Schinznach village

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Schinznach village
Coat of arms of Schinznach-Dorf
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Kanton AargauKanton Aargau Aargau (AG)
District : Brugg
Residential municipality : Schinznachi2 w1
Postal code : 5107
former BFS no. : 4115
Coordinates : 653 139  /  255336 coordinates: 47 ° 26 '48 "  N , 8 ° 8' 35"  O ; CH1903:  653139  /  255336
Height : 375  m above sea level M.
Proportion of foreigners :
(residents without
citizenship ) 		k, A,% (December 31, 2019)
Schinznach village

Schinznach village
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Schinznach-Dorf (Switzerland)
Schinznach village
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Parish before the merger on January 1, 2014

Schinznach-Dorf ( Swiss German : ˈʃɪntsˌnɑχ tɔrf ) is a village in the Swiss canton of Aargau , around five kilometers southwest of Brugg . Until the end of 2013 it was an independent municipality in the Brugg district and then merged with the neighboring Oberflachs on January 1, 2014 to form the new municipality of Schinznach .

geography

The village is located around two kilometers west of the Aare at the entrance to the Schenkenberger Valley , at the foot of a foothills of the Jura . Between the village and the river is the flat Schinznacherfeld, which is used for agriculture and also has a gravel pit . At the level of a weir , the Aare divides into two arms. Around a quarter of the narrow, four-kilometer-long Schacheninsel lies in the municipality of Schinznach-Dorf. The hamlet of Wallbach ( 360  m above sea level ) is two kilometers northeast of the village center . In the west rises the local mountain Grund ( 731  m above sea level ), in the northwest the Dreierberg ( 758  m above sea level ) and in the north the Linnerberg ( 722  m above sea level ). Viticulture is practiced on the southeast slope of the Grund .

The area of ​​the former municipality was 891 hectares . Its highest point was the summit of the Dreierberg at 758 meters, the lowest was at 340 meters on the Aare. Neighboring communities were Bözberg and Villnachern in the north, Schinznach-Bad in the east, Veltheim and Oberflachs in the south, Thalheim in the west and Zeihen in the northwest.

Place and community name

Once there were the municipalities of Schinznach on the left and Birrenlauf on the right side of the Aare . In 1654 a sulfur-containing spring was discovered in the municipality of Schinznach , but it was lost in 1670 due to a flood. The source was rediscovered in 1691, this time on the right bank of the river near Birrenlauf. The new spa was nevertheless given the name Schinznach. When Birrenlauf received a train station called Schinznach-Bad in 1858 and the post office later followed suit, this often led to confusion. In 1938, Birrenlauf officially changed its name to Schinznach-Bad. Schinznach in turn received the new name Schinznach Dorf (without a hyphen). The hyphenated version has been the official spelling since 2003. After the municipal merger, the place name Schinznach-Dorf was retained.

history

During the Roman era there was a manor in Schinznacher Oberdorf , parts of which have been excavated so far (including a hypocaust in 1953 ). The remains of another building are in the Römerhof area. During excavations for a sewer system in 1966, a grave from the late 2nd century came to light. The first documentary mention of Schincennacho took place in 1189, when Pope Clement III. placed the Muri monastery and its properties under his protection. The place name comes from the late Latin (praedium) Scentiniacum and means "estate belonging to Scentinius".

In the Middle Ages, the Habsburgs ruled the village. In the Schenkenberg Castle above the village of Thalheim located four kilometers to the west, the Schenkenberg taverns resided, who exercised administration and jurisdiction for the Habsburgs. In 1460, the city of Bern occupied the rule of Schenkenberg militarily and added it to the other subject areas in Bern's Aargau as a new bailiff . In 1528 the Bernese introduced the Reformation . In 1572 there was a big fire in which 90 houses, barns and stables burned down, i.e. a large part of the village. In 1732 Schinznach was divided into the newly formed Landvogtei Kasteln .

In March 1798 the French took Switzerland, ousted the «Gracious Lords» of Bern and proclaimed the Helvetic Republic . Since then, the community has belonged to the canton of Aargau. In the middle of the 18th century, Schinznach was the largest village in today's Brugg district. The temporary decline in viticulture in the second half of the 19th century led to a significant decline in population, as many residents became impoverished and were forced to emigrate overseas. In 1915 a bridge replaced the previous ferry across the Aare to Schinznach-Bad . Sustained residential construction began in the 1960s, and the number of residents has increased by around three quarters since then.

