg

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Oberbözberg
Coat of arms of Oberbözberg
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Kanton AargauKanton Aargau Aargau (AG)
District : Brugg
Residential municipality : Bozbergi2
Postal code : 5225
former BFS no. : 4108
Coordinates : 654 197  /  261 034 coordinates: 47 ° 29 '52 "  N , 8 ° 9' 28"  O ; CH1903:  six hundred fifty-four thousand one hundred and ninety-seven  /  261034
Height : 539  m above sea level M.
Residents: 505 (December 31, 2012)
Proportion of foreigners :
(residents without
citizenship ) 		k, A,% (December 31, 2019)
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Oberbözberg (Switzerland)
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Parish before the merger on January 1, 2013

Oberbözberg ( Swiss German : ˈɔbər.bœts.bɛrg ) is a village in the Swiss canton of Aargau . It was an independent municipality in the Brugg district until the end of 2012 and was incorporated into the new municipality of Bözberg on January 1, 2013 .

geography

Oberbözberg is located around four kilometers west-northwest of the district capital and about two and a half kilometers northeast of the Bözberg pass on a high plateau on the southern edge of the Table Jura . In the south of the former municipality are the Oberbözberg and Bächlen settlements, which have grown together to form a street village . About one kilometer north of it, separated by the hills Binzacher ( 598  m above sea level ) and Leigrueb ( 557  m above sea level ), lies the hamlet of Überhal ( 456  m above sea level ) in the Lochmatt valley . There are also numerous scattered individual farms. In the northwest the terrain rises to the Letzi ( 643  m above sea level ), in the east the plain slopes down to the Ital, which stretches towards Remigen .

The area of ​​the former municipal area was 545 hectares . The highest point was at 643 meters on the Letzi, the lowest at 402 meters in Ital. Neighboring communities were Mönthal and Remigen in the north, Riniken in the east, Unterbözberg in the south and Effingen in the west.

history

The Romans already used the Bözberg as a pass crossing between Augusta Raurica and Vindonissa . The Roman road at that time was a little further north than today's main road, from Effingen about Oberbözberg by Stilli where they on the road to Vindonissa ( Windisch met). In the 5th or 6th century, the Alemanni settled and founded several scattered settlements. One of them was built directly on the Römerstrasse, from which Oberbözberg later developed. In 1189, Bozeberch was mentioned for the first time when Pope Clement III. Confirmed property of Muri Monastery . The place name comes from the Latin (ad montem) Vocetum , whereby Vocetum goes back to the Celtic word Voceton , which can be translated as forest or wood.

In the Middle Ages, the Habsburgs began to extend their domain to include the Bözberg. For this purpose, in the 13th century they combined their possessions in this area to form the Bözberg court. In addition to the Ober- and Unterbözberg, these included Lauffohr , Linn , Mönthal , Rein , Remigen , Riniken , Rüfenach , Stilli and Villigen . In these villages the Habsburgs exercised blood jurisdiction , in Mönthal, Remigen and Villigen also the lower jurisdiction . The court changed hands several times from 1348 onwards by pledging and in 1377 it finally came under the rule of Schenkenberg .

Historic aerial photo by Werner Friedli from 1950

The city of Bern occupied the rule militarily in 1460 and added it to the other subject areas in the Bernese Aargau . In 1528 the Bernese introduced the Reformation . In 1566 the judicial district was divided into an upper district with Bözberg and Linn and a lower district with the other villages. In 1779 a new Bözberg pass road was built with a route further south. In March 1798 the French took Switzerland, ousted the «Gracious Lords» of Bern and proclaimed the Helvetic Republic . Since then, the Bözberg has belonged to the canton of Aargau.

After the mediation in 1803, Bözberg was the largest municipality in the Brugg district. But it had no real center and the individual settlements were sometimes miles apart. In the 19th century there were several attempts to divide the community, with the initiative always coming from Oberbözberg, which felt neglected. Four applications in 1826, 1836, 1858 and 1870 were unsuccessful due to resistance from the cantonal authorities, and in 1858 a division into three municipalities was even planned. The fifth attempt was successful on September 24, 1872, when the Grand Council decided to divide it into two communities.

Up until the middle of the 20th century, Oberbözberg remained a purely farming community. Between 1880 and 1950 the population decreased by over a fifth. With the expansion of the nearby Bözbergstrasse, Oberbözberg gradually turned into an easily accessible residential community and the population gradually began to rise again. Brisk construction activity in the 1990s led to an increase of almost 40 percent.

On December 2, 2011, the community assembly approved the merger agreement with the neighboring communities of Linn, Gallenkirch and Unterbözberg. The voters confirmed this decision on March 11, 2012 in a vote with 237 to 51 votes. The four municipalities merged on January 1, 2013 to form the new municipality of Bözberg .

Attractions

Houses in Oberbözberg

coat of arms

The blazon of the former municipal coat of arms reads: "In a white shield on green ground, standing, looking to the left, red stag, on the right side by a green fir tree." When the municipality was divided in 1872, Oberbözberg had a similar coat of arms, but with a deer. The coat of arms indicates the extensive forests and the large game population in the region. Until 1966, the stag was depicted in heraldically incorrect brown.

population

The population developed as follows (1803 to 1870 including Unterbözberg ) :

year 1764 1803 1850 1870 1900 1930 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010
Residents 283 827 1060 904 283 272 264 294 302 297 375 531 499

On December 31, 2012, 505 people lived in Oberbözberg, the proportion of foreigners was 7.9%. In the 2000 census, 56.9% described themselves as Reformed and 28.7% as Roman Catholic ; 14.4% were non-denominational or of other faiths. 95.5% said German as their main language, 0.9% each English and French .

traffic

Not far from the Bözbergpass branches off from Hauptstrasse 3 ( Basel - Zurich ) to Kantonsstrasse 457, which leads via Oberbözberg to Mönthal . The village is connected to the public transport network by a post bus line from Brugg train station to Linn .

literature

Web links

Commons : Oberbözberg  - 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. ^ National map of Switzerland, sheet 1069, Swisstopo
  3. ^ 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. 306-307 .
  4. ↑ Linn, Gallenkirch, Ober- and Unterbözberg merge to form the municipality of Bözberg. Aargauer Zeitung , March 11, 2012, accessed on March 11, 2012 .
  5. ^ 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. 230 .
  6. ↑ 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 10, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Swiss Federal Census 2000: Economic resident population by religious affiliation as well as by districts and municipalities. (Excel) Statistics Aargau, archived from the original on October 8, 2018 ; accessed on June 10, 2019 .
  8. ↑ 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 10, 2019 .