Leuggern
Parish church and former St. John Coming
Leuggern (Swiss German: Lüggere lykərə, ) is a municipality in the district of the Swiss canton of Aargau Zurzach. It is located near the mouth of the Aare and Rhine and partly on the border with Germany.
Geography
The community is located west of the Aare and consists of several villages and hamlets. The northern portion of the approximately six kilometers long and up to three -mile-wide municipal area is located in the flat and fertile river plain of the River Aare. At the southwestern edge of this level, approximately in the center of the village, the main village Leuggern located (332 m above sea level. M. ).
Approximately one kilometer north of it, by the wooded Herdlenhügel located on the western shore of the reservoir Klingnauer the village Gippingen (320 m above sea level. M. ). Another two miles to the north is located on the Aaremündung the former working class neighborhood Felsenaustrasse (318 m above sea level. M. ). The western and southern part of the village is dominated by the foothills of the Jura. South of Leuggern lie on a raised level above the hamlet Fehrental ( 396 m above sea level. M. ) and Schlattmann (436 m above sea level. M. ), in the southwest the hamlet Hettenschwil ( 369 m above sea level. M. ), Etzwil (415 m above sea. M. ) and Hagen First ( 478 m above sea level. M. ).
The area of the municipality is 1376 hectares, of which 510 hectares are forested and built over 125 hectares. The highest point is 547 meters south-west of Hagen First, the deepest at 312 meters at Felsenaustrasse on the banks of the Rhine.
Neighboring communities are full- Reuenthal in the north-northwest, Waldshut -Tiengen in the north, Koblenz in the northeast, Klingnau in the east, in the southeast Böttstein, Mandach in the south, the west and body Mettauertal city in the northwest.
History
The earliest traces of human settlement date back to the Neolithic period. During the Bronze Age there were two villages in Leuggern and Gippingen. Around 500 BC took the Helvetii, a Celtic tribe, the area in possession. From 58 BC the Romans ruled here, who built several estates. Between 259 and 277 kept the Alemanni, the area around Leuggern occupied before they were pushed back by the Romans. The Rhine formed the northern border of the Roman Empire, at Felsenaustrasse was a watchtower. Around 400, the Romans finally moved back across the Alps. The Alemanni settled the region and gradually supplanted the Romanized Celts.
Gippingen probably originated in the 7th century, Leuggern in the 8th century. Leuggern developed in the Middle Ages to the center of a small dominion. The first mention of the church of Lutgern took place in 1231, when the outdoor Bernau their land bequeathed to the Order of St. John. The place name comes from Old High Liutgeresrein and means " easier slope of Liutger ". The St. John shared their newly acquired possessions to the first Coming Bubikon in the Zurich Oberland. 1250 saw the establishment of the Coming Leuggern. This became the religious and political center of the parish Leuggern, which included the present-day communities Leuggern, Böttstein, Full-Reuenthal and body city. In 1284 Count Louis of Frohnburg -Homberg and his wife gave the Countess Elisabeth of Rapperswil of St. John Coming in Leuggern the village Dogern.
1415 conquered the Swiss Canton Aargau and solved the Habsburgs as rulers from. The parish Leuggern became a part of the county of Baden, a commons regime. It now bordered on front Austria, which had remained with the Habsburgs, 1460 also at the Bernese Aargau. During the Swabian War of 1499 the villages of the parish were destroyed and looted. From 1529 to 1531 held the troops reformed city of Bern occupied the parish, but the population remained Catholic.
In March 1798, the French invaded Switzerland and the parish came to the short-lived Canton of Baden of the Helvetic Republic. It emerged the municipalities Böttstein and Leuggern. During the Second War Coalition in 1799, the front line between the French and Austrians went right through the Aare valley. At the confluence of the Aare and Rhine, the French had built a camp. By requisitions and Zwangseinquartierungen the population suffered great distress.
After 1803, dissolved the Canton of Baden through the Mediation Act of Napoleon Bonaparte and risen in the canton of Aargau, the villages of the parish were reunited into a single municipality. With an area of over 30 square kilometers, it was the largest in the canton. The cantonal government converted the Coming Leuggern initially in a state domain to, but they finally broke 1819. After several changes of ownership, the building of Upcoming been converted into a hospital.
