Mettauertal
Mettau
Mettauertal (Swiss German: mætəbərtɑ ː l) is a municipality in the district of Laufen castle of the Swiss canton of Aargau. It is located in the northeast of the Frick Valley region on the border with Germany, around five kilometers east of the district municipal seat. Mettauertal was created on 1 January 2010 by the merger of the municipalities Etzgen, Hottwil, Mettau, Oberhofen and Wil. With an area of over 21 square kilometers, this community is in area the largest in the canton.
In a geographical sense Mettauertal is a valley which is drained by the Etzgerbach and the Mettauerbach. At the upper end of the Mettauerbachs is Gansingen that has not merged with the other communities.
Geography
The municipality is situated in the Jura plateau between the Aare and Rhine Valley and consists of five villages and a number of scattered hamlets and isolated farmsteads. Main drain is the Etzgerbach. It rises at Hottwil (415 m above sea level. M. ), then flows northwest and west by Wil ( 381 m above sea level. M. ) and Mettau ( 347 m above sea level. M. ), Etzgen happens ( 336 m above sea level. M. ) and flows into the Rhine. Oberhofen (. 364 m above sea level) is situated in a valley beside the Mettauerbach; This stream flows in a northerly direction and flows Mettau in the Etzgerbach.
On all sides lying in the valley villages are surrounded by hills. This usually rise at the bottom of steep and go on increasing in low plateaus. Only Hottwil the slopes are largely uniform. North of Etzgen the narrow shore strip extends along the Rhine from an up to 500 -meter-wide level. The main elevations are Ebni (505 m above sea level. M. ) in Etzgen, Ischlag (508 m above sea level. M. ) and Egghalde ( 566 m above sea level. M. ) at Mettau, white fir head ( 566 m above sea level. M. ), