Turgi

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Turgi
Turgi coat of arms
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Kanton AargauKanton Aargau Aargau (AG)
District : to bathew
BFS no. : 4042i1 f3 f4
Postal code : 5300
UN / LOCODE : CH TGI
Coordinates : 661 346  /  260 741 coordinates: 47 ° 29 '40 "  N , 8 ° 15' 10"  O ; CH1903:  six hundred and sixty-one thousand three hundred and forty-six  /  two hundred and sixty thousand seven hundred and forty-one
Height : 337  m above sea level M.
Height range : 331–558 m above sea level M.
Area : 1.55  km²
Residents: 3000 (December 31, 2019)
Population density : 1935 inhabitants per km²
Proportion of foreigners :
(residents without
citizenship ) 		38.5% (December 31, 2019)
Website: www.turgi.ch
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Location of the municipality
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Turgi , in the Alemannic local dialect Tuurgi [tuːrgi] , is a municipality in the Swiss canton of Aargau . It belongs to the Baden district and is located between Baden and Brugg in the lower Limmat Valley .

geography

Turgi lies between the northern slope of the Gibstorfer Horn, which belongs to the Table Jura, and the southern bank of the Limmat . The Gehling settlement on the main road Brugg-Baden and the eastern part of Wil, which together form the so-called high zone, are located above a steep slope on the gravel terrace. The village center is located on a peninsula thirty meters below in a loop of the Limmat in the former floodplain area. The northern tip of this peninsula is cut by an artificial canal on which the Turgi hydroelectric power station stands.

The area of ​​the municipality is 155 hectares , of which 57 hectares are forested and 74 hectares are built over. The highest point is at 555 meters on the Chörnlisberg, a foothill of the Gibstorfer Horn, the lowest at 333 meters on the Limmat. Neighboring communities are Untersiggenthal in the north, Obersiggenthal in the north-east, Baden in the east and Gibstorf in the south and west. In the area of ​​the city of Baden there is a small exclave consisting of a meadow surrounded by forest.

history

The place name Turgi, first mentioned in 1281, goes back to the name of the medieval Landgraviate of Thurgau , which in the early Middle Ages reached as far as the Aare . The nearby moated castle of Switzerland formed the border between the Thurgau (east of the Reuss-Aare line), the Aargau (between Aare and Reuss ) and the Augstgau (between Aare and Rhine).

Aerial view (1958)

Until the beginning of the 19th century, Turgi consisted only of a ferryman's property on the Limmat. To the east of it was the modest hamlet of Wil. There a farmer came across a Roman milestone while plowing in 1534 , which was set up in 99 AD during the reign of Emperor Trajan on the military road from Vindonissa towards Aquae Helveticae . Today it can be seen in the National Museum in Zurich . The milestone indicated that the city of Aventicum is 85 Roman miles away (equivalent to 125.8 km). At the previous location there is now a true-to-original copy.

The upswing only began when the Bebié family of manufacturers from Zurich selected the loop of the river as a favorable location for the construction of a factory. The foundation stone for the first cotton spinning mill was laid in 1826, the second factory followed in 1833. A river power station and an early industrial workers' settlement were built around the factories . The growth accelerated further with the opening of the Baden – Turgi – Brugg railway on September 29, 1856. The branch line to Koblenz and Waldshut was opened on August 18, 1859.

The contrast between the long-established Gibstorfern (to whose community Turgi belonged) and the Turgemern gradually increased. Although Turgi now had more residents and had the greater tax power, its residents were regularly outvoted at community meetings, as the population of the new village had a high proportion of young people and foreigners who were not entitled to vote. After the Great Council of the Canton of Aargau had approved the third request for independence, the separation from Gibstorf took place on January 1, 1884, and Turgi has been an independent political municipality ever since. The number of inhabitants quadrupled within a century.

