Küttigen

Kirchberg

Kuettigen (Swiss German: χʏt ː iɡə ) is a municipality in the district of Aarau in the Swiss canton of Aargau. The village is north of the main town Canton Aarau in a tributary of the River Aare.

Geography

The northern boundary of the municipality extends to the main ridge of the Jura Mountains along, between the Wasserflue (866 m above sea level. M., second highest in the Aargau ) in the north- west and the Küttiger Homberg ( 776 m above sea level. M. ) in the northeast. Main drain of the municipality is the Aabach, which originates below the 674 meter high pass transfer Benkerjochs. He breaks through after about a kilometer Benkerklus, a gorge between the Egg ( 776 m above sea level. M. ) in the west and the Acheberg (709 m above sea level. M. ). After three more kilometers it flows in the Zurlindeninsel into the Aare. Another pass into the Frick Valley is the 621 meter high Staffelegg. Near the Horenbach, the Asperchlus between the Acheberg to the west and to the east by Küttiger Homberg stops after about one kilometer and finally the Aare in the Aabach opens arises.

The municipality consists of two districts. In the middle Aabachtal is the main settlement Kuettigen. Adjoining on the south-west of the township Rombach, that between the Buechwald ( 498 m above sea level. M. ) and the west bank of Aabachs is. Something shifted in Horenbachtal are the districts Horen and Kirchberg. All four districts are loosely grown while Rombach merges seamlessly into the development of Aarau.

The area of the municipality is 1189 hectares, of which 591 hectares are covered by forest and built over 190 hectares. The highest point is 866 meters on the ridge of Wasserflue, the deepest at 360 meters on the river Aare.

Neighboring municipalities are Oberhof in the northwest, Densbüren in the north, Thalheim in the northeast, beaver stone in the east, the south and Aarau AG Obererlinsbach in the West.

History

Findings point to a settlement as early as the Neolithic and the Bronze Age. Excavations on the southern slopes of Kirchberg in 1906 remains of a Roman estate came to light. Various brick temple and Terra sigillata vessels as well as a coin of the Emperor Claudius Gothicus indicate that the building was occupied by the second half of the 1st until the end of the 3rd century. Around 450 the Alamanni settled. The first mention of Chutingen place in the year 1036, when Ulrich of empires, Count of Lenzburg, generous donations to the pin -actuated Beromunster. The place name comes from the Old High German Kuttingun and means " among the people of Kutto ".

1277 built by the Lords of Kienberg above the Benkerklus on the Egg- burr the castle Königstein, have been preserved of the few remnants. From the castle, they ran their little bailiwick, which also included Obererlinsbach next Kuettigen. From 1335 to 1535 the village was owned by the Order of St. John, until the monks were forced from the city of Berne. Kuettigen was now a part of the well-known under the name Bernese Aargau subjects area. 1528 resulted in the Bernese the Reformation. In the 16th and 17th century plaster and alabaster was mined on the slopes.

In March 1798, the French marched into Switzerland, the disempowered " Gracious gentlemen " of Bern and proclaimed the Helvetic Republic. Kuettigen since then is the canton of Aargau. 1804 built the new canton and the road over the Staffelegg. The industry continued in 1822 with the construction of a paper mill feeder. In the second half of the 20th century, the economic orientation to Aarau and Kuettigen solidified developed into a sought-after residential area. Since 1950 the population has increased by more than two times.

During the Second World War, the army fortified the Benkerchlus with two bunkers, one at the bridge of the Benkenstrasse, the other behind the " mudslide ". In addition, several anti-tank barriers were erected, one of which was buried by the " mudslide ". The mobile anti-tank obstacles ( piles that could be plugged into covered pits in the street) were put away in a renewal of the road in the 1990s.

Natural events

On the night of 23 on February 24, 1999, triggered a 100- meter-long piece of the northern flank of the Brunnebergs and went down as a debris flow. At a length of about one kilometer and a width of up to 80 meters, the landscape was buried under mud. This also parts of a historic path to Wasserflue were covered. Without further ado, had the fish creek, a tributary of the Aabachs, placed in a tube and its run are shifted so that the prompt is anna Opalinus not fall into the stream and was able to liquefy. The debris flow stopped immediately adjacent to the tubes of the stream.

Attractions

• The first mention of the church took place in Kirchberg 1036. It is located about one kilometer south-east of the village center on the Kirchberg, a rocky spur near the banks of the Aare. The church tower is built in the Romanesque style and dates back to the Middle Ages. The nave and the choir, however, are both built around 1500 in late Gothic style. 1851 was added a small porch and 1868 the tower was increased. Hermannsburg lived for some time in the rectory to Kirchberg; some decades earlier Paul Haller pastor been in Kuettigen, from this time, he had also won the cloth to his vernacular epic " s'Juramareili ".

