Oberlunkhofen

Oberlunkhofen
State :	Switzerland
Canton :	Aargau (AG)
District :	Bremgarten
BFS no. :	4073
Postal code :	8917
Coordinates :	671 257  /  241594 coordinates: 47 ° 19 '17 "  N , 8 ° 22' 52"  O ; CH1903:  six hundred and seventy-one thousand two hundred and fifty-seven  /  241594
Height :	400  m above sea level M.
Height range :	378-578 m above sea level M.
Area :	3.25  km²
Residents:	2039 (December 31, 2019)
Population density :	627 inhabitants per km²
Proportion of foreigners : (residents without citizenship )	14.3% (December 31, 2019)
Website:	www.oberlunkhofen.ch
View of Oberlunkhofen
Location of the municipality

Oberlunkhofen ( Swiss German : ˈɔbərluŋkˌχɔfə ) is a municipality in the Swiss canton of Aargau . It belongs to the Bremgarten district and is located in the Reuss Valley .

geography

The village is located on the western slope of the Holzbirrliberg , a mountain range that extends from the Mutschellen in a south-easterly direction. The initially steep slope merges into a flattened plateau towards the east. The municipality has a share of the fertile Reuss plain in the west. However, the municipal boundary does not follow the current course of the river, but for the most part an old branch that no longer exists today. Today the river runs around 100 to 300 meters further west.

The area of ​​the municipality is 325 hectares , of which 80 hectares are covered with forest and 61 hectares are built over. The highest point is at 580  m above sea level. M. at the northeastern corner of the municipality, the deepest point at 381  m above sea level. M. in the Reuss level. Neighboring communities are Unterlunkhofen in the north, Arni in the east, Jonen in the south and Rottenschwil in the west.

history

Bathing wing of the Roman manor Oberlunkhofen

The area was already populated during the early Iron Age. At the end of the 19th century, a necropolis from the Hallstatt period with 63 burial mounds was found in neighboring Unterlunkhofen . In the “Schalchmatthau” area, two teachers dug up the floor plan of a Roman manor in 1897/98 , which consisted of a main building at least 39 meters wide with seven rooms and two side wings as well as a barn (see Villa Rustica (Oberlunkhofen) ). The complex was inhabited from the middle of the 1st to at least the 3rd century. Immediately adjacent were graves of the Alemanni from the 7th century.

Lunchunft was first mentioned in a document in 853 (a copy from the 11th century has come down to us). At that time, a priest donated his court to the newly founded St. Leodegar Monastery in Lucerne . Later the Unterlunkhofen , Oberlunkhofen, Jonen and Arni-Islisberg extensive Kelnhof belonged to the Murbach monastery in Alsace . A now outdated theory assumed that the place name came from a Gallo-Roman Lundacumbeta , a "high valley on the Lunda" ( Lunda could have been a name form used in ancient times for the Reuss ). Was it a sound shift by Old High German Lundgumwt and Middle High German Lunchhof emerged ( "at the courts at the Lunda"). A new interpretation is based on a Latin Longus Campus or Romanesque Longocampo ("long field"), which changed from the Old High German form Lungochampfo to an Old High German Lungchumpft . The ending -chunft or -kunft of the first written evidence began to give way to a more plausible sounding Lunk -hofen at the end of the 13th century .

In 1291 Rudolf I bought the Kelnhof, and the city of Lucerne and 15 other villages came into the possession of the Habsburgs for 2000 silver marks . This transaction was one of the reasons that the three original cantons founded the Swiss Confederation . After the Kelnhof initially belonged to the Freiamt Affoltern for administrative purposes , twenty years later it formed its own office, the so-called cellar office . On the «Mühlegg» north of the village there was a small castle inhabited by the Meier , of which only ruins remain. In 1376 the village was pledged and then changed hands several times.

Aerial view (1923)

In 1415 the city of Zurich conquered the cellar office and took over the high level of jurisdiction from the Habsburgs . The lower jurisdiction had been owned by the city of Bremgarten since 1410 . In 1529 the population of Oberlunkhofen was reformed , but had to convert to Catholicism again in 1531 after the Second Kappel War . In 1797, a year before the old rule structure collapsed, Bremgarten sold its rights to the village communities.

After the conquest of Switzerland by the French and the proclamation of the Helvetic Republic in March 1798, the cellar office was dissolved and the four municipalities of Ober- and Unterlunkhofen, Jonen and Arni-Islisberg were created . These initially belonged to the short-lived Canton of Baden and in 1803 came to the Canton of Aargau; however, the residents initially preferred a connection to Zug or Zurich . Oberlunkhofen remained a modest farming village well into the 20th century. The wine-growing , is still big in the 19th century was the significance is completely disappeared since the 1950s. Between 1870 and 1960, the population fell by almost a quarter. Then, however, due to the proximity to the city of Zurich, building activity began and the number of inhabitants has more than quadrupled to this day.

