Sursee

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Sursee
Coat of arms of Sursee
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Canton lucerneCanton lucerne Lucerne (LU)
Constituency : Sursee
BFS no. : 1103i1 f3 f4
Postal code : 6210
UN / LOCODE : CH SUR
Coordinates : 650 769  /  225048 coordinates: 47 ° 10 '28 "  N , 8 ° 6' 30"  O ; CH1903:  650769  /  225048
Height : 504  m above sea level M.
Height range : 487-527 m above sea level M.
Area : 5.83  km²
Residents: 9955 (December 31, 2018)
Population density : 1708 inhabitants per km²
Proportion of foreigners :
(residents without
citizenship ) 		16.0% (December 31, 2,015)
Website: www.sursee.ch
Sursee: Town Hall Square and Upper Town

Sursee: Town Hall Square and Upper Town
Location of the municipality
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Sursee ( Swiss German Soorsi [ˈsoːrsɪ] ) is a small town, municipality and capital of the constituency of the same name in the Swiss canton of Lucerne .

geography

Sursee is located at a geographical junction at the north-western end of Lake Sempach . The Sure (in Aargau Suhre ) flows in a curved course through the town and then towards the north through the Surseerwald. In Lake Sempach there is a small, nature-protected island (Gamma Island) located in the municipality. Sursee has a quay at the Triechter lake basin with a view of the Alps. The rest of the lake shore is protected and bears the name Zellmoos . The municipality is located between the square Sempachersee, the A2 motorway , Surseerwald (in the north-west) and the Lucerne – Olten railway line . The areas of Allmend north of the A2 and some streets west of the railway line are the exception.

Almost a fifth is covered by forest (Surseerwald) and around a third (30.8%) is used for agriculture. Almost half of the municipal area is settlement area (46.7%). The city is divided into the quarters Altstadt, Eisenbahn Vorstadt, Mariazell and Neufeld.

Sursee borders on Geuensee , Knutwil , Mauensee , Oberkirch and Schenkon . With the communities of Oberkirch, Schenkon and Mauensee, Sursee forms a contiguous settlement area with around 19,000 inhabitants.

population

Population development
year Residents
1798 950
1850 1,627
1900 2,592
1950 4,265
1960 5,324
1970 7'052
1980 7,645
1990 8,143
2000 8,059
2004 8,082
2006 8,403
2007 8,573
2008 8,679
2010 8,941
2011 8,998
2012 9,079
2013 9,160
2014 9,390
2015 9,490

The population grew from 1798 to 1990, with particularly strong growth from 1950 to 1970.

languages

The population uses a highly Alemannic dialect as their everyday language . In the last census in 2000, 86.87% said German, 2.83% Albanian and 2.83% Serbo-Croatian as their main language.

Religions - denominations

The entire population used to be members of the Roman Catholic Church. Today 74.50% are Roman Catholic ( Diocese of Basel ), 9.82% Evangelical Reformed ( Evangelical Reformed Church of the Canton of Lucerne ) and 3.04% Orthodox Christians. In addition, there are 4.73% Muslims, 3.71% non-religious and 1.10% members of other non-Christian denominations. The Orthodox are almost exclusively Slavs from the republics of the former Yugoslavia. The Muslims are of Albanian, Bosniak, Turkish and Kurdish origins. The members of other non-Christian denominations are almost without exception Hindus of Tamil origin (as of 2000).

Origin - nationality

At the end of 2014, 7,955 of the 9,390 inhabitants were Swiss and 1,435 (= 15.3%) were foreigners. The population consisted of 84.7% Swiss citizens. At the end of 2014, the foreign residents came from Serbia including Kosovo (27.0%), Germany (18.1%), Portugal (11.3%), Italy (11.0%), Turkey (2.9%) and Spain (2.2%). 16.6% came from the rest of Europe and 10.9 % came from outside Europe.

history

Aerial photo from 250 m by Walter Mittelholzer (1929)

Place name

Sursee is probably the original name of the Sempachersee , which was transferred to the place where it drains. This original name of the river comes from the river Suhre , a tributary of the Aare .

