Strengelbach

Strengelbach
State :	Switzerland
Canton :	Aargau (AG)
District :	Zofingen
BFS no. :	4285
Postal code :	4802
Coordinates :	637 101  /  236576 coordinates: 47 ° 16 '45 "  N , 7 ° 55' 44"  O ; CH1903:  six hundred and thirty-seven thousand one hundred and one  /  236576
Height :	433  m above sea level M.
Height range :	414-531 m above sea level M.
Area :	6.03  km²
Residents:	4860 (December 31, 2019)
Population density :	806 inhabitants per km²
Proportion of foreigners : (residents without citizenship )	27.1% (December 31, 2019)
Website:	www.strengelbach.ch
Village center with church
Location of the municipality

Strengelbach ( Swiss German : ˈʃtræŋʊˌbɑχ ) is a municipality in the Swiss canton of Aargau . It belongs to the Zofingen district and is located in the Wiggertal .

geography

The elongated village is located on the western edge of the Wigger plain and forms an almost completely closed settlement area with the neighboring district capital of Zofingen . In the far south is the «Dörfli», the old village center. The new center further north emerged from a scattered settlement . In the east the Wigger and the Autobahn form the border. The plain is limited by a steep flank up to the Wissberg ( 503  m above sea level ) and the Ramooswald in the north and the Dörfliwald in the south. The west side of these elevations, however, slopes gently towards the valley of the Pfaffneren .

The area of ​​the municipality is 603 hectares , of which 268 hectares are forested and 144 hectares are built over. The highest point is in the Dörfliwald at 530 meters, the lowest at 419 meters on the Wigger. Neighboring communities are Rothrist in the northwest, Oftringen in the northeast, Zofingen in the east, Brittnau in the south and Vordemwald in the west.

history

It is believed that the first settlements arose in the 8th or 9th century in the area of ​​today's «Dörfli». Later settlers settled outside this community in a scattered settlement. It was first mentioned in a document in 1263. The place name comes from the Old High German Strangilbah , which means "stream with many tributaries". Strengelbach was part of the Aarburg office , which was owned by the Counts of Frohburg . They sold it to the Habsburgs in 1299 , who thus had both lower jurisdiction and blood jurisdiction . In 1415 the confederates conquered Aargau. The area around Strengelbach now belonged to the subject area of ​​the city of Bern , the so-called Berner Aargau . In 1528 the Bernese introduced the Reformation .

Aerial view (1964)

In the 16th and 17th centuries the importance of the scattered settlement grew. It was given the designation “outer community” (in contrast to the “inner community”, the Dörfli). In 1759, the Bernese authorities obliged the two communities to share administration and accounting. Dörfli's corporate rights were exempt from these obligations. They are still managed today by the Strengelbach village cooperative . The corporation owns 73 ha of its own forest, its own water supply and 14 ha of agricultural land. Not to be confused with this is the local community . Their estates include 102 hectares of forest. The entire forest property is on the territory of the municipalities of Rothrist and Murgenthal .

The first school house is occupied for the year 1737. In March 1798 the French took Switzerland, ousted the «Gracious Lords» of Bern and proclaimed the Helvetic Republic . The part of the Aarburg office located west of the Wigger initially belonged to the canton of Bern (Langenthal district) and in March 1803 became part of the canton of Aargau. In addition to agriculture, home work was also important for Zofing textile companies from the 18th century . In the 1840s, a knitting factory as well as a yarn and cotton cloth printing factory were established, the latter still in existence today. There were three furniture factories in the 20th century. Gradually Strengelbach geared itself economically to Zofingen.

Attractions

House Kunz

Typical farmhouse

Tower of the Reformed Church

See also : List of cultural assets in Strengelbach

coat of arms

The blazon of the municipal coat of arms reads: "In yellow blue diagonal left river." The coat of arms itself first appeared on the municipal seal in 1811. For a long time, however, there was uncertainty about the color scheme. There is also a variant with a white river in red. However, this coat of arms was very similar to the coat of arms of the neighboring municipality of Brittnau, so that in 1960 they finally agreed on the blue river in yellow.

population

The population developed as follows:

year	1850	1900	1930	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990	2000	2010
Residents	1,284	1,346	1,726	2,439	2,934	3,960	3,815	4,085	4,266	4,550

On December 31, 2019, 4860 people lived in Strengelbach, the proportion of foreigners was 27.1%. In the 2015 census, 34.0% described themselves as Reformed and 27.6% as Roman Catholic ; 38.4% were non-denominational or of other faiths. In the 2000 census, 85.4% named German as their main language, 4.8% Italian , 2.2% Portuguese , 2.1% Serbo-Croatian , 1.6% Albanian and 1.0% Turkish .

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 Zofingen is primarily responsible for legal disputes . Strengelbach belongs to the XVI (Zofingen) judges' circle.

economy

According to the corporate structure statistics (STATENT) collected in 2015, Strengelbach has around 1,400 jobs, of which 2% are in agriculture, 26% in industry and 72% in the service sector. Most of the employed are commuters and work in Zofingen and the surrounding area.

traffic

Strengelbach is on Kantonsstrasse 255 from Zofingen to Langenthal , side streets lead to Rothrist and Brittnau . The A2 motorway runs along the Wigger, the nearest junctions are a few kilometers away in Oftringen and Reiden . Limmat Bus bus routes run from the Zofingen train station via Strengelbach to Vordemwald or Brittnau. On weekends there is a night bus from Olten train station via Zofingen and Strengelbach to Vordemwald.

education

School building Kreuzplatz

The community has three kindergartens and four school houses in which the primary school , the junior high school and the secondary school are taught. The district school can be attended in Zofingen . The closest grammar school is the Zofingen Cantonal School . Strengelbach is the location of an office of the academy for Christian leaders .

Personalities

• Beny Rehmann (1936–2014), trumpeter
• Daniel Humm (1976), cook

literature

• Christian Lüthi: Strengelbach. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Michael Stettler : The art monuments of the canton of Aargau . Ed .: Society for Swiss Art History . Volume I: The districts of Aarau, Kulm, Zofingen. Wiese Verlag, Basel 1948, DNB  366495623 .

Web links

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

• Official website of the Strengelbach community

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. 413-414 .
4. ^ National map of Switzerland, sheet 1108, Swisstopo.
5. ↑ Standard area statistics - municipalities according to 4 main areas. Federal Statistical Office , November 26, 2018, accessed on May 30, 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. 285 .
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 30, 2019 . 
8. ↑ Resident population by religious affiliation, 2015. (Excel) In: Population and Households, Community Tables 2015. Statistics Aargau, accessed on May 30, 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 30, 2019 . 
10. ↑ circles of justice of the peace. Canton of Aargau, accessed on June 21, 2019 . 
11. ↑ Statistics of the corporate structure (STATENT). (Excel, 157 kB) Statistics Aargau, 2016, accessed on May 30, 2019 .