Attractions

See also : List of cultural assets in Oberlunkhofen

Parish house and parish church of St. Leodegar

The history of the Catholic parish church of St. Leodegar goes back at least to 1185, the year it was first mentioned in a document. In 1515 the church was rebuilt, but after a little more than a century and a half it was demolished, whereby the church tower from the Middle Ages was preserved. The baroque building that exists today was built in 1684/85. Due to a lack of space, the parish commissioned an extension of the nave in 1777 .

coat of arms

The blazon reads: "Divided by yellow with a striding, red armored and tongued black lion and by red with two crossed white keys." The lion refers to the St. Leodegar monastery in Lucerne, which owned the Kelnhof in the Middle Ages. The keys are the sign of the cellar office. The coat of arms was first seen on the municipal seal in 1811, but only showed the keys on a red background. To avoid confusion with the coat of arms of the Untersiggenthal municipality , the lion was also used in 1964.

population

The population developed as follows:

year	1850	1900	1930	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990	2000	2010
Residents	490	438	463	413	401	532	723	1075	1443	1924

On December 31, 2019, 2039 people lived in Oberlunkhofen, the proportion of foreigners was 14.3%. In the 2015 census, 43.1% described themselves as Roman Catholic and 22.1% as Reformed ; 34.8% were non-denominational or of other faiths. In the 2000 census, 93.6% stated German as their main language, 1.5% each Albanian and English and 0.7% French .

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 Bremgarten District Court is primarily responsible for legal disputes . Oberlunkhofen belongs to the judges of peace VII (Bremgarten).

economy

According to the corporate structure statistics (STATENT) collected in 2015, Oberlunkhofen has around 420 jobs, 10% of them in agriculture, 23% in industry and 67% in the service sector. Most of the employed are commuters and work either in the Bremgarten region or in the agglomeration of Zurich .

traffic

Kantonsstrasse 262 runs through the village from Bremgarten in the direction of Affoltern am Albis . Kantonsstrasse 406 branches off to Birmensdorf , where there is a junction with the A4 motorway . The connection to the public transport network is via three post bus lines . These lead from Bremgarten to Jonen and from Zurich Wiedikon train station to Affoltern or Muri . On weekends there is a night bus from Birmensdorf via Oberlunkhofen to Obfelden .

education

The community has a kindergarten and a primary school . The Realschule and the secondary school can be attended in Jonen, the district school in Bremgarten. The closest grammar school is the Cantonal School in Wohlen .

literature

• Anton Wohler: Oberlunkhofen. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• 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 .

Web links

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

• Official website of the municipality of Oberlunkhofen

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. ^ Andres Kristol: Oberlunkhofen. In: Dictionnaire toponymique des communes suisses - Lexicon of Swiss municipality names - Dizionario toponomastico dei comuni svizzeri (DTS | LSG). Center de dialectologie, Université de Neuchâtel, Verlag Huber, Frauenfeld / Stuttgart / Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-7193-1308-5 and Éditions Payot, Lausanne 2005, ISBN 2-601-03336-3 .
4. ^ National map of Switzerland, sheets 1110 and 1111, Swisstopo.
5. ↑ Standard area statistics - municipalities according to 4 main areas. Federal Statistical Office , November 26, 2018, accessed on May 14, 2019 . 
6. ^ Martin Hartmann, Hans Weber: The Romans in Aargau . Verlag Sauerländer, Aarau 1985, ISBN 3-7941-2539-8 , p. 191-192 .
7. ^ 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. 441-444 .
8. ↑ Andres Kristol: Oberlunkhofen In: Dictionnaire toponymique des communes suisses - Lexicon of Swiss municipality names - Dizionario toponomastico dei comuni svizzeri (DTS | LSG). Center de dialectologie, Université de Neuchâtel, Verlag Huber, Frauenfeld / Stuttgart / Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-7193-1308-5 and Éditions Payot, Lausanne 2005, ISBN 2-601-03336-3 .
9. ^ Daniel Gut: Longus Campus and the Romania Submersa in the Reuss Valley . In: Contributions to Name Research NF 47 . 2012, p. 163-189 .
10. ↑ Fields: The Art Monuments of the Canton of Aargau, Volume IV: Bremgarten District. Pp. 330-341.
11. ^ 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. 237 .
12. ↑ 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 14, 2019 . 
13. ↑ Resident population by religious affiliation, 2015. (Excel) In: Population and Households, Community Tables 2015. Statistics Aargau, accessed on May 14, 2019 . 
14. ↑ 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 14, 2019 . 
15. ↑ circles of justice of the peace. Canton of Aargau, accessed on June 20, 2019 . 
16. ↑ Statistics of the corporate structure (STATENT). (Excel, 157 kB) Statistics Aargau, 2016, accessed on May 14, 2019 .