Telli

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One of four living rows in the Telli, which are also known as "dams"

The Telli is a quarter in Aarau in Switzerland . It's about one and a half kilometers east of the old town. The quarter is generally known for the large housing estate consisting of four elongated buildings with around 2500 inhabitants. It was created between 1971 and 1991 according to plans by Hans Marti . The settlement, which is listed in the Swiss inventory of cultural assets of regional importance , also includes a cantonal administrative center in the tallest building in the canton of Aargau and a shopping center.

description

Administration tower and shopping center

The quarter is on both sides of Tellistrasse, which connects Laurenzenvorstadt with Hauptstrasse 24 . The development is mainly concentrated on the northern side, towards the Aare . The western part is designed in the style of a garden city , consisting of single-family houses and row houses. In this area is the Telliring , a circular park. This was the scene of the first Federal Gymnastics Festival in 1832 and is now mainly used for the morning celebration of the May procession .

The middle part of the quarter is dominated by the large housing estate. It comprises four elongated rows of living quarters in a park-like landscape. These buildings, which are also known colloquially as “dams”, are up to 250 meters long, stepped in terraces and slightly angled in the middle. They are up to 50 meters or 19 stories high. Around 2500 people live in 1258 apartments, which corresponds to around one eighth of the city's population in Aarau. Motor vehicles can only be accessed underground. The residents have various leisure options available, for example a mini golf course, a community center and a small animal zoo. Most of the apartments are rented out, but there are also condominiums . The landlords are Livit AG , Wincasa , Barrier Immobilien and the local community of Aarau.

The Telli shopping center is part of the settlement. It owns over 20 stores, including the retail chains Coop and Denner . Next to it is the Telli high-rise, with a height of 85 meters the tallest building in the canton of Aargau . The sole user is the cantonal administration; this is where the offices of the financial administration, the tax office and the agricultural department are located. Adjacent to this is the command center of the Aargau canton police with the district prison. On the opposite side of Tellistrasse there is a sports facility and an indoor swimming pool.

The area east of the large housing estate is an industrial and commercial zone. Important facilities include the operations center of the Aarau bus company , the headquarters of Pneu Egger and the television studio of Tele M1 . An important cultural center is the KiFF (culture in the feed factory) with the factory palace . The Aarau wastewater treatment plant is located in the very north-east, near the mouth of the Suhre and Aare .

history

Agriculture and industry

The history of the Telli goes back to the early Middle Ages . During construction work on a single-family house on Philosophenweg in 1936, the massive foundation masonry of a former church from the 10th or 11th century came to light, with numerous graves in the area. As part of an emergency excavation , the Aargau cantonal archeology investigated the find under scientific supervision in 1959/60, secured it and researched it in terms of church history. The building was an east-facing single-nave hall church with a nave and choir . It stood on the south bank of a ford across the Aare. Due to its location in a flood-prone zone, the associated village, known as “zen Husen” (by the houses), was around a kilometer away in the area of ​​today's Vorderen Vorstadt . The church seems to have been carefully demolished in the second half of the 13th century, only the foundation remained. The reason for this was the construction of today's Aarau City Church in the old town that was just emerging at the time. It has not yet been investigated whether there are elements of the Telli church in its structure.

The field name has been handed down since the 14th century and denotes a deepening of the area. For centuries the Telli was used for agriculture, mainly as pasture land or for fruit growing. The factory owner Daniel Frei built one of the first chemical factories in Switzerland in Telli in 1813 and mainly produced hydrochloric acid . His son, who later became Federal Councilor Friedrich Frey-Herosé , took over management of the company in 1821. The "Chemische Fabrik Frey" later specialized in chemicals for photography and at the turn of the century also manufactured cameras in its in-house joinery , but in 1929 had to stop production. From 1822, Frey-Herosé also operated looms . He expanded this business area by setting up a mechanical cotton weaving mill next door in 1836/37. After the weaving mill was closed in 1899, Chocolat Frey, founded by younger relatives in 1887, took over the factory building a year later . In 1967 the entire chocolate production was relocated to Buchs .

