Auw AG

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AG is the abbreviation for the canton of Aargau in Switzerland and is used to avoid confusion with other entries of the name Auwf .
Auw
Coat of arms of Auw
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Kanton AargauKanton Aargau Aargau (AG)
District : Muriw
BFS no. : 4223i1 f3 f4
Postal code : 5644
Coordinates : 670 128  /  229378 coordinates: 47 ° 12 '42 "  N , 8 ° 21' 52"  O ; CH1903:  670,128  /  229378
Height : 490  m above sea level M.
Height range : 453–788 m above sea level M.
Area : 8.56  km²
Residents: 2148 (December 31, 2019)
Population density : 251 inhabitants per km²
Proportion of foreigners :
(residents without
citizenship ) 		19.1% (December 31, 2019)
Website: www.auw.ch
Crossing at the main street

Crossing at the main street
Location of the municipality
Baldeggersee Flachsee Hallwilersee Sempachersee Zugersee Zürichsee Kanton Luzern Kanton Zug Kanton Zürich Bezirk Baden Bezirk Bremgarten Bezirk Kulm Bezirk Lenzburg Abtwil AG Aristau Auw AG Beinwil (Freiamt) Besenbüren Bettwil Boswil Bünzen AG Buttwil Dietwil Geltwil Kallern Merenschwand Mühlau AG Muri AG Oberrüti Rottenschwil Sins WaltenschwilMap of Auw
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Auw [ ˈaʊ̯ʋ ] is a municipality in the Swiss canton of Aargau . It belongs to the Muri district and lies on the border with the canton of Lucerne .

geography

The community at the foot of the Lindenberg consists of the districts Auw and Rustenschwil. The eastern half of the municipality is flat to undulating and is located in the transition area between the Bünztal and Reuss valley . The main settlement Auw is in the south. A little more than a kilometer north of it is the district of Rüstenschwil, which is about half the size. In between, the Sembach flows from west to east. The south-western part of the community, on which more than a dozen individual farms are scattered, gradually rises to the ridge of the Lindenberg. The lower half of the slope is used for agriculture, while the upper half is almost entirely covered with forest. The Mariahaldenbach flows from the height of the Lindenberg to the village center of Auw and forms the Dorfbach there together with the Fuchshaldenbach.

The area of ​​the municipality is 856 hectares , of which 207 hectares are forested and 88 hectares are built over. The highest point is at 788  m above sea level. M. in the Büelwald on the ridge of the Lindenberg, the deepest at 455  m above sea level. M. on the eastern municipality boundary. Neighboring communities are Beinwil (Freiamt) in the north, Mühlau in the east, Sins in the south and the Lucerne town of Hohenrain in the west.

history

The place is mentioned for the first time in 924 in a Zinsrodel of the Fraumünsterstift in Zurich ( de Houva: Engizo ... item de Ouva: iacet 1 geldus ), then again from the 12th century as Ouwa , Owe etc. The place name comes from the Old High German ouwa and means «Land near the water». In the Middle Ages, the Muri monastery and the lords of Reussegg (near Sins ) were the most important landlords. The lower jurisdiction lay in the hands of the Habsburgs and the Knights of Reussegg, while the Habsburgs exercised blood jurisdiction alone. Auw and Rüstenschwil were in the Habsburg office of Meienberg .

In 1415 Lucerne conquered the Meienberg office, but in 1425 had to return it to the common property of the Confederates . The free offices were formed from the conquered areas , a common rule . In 1429 Henman von Reussegg sold his lower court rule of Rüssegg to a Lucerne citizen, in 1502 the rule came into the possession of the city of Lucerne. The rule of Rüssegg included a few houses and meadows in Auw, mainly in the upper part of the village. The other part of the lower court rule in Auw passed to the new rulers with the conquest in 1415. A village opening from 1675 is documented for the village of Auw, and one from 1729 for Rustenschwil . Around 1720, Meienberg had to cede larger areas in Kalchtarre and on the Galgenrain to Auw against payment of 375 guilders .

In church terms, Auw was a branch of the parish of Sins until 1638 (Urbarium from 1641), after which the Engelberg monastery looked after the new parish until 1849. Finally, in 1865, the parish acquired the collature from the monastery. The Auwer parish was part of the Diocese of Constance until 1821 , since then it has belonged to the Diocese of Basel . On February 8, 1715, a major fire in Auw destroyed 43 houses and left 150 people homeless.

In March 1798 the French took Switzerland and proclaimed the Helvetic Republic . Auw and Rustenschwil (with Wallenschwil) each formed an agency and together a municipality in the Muri district of the short-lived canton of Baden . After the canton of Aargau was founded in 1803, Auw and Rustenschwil were united to form a single community of residents, but the local civil communities , which performed some tasks autonomously, did not do so until 1908.

A post office has existed in Auw since 1835. In 1896 a telephone station with telegraph service and in 1921 a local telephone network with a manual switchboard were built. The district of Rüstenschwil had its own post office from 1855 to 1982. Elektra Auw has been providing electrical power since 1909. In the second half of the 19th century, the population decreased by over 20 percent, as many residents had to emigrate due to increasing poverty. After that, it always shuttled between 700 and around 850 until around 1970. In the mid-1970s , increased building activity began, benefiting from the proximity to the cities of Lucerne and Zug . The congregation grew by more than half within thirty years.

Attractions

Parish Church of St. Nicholas and Speicher
Historic aerial photo by Werner Friedli from August 1970

The parish church of St. Nicholas is located on the southern edge of the village. The canonized Maria Bernarda Bütler was baptized in it. The nave and choir were built in 1705 in baroque style, and a church tower was added on the northeast side in 1749/1750. Opposite on the other side of the street is the rectory, a simple, plastered half-timbered building from 1834.