Prehistory and Alemannic times

As early as the Neolithic and Bronze Ages , the shores of Lake Sempach were populated with small villages. In the Roman era there was a vicus west of the old town , a small Roman town with market and administrative functions. In the 8th century, the first wooden church for a small village community was built on the highest point of the moraine hill on the Sura. As the village expanded over time, stone churches were built around 800 and around the year 1000. To the northeast of the city, an Alemannic burial ground and remains of an early medieval church were excavated in Zellmoos, which is interspersed with sea ​​chalk .

Medieval small town

Sursee was first mentioned historically as Surse, when the liege lord Ulrich I von Lenzburg donated the upper church and an accompanying courtyard to the Beromünster canon monastery .

The small town of Sursee developed around the middle of the 13th century on the basis of the older, village-like settlement. The Count of Kyburg, who succeeded the Lenzburger, gave it the first municipal rights, which after the Kyburger died out in 1264 in the city legal letter of 1299 as already existing rights, such as B. Market rights, guaranteed by the Dukes of Austria and supplemented by other freedoms. During the 14th century, the Dukes of Austria extended these urban privileges with trade and customs rights. Even after the Lucerne conquest in 1415, Sursee knew how to preserve its urban rights and freedoms in the subject of Lucerne. In the late Middle Ages, the city of Sursee developed into a community that expressed its importance as a stage and market place on the old Gotthard route , as an administrative center for important monasteries as well as through lively crafts and trades. The historic old town of Sursee still conveys the image of this late medieval and early modern development. In 1500, an unknown printer was the only work to print the rhyming chronicle of the Swabian War of 1499 by Niklaus Schradin, illustrated with 42 woodcuts .

The more recent times

In Sursee, too, the 19th century was a time of diverse upheavals in politics, society and the economy. Local newspapers emerged, innovative innovations were tried in craft and trade and, in addition to many short-lived attempts, the Sursee furnace factory founded in 1871 (later AG furnace factory and Therma-Werke) developed into the largest industrial company, which employed around 350 workers in its heyday. In those decades, the old town became a modern community, which in 1831 was divided into an inhabitant and civil community (united since 2000) and the corporation community.

A modern center

As the main town of the Sursee office , the city still houses the district court and the governor's office. Responsible for church and pastoral care are the Roman Catholic parish and parish as well as the Evangelical Reformed parish with a large district in the entire office.

In the past hundred years, a significant complex of schools and other educational institutions has emerged in Sursee. It includes the upper level center, the vocational school center with a commercial and industrial vocational school, the cantonal school as a high school diploma and secondary school as well as the education and advice center for dairy farming, housekeeping and agriculture, which has replaced the former agricultural school. Special schools for weaker and disabled children and young people complete the offer. In 1940 the first modern hospital was opened in Sursee, which was cantonalized and expanded at the same time in 1971/72. In recent years, the administration of the Wolhusen and Sursee hospitals has also been merged. The care of the elderly is ensured by the regional nursing home and the St. Martin center for the elderly. With around 10,000 jobs, Sursee is the region's service center.

politics

City council

The city council of Sursee consists of five members and the city clerk and is set up as follows:

  • Beat Leu ( CVP ): Mayor
  • Bruno Peter ( CVP ): town clerk
  • Jolanda Achermann Sen ( SP ): Social Director
  • Bruno Bucher ( FDP ): Construction, Security and Environment
  • Michael Widmer ( CVP ): Chief Financial Officer
  • Heidi Schilliger Menz ( FDP ): Education and culture

Cantonal elections

In the 2019 Cantonal Council elections in the Canton of Lucerne, the share of the vote in Sursee was: CVP 24.9%, Greens 21.4%, FDP 16.3%, SVP 13.4%, SP 15.2%, glp 7.4%.

