Ueken

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Ueken
Coat of arms of Ueken
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Kanton AargauKanton Aargau Aargau (AG)
District : Laufenburgw
BFS no. : 4179i1 f3 f4
Postal code : 5028
Coordinates : 646 033  /  259528 coordinates: 47 ° 29 '6 "  N , 8 ° 2' 58"  O ; CH1903:  646 033  /  259528
Height : 400  m above sea level M.
Height range : 360–559 m above sea level M.
Area : 5.10  km²
Residents: 882 (December 31, 2019)
Population density : 173 inhabitants per km²
Proportion of foreigners :
(residents without
citizenship ) 		17.8% (December 31, 2019)
Website: www.ueken.ch
Location of the municipality
Deutschland Kanton Basel-Landschaft Kanton Solothurn Bezirk Aarau Bezirk Baden Bezirk Brugg Bezirk Lenzburg Bezirk Rheinfelden Bezirk Zurzach Eiken Frick AG Gansingen Gipf-Oberfrick Herznach Hornussen AG Kaisten AG Laufenburg AG Mettauertal Münchwilen AG Oberhof AG Oeschgen Schwaderloch Sisseln Ueken Wittnau AG Wölflinswil ZeihenMap of Ueken
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Ueken ( Swiss German : ˈykχə ) is a municipality in the Swiss canton of Aargau . It belongs to the Laufenburg district and is located in the southeast of the Fricktal region .

geography

The village is located in the Staffeleggtal , a side valley of the Sissle . Ueken consists of two parts of the village, the upper village in the south and the slightly offset lower village in the north. The valley, which is around 200 meters wide, is bordered on both sides by hills of the Table Jura , which rise steeply in the lower area and merge into extensive plateaus in the upper area. These are the Hinterberg ( 525  m above sea level ) in the northeast, the Egg ( 518  m above sea level ) in the east, the Birch ( 498  m above sea level ) in the southeast, the Hübstel ( 529  m above sea level) . ) in the southwest and the extensive Chornberg plateau in the west. The individual hills are separated from each other by short, deeply cut side valleys.

The area of ​​the municipality is 510 hectares , of which 200 hectares are forested and 51 hectares are built over. The highest point is at 555  m above sea level. M. on the Kornberg plateau, the deepest at 370  m above sea level. M. am Staffeleggbach. Neighboring communities are Frick in the northwest, Hornussen in the northeast, Zeihen in the east, Herznach in the south and Gipf-Oberfrick in the west.

history

The area around Ueken was probably settled during Roman times. In autumn 2015, a total of 4166 Roman coins were unearthed in a cherry tree plantation on the Chornberg, dating from around AD 295. The first mention of Itken took place in 1337 in a land register of the Counts of Habsburg-Laufenburg . The place name comes from the Old High German Utinghofun and means "courtyards of the Uto clan". In 1386 the entire ownership of the Habsburg-Laufenburg family passed to the older line of the Habsburgs . After the Waldshut War of 1468, they pledged the entire Fricktal to Burgundy . When the Burgundians were defeated by the Confederates during the Burgundian Wars , Ueken came under Austrian rule again in 1477.

After the imperial reform of the Austrian Emperor Maximilian I in 1491, Uerken belonged to Upper Austria and was located in the Fricktal region, a subordinate administrative unit of the Rheinfelden cameramen (from 1752 in the Upper Office of Breisgau ). During the Swabian War of 1499, troops from Bern and Freiburg marched through the villages north of Staffelegg and down to Frick . In 1609 there was a major fire as a result of a lightning strike that destroyed 30 houses and barns with stocks of grain and hay. In the 17th century there were hardly any longer times of peace. The Rappenkrieg , a peasant uprising, lasted from 1612 to 1614. The Thirty Years War , which also affected the Fricktal between 1633 and 1638, threw the village back in its economic development. Foreign troops also moved through the region during the War of the Palatinate Succession (1688–1697).

In 1797 the Fricktal became a French protectorate after the Peace of Campo Formio . During the Second Coalition War , the front line between the armies of France and Austria ran here . On February 20, 1802, the canton of Fricktal was founded , which joined the Helvetic Republic in August . The village in the Frick district had thus become Swiss. Since March 19, 1803, Ueken has belonged to the canton of Aargau. In the same year the separation from Herznach and the formation of an independent community took place.

