Reinach 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 Reinachf .
Reinach
Reinach coat of arms
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Kanton AargauKanton Aargau Aargau (AG)
District : Kulmw
BFS no. : 4141i1 f3 f4
Postal code : 5734
UN / LOCODE : CH REN
Coordinates : 656 344  /  233877 coordinates: 47 ° 15 '12 "  N , 8 ° 10' 59"  O ; CH1903:  six hundred and fifty-six thousand three hundred forty-four  /  233877
Height : 527  m above sea level M.
Height range : 509–788 m above sea level M.
Area : 9.47  km²
Residents: 8776 (December 31, 2019)
Population density : 927 inhabitants per km²
Proportion of foreigners :
(residents without
citizenship ) 		41.4% (December 31, 2019)
Website: www.reinach.ch
View from Homberg to Reinach

View from Homberg to Reinach
Location of the municipality
Hallwilersee Baldeggersee Kanton Luzern Kanton Solothurn Bezirk Aarau Bezirk Bremgarten Bezirk Muri Bezirk Lenzburg Bezirk Zofingen Beinwil am See Birrwil Burg AG Dürrenäsch Gontenschwil Holziken Leimbach AG Leutwil Menziken Oberkulm Reinach AG Schlossrued Schmiedrued Schöftland Teufenthal Unterkulm ZetzwilMap of Reinach
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Reinach ( Swiss German : ˈriːnəχ ) is a municipality in the Swiss canton of Aargau . It belongs to the Kulm district , is located in the upper Wynental and borders the canton of Lucerne .

geography

The village extends over the entire width of the trough-shaped valley of the Wyna and has two historical centers, which are just under half a kilometer apart, the upper village and the lower village. The valley is bordered in the east by the Ischlag ( 651  m above sea level ) and in the northeast by the Homberg ( 788  m above sea level ). Between these hills a flat foothill of the Wynental extends towards the Seetal , the transition between the two valleys is a maximum of 562 meters high. At the foot of the Homberg are the districts of Eien ( 517  m above sea level ) and Holenweg ( 522  m above sea level ), on the mountain slope the hamlets Unterflügelberg ( 692  m above sea level ) and Oberflügelberg ( 757  m above sea level ). . To the west of the lower village rises the up to 732 meter high mountain forest hill, an extension of the Stierenberg . The five villages of Reinach, Beinwil am See , Burg , Menziken and Pfeffikon have merged into a coherent agglomeration with around 20,000 inhabitants, the boundaries between the once separate settlements are barely recognizable.

The area of ​​the municipality is 947 hectares , of which 262 hectares are forested and 280 hectares are built over. The highest point is at 788 meters on the summit of the Homberg, the lowest at 511 meters on the Wyna. Neighboring communities are Leimbach and Zetzwil in the north, Birrwil in the northeast, Beinwil am See in the east, Menziken in the south, Rickenbach and Pfeffikon in the southwest and Gontenschwil in the west.

history

Isolated finds testify to a settlement of the upper Wynental during the Neolithic , the Bronze Age and the Hallstatt Age . During excavations on the road to Beinwil in 1900, the remains of a small Roman building as well as some bricks and ceramic fragments from the second half of the 2nd century came to light. Rinacha was first mentioned in a document in 1036. There are two theories about the origin of the place name: On the one hand, it could be derived from the late Latin (praedium) Renniacum and mean "estate belonging to Rennius". On the other hand, a derivation from the Old High German Rinahu is also conceivable, which means "near the Rin Bach", where "Rin" indicates that the brook is a tributary of the Rhine .

In the Middle Ages the village was under the rule of the Counts of Lenzburg , from 1173 on that of the Counts of Kyburg . After these died out, the Habsburgs took over sovereignty and blood jurisdiction in 1273 . The lower jurisdiction was owned by the Lords of Reinach , who had their headquarters in Burg . The tithe had to be delivered to the Canons of Beromünster .

Aerial view (1964)

In 1415 the confederates conquered Aargau. Reinach now belonged to the subject area of ​​the city of Bern , the so-called Berner Aargau , and was the capital of a judicial district in the Lenzburg district . Until the introduction of the Reformation in 1528, Reinach was part of the Pfeffikon parish and then formed its own parish. Menziken belonged to the community of Reinach for a long time , but was raised to an independent community around 1580. Reinach was granted market rights at the end of the 16th century, and there are still four large goods markets held every year. In March 1798 the French took Switzerland, ousted the «Gracious Lords» of Bern and proclaimed the Helvetic Republic . Reinach has been part of the canton of Aargau since then.

