Würenlos

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Würenlos
Würenlos coat of arms
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Kanton AargauKanton Aargau Aargau (AG)
District : to bathew
BFS no. : 4048i1 f3 f4
Postal code : 5436
8109 ( Fahr Monastery )
UN / LOCODE : CH WLO
Coordinates : 669 850  /  254973 coordinates: 47 ° 26 '31 "  N , 8 ° 21' 53"  O ; CH1903:  six hundred and sixty-nine thousand eight hundred and fifty  /  254973
Height : 415  m above sea level M.
Height range : 374-562 m above sea level M.
Area : 9.03  km²
Residents: 6498 (December 31, 2019)
Population density : 582 inhabitants per km²
Proportion of foreigners :
(residents without
citizenship ) 		18.3% (December 31, 2019)
Website: www.wuerenlos.ch
Würenlos

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Location of the municipality
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Würenlos ( Swiss German : ˈʋʏrəˌloːs ) is a municipality in the Swiss canton of Aargau . It belongs to the Baden district and lies north of the Limmat in the Furttal , on the border with the canton of Zurich .

geography

The village is located at the lower end of the flat Furt valley south of the Gmeumeriwald hill ( 516  m above sea level ) and west of the Bick hill ( 562  m above sea level ) at the end of the Altberg . Towards the south the terrain slopes steeply towards the Limmat . The Furtbach forms a deeply cut ravine before flowing into the Limmat southwest of the village. North of the Gmeumeriwald, the municipality ends in front of the Greppe, a foothill of the Lägern belonging to the Folded Jura . To the east of the village center are the once independent hamlets of Kempfhof and Oetlikon on the Furtbach ; today Kempfhof has grown together with the main settlement. The Aargau exclave of Fahr Monastery, enclosed by the municipality of Unterengstringen (Canton Zurich) , has belonged to the municipality of Würenlos since January 1, 2008.

The area of ​​the municipality is 903 hectares , of which 304 hectares are forested and 219 hectares are built over. The highest point is the summit of Bicks at 562 meters, the lowest is on the Limmat at 385 meters. Neighboring communities are Wettingen in the west and north, Otelfingen in the northeast, Hüttikon in the east, Oetwil an der Limmat in the southeast, Spreitenbach and Killwangen in the south and Neuenhof in the southwest.

history

Various finds indicate that the Würenlos area was already populated during the Neolithic and Bronze Ages. The Roman road from Vindonissa ( Windisch ) via Vitudurum ( Oberwinterthur ) to Brigantium ( Bregenz ) led through what was later to become the municipality. The Romans exploited a quarry with Mägenwil shell limestone here; In addition to the remains of grooves, there are also circular depressions for the extraction of millstones. When the Romans withdrew at the beginning of the 5th century, the Alamanni gradually settled .

Wirchilleozha was first mentioned in a document in 870 in a deed of donation from the landlord Landeloh. This old high German place name means "in the landless of the workers", which indicates that the Alemanni also exploited the quarry. In the Middle Ages, the small communities Kempfhof and Oetlikon emerged. The sovereignty and the jurisdiction of blood were initially with the Counts of Kyburg , from 1273 with the Habsburgs . The lower jurisdiction was owned by the Barons von Steinbrunn from Alsace until 1344 and then passed to the Wettingen monastery , which from 1421 was also the largest landowner.

In 1415 the confederates conquered Aargau. Würenlos was now part of the Wettingen office in the county of Baden , a common rule . In 1528, at the time of the Reformation , a minority of the village population professed the new denomination. Catholics and Protestants used the same church for a little over 400 years until they each moved into their own church in 1937. Denominationally separate schools existed until 1896.

Historic aerial photo by Werner Friedli from 1962

In March 1798 the French took Switzerland and proclaimed the Helvetic Republic . Würenlos was initially a municipality in the short-lived canton of Baden , since 1803 it has belonged to the canton of Aargau. The opening of the national railway from Wettingen to Winterthur took place on October 15, 1877. As a competitor, the so-called Bülach-Baden Railway was opened on October 1 of the same year and was shut down on January 18, 1937.

In 1900, under pressure from the cantonal government, the small neighboring communities of Kempfhof and Oetlikon merged with Würenlos. During the 20th century, Würenlos changed more and more into a residential community for people who no longer worked in agriculture but in industry. At first it was mainly employees of the BBC in Baden, later the village came into the catchment area of ​​the agglomeration of Zurich and the extensive industrial areas in the Limmat Valley .

