Gipf-Oberfrick

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Gipf-Oberfrick
Coat of arms of Gipf-Oberfrick
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Kanton AargauKanton Aargau Aargau (AG)
District : Laufenburgw
BFS no. : 4165i1 f3 f4
Postal code : 5073
UN / LOCODE : CH GOF
Coordinates : 642 517  /  260930 coordinates: 47 ° 29 '52 "  N , 8 ° 0' 10"  O ; CH1903:  642517  /  260930
Height : 368  m above sea level M.
Height range : 349–750 m above sea level M.
Area : 10.17  km²
Residents: 3650 (December 31, 2019)
Population density : 359 inhabitants per km²
Proportion of foreigners :
(residents without
citizenship ) 		14.3% (December 31, 2019)
Website: www.gipf-oberfrick.ch
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 Gipf-Oberfrick
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Gipf-Oberfrick ( Swiss German : gɪpf-ˈɔbərˌfɾɪkχ ) is a municipality in the Swiss canton of Aargau . It belongs to the district of Laufenburg , is located in the southeast of the Fricktal region and, with around 3500 inhabitants, is the second largest municipality in the district. Until 1804, Gipf and Oberfrick belonged to the municipality of Frick .

geography

The community is located in the middle of the Tafeljura on the Bruggbach. This runs from southwest to northeast in an almost 500 meter wide valley and flows into the Sissle at Frick . The once separate villages of Gipf (in the north-east) and Oberfrick (in the south-west) have grown together in recent decades and, together with the neighboring municipality of Frick, form an almost three-kilometer-long ribbon of settlements.

The hills on the west side of the valley rise steadily and merge into narrow high plateaus. These are the Wolberg ( 556  m above sea level ) in the northwest and the Tiersteinberg ( 749  m above sea level ) in the west. Homberg ( 705  m above sea level ), located on the south-western boundary of the municipality, has a narrow, steeply rising ridge on its east side and thus looks more like a hill in the Jura . On the east side of the valley, the hills in the lower area are extremely steep and in the upper area they merge into flat and extensive plateaus on which intensive agriculture is practiced. These are the Kornberg ( 557  m above sea level ) in the east and the Fürberg ( 552  m above sea level ) and the Rüedisberg ( 542  m above sea level ) in the south.

The area of ​​the municipality is 1017 hectares , of which 421 hectares are covered with forest and 114 hectares are built over. The highest point is on the Tiersteinberg, the lowest at 355  m above sea level. M. am Bruggbach. The municipality of Gipf-Oberfrick is part of the Aargau Jura Park, a “Regional Nature Park of National Importance”. Neighboring communities are Frick in the north, Ueken in the east, Herznach in the south-east, Wölflinswil in the south, Wittnau in the south-west and Schupfart and Wegenstetten in the west.

history

The area was already populated during the Neolithic and Bronze Ages. From the 1st to the 4th century there was a Roman manor in what is now the municipality. In the Middle Ages the Counts of Homberg-Tierstein ruled the surrounding area. They probably had their family castle Alt-Tierstein built on the eastern slope of the Tiersteinberg in the 10th century . Around the year 1100, about 600 meters further south, the Alt-Homberg Castle, located in the municipality of Wittnau , was built. Around 1180, the Counts built in Büsserach the Neu-Thierstein Castle and moved their government center there. After the Counts of Homberg-Tierstein died out, the Habsburgs followed in 1232 .

Guphfe was first mentioned in documents in 1259, Obiren Vrieche in 1288. The first place name comes from the Old High German in dero gupfu ("at the mountain top "), the second from the Latin ferraricia ("iron ore area"). Alt-Homberg Castle was destroyed in the Basel earthquake in 1356 . Alt-Tierstein was rebuilt, but then abandoned in the early 15th century and left to decay. The Habsburgs gave the fief to the Lords of Frick, then to the Lords of Eptingen and finally to the city of Basel . The fiefdom reverted to Austria in 1534 . The bailiwick , made up of Frick, Gipf and Oberfrick , now belonged to Upper Austria and was part of the Fricktal landscape, which in turn was part of the Rheinfelden cameraman (from 1752 in the Breisgau Oberamt ).