The industry arrived early on. The textile industry established itself in the early 18th century ; exports went to Alsace , Lombardy and Savoy . Because of the lack of water power, the textile industry was replaced by the tobacco industry around 1850 . Reinach and the upper Wynental, popularly known as the “Stumpenland”, developed into the center of Swiss cigar production and gained international importance: Two important factories were Hediger & Cie. and Hediger Söhne AG . At around the same time, the metalworking industry began to flourish. Reinach was primarily known for clothes hangers at first, but later they started manufacturing wires .

This upswing would not have been possible without the construction of new traffic routes. On January 23, 1887, the normal gauge railway line Beinwil am See - Reinach was opened, a branch of the Seetalbahn . On October 1, 1906, the extension to Beromünster followed . On March 5, 1904, the narrow-gauge Wynental Railway replaced stagecoach traffic through the Wynental to the canton capital, Aarau ; on May 1st of the same year the last section to Menziken was put into operation. In the course of the 20th century, the population more than doubled and Reinach and its neighboring villages have grown together. There is close cooperation with the neighboring communities of Burg , Menziken and Pfeffikon in numerous areas .

Attractions

The Evangelical Reformed Church in Reinach
Haus zum Schneggen (left) and Museum Schneggli (right)
Central School House

The Reformed Church stands on the Kapf, the hill in the direction of Beinwil . It was built in 1529 and is the first church in Switzerland to be reformed from the start. In 1664 the building had to be repaired because of the threat of collapse, and the church tower was also raised by one floor. In 1776 the nave was lengthened by about a third, and a polygonal vestibule was added in 1904/05.

The "Haus zum Schneggen" was built in 1604/05 as the residence of the subordinate. A round five-story stair tower with a pointed tent roof is attached to the three-story gabled house in the late Gothic style . Diagonally opposite is the «small Schneggen», the mill built in 1688. The building is a listed building and is a cultural asset of national importance. After a fire in 1999, it was rebuilt and has housed the Schneggli Museum ever since. This deals with the history, art and culture of the surrounding region.

coat of arms

The blazon of the municipal coat of arms reads: "In yellow, a red lion with a blue head and a red tongue." The coat of arms corresponds to that of the Lords of Rinach, which is shown for the first time in the 14th century in the Zurich coat of arms. During the 19th century the lion stood on a sloping beam and held a scepter, but in 1915 the historical coat of arms was reverted to.

population

The population developed as follows:

year 1764 1803 1850 1900 1930 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 2020
Residents 1261 1672 2846 3668 4394 4891 5174 5862 5696 6786 7258 7979

On December 31, 2019, 8,776 people lived in Reinach, the proportion of foreigners was 41.4%. In the 2015 census, 27.3% described themselves as Roman Catholic and 24.5% as Reformed ; 48.2% were non-denominational or of another faith. In the 2000 census, 82.6% named German as their main language, 4.5% Albanian , 4.0% Italian , 3.8% Serbo-Croatian , 2.1% Turkish and 0.6% Spanish .

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 Kulm District Court is the first instance responsible for legal disputes . Reinach belongs to the Friedensrichterkreis IX (Unterkulm).

economy

According to the company structure statistics (STATENT) collected in 2015, Reinach has around 3,600 jobs, of which 1% in agriculture, 34% in industry and 65% in the service sector. Reinach, together with Menziken, forms the economic center of southern Aargau and therefore has many commuters, including from the neighboring Lucerne areas. Important manufacturing companies are the aluminum rolling mill of the Alu Menziken Group (now part of Montana Tech Components ) , which has existed since 1962, and Fischer Reinach, which has been in existence since 1842 . Other branches of industry include tool making, metal processing and the production of smells and flavors ( frutarom ). Reinach is the seat of the Switzerland-Russia company .

traffic

Reinach train station

Main road 23 runs through the middle of the village from Aarau via Beromünster to Sursee . From there, Kantonsstrasse 290 branches off into the Seetal to Beinwil am See . Kantonsstrasse 333 leads to Gontenschwil . Reinach is accessed by the narrow-gauge Wynentalbahn (WSB) between Aarau station and Menziken ; Next to the Reinach train station there are the Reinach Mitte and Reinach Nord stops. Two post bus lines lead from Beinwil am See via Reinach to Beromünster and Sursee train station . On weekends there is a night bus from Aarau through the Wynental to Menziken.

