Rake hole

Rake hole
State :	Switzerland
Canton :	Aargau (AG)
District :	Laufenburg
BFS no. :	4176
Postal code :	5326
Coordinates :	653 008  /  270678 coordinates: 47 ° 35 '5 "  N , 8 ° 8' 36"  O ; CH1903:  653 008  /  270678
Height :	327  m above sea level M.
Height range :	300-528 m above sea level M.
Area :	2.77  km²
Residents:	684 (December 31, 2019)
Population density :	247 inhabitants per km²
Proportion of foreigners : (residents without citizenship )	24.3% (December 31, 2019)
Website:	www.schwaderloch.ch
Location of the municipality

Schwaderloch (in regional Swiss German : Schwatterle, ˈʃʋɑtːərlə ) is a municipality in the Swiss canton of Aargau . It belongs to the Laufenburg district and is located on the Upper Rhine on the border with Germany , in the northeast of the Fricktal region .

geography

The village consists of two parts separated by the main road and the railway line. The older part of the village , built in the form of a street village, is located on a raised terrace on the northern edge of the Table Jura . To the north of this, the new part of the village extends into the almost one kilometer wide Rhine plain. As the Rhine flows a short distance southwards, the plain narrows at the western edge of the village to a narrow strip of shore. The only alluvial forest of the Fricktal grows at the widest point of the plain . Immediately on the southern edge of the village, the terrain rises steeply. A deeply cut side valley separates the hill into two plateaus, the Ischlag ( 470  m above sea level ) in the southwest and the sky ( 452  m above sea level ) in the south. The steeply towering Wandfluh ( 530  m above sea level ) in the southeast is criss-crossed by individual limestone rocks.

The area of ​​the municipality is 277 hectares , 118 hectares of which are forested and 32 hectares are built over. The highest point is at 530 meters on the Wandfluh, the lowest at 302 meters on the Rhine. Neighboring communities are Leibstadt in the east, Mettauertal in the south and the German community Albbruck in the north.

history

In the 4th century the Rhine formed the northern border of the Roman Empire . According to a stone tablet that was excavated during the construction of the railway in 1892, the Legio VIII Augusta built a watchtower in 371, from which some remains of the wall have been preserved. The ruin is now about half a kilometer from the river bank, as the watchtower was built on an arm of the river that no longer exists and runs further south. Around 400 the Romans finally withdrew across the Alps. Soon after, the Alemanni settled the region.

Swatterlo was first mentioned in a document in 1318 in a fiefdom register of the Counts of Habsburg-Laufenburg . The place name comes from the Middle High German (ze der) swaterenden la and means "with the swamp area moving back and forth". The village was under the jurisdiction of the respective owners of Bernau Castle in neighboring Leibstadt . The sovereignty passed to the older line of the Habsburgs in 1386 . After the Waldshut War of 1468, they pledged the entire Fricktal to Burgundy . When the Burgundians were defeated by the Confederates during the Burgundian Wars , Etzgen came under Austrian rule again in 1477.

After the imperial reform of the Austrian Emperor Maximilian I in 1491, Schwaderloch belonged to Upper Austria . The Austrian officials of the Laufenburg cameramen had less authority than in the neighboring villages, as the Bernau rule retained a certain degree of independence. 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).

Aerial view (1958)

In 1797 the Fricktal became a French protectorate after the Peace of Campo Formio . During the Second Coalition War , the front line between the armies of France and Austria ran here . On February 20, 1802 Schwaderloch became a municipality in the Laufenburg district of the Fricktal canton , which joined the Helvetic Republic in August . Schwaderloch had become Swiss. The municipality has belonged to the canton of Aargau since March 19, 1803.

In addition to agriculture, handicrafts were also of greater importance during the 19th century; around 1850 there were no fewer than six nail smiths. When a paper mill started operations in Albbruck on the German side of the Rhine in 1872 , many windrowers found work there. After the Koblenz – Stein-Säckingen railway was opened on August 1, 1892, smaller industrial companies also settled in Schwaderloch. Passenger traffic on the railway line between Laufenburg and Koblenz was stopped on May 28, 1994.

Attractions

See also : List of cultural assets in Schwaderloch

• Church of St. Polycarp Schwaderloch
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  Church with a separate bell tower
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  inside view

coat of arms

The blazon of the municipal coat of arms reads: "In yellow on a green three-mountain three red flames." The coat of arms that exists today was created in 1948. The initiative did not come from the local council, but from the local music association. A year later, the coat of arms commission proposed the community to use the flame as a coat of arms, the symbol of Saint Polycarp of Smyrna , the patron saint of the chapel. But then a heraldic questionable coat of arms was introduced. In 1967 the local council came back to its decision and declared the original draft to be binding.

population

The population developed as follows:

year	1850	1900	1930	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990	2000	2010
Residents	388	448	469	513	532	514	450	516	655	674

On December 31, 2019, 684 people lived in Schwaderloch, the proportion of foreigners was 24.3%. In the 2015 census, 47.9% described themselves as Roman Catholic and 13.9% as Reformed ; 38.2% were non-denominational or of other faiths. In the 2000 census, 92.7% said their main language was German , 2.9% Albanian and 1.1% Italian .

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 Laufenburg is the first instance responsible for legal disputes . Schwaderloch belongs to the Friedensrichterkreis X (Mettau).

Municipal council	Official title
Rolf Häusler	Mayor
Ursula Wüst	Vice-Captain
Alex Meyer	Municipal council
Peter Schenk	Municipal council
Dominic Häfeli	Municipal council

economy

According to the company structure statistics (STATENT) collected in 2015, Schwaderloch has around 220 jobs, 8% of them in agriculture, 56% in industry and 36% in the service sector. Numerous workers are commuters and work mainly in the larger communities of the Rhine Valley and the lower Aare Valley.

traffic

Hauptstrasse 7 runs right through the village between Basel and Winterthur . The connection to the public transport network is via a post bus line that runs from Laufenburg train station to Döttingen . The railway line between Laufenburg and Koblenz has been closed for passenger traffic. The Albbruck – Schwaderloch Rhine bridge leads to Germany.

education

The community has a kindergarten and a primary school . The district school can be attended in Leuggern , the secondary school in Kleindöttingen and the secondary school in Leibstadt . The closest grammar schools are in Aarau ( old canton school and new canton school ); Due to an intercantonal agreement, young people from parts of the Fricktal can also complete the grammar school in Muttenz ( Canton Basel-Landschaft ) or in Basel .

Web links

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

• Official website of the municipality of Schwaderloch
• Village chronicle Schwaderloch , PDF file
• Christoph Herzig: Schwaderloch. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

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 . In: Historical Society of the Canton of Aargau (Ed.): Argovia . tape 100 . Verlag Sauerländer, Aarau 1991, ISBN 3-7941-3122-3 , p. 391-393 .
4. ^ National map of Switzerland, sheet 1049, Swisstopo.
5. ↑ Standard area statistics - municipalities according to 4 main areas. Federal Statistical Office , November 26, 2018, accessed on May 11, 2019 . 
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. 272 .
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 8, 2019 . 
8. ↑ Resident population by religious affiliation, 2015. (Excel) In: Population and Households, Community Tables 2015. Statistics Aargau, accessed on May 11, 2019 . 
9. ↑ 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 . 
10. ↑ circles of justice of the peace. Canton of Aargau, accessed on June 19, 2019 . 
11. ↑ Statistics of the corporate structure (STATENT). (Excel, 157 kB) Statistics Aargau, 2016, accessed on May 8, 2019 .