On April 5, 2009, the voters approved a merger with Oberflachs , Schinznach-Bad, Veltheim and Villnachern to form the new municipality of Schenkenberg . However, it did not materialize because Veltheim refused it. The subsequently initiated merger project without Veltheim failed on October 25, 2009 due to Villnachern's negative attitude. Then only Oberflachs and Schinznach-Dorf tried to merge. The corresponding resolution was confirmed in a mandatory referendum on June 18, 2012 and the merger finally took place on January 1, 2014.

Attractions

reformed Church
Steam locomotive Emma of the Schinznacher Baumschulbahn

The reformed Schinznach church was first mentioned in 1227. The 12th century nave in Romanesque - Gothic style had to be demolished in 1779 due to lack of space and rebuilt in an enlarged form. The Erlach Chapel, built in 1650 and integrated into the church building, is the burial place of General Johann Ludwig von Erlach and his wife Margareta. The church was renovated and reopened in December 2006.

The Baumschule Zulauf AG on the northern edge of the village is known throughout Switzerland : The Schinznacher Baumschulbahn , a steam locomotive operated small train (gauge 600 mm) runs on the company premises .

coat of arms

The blazon of today's coat of arms and earlier municipal coat of arms reads: "Split by black with a waning yellow crescent moon and by blue with three poled six-pointed white stars." The oldest known representation appears on the municipal seal from 1811. However, the moon had a face at that time and the stars were arranged in an arc to the left, one below the other. In 1872 the symbols appeared on an unsplit blue shield. In 1953 today's variant was introduced. The coat of arms goes back to the folk etymological interpretation of the place name: "Schiint z Nacht" (shines in the night).

population

The population developed as follows:

year 1764 1850 1870 1900 1930 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010
Residents 838 1334 1167 985 912 1083 1081 1154 1228 1517 1637 1699

On December 31, 2013, 1769 people lived in Schinznach-Dorf. In the 2000 census, 59.1% described themselves as Reformed and 22.7% as Roman Catholic ; 18.2% were non-denominational or of other faiths. 93.6% said German as their main language and 1.1% each Albanian and Spanish .

traffic

Disused train station

To the east past Schinznach-Dorf, the canton road 473 leads from Brugg to Veltheim . It intersects with the cantonal road 474 from Schinznach-Bad via Schinznach-Dorf, Oberflachs and Thalheim to the Staffelegg -Passhöhe. About one kilometer north of the village, the A3 motorway runs between Basel and Zurich . In order to reduce the noise emissions, it was relocated to an opencast tunnel in the flat Schinznacherfeld.

The connection to the public transport network is provided by two post bus lines. They lead on the one hand from Schinznach-Dorf to Wildegg train station and on the other from Brugg train station to Thalheim. On weekends there is a night bus from Brugg via Schinznach-Bad and Schinznach-Dorf to Thalheim. The SBB - Bözberg route runs about one and a half kilometers north of the village ; the Schinznach-Dorf station in front of the east portal of the Bözberg tunnel was closed in 1993.

Personalities

literature

Web links

Commons : Schinznach-Dorf  - 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. ↑ 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. 378-379 .
  3. ^ National map of Switzerland, sheet 1089, Swisstopo.
  4. ^ Martin Hartmann, Hans Weber: The Romans in Aargau . Verlag Sauerländer, Aarau 1985, ISBN 3-7941-2539-8 , p. 197-198 .
  5. ↑ Fusion of five failed. Aargauer Zeitung , April 5, 2009, accessed on January 28, 2010 .
  6. ↑ Villnachern clearly decides against «Schinznach». Aargauer Zeitung , October 25, 2009, accessed on August 10, 2010 .
  7. ↑ Oberflachs and Schinznach-Dorf are definitely merging. Aargauer Zeitung , June 18, 2012, accessed on June 12, 2019 .
  8. ^ 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. 267 .
  9. ↑ 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 12, 2019 .
  10. ↑ 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 October 8, 2018 ; accessed on June 12, 2019 .
  11. ↑ 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 12, 2019 .