In 1804 the municipality granted the politician and writer Heinrich Zschokke citizenship. After the expansion of Staffeleggstrasse , Ueken experienced an economic boom. From 1810 to 1834 road tolls were levied in Ueken for driving on the pass road. After the Bözberg Railway opened in 1875, the importance of the transport industry quickly declined. The population stagnated for almost the entire 20th century. Since the beginning of the 1980s, however, it has more than doubled due to increased construction activity.

Attractions

coat of arms

The blazon of the municipal coat of arms reads: "In yellow and black water wheel with eight blades." Although the fundamental decision to introduce a coat of arms had already been made in 1945, the matter dragged on for years due to the chronic overload of the cantonal coat of arms commission. Various motifs have been suggested including plow, ear of wheat, and horseshoe. Finally, in 1963 the choice fell on a water wheel, which refers to the mill, which is under homeland security.

population

The population developed as follows:

year 1768 1850 1900 1930 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010
Residents 224 319 279 329 335 338 329 360 470 687 861

On December 31, 2019, 882 people lived in Ueken, the proportion of foreigners was 17.8%. In the 2015 census, 38.4% described themselves as Roman Catholic and 18.8% as Reformed ; 42.8% were non-denominational or of other faiths. 94.2% said German as their main language in the 2000 census , 1.2% English and 1.0% Albanian .

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 Laufenburg is the first instance responsible for legal disputes . Ueken belongs to the Friedensrichterkreis X (Mettau).

Municipal council Official title
Robert Schmid Mayor
Karlheinz Lenzke Vice-Captain
Max Ries Municipal council
Rolf Kohler Municipal council
Doris Frey Councilor

economy

Volg shop, bus stop and Café Cholm in the center of Ueken

According to the company structure statistics (STATENT) collected in 2015, Ueken has around 140 jobs, 33% of them in agriculture, 24% in industry and 43% in the service sector. Most of the employed are commuters and work in the larger communities of the Fricktal and in the Aarau region .

Viticulture has always been of great importance . On the exposed southern slope of the Egg, an area of ​​5.8 hectares was planted with vines in 2018. More than a dozen different varieties are grown, with Blauburgunder , Chardonnay , Pinotage and Sauvignon Blanc predominating.

traffic

Ueken is located on Hauptstrasse 24 across Staffelegg , the most important connection between Aarau and the Fricktal. Two and a half kilometers north of Ueken there is a motorway connection to the A3 near Frick . The connection to the public transport network is via a post bus line that runs from Aarau train station to Laufenburg .

education

The community has a kindergarten and a school house where primary school is taught. All upper levels ( district school , secondary school and junior high school ) can be attended in Frick . The closest grammar schools are the Alte Kantonsschule and the Neue Kantonsschule , both in Aarau .

Personalities

Web links

Commons : Ueken  - 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 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. 427-428 .
  4. ^ National map of Switzerland, sheet 1069, Swisstopo.
  5. ↑ Standard area statistics - municipalities according to 4 main areas. Federal Statistical Office , November 26, 2018, accessed on May 11, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Spectacular find: Aargau farmer comes across Roman coin treasure. Aargauer Zeitung , November 19, 2015, accessed on November 19, 2015 .
  7. ^ Renward Cysat, Collectanea chronica, Vol. 2, p. 908 (Lucerne, 1970).
  8. ^ 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. 293 .
  9. ↑ 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 8, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Resident population by religious affiliation, 2015. (Excel) In: Population and Households, Community Tables 2015. Statistics Aargau, accessed on May 11, 2019 .
  11. ↑ 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 8, 2019 .
  12. ↑ circles of justice of the peace. Canton of Aargau, accessed on June 19, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Statistics of the corporate structure (STATENT). (Excel, 157 kB) Statistics Aargau, 2016, accessed on May 8, 2019 .
  14. ↑ Grape harvest control 2018 Canton Aargau. (PDF, 2.4 MB) Agricultural Center Liebegg, 2019, accessed on June 19, 2019 .