Gallenkirch
Gallenkirch (Swiss German: gɑ.lə.χɪlχ ) is a village in the district of Brugg in the canton of Aargau. It was an independent municipality until the end of 2012 and went into the new community Bözberg on 1 January 2013.
Geography
Gallen church is just over five miles west of the district municipal seat, on a gently undulating plateau in the Jura mountains. Nearly half a kilometer to the west is 560 meters high Bözbergpass, the transition between the Aare Valley and the Frick valley. To the northwest lies a deeply carved ravines in which springs from one of the source streams of Sissle. In the southwest the terrain falls away to Sagenmülital.
The area of the former municipality area was 137 hectares, including 26 hectares were covered by forests and built over 10 hectares. The highest point was 582 meters in the field of wood mats, the deepest at 490 meters in Tobel. Neighboring communities were Unterbözberg in the Northeast, the South and Linn Effingen in the Northeast.
History
The first documentary mention as Gallenkilch was in 1338 in a document of the monastery Säckingen. The village name comes from the Old High German (ze ) Gallinkirihhun and means " at the Church of Gallus ." According to legend, should have the Irish monks Columban and Gallus in 612 locked here. A few weeks later, and about 150 kilometers to the east Gallus founded a hermitage, from which developed the city of St. Gallen. To commemorate the Gallus chapel was built, hence comes the name of the village. The chapel, however, was abandoned in the Middle Ages and into a house, which still exists today Gallus house, rebuilt.
1460 purchased by the city of Bern from the monastery Säckingen sovereign rights over the village in order to secure the important pass crossing over the Bözberg on the border with Austria front. Gallenkirch was now part of the judicial district Thalheim within the Office Schenkenberg and was thus part of the Bernese Aargau. 1528 resulted in the Bernese the Reformation.
In March 1798, the French marched into Switzerland, the disempowered " Gracious gentlemen " of Bern and proclaimed the Helvetic Republic. Gallenkirch since then is the canton of Aargau. Between 1850 and 1980, the population decreased by nearly 40 percent. Since then, it has almost doubled, yet Gallenkirch remains one of the smallest municipalities Aargau.
On 2 December 2011, the municipal assembly approved the merger agreement with the neighboring communities of Linn, Oberbözberg and Unterbözberg. The voters confirmed this decision on 11 March 2012 in a vote of 75 votes to 7. The four municipalities joined 1 January 2013 together with the new community Bözberg.
Coat of arms
The blazon of the former municipality coat of arms is: " Split yellow with geastetem brown wood base and blue with getatztem yellow cross. " This cross commemorates a former Gallus chapel, the log indicates the holy Gallus, has said, according to legend happened a bear wood. The coat of arms was introduced in 1953; the request to change the color of the log in a correct heraldic red or black, rejected the Municipal Assembly in 2002.
Population
Population development:
On 31 December 2013 lived Invalid metadata key 4098 people in Gallenkirch, of which 9.2 % are foreign nationals. At the 2000 census, 55.4 % were reformed and 27.3 % Roman Catholic; 3.3% belonged to other faiths. 95.9 % identified German as their main language.
Traffic
Gallen church is located about 250 meters south of the main road 3 (Basel - Zurich ) over the Bözbergpass and is connected by two side streets with this. Through the village runs the postal bus from Brugg railway station to Linn. On the main road also hold the post cars of the Brugg -Frick.