Telliring

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Telliring
Coat of arms Aarau.svg
Place in Aarau
Telliring
Telliring
Basic data
place Aarau
District Telli
Created 1802
use
User groups Fairground
Space design Circular square surrounded by trees

The Telliring is a circular grass field in the Swiss city ​​of Aarau , which is considered the first public gymnasium in Switzerland. It is located in the Telli district east of the old town. The first Swiss Gymnastics Festival took place there in 1832 on the occasion of the founding of the Swiss Gymnastics Association (now the Swiss Gymnastics Association ). The morning celebration of the traditional May procession also takes place here.

history

In 1801 the Bavarian educator Andreas Moser came to Aarau to work as a private teacher for the children of Johann Rudolf Meyer Sohn . A little later he was one of the founders of the canton school founded on January 6, 1802 and received the position as a teacher for agriculture and gymnastics. In order to be able to carry out physical exercises and botanical planting as close together as possible, he planned a space with the help of the students. Even before the facility was completed, Moser had to flee the city in September 1802 due to a religiously motivated smear campaign. Regardless of this, the square was used as a gymnastics facility as intended, making the Telliring the first public gymnastics area in Switzerland.

In order to further beautify the square, the school management carried out fundraising campaigns in 1803 and 1804. According to a plan by geometer Samuel Kyburz from 1809, the square consisted of an inner and outer circle of linden trees for gymnastics, an avenue towards the city, a pond for swimming and ice skating and an arboretum . In the meantime, the school neglected physical education, which is why the city leased the area for private use from 1814 to 1818. Even after that, the students had to organize their gymnastics lessons themselves for a number of years and run a “gymnastics cash register” for the purchase of equipment.

On August 24th and 25th, 1832, academic gymnasts from Basel , Bern , Lucerne and Zurich gathered in Aarau Tellring and held the Federal Gymnastics Festival together with the cantonal students . They also founded the Federal Gymnastics Association here, which is still based in Aarau today (as the Swiss Gymnastics Association ). Since then, the square has been a monument to the Enlightenment educational culture of the early 19th century. From 1836 gymnastics lessons were compulsory, but in winter the students had to switch to rented barns or tavern halls. The eight-cornered gymnasium built in 1843 and still in existence today helped.

panorama

The traditional May procession has always ended in the town church . Since this was not available in 1890 due to renovation work, the festival participants met for the first time in the Telliring for the morning celebration. The idea was so popular that the celebration has been held here every year since then, weather permitting. The writer Charles Tschopp wrote: "The ring of mighty trees with its somewhat deepened inner circle may be reminiscent of a living Colosseum, but in which spectators and players in the arena and stands are one flock and one." On the occasion of the centenary of the canton of Aargau , the official ceremony took place in Telliring on July 3, 1903. In 1958 a community meeting was held here for the first time in the open air.

At the beginning of the 1970s, the city and the canton planned a multi-lane road through the Aare valley and a northern bypass. A large part of the Telliring would have been destroyed. After the city ​​council and the residents' council agreed, a referendum was held. As a result, the voters clearly rejected the project in 1971 and the telliring was retained. After moving to a new sports facility further east, the canton school stopped teaching gymnastics in Telliring in 1974. In contrast, the space is still used by students from the vocational school and the school for design, as well as regularly as a festival area .

Trees

In 1973 the first linden trees from the early days began to die off. A survey at the beginning of the 21st century rated 27 trees as “dying and dangerous” and another 76 as “badly damaged”. The historical tree population was acutely affected by stem rot and honey fungus . In 2004 the city council decided to provide CHF 400,000 for the renovation of the Telliring. After the original concept of a one-off replacement measure had been discarded, the trees were replaced with new plantings in annual stages until 2017. The condition and the safety risk of the individual trees were taken into account. Tree specialists examined them before replacing them and looked for gaps so that the young linden trees received enough light. In order to induce bats to leave the numerous tree hollows before felling, they were lured with bat boxes .

literature

  • Hermann Rauber: The Myth of the Telliring . In: Ortsbürgergemeinde Aarau (Hrsg.): Aarauer Neujahrsblätter . tape 92 . here + now , Baden 2018, ISBN 978-3-03919-429-2 .
  • Irma Noseda , Christoph Schäppi: Aarau city architecture - urban development in ten steps 1240–2001 . AT-Verlag, Aarau 2001, ISBN 3-85502-700-5 .
  • Brigitte Nyffenegger: Outdoor Gymnastics - The Beginnings in Telliring, Aarau. In: anthos 1/2005

Web links

  • Aarau is green. (PDF, 2.79 MB) aarau.ch, August 2009, accessed on May 22, 2010 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hall magic. (PDF, 360 KB) Founding of the Federal Gymnastics Association. nextroom.at, p. 33 , accessed on May 22, 2010 .
  2. ↑ Rauber: The Myth of the Telliring. Pp. 43-44.
  3. ↑ Aarau is green. (PDF, 2.79 MB) aarauinfo.ch, August 2009, p. 4 , accessed on May 22, 2010 .
  4. ↑ Rauber: The Myth of the Telliring. Pp. 44-45.
  5. ↑ Marco Marcacci: Gymnastics Movement. In: Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz ., Accessed on October 15, 2012.
  6. ↑ Rauber: The Myth of the Telliring. Pp. 45-46.
  7. ↑ Rauber: The Myth of the Telliring. P. 46.
  8. ↑ a b Rauber: The Myth of the Telliring. P. 47.
  9. ↑ The city tree. (PDF, 1.69 MB) marc-jean.ch, accessed on May 22, 2010 .
  10. ↑ meeting on 26/04/06 Aarau. (PDF, 94 kB) Association of Swiss Urban Gardeners and Horticultural Offices, April 28, 2006, accessed on May 7, 2019 .

Coordinates: 47 ° 23 '46.7 "  N , 8 ° 3' 17.9"  E ; CH1903:  646.53 thousand  /  two hundred forty-nine thousand six hundred eighty