Sulz AG

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

Sulz
State :	Switzerland
Canton :	Aargau (AG)
District :	Laufenburg
Residential municipality :	Laufenburg
Postal code :	5085
former BFS no. :	4178
Coordinates :	649 482  /  265 094 coordinates: 47 ° 32 '5 "  N , 8 ° 5' 45"  O ; CH1903:  649 482  /  two hundred and sixty-five thousand and ninety-four
Height :	372  m above sea level M.
Residents:	1160 (Dec. 31, 2009)
Proportion of foreigners : (residents without citizenship )	10.7% (Dec 31, 2009)
Sulz with Sulzerberg.
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Parish before the merger on January 1, 2010

Sulz ( Swiss German : sʊlts ) is a village in the district of Laufenburg in the Swiss canton of Aargau . It is located on the Upper Rhine on the border with Germany , in the northeast of the Fricktal region . Sulz was once an independent community and has been part of the Laufenburg community since 2010 .

geography

The community comprised the five kilometer long valley of the Sulzerbach. This narrow valley, running from north to south, is located in the middle of the Table Jura and is surrounded on both sides by hills, which rise steeply in the lower area and then merge into a flat plateau. In the west the valley is bounded by the Ebni ( 504  m above sea level ) and the Schinberg ( 692  m above sea level ), in the east by the Gugeli (605 m above sea level ) and the Chreisacher ( 685  m above sea level). M. ). The March ( 625  m above sea level ) forms the southern end .

Settlements can be found wherever the valley widens a little. In the far north, at the confluence of the Sulzerbach in the Rhine , lies Rheinsulz ( 307  m above sea level ); This is followed in the south by Leidikon ( 338  m above sea level ), Roos ( 351  m above sea level ), Bütz ( 360  m above sea level ), Mittelulz ( 381  m above sea level ) and Obersulz ( 400  m above sea level) . M. ). Shortly after Obersulz, the valley turns south-east. Sulzerberg ( 510  m above sea level ) lies on a hill west of Mittelulz, the largest village in the valley.

The area of ​​the former municipality was 1221 hectares . The highest point was at 692 meters on the Schinberg, the lowest at 300 meters on the Rhine. Neighboring communities were Etzgen and Oberhofen in the northeast, Gansingen in the east, Mönthal in the southeast, Elfingen in the south, Hornussen and Ittenthal in the southwest, Kaisten in the west and Laufenburg in the northwest. Sulz bordered the German municipality of Laufenburg (Baden) in the north .

history

Sulze was first mentioned in a document in 1260. The name is derived from the Old High German ze Sulzu and means "near the salt hole". The Sulztal belonged to the oldest possession of the noble women's monastery Säckingen and was a Dinghof of the monastery. Rheinsulz, on the other hand, was part of the Mettau Dinghof . The monastery placed itself under the protection of the Habsburgs in 1173 . From 1232 the area around Laufenburg was owned by the younger Habsburg-Laufenburg line , but then fell back to the older line in 1386. After the Waldshut War of 1468, the Habsburgs pledged the entire Fricktal to Burgundy . When the Burgundians were defeated by the Confederates during the Burgundian Wars , the Sulztal came under Austrian rule again in 1477.

After the imperial reform of the Austrian Emperor Maximilian I in 1491, the Sulztal belonged to Upper Austria and was part of the cameramen of Laufenburg (from 1752 in the Oberamt Breisgau ). 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 economic development. Foreign troops also moved through the region during the War of the Palatinate Succession (1688–1697).

In 1797, after the Peace of Campo Formio , the Fricktal became a French protectorate . During the Second Coalition War , the front line between the armies of France and Austria ran here . On February 20, 1802, Sulz became a municipality in the Laufenburg district of the Fricktal canton , which joined the Helvetic Republic in August ; with that, Sulz had become Swiss. Sulz has belonged to the canton of Aargau since March 19, 1803. At that time, Rheinsulz was also united with the other villages in the valley to form a single municipality.

Sulz was a poor community, which is why many residents left their homes. In 1853/54 alone 116 people emigrated to North America , which corresponded to ten percent of the population at that time. On August 1, 1892, a train station was opened in Rheinsulz on the Koblenz – Stein-Säckingen railway line, which led to the settlement of smaller industrial companies. Nevertheless, until well into the 20th century, Sulz remained predominantly agricultural. The population stagnated for decades and has only increased slightly since the beginning of the 1990s. On January 1, 2010, Sulz merged with the municipality of Laufenburg. The corresponding resolution of the community assembly was confirmed at the ballot box on November 30, 2008, the decision was rather tight with 58% yes votes.

Attractions

See also : List of cultural assets in Laufenburg

coat of arms

The blazon of the former municipality and today's valley coat of arms reads: "In red and black, with a white S and white tires covered salt vat, surrounded by two six-pointed white stars." Around 1930, the community bought a heraldic insufficiency of a coat of arms from a dubious researcher . On a shield split in red and yellow, it showed a sack of salt on the dividing line, flanked by two free-floating fir trees. On the advice of the cantonal coat of arms commission, the municipal council introduced the motif that is still used today. The salt tub indicates that salt used to be extracted in the Bütz district.

population

Sulz Church

Chapel of St. Margaretha in Rheinsulz

The Fricktaler Höhenweg on the Schinberg

The population developed as follows:

year	1803	1850	1900	1930	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990	2000
Residents	670	1125	970	1008	1046	1022	1021	936	956	1122

On December 31, 2008, 1132 people lived in Sulz, the proportion of foreigners was 9.9%. In the 2000 census, 73.6% described themselves as Roman Catholic and 13.8% as Reformed ; 12.6% were non-denominational or of other faiths. 91.4% said German as their main language, 2.0% Albanian and 1.4% Italian .

Viticulture

After viticulture in Sulz had completely disappeared at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries due to powdery mildew and phylloxera , it experienced a renaissance in 1982. At that time, a new vineyard was planted in the Germatt, in the south-east between Mittelulz and Gansingen (Galten) . In 2018, an area of ​​4.2 hectares was planted. Six different varieties are grown, with Blauburgunder and Riesling × Sylvaner predominating. In addition to old Sulzer legends, the former village rotten testify to the viticulture in Sulz.

regional customs

The Pfingstsprützlig is a Pentecostal tradition that takes place on Pentecost Sunday in the districts of Bütz, Mittelulz and Obersulz. A figure wrapped in foliage moves from well to well and sprinkles water as the embodiment of fertility.

traffic

The village of Rheinsulz is located directly on Hauptstrasse 7 between Basel and Winterthur . There a side road branches off, which connects the individual villages of the valley and leads over the Ampferenhöhe to Mönthal . A post bus line connects the Sulzertal with the Laufenburg train station . The Laufenburg – Koblenz railway, which served a train station in Rheinsulz, was closed for passenger traffic on May 28, 1994; the route is still partially used for freight traffic.

Web links

Commons : Sulz  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Dominik Sauerländer: Sulz AG. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

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. 416-417 .
2. ↑ ^{a b} National map of Switzerland, sheets 1049 and 1069, Swisstopo
3. ↑ Aargauer Zeitung : Construction of the new community can begin. November 30, 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. 287 .
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 June 19, 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 June 19, 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 June 19, 2019 . 
8. ↑ Grape harvest control 2018 Canton Aargau. (PDF, 2.4 MB) Agricultural Center Liebegg, 2019, accessed on June 19, 2019 . 
9. ^ Sulzer wines
10. ^ Pfingstsprützlig in Sulz. Aargau Tourism, 2019, accessed on January 24, 2019 .