From the 1820s, there was a wool dyeing factory in the Lower Telli . Their owner August Mühlberg sold the business to Adolf Jenny in 1876. This expanded production to include the dyeing of cotton , bast fibers and haberdashery . Jenny and his descendants also built up an estate , which around 1950 covered an area of ​​over 20 hectares . In 1900 another company, the "Chemische Fabrik AG", was established. From 1912 onwards, she produced the sulphurous sleeping pill, Sulphonal , which caused enormous odor nuisance and prompted residents to file numerous lawsuits. The problem resolved itself when the company went bankrupt in 1921. One year later, Kunath Futter AG took over the site and produced animal feed until 1988 . The former feed factory has been used by the KiFF cultural institution since 1990 .

Creation of the large housing estate

The Vordere Telli in the west was built over in the 1920s to 1950s according to the garden city philosophy; a single-family housing estate was created with over 100 houses. The Mittlere Telli with the Jenny-Landgut initially remained untouched, but in view of the population growth and the generous amount of land used up to now, the city sought a rational land use. At the end of the 1960s, the Jenny dye works wanted to sell its land, which was also Aarau's last large building land reserve, and relocate its headquarters to Zofingen . The company entered into negotiations with the city and other landowners, who agreed on a concept for building a small satellite town. After the municipal assembly had approved the project in principle in 1969, the landowners announced a design competition in July 1970, whereupon six architectural offices submitted their designs.

The competition program was designed in such a way that the architects had to use the element components of the “Rastel-Granit” brand developed by the project partner Horta AG . A largely "green city" was planned with underground access roads, schools, shopping centers and community facilities. The Sengelbach flowing through the area was also not allowed to be covered. In December 1970, the competition commission decided in favor of the project by Hans Marti and his partner Hans Kast, which envisaged four elongated rows of living spaces and three high-rise buildings. Compared to the other drafts, it had the advantage that it could be implemented in stages.

Command center of the canton police

The first phase was implemented between 1972 and 1974, mainly by guest workers from Italy . At that time, the residential line A on Rütmattstrasse as well as the shopping center and a high-rise building on Tellistrasse were built. Shortly afterwards, Horta AG, which had been the site manager, went bankrupt as a result of the oil crisis . On April 28, 1976, the Great Council of the Canton of Aargau decided with 84 votes to 82 to buy the completed high-rise in order to accommodate a significant part of the cantonal administration, which was then spread over numerous locations. The construction of two more high-rise buildings did not materialize; instead, the police station was built on the designated area. The second phase followed from 1982 to 1985 with the residential rows B and C on Delfterstrasse. From 1987 to 1991, the third phase with residential row D on Neuenburgerstrasse concluded.

literature

  • Local citizen community Aarau (Ed.): Aarauer Neujahrsblätter . tape 92 . here + now , Baden 2018, ISBN 978-3-03919-429-2 .
  • Alfred Lüthi, Georg Boner, Margareta Edlin, Martin Pestalozzi: History of the city of Aarau . Verlag Sauerländer, Aarau 1978, ISBN 3-7941-1445-0 .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hermann Rauber: The myth of the Tellirings. In: Aarauer Neujahrsblätter 2018. pp. 43–46.
  2. ↑ Andreas Krebs: The Tellianer of Aarau. (PDF, 2.63 MB) aaround, October 6, 2009, accessed June 27, 2011 .
  3. ↑ Administrations. Telliportal, 2009, archived from the original on August 12, 2018 ; accessed on May 6, 2019 .
  4. ^ Shops. Telli Shopping Center, accessed June 27, 2011 .
  5. ↑ Georges Peier: The Telli high-rise. (PDF, 1.6 MB) In: Telli-Post. Quartierverein Telli, March 2008, accessed on June 27, 2011 .
  6. ↑ Felix Kuhn: The ford through the Aare and the Telli church. In: Aarauer Neujahrsblätter 2018. pp. 25–35.
  7. ↑ Gabriela Suter: The Telli are changing - from an industrial to a residential area. In: Aarauer Neujahrsblätter 2018, pp. 51–55.
  8. ↑ Gabriela Suter: The Telli are changing - from an industrial to a residential area. In: Aarauer Neujahrsblätter 2018, pp. 57–61.
  9. ^ Lüthi et al .: History of the City of Aarau. P. 704
  10. ↑ Heidi Hess: No dismemberment, a big hit. In: Aarauer Neujahrsblätter 2018, pp. 108–109.
  11. ↑ Heidi Hess: No dismemberment, a big hit. In: Aarauer Neujahrsblätter 2018, pp. 110–113.
  12. ^ Lüthi et al .: History of the City of Aarau. P. 705

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