Attractions

Old spinning mills with power station

The townscape of Turgis is shaped to a large extent by the industrial buildings and the workers' housing estate of the 19th century, which were built in the classical and neo-Gothic styles. To the south of the railway line, numerous manorial mansions were built around 1900. Most of the buildings have been preserved and are in excellent condition. In recognition of the preservation of industrial culture, Turgi received the Wakker Prize in 2002 . The Reformed Church of Turgi was built in 1960.

coat of arms

The blazon of the municipal coat of arms reads: "In red, a slanting flow of white lines, accompanied by a black gear and a yellow ear." The coat of arms was introduced in 1922 and replaced the one from 1883, which had violated almost every heraldic rule. The sloping river symbolizes the Limmat, the cog wheel symbolizes industry (to which Turgi owes its existence in the first place) and the ear of wheat symbolizes agriculture.

population

The population developed as follows:

year 1900 1930 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010
Residents 877 1441 1642 1860 2395 2704 2625 2400 2903

On December 31, 2019, 3,000 people lived in Turgi, the proportion of foreigners of 38.5% is almost twice as high as the cantonal average. In the 2015 census, 36.8% described themselves as Roman Catholic and 16.9% as Reformed ; 46.3% were non-denominational or of other faiths. In the 2000 census, 73.2% said their main language was German , 7.6% Italian , 3.2% Albanian , 3.0% Serbo-Croatian , 2.5% Turkish , 1.6% Portuguese , 1.5% English and 1.3% French .

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 Baden District Court is responsible for litigation in the first instance . Turgi belongs to the Friedensrichterkreis V (Mellingen).

economy

The industry , to which the village of Turgi owes its development, has been displaced about half by service companies in the last few decades. ABB's Turgi site is on both sides of the Limmat, with the vast majority of the company buildings on the right bank and thus in the Untersiggenthal municipality. Ampegon AG, which emerged from ABB and is still housed in the old spinning mill building, is one of the market leaders for radio transmitters in the short and medium wave range as well as for high voltage and high frequency amplifiers. The electronics manufacturer Enics has a plant in Turgi. There is also a waste incineration plant here.

According to the corporate structure statistics (STATENT) collected in 2015, there are around 1,000 jobs in Turgi, of which 53% are in industry and 47% in the service sector. Many of the employed people commute and work in the nearby towns of Baden and Brugg .

traffic

Old wooden bridge over the Limmat
The SBB Limmat Bridge Turgi

Turgi has excellent transport links. The Turgi Station is located at the SBB -Hauptlinie Zurich - Basel ( Bözberg railway line ) and managed by the S-Bahn Zurich served. Here the route branches off into the lower Aare valley , with trains to Bad Zurzach and Waldshut . The post bus line also runs through the train station from Gibstorf via Untersiggenthal to Würenlingen . The district of Wil and the high zone of Turgi are served by an RVBW bus line. On weekends there is a night S-Bahn ( Winterthur - Zurich HB - Baden - Brugg - Lenzburg - Aarau ) and a night bus from Baden via Turgi and Birmenstorf back to Baden.

The busy main road 3 from Baden to Brugg runs through the Hochzone and Wil . Three road bridges and one railway bridge lead over the Limmat to Untersiggenthal.

education

In Turgi school children can attend kindergarten , primary school and the district school. Young people who attend Realschule and Secondary School have to go to the neighboring villages of Untersiggenthal and Gibstorf . The closest grammar schools are the Baden Cantonal School and the Wettingen Cantonal School .

Personalities

literature

Web links

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

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 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. 891.
  4. ^ National map of Switzerland, sheet 1070, Swisstopo.
  5. ↑ Standard area statistics - municipalities according to 4 main areas. Federal Statistical Office , November 26, 2018, accessed on June 4, 2019 .
  6. ^ 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. 424-426 .
  7. ^ Martin Hartmann, Hans Weber: The Romans in Aargau . Verlag Sauerländer, Aarau 1985, ISBN 3-7941-2539-8 , p. 201 .
  8. ↑ Roman milestone. Municipality of Turgi, accessed June 4, 2019 .
  9. ^ 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. 292 .
  10. ↑ 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 4, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Resident population by religious affiliation, 2015. (Excel) In: Population and Households, Community Tables 2015. Statistics Aargau, accessed on June 4, 2019 .
  12. ↑ 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 4, 2019 .
  13. ↑ circles of justice of the peace. Canton of Aargau, accessed on June 19, 2019 .
  14. ↑ Statistics of the corporate structure (STATENT). (Excel, 157 kB) Statistics Aargau, 2016, accessed on June 4, 2019 .