The WSB originally operated as a tram in the middle of the busy main road , sometimes with oncoming traffic. There were often accidents with considerable property damage. When passenger traffic ended in 1991 on the parallel, standard-gauge SBB line Beinwil am See – Beromünster , the WSB line was relocated to the now vacant route. The re-gauging and adjustment work began in 1999 after the cessation of freight traffic. The new section Reinach Nord – Menziken was opened on December 15, 2002.

education

The community has six kindergartens and five school houses in which all levels of compulsory elementary school are taught ( primary school , secondary school , secondary school and district school ). Reinach also has a commercial vocational school. The closest canton school (grammar school) is the Beromünster canton school in Beromünster (canton Lucerne) seven kilometers away. However, many students stay in the canton and attend one of the two canton schools in Aarau ( AKSA and NKSA ).

Culture

Hall construction

The Saalbau Reinach, which opened in 1965, was often used as a performance and rehearsal stage by theater troupes from home and abroad in the late 1960s and 1970s. In addition to the most famous actors of the time, such as Ruedi Walter , Margrit Rainer , Inigo Gallo , Ines Torelli , Paul Bühlmann , Jörg Schneider and Edi Huber, as well as the cabaret artist Emil Steinberger , who performed regularly here, it was 1968, on her 88th birthday, too Tilla Durieux is guest with the piece Whole Days in the Trees by Marguerite Duras .

At that time you could actually meet numerous German actors in the village for weeks, because they were rehearsing in the hall. a. Inge Meysel , several times also Horst Tappert , who rehearsed The Twelve Jurors , or Götz George and Sonja Ziemann , who directed The Tattooed Rose by Tennessee Williams in 1978 under the direction of Charles Regnier . Other appearances were Monika Peitsch in Anna Christie by Eugene O'Neill , the quiz legend Hans-Joachim Kulenkampff in An ideal husband by Oscar Wilde , Ruth Maria Kubitschek in The bitter tears of Petra by Kant by Rainer Werner Fassbinder , Günther Ungeheuer and Karin Hübner in After the Fall of Arthur Miller .

At the end of 1972, the writer Friedrich Dürrenmatt stayed at the Hotel Bären for around two months and rehearsed his play Die Physiker , the premiere of which took place on January 8, 1973. The main roles were played by Ruth Hellberg as Mathilde von Zahnd, Charles Regnier, Walter Fein and Dinah Hinz . The painter Kurt Hediger often attended rehearsals and drew both the author and the actors.

Sports

Well-known sports clubs from Reinach are the orienteering club OLG Rymenzburg , the women's ice hockey club SC Reinach and the UHC Lok Reinach floorball club , which plays in the top division .

Personalities

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

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  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. 341-343 .
  4. ^ National map of Switzerland, sheets 1109 and 1110, Swisstopo.
  5. ↑ Standard area statistics - municipalities according to 4 main areas. Federal Statistical Office , November 26, 2018, accessed on May 25, 2019 .
  6. ^ Martin Hartmann, Hans Weber: The Romans in Aargau . Verlag Sauerländer, Aarau 1985, ISBN 3-7941-2539-8 , p. 193 .
  7. ↑ Stettler: The art monuments of the canton Aargau, Volume I, districts Aarau, Kulm, Zofingen. Pp. 212-213.
  8. ↑ Michael Stettler: The art monuments of the canton of Aargau. Pp. 213-214.
  9. ^ Museum Schneggli
  10. ^ 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. 247 .
  11. ↑ 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 25, 2019 .
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  13. ↑ 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 25, 2019 .
  14. ↑ circles of justice of the peace. Canton of Aargau, accessed on June 21, 2019 .
  15. ↑ Statistics of the corporate structure (STATENT). (Excel, 157 kB) Statistics Aargau, 2016, accessed on May 25, 2019 .
  16. ↑ a b c Reinach community (ed.): Festschrift 50 years of Saalbau Reinach . Reinach 2015.