In the Falk east of Auw, towards Reussegg, lies the "Rüssegger Wall", a series of megaliths several hundred meters long , the meaning of which is unknown. The house at Käsereistrasse 13 is considered to be the oldest known secular building of the Freiamt. The core of this post construction with a Tatsch roof dates from 1469/1470. The house at Sinserstrasse 3 is a typologically rare three-storey timber frame construction that was built after the village fire of 1715. On the opposite side of the street, the “Hirschen” inn has a rococo tavern sign from 1798. The semi-detached house at Sinserstrasse 19/21 is a central Swiss building type with an ancient tattach roof from 1666. The Sigristenpfrundhaus at Mühlauerstrasse 3, built in 1723/1724, has one Plank stand residential part with a tattoo roof. The old mill at Alikonerstrasse 6 was built in 1766 as a gable-reinforced column structure on a solid base.

In the St. Josef Chapel in Rüstenschwil (built in 1755) there are delightful ceiling paintings by Joseph Keller. Next to it is one of the few remaining memory of the community, a tower-like log cabin from the year 1618th

  • Old Mill

  • Käsereistrasse residential building

  • Hirschen inn

  • Birthplace of St. Maria Bernarda Bütler

  • St. Joseph's Chapel, Rustenschwil

coat of arms

The blazon of the municipal coat of arms reads: "Green linden tree with five leaves torn in white." The coat of arms was introduced around 1920, although one was probably inspired by an old boundary stone between Auw and Reussegg (near Sins), which shows a linden tree. The coat of arms of Beinwil (Freiamt) has the same motif, but on a yellow background.

Until around 1950 the coat of arms of the Meienberg office was in use, which consisted of a green linden tree on a green three-mountain in front of a white background. This coat of arms is still present today on the vault of the parish church, on the old club flag of the Auw Music Society (1938) and on the village fountain at Gasthaus Linde (1947).

population

The population developed as follows:

year 1850 1900 1930 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010
Residents 881 703 715 856 815 853 956 1,048 1,239 1,690

On December 31, 2019, 2,148 people lived in Auw, the proportion of foreigners was 19.1%. In the 2015 census, 65.0% described themselves as Roman Catholic and 12.3% as Reformed ; 22.7% were non-denominational or of other faiths. 94.0% said German as their main language in the 2000 census , 2.3% Albanian and 0.9% 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 District Court of Muri is primarily responsible for legal disputes . Auw belongs to the Friedensrichterkreis XIII (Muri).

economy

According to the corporate structure statistics (STATENT) collected in 2015, Auw has around 600 jobs, including 26% in agriculture, 40% in industry and 34% in the service sector. However, more than half of the workforce are commuters, the majority of whom work in the agglomerations of Lucerne and Zug .

traffic

The main road 25 runs through the municipality from Lenzburg via Sins to Zug . Auw is connected to Sins by a line from the Seetal-Freiamt bus company (part of the Zugerland Verkehrsbetriebe since 2004 ), while Rustenschwil is connected to the Muri - Beinwil (Freiamt) post bus line . On weekends there is a night bus from Zug via Sins and Muri to Mühlau .

education

The community has a kindergarten and a primary school . All upper levels of the compulsory elementary school ( Realschule , Secondary School , District School ) can be attended in Sins . The closest grammar school is the Cantonal School in Wohlen .

Personalities

  • Maria Bernarda Bütler (1848–1924), Cath. Holy, religious sister
  • Niklaus Bütler (1786–1864), church painter
  • Anton Bütler (1819–1874), painter, son of Niklaus Bütler, brother of Joseph Niklaus Bütler
  • Joseph Niklaus Bütler (1822–1885), painter, son of Niklaus Bütler, brother of Anton Bütler
  • Frowin Conrad (1833–1923), Benedictine, Abbot of Conception (USA), brother of Peter Conrad
  • Ignatius Conrad (1846–1926), Benedictine, Abbot of New Subiaco (USA), brother of Peter Conrad
  • Peter Conrad (1850–1914), politician, councilor of the canton of Aargau

literature

Web links

Commons : Auw  - 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 . Historical sources and linguistic interpretations. In: Historical Society of the Canton of Aargau (Ed.): Argovia . Annual journal of the Historical Society of the Canton of Aargau. tape 100 / II . Verlag Sauerländer, Aarau 1991, ISBN 3-7941-3122-3 , p. 68 f . Specified phonetic transcription : áu̯w .
  4. ↑ Andres Kristol: Auw AG (Muri) 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 , p. 110. Specified phonetic transcription : [ ˈaʊʋ ].
  5. ^ National map of Switzerland, sheets 1110 and 1130, Swisstopo.
  6. ↑ Standard area statistics - municipalities according to 4 main areas. Federal Statistical Office , November 26, 2018, accessed on May 10, 2019 .
  7. ^ Parish office Sins, Justice Association Alikon (ed.): Alikon am Lindenberg . Sins 1985.
  8. ↑ a b Swiss Lexicon 91, Mengis + Ziehr, Lucerne
  9. ^ Georg Germann: The art monuments of the Canton of Aargau, Volume V: District of Muri. Pp. 24-34.
  10. ^ A b Society for Swiss Art History (ed.): Art guide through Switzerland . tape 1 . Bern 2005, ISBN 3-906131-95-5 .
  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. 108 .
  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 8, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Resident population by religious affiliation, 2015. (Excel) In: Population and Households, Community Tables 2015. Statistics Aargau, accessed on May 10, 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 8, 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 8, 2019 .