1816 decided the cantonal parliament, the division of the larger municipality in the communities Böttstein, Leuggern and upper abdomen city. It was believed such a large community without real center is not economically viable. 1832 Full and remorse valley separated from upper body City and formed the Commune Full -Reuenthal. Upper body city contrast merged in 1866 with abdominal city. 1902 was the last boundary adjustment, than the small hamlet of Jüppen Leuggern separated and the Commune Full -Reuenthal was added.
The population Leuggerns lived until the early 20th century, largely from agriculture, industrialization did slow feeder. In the course of the railway boom of the 1870s, there were numerous railway projects that were never realized. Aargauische Southern Railway failed in their plan to build a railway from Brugg Leuggern to Waldshut. On August 1, 1892, the railway line stone Säckingen -Koblenz was opened. However, you touched the community just on the northern edge at Felsenaustrasse and was closed on 28 May 1994 to the section Koblenz Laufenburg for passenger traffic.
From 1880, gypsum was mined in the open pit at Felsenaustrasse, 1910 was even a small mine. The plaster was processed at the same place instead of in a factory in the Swiss gypsum Union. Around the factory was a small housing estate. In 1928, the gypsum deposits were exhausted and the factory closed after cement forth until it finally closed its doors in 1990.
By the end of the 19th century, the Aare meandered very strong in Gippingen. Around the turn of the century the river was straightened. Between 1931 and 1935, was created by the construction of a hydroelectric power plant Klingnauer reservoir, which is an important stopover for migratory birds and today a nature reserve. The natural paradise was threatened in 1950 by plans for a river port. This was part of a project for a shipping route from the Rhine to Lake Geneva (see Transhelvetischer channel). It was formed in violent resistance, which led in the late 1980s to the final failure of the over-sized and economically dubious project.
Attractions
Coat of arms
The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is: " In red white Maltese cross on a white ring. » The Maltese Cross was introduced in 1926 in memory of the Hospitaller or Knights of Malta as a municipal coat of arms. The Envelope ring was added in 1973, after the Order of Malta had complained about the unchanged takeover of religious emblem.
Population
Population development:
On December 31, 2013 2136 people lived in Leuggern, the proportion of foreigners was 16.3 %. At the 2000 census, 65.6 % Roman Catholic and 21.5 % were reformed; 3.6% belonged to other faiths. 93.6 % identified German as their main language, 1.8 % speak Italian, Serbo-Croatian 1.6%, 0.8 % French.
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 Zurzach is responsible. At the local level there is a justice of the peace, who is also responsible for the communities Böttstein, Full-Reuenthal and body city.
Economy
According to Census 2008, there are around 900 jobs in the community, of which 19 % in agriculture, 14 % in industry and 67 % in services. Industrial and service enterprises are mainly concentrated in Leuggern, Felsenaustrasse and Gippingen, while the small hamlet are agricultural. The most important employer is the regional hospital Leuggern in the buildings of the former St. John to come. Around three- quarters of workers are commuters and work in the surrounding communities of the lower Aare valley or in the Baden / Brugg.
Traffic
Leuggern lies at the intersection of several roads, the most important of which is the main road 17 Leibstadt about Doettingen towards Zurich. The community is being developed by three postal bus lines: the line Doettingen Racing Castle performs Gippingen and Leuggern, the line Doettingen - Mandach by Leuggern, Hettenschwil and Etzwil. The district Felsenaustrasse is opened up by the line station Koblenz- body city.
Education
The community Leuggern has two kindergartens in Gippingen and Hettenschwil, two primary schools in Gippingen and Leuggern and a district school in Leuggern. The junior high school and the secondary school can be either in the body or Kleindoettingen city (municipality Böttstein ) are visited. The nearest Canton schools ( high schools ) are located in Baden and betting rings.
Sports
The district is considered Gippingen cycling stronghold of Switzerland. The VC Gippingen founded in 1919, organized since 1926 cycling race. The test carried out since 1964, Grand Prix of the canton of Aargau is one of the UCI Europe Tour and has become the major professional one-day race in Switzerland. 1974 took place here also the prologue of the Tour de Suisse instead (winner was then Eddy Merckx ). Since 1979, the VC Gippingen leads on December 31 by the Gippinger reservoir overflow, an athletics national sport event with more than 1,000 participants. Since 1982, each of the driveway, the Hospitallers run is carried out in and around Leuggern.
Personalities
- Alois Schifferle (* 1945), theologian and professor
- Stefanie Vögele ( * 1990), tennis player
- Eduard Zehnder ( born 1940 ), mathematician