National Council elections

In the 2019 Swiss parliamentary elections, the share of the vote in Sursee was: CVP 22.7%, SVP 18.2%, SP 17.9%, Greens 17.8%, FDP 14.6%, glp 7.5%.

economy

The local company Comparex Switzerland came under fire in 2011.

traffic

The Surseer train station is the long-distance stop on the Lucerne – Zofingen – Olten line and the starting station for the Sursee-Triengen Railway . In addition, Sursee is the starting point for various bus routes to the surrounding area. These are Sursee-Triengen-Schöftland, Sursee-Buchs LU-Uffikon, Sursee-Schenkon-Beromünster, Sursee-Schlierbach-Etzelwil, Sursee-Ettiswil-Willisau, Sursee-Buttisholz-Wolhusen Spital and Sursee-Eich-Sempach Station.

Sursee is located on the old Baslerstrasse Lucerne – Zofingen (–Basel). Other important road connections are Sursee-Willisau, Sursee-Schöftland, Sursee-Sempach, Sursee-Neuenkirch and Sursee-Beromünster. The town has its own motorway connection to the A2.

Attractions

Sursee has a historic old town with a famous late Gothic town hall and is located on Lake Sempach .

  • Duke Leopold III rested in the St. Urbanhof . of Austria on the eve of the Battle of Sempach , in which the Swiss defeated the Austrian army in 1386. The stately building now houses the city museum. The Sankturbanhof museum has a permanent exhibition and changing art and themed exhibitions.
  • The Swiss Capuchin Museum has been located in front of the city gates since 1960 . The monastery was closed in 1998, bought by the Roman Catholic parish and restored or restored. rebuilt.
  • The Mariazell chapel , known as a place of pilgrimage , is an early baroque sacred building on the forehead moraine above the Triechter .
  • The evangelical reformed church with glass windows by André Thomkins is also worth seeing .
  • The Catholic Church of St. George and the Ossuary Chapel of St. Martin (1497).

Culture and customs

On November 11th, St. Martin's Day , the traditional Gansabhauet will be held in Sursee from 3 p.m. , a remnant of a peasant game about geese, chickens or other poultry that was widespread in the Ancien Régime . Perhaps in Sursee this custom is related to the tithes levied by farmers in the administrative courts of the monasteries Einsiedeln, Muri and St. Urban. But this cannot be proven. At this folk festival, a dead goose is hung on a wire above a stage in front of the town hall. Blindfolded boys or young women, wearing a red cloak and a carved, gilded sun mask, try to separate the goose's head from its torso with a blow of a saber. Between the individual strokes, there is pole climbing as well as sack hopping and chäszänne ( making faces) for the children. In the early evening, a light parade - the Räbelichtliumzug through the dark old town - is carried out as a further element of tradition . Of the 150 or so registrations, 50 women and men are drawn every year. After the first goose, which usually falls after several attempts, another animal is played. The PTT put the custom on a definitive stamp published in 1977 for Sfr 0.35. represent.

Awards

In 2003 , Sursee received the Wakker Prize from the Swiss Homeland Security for special services to the protection of the local image .

photos

  • Town hall square and parish church

  • town hall

  • Swiss Capuchin Museum

  • Upper Town

  • Lower gate

  • City courtyard

  • City Theatre

  • Thieves' tower, houses and gardens at Unteren Graben in Sursee

  • Suhre and houses on Surengasse

Sports

The FC Sursee has its home stadium in Sursee and plays classic in the first league since the 2013/14 season. In addition, Sursee offers a wide range of sports u. a. with floorball, handball, volleyball, basketball, ice hockey, figure skating and badminton.

Twin cities

  • Since 1987 the city of Highland (Illinois), founded by the doctor Kaspar Köpfli (1774-1854) from Sursee, has been a twin town of Sursee.
  • Sursee maintains a predominantly cultural exchange with the Lower Valais town of Martigny . This partnership was initiated by Pascal Couchepin among others at the end of the 1990s and was officially established in autumn 1999. In Sursee, Martigny-Platz ▼ , which was inaugurated in front of the Stadthof in 2003 , indicates this bond.

