Oberhofen AG

AG is the abbreviation for the canton of Aargau in Switzerland and is used to avoid confusion with other entries of the name Oberhofen .

Oberhofen
State :	Switzerland
Canton :	Aargau (AG)
District :	Laufenburg
Residential municipality :	Mettauertal
Postal code :	5273
former BFS no. :	4174
Coordinates :	652 289  /  267 333 coordinates: 47 ° 33 '17 "  N , 8 ° 8' 0"  O ; CH1903:  652289  /  267,333
Height :	362  m above sea level M.
Residents:	282 (Dec. 31, 2009)
Proportion of foreigners : (residents without citizenship )	9.6% (Dec 31, 2009)
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Parish before the merger on January 1, 2010

Old school house in Oberhofen

Oberhofen ( Swiss German : ˈɔbəɾˌhɔfə ) is a village in the Swiss canton of Aargau . It is located in the northeast of the Fricktal region . Up until the end of 2009, Oberhofen formed an independent community in the Laufenburg district , and since then it has been one of five villages in the newly formed community of Mettauertal .

geography

The village lies in the middle of the Tafeljura in the valley of the Mettauerbach; this flows north of it with the Etzgerbach , which flows two and a half kilometers into the Upper Rhine . In the east the terrain rises evenly up to the 485 meter high Hasenmatt. The Meiershalde plateau rises to the west of the village ( 562  m above sea level ). The terrain then drops steeply to the short Hofer side valley, which merges seamlessly into the Rütenen plateau (up to 475  m above sea level ). In the far west is the steep slope of the Sandrütihalde, the distance to the bank of the Rhine is almost two hundred meters.

The area of ​​the former municipality was 312 hectares, of which 144 hectares were forested and 24 hectares were built over. The highest point in the municipality was at 562 meters on the Meiershalde plateau, the lowest point at 345 meters at the confluence of the Mettauerbach and Etzgerbach rivers. Neighboring communities were Etzgen in the north-west, Mettau in the north, Wil in the east, Gansingen in the south and Sulz in the south-west.

history

Up until the second half of the 18th century, Oberhofen consisted only of individual farms that had been built on cleared land. These courtyards belonged to the Mettau court district , part of the Upper Austrian camera rule of Laufenburg . The actual village did not emerge until around 1800 when resettlements were made from the neighboring villages. The place name form Oberhoffen is mentioned for the first time in 1705, in the sense of "at the upper farms".

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 ; thus Oberhofen had become Swiss. The village, together with Etzgen and Wil, formed part of the Mettau community in the Laufenburg district . Since March 19, 1803 Oberhofen belongs to the canton of Aargau.

In 1832 Oberhofen broke away from Mettau and the residents founded an independent community. In addition to agriculture, a gypsum pit and a stone sawmill also brought income opportunities. In contrast to the other communities in the Mettauertal, the population increased steadily until 1950. But then it decreased by a fifth within twenty years, as many farmers gave up their farms and moved away. With the change to a residential community, the population has increased by almost a third to this day.

On March 20, 2008, the community assembly decided to merge Oberhofen with Etzgen, Hottwil , Mettau and Wil to form the Mettauertal community . The ballot box on June 1, 2008 was also in favor of a merger. The merger took place on January 1, 2010.

coat of arms

The blazon of the former municipality and today's village coat of arms reads: "In yellow, black pickaxe, covered with two crossed black hand-fists." Until 1953 the municipality did not have its own coat of arms. The tools indicate the mining of sandstone that was used to build ovens.

population

Population development:

year	1850	1900	1930	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990	2000
Residents	297	182	199	260	222	212	262	296	307

On December 31, 2008, 277 people lived in Oberhofen, the proportion of foreigners was 7.9%. At the 2000 census, 68.6% were Roman Catholic, 17.1% Reformed, and 4.3% Muslim. 97.4% named German as their main language.

Attractions

See also : List of cultural assets in Mettauertal

traffic

Oberhofen is located on Kantonsstrasse 277, which begins in the Rhine Valley near Etzgen and leads over the Bürersteig towards Brugg . The connection to the public transport network is provided by a post bus line between the Laufenburg and Brugg train stations .

Web links

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

• Dominik Sauerländer: Oberhofen (AG). In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Oberhofen on mettauertal.ch

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{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. 317-318 .
2. ^ National map of Switzerland, sheet 1049, Swisstopo
3. ↑ Aargauer Zeitung : Five clear yeses to the merger, March 21, 2008.
4. ^ 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. 235 .
5. ↑ 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 . 
6. ↑ 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 August 10, 2018 ; accessed on May 8, 2019 . 
7. ↑ 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 .