Stilli

Stilli district
State :	Switzerland
Canton :	Aargau (AG)
District :	Brugg
Residential municipality :	Villigen
Postal code :	5233
former BFS no. :	4116
Coordinates :	659 753  /  263 258 coordinates: 47 ° 31 '2 "  N , 8 ° 13' 55"  O ; CH1903:  659 753  /  two hundred and sixty-three thousand two hundred and fifty-eight
Height :	333  m above sea level M.
Residents:	397 (December 31, 2004)
Proportion of foreigners : (residents without citizenship )	25.9% (Dec 31, 2010)
Website:	www.villigen.ch
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Stilli ( Swiss German : ˈʃti.lɪ ) is a village in the Swiss canton of Aargau . It is located about three and a half kilometers northeast of the district capital. Until the end of 2005, Stilli was an independent political municipality in the Brugg district and has belonged to Villigen ever since .

geography

Aerial photo from 300 m by Walter Mittelholzer (1922)

The municipality of Stilli was the second smallest in the canton with an area of ​​57 hectares . It comprised a three kilometer long strip of 25 to 210 meters wide along the western bank of the Aare , with the river bed taking up more than a third of the area. The former municipal border with Villigen ran along the 40 meter high embankment above the river valley. The village is located around one and a half kilometers north of the confluence of the Limmat and the Aare, in Switzerland's so-called moated castle . In the Aare lies the small island of Fischergrieni, which was created by alluvial debris .

history

View of the village around 1710, in the March book by Samuel Bodmer

Parish before the merger on January 1, 2006

Ferry in Stilli around 1900, the 10th Infantry Brigade crossing the Aare.

The first written mention of the field name Stilli comes from the year 1269. In Old High German it describes a "calmly flowing waterhole". The settlement was established in 1446 when the owners of the Schenkenberg lordship decided to set up a ferry across the Aare near the former small town of Freudenau, thereby opening up new sources of income. Around the tavern and the mill, people settled who lived mainly from fishing and shipping. Stilli's skippers transported goods from Bern , Lucerne and Zurich to Laufenburg and Zurzach , and in some cases even to Holland .

The land was part of the Rein farm , which belonged to the Wittichen monastery in the Kinzig valley . When the city of Bern conquered the area west of the Aare in 1460 and added it to the subject areas of the Bernese Aargau , nothing changed in the rights of the monastery. This, however, had to accept the introduction of the Reformation in 1528. In 1544 it sold the Rein farm to Count Hartmann von Hallwyl . From 1566 Stilli was the capital of a new judicial district, which also included the villages of Lauffohr , Mönthal , Rein, Remigen , Riniken , Rüfenach and Villigen. Between 1588 and 1599 the city of Brugg acquired two thirds of the farm and Bern the remaining third.

In March 1798 the French took Switzerland, ousted the «Gracious Lords» of Bern and proclaimed the Helvetic Republic . Hof Rein was now part of the new canton of Aargau. In 1799 the front line ran through the middle of the lower Aare valley during the Second Coalition War . There were several French army camps in the region. The villagers suffered great hardship through requisitions and looting. In 1803 the canton dissolved the Rein farm and elevated the individual villages to independent communities.

In 1903, the traditional ferry service over the Aare ended with the opening of a 188 meter long road bridge, which was replaced by a new steel composite bridge from 1969 to 1970. In 2007 the bridge received a new decking and a wider pedestrian path. In September 2003 the voters of Stilli decided to give up the independence of their municipality and to join the municipality of Villigen on January 1, 2006.

coat of arms

The blazon of the former municipal coat of arms reads: "An anchor in blue and white, covered by a crossed white oar and a white spike." The coat of arms motif first appeared on a paper seal in 1838. This is a reminder of river shipping, which was once by far the most important economic factor in the community.

population

The population developed as follows:

year	1702	1750	1800	1850	1900	1950	1980	2000
Residents	144	254	293	392	252	280	474	357

On December 31, 2004, one year before the incorporation, 397 people lived in Stilli, the proportion of foreigners was 25.9%. In the 2000 census, 38.8% described themselves as Reformed and 32.2% as Roman Catholic ; 29.0% were non-denominational or of other faiths. 84.9% stated German as their main language, 5.0% Italian and 2.5% Serbo-Croatian .

traffic

Stilli is at the intersection of main road 5 with several side streets, a bridge leads over the Aare to Würenlingen . The village is accessed by two post bus lines that lead from Brugg train station to Bad Zurzach and Döttingen (with additional courses at the Paul Scherrer Institute in Villigen). Siggenthal-Würenlingen train station is about half a kilometer away on the other side of the river. On weekends there is a night bus from Brugg via Stilli and Villigen to Riniken .

The large sculpture "Water Gate" by the artist Albert Siegenthaler , who grew up in Stilli, has been mounted on the new bridge over the Aare since 1972 . The historical Flösserweg educational trail ends in Stilli .

Attractions

See also : List of cultural assets in Villigen

literature

• Max Baumann: Stilli. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Michael Stettler , Emil Maurer : The art monuments of the canton of Aargau . Ed .: Society for Swiss Art History . Volume II: The districts of Lenzburg, Brugg. Wiese Verlag, Basel 1953, DNB  750561750 .
• Max Baumann: Stilli. About ferrymen, boatmen and fishermen in Aargau. The river as the livelihood of the rural population . Chronos Verlag, Zurich 1996, ISBN 978-3-905312-14-0 .

Web links

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

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. 411-412 .
2. ^ National map of Switzerland, sheet 1070, Swisstopo.
3. ^ Robert Benz: How five families once flourished economically in the village with the ferry. Aargauer Zeitung , February 4, 2013, accessed on June 8, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Werner Roshardt: New construction of the aare bridge near Stilli. In: Schweizerische Bauzeitung, 88, 1970, pp. 1061-1064.
5. ^ 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. 284 .
6. ↑ 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 8, 2019 . 
7. ↑ Swiss Federal Census 2000: Economic resident population by religious affiliation as well as by districts and municipalities. Statistical Office of the Canton of Aargau, archived from the original on November 5, 2012 ; Retrieved August 24, 2012 . 
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 June 8, 2019 . 
9. ↑ Catalog raisonné Albert Siegenthaler