Oeschgen

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Oeschgen
Coat of arms of Oeschgen
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Kanton AargauKanton Aargau Aargau (AG)
District : Laufenburgw
BFS no. : 4175i1 f3 f4
Postal code : 5072
Coordinates : 643 569  /  263311 coordinates: 47 ° 31 '9 "  N , 8 ° 1' 1"  O ; CH1903:  six hundred and forty-three thousand five hundred sixty-nine  /  263311
Height : 340  m above sea level M.
Height range : 319–496 m above sea level M.
Area : 4.38  km²
Residents: 1043 (December 31, 2019)
Population density : 238 inhabitants per km²
Proportion of foreigners :
(residents without
citizenship ) 		13.3% (December 31, 2019)
Website: www.oeschgen.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 Oeschgen
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Oeschgen ( Swiss German : ˈœʃːgə ) is a municipality in the Swiss canton of Aargau . It belongs to the Laufenburg district and is located in the northeast of the Fricktal region .

geography

The village is located on the Sissle river , on the eastern edge of the five hundred meter wide valley floor. In the center of the village, the valley of the Starzlebach branches off to the northeast. This side valley, which is almost two kilometers long, is bordered on both sides by the foothills of the Kaistenberg ( 501  m above sea level ), a hill on the northern edge of the Table Jura . On the western side of the Sissle, the municipality extends up to the 402 meter high Leischberg.

The area of ​​the municipality is 438 hectares , of which 81 hectares are covered with forest and 67 hectares are built over. The highest point is at 500  m above sea level. M. on the plateau of the Wolfgarten, the deepest at 320  m above sea level. M. on the Sissle. Neighboring communities are Kaisten in the northeast, Frick in the south and Eiken in the northwest.

history

Escecon was first mentioned in a document in 1234. The place name comes from the Old High German Ascinghofun and means "at the courts of the Asco clan". The last Count of Homberg-Tierstein died in 1232 without heirs and the Habsburgs took over the rule. After the Waldshut War of 1468, they pledged the entire Fricktal to Burgundy . When the Burgundians were defeated by the Confederates during the Burgundian Wars , Oeschgen came under Austrian rule again in 1477.

After the imperial reform of the Austrian Emperor Maximilian I in 1491, Oeschgen belonged to the front of Austria . But the Austrian officials of the Laufenburg cameramen had less authority than in the neighboring villages because the lower jurisdiction had been sold to the barons of Schönau in 1475 . This dynasty of the lower nobility had their ancestral seat near Wehr , a few kilometers further north in the (now southern Baden) Wehratal . In the 17th century there were hardly any longer times of peace. The Rappenkrieg , a peasant uprising, lasted from 1612 to 1614. The Thirty Years' War , which also affected the Fricktal between 1633 and 1638, threw the village back in its development. Foreign troops also moved through the region during the War of the Palatinate Succession (1688–1697).

Aerial view (1954)
Schönauer Schlössli

In 1797, after the Peace of Campo Formio , the Fricktal became a French protectorate , which also ended the rule of the Barons of Schönau . During the Second Coalition War , the front line between the armies of France and Austria ran here . On February 20, 1802, Oeschgen became a municipality in the Frick district of the Fricktal canton , which joined the Helvetic Republic in August . With that, Oeschgen had become Swiss. The municipality has belonged to the canton of Aargau since March 19, 1803.

Although the Bözberg Railway, which opened on August 2, 1875, runs through Oeschger's municipality, the village still has no railway station of its own. This and the fact that many smallholders became impoverished and had to emigrate led to a population decline of almost a third in the second half of the 19th century. The Sissle flooded the village at regular intervals. Only the correction of the course of the stream in 1895 defused the situation. Until well into the 20th century, Oeschgen remained an agricultural village. With the disappearance of many small farms, the village turned into a residential community on the edge of the Basel agglomeration . Due to increased construction activity since the opening of the A3 motorway in 1973, the population has risen continuously.

Attractions

Inscription at the church entrance with coat of arms

In the center of the village is the “Schönauer Schlössli”, a small manor with an attached stair tower. It was built in 1597 as a summer residence by order of the Barons von Schönau and is now a listed building . There is also a bicycle museum with over a hundred historic bicycles.

coat of arms

The blazon of the municipal coat of arms reads: "Divided by black with two yellow rings and by yellow with a black ring." The municipality has had the coat of arms of the Lords of Schönau since 1930 . However, the approval of the still existing family was missing and the coat of arms commission of the canton of Aargau advised a change. In 1976, Baron Werner von Schönau-Wehr gave express permission to use the family coat of arms as the municipal coat of arms.

population

The population developed as follows:

year 1788 1850 1900 1930 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010
Residents 389 604 392 400 472 508 604 647 734 798 907

On December 31, 2019, 1043 people lived in Oeschgen, the proportion of foreigners was 13.3%. In the 2015 census, 53.7% described themselves as Roman Catholic and 18.4% as Reformed ; 27.9% were non-denominational or of other faiths. In the 2000 census, 93.4% said their main language was German , 2.3% Italian and 1.5% Albanian .

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 . Oeschgen belongs to the Friedensrichterkreis X (Mettau).

Municipal council Official title
Christoph Koch Mayor
Gabriele Wieser Vice-Captain
Alessandro Quaresima Municipal council
Marco Cafaro Municipal council
Yves Keizer Municipal council

economy

According to the company structure statistics (STATENT) collected in 2015, there are around 280 jobs in Oeschgen, of which 13% are in agriculture, 26% in industry and 61% in the service sector. Most of the employed are commuters and work in the larger communities of the Fricktal or in the agglomeration of the city of Basel . The winter quarters of the Circus Nock , which was dissolved in 2018, was in Oeschgen .

Viticulture is of some importance . In 2018, an area of ​​5.2 hectares was planted with vines on the exposed southern slopes of the Kaistenberg foothills. Nine different varieties are grown, with Pinot Noir and Riesling × Sylvaner predominating.

traffic

The center of the village is a few hundred meters east of Hauptstrasse 3 ( Basel - Zurich ) and the A3 motorway , the closest junctions are at Frick and Eiken . The connection to the public transport network is made by the Postbus line between the Frick and Stein-Säckingen train stations . On weekends there is a night bus from Frick via Oeschgen and Laufenburg to Eiken.

education

The community has a kindergarten and a school house where primary school is taught. All upper levels ( district school , secondary school and junior high school ) can be attended in Frick . The closest grammar schools are the Alte Kantonsschule and the Neue Kantonsschule , both in Aarau .

Personalities

Web links

Commons : Oeschgen  - 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. 140-141 .
  4. ^ National map of Switzerland, sheet 1069, Swisstopo.
  5. ↑ Standard area statistics - municipalities according to 4 main areas. Federal Statistical Office , November 26, 2018, accessed on May 11, 2019 .
  6. ^ 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. 243 .
  7. ↑ 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 .
  8. ↑ Resident population by religious affiliation, 2015. (Excel) In: Population and Households, Community Tables 2015. Statistics Aargau, accessed on May 11, 2019 .
  9. ↑ 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 .
  10. ↑ circles of justice of the peace. Canton of Aargau, accessed on June 19, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Statistics of the corporate structure (STATENT). (Excel, 157 kB) Statistics Aargau, 2016, accessed on May 8, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Grape harvest control 2018 Canton Aargau. (PDF, 2.4 MB) Agricultural Center Liebegg, 2019, accessed on June 19, 2019 .