From 1803 the Fahr Monastery , an exclave in the Zurich canton, was administratively assigned to the municipality of Würenlos. The community provided, among other things, residents' registration and fire inspection. In 2005, the cantonal government announced that it would also assign the area of ​​the monastery to the municipality, as the current state of the cantonal constitution contradicted it. Since January 1st, 2008 the Fahr Monastery has been an integral part of the Würenlos community.

Attractions

Village center of Würenlos
Gasthof Rössli
Fahr Monastery
The Limmat near Würenlos
The Furtbach just before it joins the Limmat

coat of arms

The blazon of the municipal coat of arms reads: "Divided by white and red with the key turned to the left in exchanged tinctures." The shape of the coat of arms corresponds to that of the barons of Steinbrunn. On various images, such as the map of the canton of Zurich from 1667 or the municipal seals of the 19th century, the key appears white in a shield divided into blue and red. The variant used today was introduced in 1934.

population

The population developed as follows:

year 1780 1850 1900 1930 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010
Residents 647 1047 945 1499 1805 2336 2653 3203 4102 4793 5661

On December 31, 2019, 6,498 people lived in Würenlos, the proportion of foreigners was 18.3%. In the 2015 census, 38.3% described themselves as Roman Catholic and 26.1% as Reformed ; 35.6% were non-denominational or of other faiths. In the 2000 census, 92.4% stated German as their main language, 1.5% Italian , 1.2% French and 0.8% each of Albanian and English .

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 . Würenlos belongs to the Friedensrichterkreis IV (Wettingen).

economy

According to the corporate structure statistics (STATENT) collected in 2015, Würenlos has around 2050 jobs, of which 4% are in agriculture, 34% in industry and 62% in the service sector. Many workers are commuters and work in the Baden-Wettingen region or in the Limmattal .

Viticulture is still of some importance . On the steep southern slope facing the Limmat, an area of ​​4.9 hectares was planted with vines in 2018. Six different varieties are grown, with Blauburgunder , Sauvignon Blanc and Riesling × Sylvaner predominating.

traffic

Motorway service station Würenlos , the so-called "Fressbalken"

Kantonsstrasse 295 runs through the village from Baden through the northern Limmattal towards Unterengstringen . At the north-western boundary of the municipality, it crosses with Kantonsstrasse 297, which leads from the Wettingen junction of the A1 motorway through the Furttal in the direction of Regensdorf . Another connection to Regensdorf is Kantonsstrasse 423 via Dällikon . In the municipality there is a rest area with a motorway bridge restaurant named after the municipality. The Würenlos motorway service station is one of the largest structures of its kind in Europe and is popularly known as the "Fressbalken".

Würenlos station is on the Wettingen – Zurich Oerlikon line , which is served by a line from the Zurich S-Bahn . Würenlos is the terminus of two RVBW bus lines ; one via Wettingen and Baden train station after Gebenstorf , the other for the station Killwangen-Spreitenbach . On weekends there is a night bus from Baden to Würenlos.

education

Primary school , secondary school and secondary school pupils are taught in Würenlos . The district school is usually attended in Wettingen . The nearest canton schools (grammar schools) are in Baden and Wettingen.

Sports

In addition to a football and gymnastics club and a swimming club, Würenlos also has the oldest rugby union club in Aargau, the Rugby Club Würenlos.

Personalities

literature

Web links

Commons : Würenlos  - 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. 481-483 .
  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 5, 2019 .
  6. ^ Martin Hartmann, Hans Weber: The Romans in Aargau . Verlag Sauerländer, Aarau 1985, ISBN 3-7941-2539-8 , p. 223 .
  7. ^ 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. 323 .
  8. ↑ 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 5, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Resident population by religious affiliation, 2015. (Excel) In: Population and Households, Community Tables 2015. Statistics Aargau, accessed on June 5, 2019 .
  10. ↑ 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 5, 2019 .
  11. ↑ circles of justice of the peace. Canton of Aargau, accessed on June 19, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Statistics of the corporate structure (STATENT). (Excel, 157 kB) Statistics Aargau, 2016, accessed on June 4, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Grape harvest control 2018 Canton Aargau. (PDF, 2.4 MB) Agricultural Center Liebegg, 2019, accessed on June 19, 2019 .