Hendschiken

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Hendschiken (Swiss German: Haen ː tʃikχə ) is a municipality in the district of Lenzburg in the canton of Aargau. It is located in the lower Bünztal, two kilometers east of the district municipal seat.

Geography

The village is about two hundred meters west of the Bünz in a flat plane, which had been largely mired in early times and was drained in the early 20th century. On the western boundary of the municipality, the Lütisbuech (538 m above sea level. M. ) and the Rain ( 519 m above sea level. M. ), two spurs of the Riet mountain that forms the natural border of the valley rise. Apart from the actual village there are three districts, which have a completely different like character. To the west, at the junction of the terminal moraine of Rain Othmarsingen, lies the industrial area Horner. Buel is a rural hamlet embossed on a plateau on the eastern slope of the Lütisbuech. Steinacker on the eastern shore of the Bünz is a modern residential estate.

The area of the municipality is 352 hectares, of which 86 hectares are forested and built over 62 hectares. The highest point is 535 meters far from the peak of the Lütisbuech, the deepest at 398 meters at the Bünz.

Neighboring municipalities are Othmarsingen in the north, Dottikon in the east, Villmergen the southeast, and Dintikon BANGALORE in the south and in the west of Lenzburg.

History

1921 and 1933, the remains of a Roman aqueduct have been discovered that supplied the Vicus at Lenzburg with water. The first mention of Hentschikon took place in 1160 in the Acta Murensia the monastery Muri. The village name comes from the Old High German " Hanzinghofun " and means " in the courts of the clan of Hanzo ".

In the Middle Ages the land was fragmented and belonged numerous ecclesiastical and secular lords, including the monasteries Muri, Säckingen and St. Urban, and the Lords of Hallwyl, the Counts of Lenzburg and the Counts of Habsburg. Large parts of it were in the 14th century to the Habsburg family monastery Königsfelden. The Habsburgs were given in 1264 by the Counts of Kyburg high justice, while the lower courts for more than five hundred years went to the Hallwyler. Ecclesiastical Hendschiken belonged to the parish Staufberg on the homonymous hill.

1415 conquered the Swiss Aargau; Hendschiken now belonged to the subject territory of Berne, the so-called Bernese Aargau. The village formed its own judicial district of Lenzburg in office and possessed the right to vote after the death of the Vogts his successor. 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. Hendschiken since then is the canton of Aargau.

The straw-plaiting and weaving cotton led in the 18th and 19th centuries, a first economic boom. On June 23, 1874, the railway line Rupperswil Wohlen opened the Aargau Southern Railway, the branch line to Brugg followed on 1 June 1882. This has favored the creation of many small businesses. In the second half of the 20th century, the railway station was an industrial area. The development of the population has always been subject to strong cyclical fluctuations, but generally had a slight growth. Since the early 1980s it has increased by almost one third.

Coat of arms

The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is: ". Azure, left innensichtiger gestulpter yellow glove » The coat of arms with the glove (Swiss German: Händsche ) has existed since at least 1621 and was one of the non- noble family of Hendschikon who was in the service of the pen Beromunster. The 1811 Seal of community -created Hendschiken shows a aussensichtigen glove. The community led in 1954 again the older variant.

Attractions

Population

Population development:

On December 31, 2013 1040 people lived in Hendschiken, the proportion of foreigners was 15.3 %. At the 2000 census, 58.5 % were reformed. 25.2 % Roman Catholic, and 2.1 % Muslim; 0.6 % belonged to other faiths. 95.1 % identified German as their main language, 1.1 % speak Italian.

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 has jurisdiction Lenzburg. Hendschiken part of the justice of the peace circle Othmarsingen.

Sister city is Pfeffingen, a district of Albstadt in the German state of Baden- Württemberg.

Economy

In Hendschiken there according to census of 2008, around 370 jobs, of which 10% in agriculture, 18 % in industry and 72 % in the service sector. In addition to numerous small businesses focuses on providing a machine and apparatus factory jobs. Most workers are commuters and work in the larger towns in the area such as Lenzburg, Villmergen or Wohlen.

Traffic

Hendschiken is conveniently located. About three hundred yards west of the village the important Main road 25 ( Lenzburg - train ). The Lenzburg connecting the A1 motorway is two and a half kilometers away, the connection Mägenwil three kilometers. At the Railway Station, which is located about a kilometer from the village center in the industrial area Horner, find trains to Aarau, Muri, Red Cross and Othmar singing ( there following the line S3 S-Bahn Zurich and to Brugg ). Morning and evening also direct connections to Zurich are available.

Education

The municipality has a kindergarten and a primary school. The junior high school and the secondary school can be visited in Othmarsingen, the district school in Dottikon. The nearest district school (high school ) is located in Wohlen.