• The " Türmlischuelhuus " in the village was built in 1938, has five classrooms and a clock tower with a bell that rings at 11 clock and 16 clock. This is because once the workers at 11 clock went home to eat for lunch and had a 16 clock closing time.

• The ruin Horen, called on topographic maps as " ruin Rosenberg ", located on the northwestern end of the Kirchberg at an altitude of 451 meters. It is not known how the castle was called correctly, yet the builders or the year of manufacture. Archaeological investigations have shown, however, that the ruins in the 12th century was inhabited.

• The ruins of Königstein is from a castle that was built by the Habsburgs. It is located 610 meters northeast of the fountain mountain.

• The Schällebrugg is an old stone bridge built by prisoners. The name testifies that the chains had rattled the building. In the late 1990s, the bridge was paved, as it served as the entrance to a construction site. It is located in the extension of the new Staffeleggstrasse the Gibel. Paul Haller mentioned the bridge in his poem " De walnut Schällebrugg a dr. '

• The old customs house, which was at the time of the border crossing with Austria on the Benkerjoch as a border crossing point of Switzerland in operation, located on the Benkenstrasse 1

• The old mill behind the Restaurant Linde is currently being restored by volunteers, as their mill wheel is in a very schitteren state.

• The old school house, which is at the junction of the main road in the Benkenstrasse and Staffeleggstrasse served previously as a community meeting place, and thereafter as a schoolhouse.

• The wooden wine press stands in an open shelter at Küttiger wine Wehrli at the junction of the fire - arable from the Benkenstrasse. Previously she was in the house at the junction of Gold Street in the arable Benkenstrasse, which is therefore also called " old wine cellar ."

• The Papirmüli, the last house on the Benkenstrasse towards Oberhof, built in the 19th century to make it paper from rags. The nearby Fischbach a pressure tunnel was created from the bridge of Benkenstrasse ago, which then led to the mill into over the Benkenstrasse. This is still well preserved today. The effluent from the mill was then routed back through another tunnel in the creek. Again, this is still preserved in large parts, but barred, since the output is on the site of the lamp Waldmann. The house now serves as a residence and studio.

Coat of arms

The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is: " oblique split from black with white oblique links beams and yellow. » The coat of arms used from 1872 showed a yellow quince (Swiss German: Chüttene ) with green leaves on a white ground. This was, however, a misinterpretation of the place name, which is why the historical coat of arms of the lords was introduced by Kienberg as a municipal coat of arms in 1948. The Solothurn community Kienberg performs the exact same coat of arms.

The old coat of arms can still be seen in the Karl Moser- house of the old Cantonal School in Aarau on the third floor as a window picture.

Population

Population development:

On December 31, 2013 5931 people lived in Kuettigen, the proportion of foreigners was 15.1 %. At the 2000 census, 54.2 % were reformed, 24.1 % Roman Catholic, 1.6% Orthodox Christian and 5.1 % Muslim; 1.1% belonged to other faiths. 89.4 % identified German as their main language, 2.6 % speak Italian, 2.1% Albanian, Serbo-Croatian 1.5%, 0.8 % French, 0.7 % Turkish.

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 Aarau. Kuettigen part of the justice of the peace circle Kirchberg, which includes the municipalities of beaver stone, Densbüren, Obererlinsbach and Kuettigen.

Economy

In Kuettigen there according to Census 2008, approximately 1200 jobs, of which 6% in agriculture, 27 % in industry and 67 % in services. Covering an area of ​​four hectares of wine production. The economic events directed from all over to Aarau, most workers commute to the neighboring canton's capital. Kuettigen is thus a typical residential community on the edge of a medium-sized agglomeration.

Traffic

By Kuettigen Main road 24 The community is accessed from the Aarau train station by three bus lines, a local bus number of bus operation Aarau and two postal routes on Benkerjoch and Staffelegg to Frick. In July 2004, began after years of planning, which were marked by numerous objections, the construction of a bypass road. It was opened in December 2010 and leads from tube on a new Aarebrücke and partly underground by the Horenbachtal to Staffelegg - pass road.

Education

Kuettigen has four kindergartens, two school houses in which the primary school, secondary school and secondary school are housed. The closest school district is located in Aarau, as well as the district school (Gymnasium). Since 1979 is has Kuettigen location of the cantonal Sprachheilschule.

Specialties

The cultivation of Küttiger carrot, a Karottenart is, has always been maintained in Kuettigen of the farmers. The carrots have a white, tapered root and an intense, tart flavor.

Personalities

• Karl Blattner (1805-1883), the Council of States and Government
• Adolf Frey (1855-1920), writer and literary historian
• Petra Henzi (* 1969), mountain biker
• Edmund Landolt (1846-1926), ophthalmologist