Aerial view (1950)

In the 17th century there were hardly any longer times of peace. The Rappenkrieg , a peasant uprising, lasted from 1612 to 1614. In the Thirty Years' War , which also affected the Fricktal between 1633 and 1638, the Gipf and Oberfrick were destroyed and then rebuilt. 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 . The Canton of Fricktal was founded on February 20, 1802, and joined the Helvetic Republic in August . The municipality of Frick, to which Gipf and Oberfrick also belonged at that time, had become Swiss and was the capital of the district of the same name. On March 19, 1803 the change to the newly founded canton of Aargau took place. In 1804 the two villages separated from Frick and have since formed an independent community.

The previously important viticulture had to be given up at the end of the 19th century after the phylloxera epidemic and replaced by cherry cultures . After the population had decreased by almost twenty percent in the second half of the 19th century and then stagnated for a few decades, it increased threefold from 1950. Agriculture was displaced and Gipf-Oberfrick turned into a residential community on the edge of the Basel agglomeration. The development of both districts grew together.

coat of arms

Conductor's house
House Trottgasse
Lower mill

The blazon of the municipal coat of arms reads: "In yellow on a green three-mountain red doe." In 1934 the community took over the coat of arms of the Counts of Tierstein. It has a special position because heraldic animals are usually of the male sex.

Attractions

population

The population developed as follows:

year 1768 1850 1900 1930 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010
Residents 588 1050 851 958 954 1096 1285 1509 2058 2808 3251

On December 31, 2019, 3,650 people lived in Gipf-Oberfrick, the proportion of foreigners was 14.3%. In the 2015 census, 41.5% described themselves as Roman Catholic and 23.2% as Reformed ; 35.3% were non-denominational or of other faiths. In the 2000 census, 93.9% named German as their main language, 1.1% Albanian , 0.9% Italian , 0.7% each of French and Portuguese and 0.6% English .

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 . Gipf-Oberfrick belongs to the peace judges group X (Mettau).

Municipal council Official title Political party
Regine Leutwyler Mayor independent
Georg Schmid Vice-Captain independent
Jos Bovens Municipal council independent
Verena Buol Councilor SP
Roger Merkle Municipal council SVP

economy

According to the company structure statistics (STATENT) collected in 2015, Gipf-Oberfrick has around 750 jobs, of which 14% in agriculture, 23% in industry and 63% in the service sector. Agriculture, which used to dominate, has lost much of its importance. The farms were moved from the village center to the western slope of the Tiersteinberg and the plateau of the Kornberg. Gipf-Oberfrick has numerous commercial and service businesses, but many people work in neighboring Frick or commute to Aarau and the Basel agglomeration .

traffic

Gipf-Oberfrick is located on Kantonsstrasse 276, which leads from Frick over the Salhöhe to Aarau . About one kilometer south of the village, Kantonsstrasse 487 branches off over the Benkerjoch to Aarau. The connection to the public transport network is via the Postbus line between the train stations in Aarau and Frick. On weekends there is a night bus from Frick to Oberhof .

education

The community has three kindergartens and three school houses in which the primary school , the junior high school and the secondary school are taught. The district school can be attended in Frick . The closest grammar schools are the Alte Kantonsschule and the Neue Kantonsschule , both in Aarau .

Web links

Commons : Gipf-Oberfrick  - 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. 174-176 .
  4. ↑ a b Zehnder, community names of the Canton of Aargau, pp. 314–315
  5. ↑ a b National map of Switzerland, sheet 1069, Swisstopo.
  6. ↑ Standard area statistics - municipalities according to 4 main areas. Federal Statistical Office , November 26, 2018, accessed on May 11, 2019 .
  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. 165 .
  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 .