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Castle is a municipality in the district of Kulm in the canton of Aargau. It is located in the upper Wynental, bordering the canton of Lucerne, with an area of 94 hectares, the second smallest municipality in the canton.
Geography
The village is located on the west side of the valley on the slopes of Mount Taurus. The steep gorge of the Doe brook, a tributary of the Wyna, forms the southern boundary of the municipality. In the west, the terrain rises to 861 meters high Taurus mountains. The five municipalities castle, Beinwil, Menziken, Pfeffikon and Reinach are fused to form a coherent agglomeration with more than 17,000 inhabitants, the boundaries are between the once separate villages are barely recognizable.
The area of the municipality is 94 hectares, of which 21 hectares are forested and built over 31 hectares. The highest point is located on 668 meters, the deepest at 558 meters.
Castle is surrounded almost entirely by the area of the municipality Menziken and is therefore almost an enclave. On the south-western borders castle on a length of just over 100 meters to the community Rickenbach in the canton of Lucerne.
History
The origins of the village date back to the 12th century castle, built in the sub - Rinach, the ancestral home of the Lords of Rinach. These were a Ministerialengeschlecht of the Habsburgs and ruled over the upper Wynental. During the Sempacherkriegs in 1386, the castle was destroyed by the Confederates. The 15 -meter high castle ruins in 1872 had to make way for the new building of the school house.
1412 two farms " at the castle " were first mentioned. 1415 conquered the Swiss Aargau; Castle now belonged to the subject territory of Berne, the so-called Bernese Aargau. The village was part of judicial Reinach in the Official Lenzburg. 1528 resulted in the Bernese the Reformation. For centuries the castle had the status of an autonomous Steckhofs and received in 1751 by the city council of Bern municipal law. In March 1798, the French marched into Switzerland, the disempowered " Gracious gentlemen " of Bern and proclaimed the Helvetic Republic. Castle has since been to the Canton of Aargau.
The industry continued early collection; since 1720 they processed cotton into homework. The textile industry was replaced in 1860 by the tobacco industry. Castle and the upper Wynental developed into a center of Swiss manufacture of cigars and achieved international importance. In addition to cigars you put forth, among others, harp, rakes and tiled stoves in Burg. The goldsmith's art possessed of great importance.
In the course of the 20th century, industrial wandered slowly into the more developed neighboring communities and the castle was transformed into a residential community in the agglomeration Oberwynental. Since a few years the castle, Menziken, Pfeffikon and Reinach work closely together in many areas.
Coat of arms
The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is: " in white on green ground single-tower, crenellated, grooved white castle with open windows, left beseitet of green fir. » The crest first appeared in 1811 on the municipal seal. The castle, which joined to a fir tree, reminiscent of the former seat of the Lords of Rinach.
Population
Population development:
On December 31, 2013 977 people lived in the castle, the proportion of foreigners was 33.4 %. At the 2000 census, 42.9 % were reformed. 27.9% Roman Catholic, 14.2% Muslim; 2.2% belonged to other faiths. 81.9 % identified German as their main language, 4.8 % speak Italian, 4.2% Turkish, 3.8% Albanian, Serbo-Croatian 2.6%.
Politics and Law
The Assembly of the voters, the municipal assembly, shall exercise the legislative power. Executive authority is the five-member council. His term of office is four years and he was elected in Majorzverfahren ( majority voting procedure) by the people. He leads and represents the community. To this end, he implements the decisions of the municipal assembly and the tasks that were assigned to him by the cantonal and federal.
For litigation, the District Court in Unterkulm is responsible. Castle belongs to the justice of the peace circle Reinach.
Economy
In the castle there are according to census of 2008, around 240 jobs, of which 4% in agriculture, 73 % in industry and 23 % in the service sector. By far the most important company is the cigar Group Burger sons. While the corporate headquarters remained in the castle, the production site castle was abandoned in favor of Brissago. Other smaller industrial companies manufacture equipment, precision measuring instruments, thread and furniture. Most workers are commuters and work in Reinach or Menziken.
Traffic
Castle is located away from the traffic on the side street between Menziken and Rickenbach. The access to public transport via the circulating every hour postal bus from the train station Menziken, the southern terminus of the Wynentalbahn about Rickenbach to Sursee.
Education
The municipality has a kindergarten and a school house where the primary school is taught. The junior high school, secondary school and the school district can be visited in Menziken. The nearest Canton schools ( high schools ) are located in Aarau and Beromunster.
Personalities
- Adolf Aeschbachhalle (1888-1969), politician
- Hesso of Reinach († 1275/76 ), minstrel