Personalities

literature

  • Fritz Bossardt: Vademecum through the historic town of Sursee. 3. Edition. Küng, Sursee 1977.

history

  • Jürg Manser and Stefan Röllin: Sursee (municipality). In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  • Andrea Willimann: Sursee. The two capitals of the cantons of Lucerne. On the political, social and economic history of the Lucerne country town from 1798 to 1871 (= Lucerne Historical Publications. Volume 41). Schwabe, Basel 2006, ISBN 3-7965-2156-8 .
  • Emanuel Amrein, Thomas Stillhart: The railway suburb in Sursee. Establishment and development of an urban quarter since 1856. Verlag Surseer Schriften (Stadtarchiv), Sursee 2006, ISBN 3-9520856-4-2 .

Art history

  • Adolf Reinle : The art monuments of the canton of Lucerne. Volume IV: The Sursee Office (= Swiss Art Monuments. Volume 35). Edited by the Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Bern 1956, ISBN 978-3-906131-23-8 .
  • Judith Schütz: Sursee (= Swiss Art Guide. No. 898–899, series 90). Edited by the Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Bern 2011, ISBN 978-3-03797-026-3 .
  • Stefan Röllin, Uta Bergmann: Sursee (= Swiss art guide. No. 593). Edited by the Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Bern 1996.

Web links

Commons : Sursee  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Sursee in the Topographia Helvetiae, Rhaetiae et Valesiae (Matthäus Merian)  - sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Permanent and non-permanent resident population by year, canton, district, municipality, population type and gender (permanent resident population). In: bfs. admin.ch . Federal Statistical Office (FSO), August 31, 2019, accessed on December 22, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Permanent resident population according to nationality category, gender and municipality ( memento of the original from January 1, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Permanent resident population) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bfs.admin.ch
  3. ^ Linguistic Atlas of German-speaking Switzerland , Volume V 1b.
  4. ↑ Balance of the permanent resident population according to demographic components, institutional structure, nationality and gender (Federal Statistical Office, STAT-TAB)
  5. ↑ LUSTAT: Community profile Sursee ( Memento of the original from May 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lustat.ch
  6. ↑ Lexicon of Swiss municipality names . Edited by the Center de Dialectologie at the University of Neuchâtel under the direction of Andres Kristol. Frauenfeld / Lausanne 2005, p. 861.
  7. ^ Hermann Fetz, Christine Meyer-Freuler, Jasmin Gerig: The Vicus Sursee. A small Roman town between the Swiss Plateau and the Alps. Verlag Surseer Schriften, 2003.
  8. ^ Ferdinand Geldner: Die Deutschen Inkunabeldrucker, a manual of the German book printers of the 15th century according to places of printing. Verlag Anton Hiersemann, Stuttgart 1968–1970, 2 volumes, ISBN 3-7772-6825-9 , volume 1, p. 292.
  9. ↑ LUSTAT Statistics Lucerne. Retrieved August 1, 2020 .
  10. ^ Federal Statistical Office : NR - Results parties (municipalities) (INT1). In: Federal Elections 2019 | opendata.swiss. August 8, 2019, accessed August 1, 2020 .
  11. ↑ Sankturbanhof Sursee. Retrieved February 22, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Sursee Monastery. (pdf; 8.0 MB) (No longer available online.) Catholic parish Sursee, archived from the original on January 6, 2015 ; Retrieved December 29, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.pfarrei-sursee.ch
  13. ↑ Simonetta Noseda: The Evangelical Reformed Church Sursee. The stained glass windows by André Thomkins (= Swiss Art Guide. No. 648). Edited by the Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Bern 1998, ISBN 978-3-85782-593-4 .
  14. ↑ Hans-Christian Steiner: The parish church of St. Georg in Sursee (= Swiss Art Guide. No. 791, series 80). Edited by the Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Bern 2006, ISBN 978-3-85782-791-4 .
  15. ↑ Annual program. Association Spatzentreff Sursee and the surrounding area, accessed on April 12, 2017 .
  16. ↑ Postage stamp 0.35 "Folk Customs" , accessed on August 11, 2019