Rohr 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 Rohrf .
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Coat of arms from Rohr
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Kanton AargauKanton Aargau Aargau (AG)
District : Aarauw
Residential municipality : Aaraui2
Postal code : 5032
former BFS no. : 4011
Coordinates : 648 967  /  250611 coordinates: 47 ° 24 '16 "  N , 8 ° 5' 14"  O ; CH1903:  six hundred and forty-eight thousand nine hundred sixty-seven  /  250611
Height : 376  m above sea level M.
Residents: 3313 (Dec. 31, 2009)
Proportion of foreigners :
(residents without
citizenship ) 		23.0% (Dec 31, 2009)
Reformed Church Rohr

Reformed Church Rohr
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Rohr AG (Switzerland)
Rohr AG
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Parish before the merger on January 1, 2010

Rohr is a village in the Swiss canton of Aargau and has been part of the canton's capital since the merger with Aarau . Until 2009, Rohr was an independent community in the Aarau district . The place lies between the rivers Aare and Suhre .

geography

The former municipality extends over the flat meadow landscape on the Aare and a narrow strip of the slightly higher gravel terrace, deposited in the Ice Age, south of it. The distinctive step of 15 meters in height clearly shows the former impact slopes of the Aare that meandered freely in the plain centuries ago . Between the river and the village settlement, the area is still criss-crossed by numerous small watercourses, former branches of the Aare. The field names Schachen , Rohrer Schachen , Lehenschachen , Rohrer Giessen and Aareschächli characterize the original meadow landscape. The Rohrer Schachen particularly well preserves the traces of the landscape change in a floodplain. In parts of the floodplain, in the southeast and in the east, the area is forested. The Aare was raised from the mouth of the Suhr when the Rupperswil power plant was built with a dam to a higher storage target and is now higher than the Schachen area to the south of it. In the Rohrer Schachen, the dam was recently set back several hundred meters in length during renovation work on the floodplain landscape of the Aare, in order to give the river bed a somewhat more free dynamic in this area.

The approximately two kilometer long street village is about one kilometer away from the river on the landscape terrace. The lower section of the Suhre used to form the border with Aarau. After border adjustments, the border to Buchs follows the cantonal T5 motorway and a short stretch of the Aarau-Lenzburg railway line. The settlement areas of Rohr, Aarau and Buchs have grown together as an agglomeration. The area of ​​the former municipality was 340 hectares . The highest point was at 380 meters in the Suret forest, the deepest point at 358 meters on the banks of the Aare. Since the merger of the municipality of Rohr with Aarau, the village area has still come up against Biberstein in the north, Rupperswil in the east, Buchs in the south and Küttigen in the north-west.

history

Various finds suggest that the area was sparsely populated around 3000 years ago during the Bronze Age . During Roman times the Roman road led from the legionary camp Vindonissa to the city of Aventicum through the area of ​​Rohr; In the Suret Forest east of the village, a short, four to seven meter wide section has been preserved, the continuation of which towards the northeast has been destroyed since the Middle Ages due to the erosion of the landscape by the Aare.

The first written mention of Rore took place in 1027. The place name comes from the Old High German ze Rore ("to the pipe "), which means "with the reeds" and characterizes the location of the village on the edge of an extensive wetland. Count Ulrich von Lenzburg confirmed in 1036 that the village belonged to the estates of the Beromünster Abbey . Since the Lenzburg inheritance in 1173, Rohr was under the rule of the Counts of Kyburg . After these died out, the Habsburgs took over sovereignty and blood jurisdiction in 1273 . In 1415 the confederates conquered Aargau. Rohr now belonged to the subject area of ​​the city of Bern , the so-called Berner Aargau ; administratively, the village was assigned to the Lenzburg Office. In 1528 the Bernese introduced the Reformation .

In March 1798, the French took Switzerland and established the Helvetic Republic . Since then, Rohr has belonged to the canton of Aargau. Together with Buchs, Rohr was part of the Suhr community since the Middle Ages . The residents of the two villages demanded the creation of independent communities. On January 30, 1810, the old large community of Suhr was finally divided into three new communities. In 1946, the Buchs-Rohr parish separated from the old Suhr parish and formed a new parish. In 1950 the Reformed Church was built in Buchs, and in 1959 the church in Rohr .

Up until the beginning of the 20th century, Rohr was an agricultural community. With the increasing importance of Aarau as a business location, Rohr turned into a residential community. The population quintupled within a hundred years. In July 2005, official negotiations began on the incorporation of Rohr into the city of Aarau. In the referendum on February 24, 2008, the municipality approved a merger, which was therefore completed on January 1, 2010.

coat of arms

The blazon of the former municipality and today's district coat of arms reads: "In white on a green three-hill three black cattails on green leafy stems." From 1833 to 1947 four instead of three cattails were shown. On the advice of the cantonal coat of arms commission, the municipal council changed the shield color from yellow to white in order to avoid confusion with the Rohr von Lenzburg family coat of arms.

population

Aerial view (1958)

The population developed as follows:

year 1764 1803 1850 1900 1930 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000
Residents 129 257 389 595 950 1,480 2,181 2,459 2,183 2,391 2,652

On December 31, 2008, 3263 people lived in Rohr. At the 2000 census, 49.4% were Reformed and 28.0% were Roman Catholic. 87.9% named German as their main language, 3.4% Italian , 2.4% Serbo-Croatian , 0.8% French and 0.6% each English and Spanish .

economy

There is no dominant company in Rohr, all companies are SMEs . About half of the plain in the river low serves as cultivated land for agriculture. The substation is located in Eiholz ​​on the eastern edge of the urban area, from where the electricity from the Rupperswil-Auenstein power plant is distributed using several high-voltage lines.

traffic

Rohr is located on Hauptstrasse 5 in the section between Aarau and Brugg . The four-lane T5 expressway runs on the outskirts of Rohr and leads from Aarau to the Aarau-Ost junction of the A1 motorway near Hunzenschwil . Kantonsstrasse 469 runs from Rohr to Buchs. A side street crosses the Aare near Biberstein on a narrow bridge built during the Second World War and raised by about one meter when the Rupperswil power plant was built . A city bus run by the Aarau bus company connects Rohr with Aarau train station . A night bus runs from Aarau to Lenzburg on weekends .

The Neue Staffeleggstrasse ( Hauptstrasse 24 ) runs from the western edge of Rohr to the new Aare bridge. From there, it leads through a tunnel near Kirchberg east of Küttigen to the Staffelegg pass road. Construction work on the 3.1 kilometer long connecting road began in July 2004 and was opened in December 2010.

From the mouth of the Suhr, a cantonal hiking trail leads over the dam on the right-hand side of the Aare.

Attractions

  • Reformed Church (see picture above)

literature

Web links

Commons : Rohr AG  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Documentation on the floodplain landscape project
  2. ^ National map of Switzerland, sheet 1089, Swisstopo.
  3. ^ Martin Hartmann, Hans Weber: The Romans in Aargau . Verlag Sauerländer, Aarau 1985, ISBN 3-7941-2539-8 , p. 195 .
  4. ^ 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. 357-158 .
  5. ↑ Aarau is getting bigger - merger with Rohr. 20 Minuten , December 11, 2007, accessed December 31, 2009 .
  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. 255 .
  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 20, 2019 .
  8. ↑ 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 20, 2019 .
  9. ↑ The new Staffeleggstrasse has opened. Aargauer Zeitung , December 7, 2010, accessed on January 16, 2012 .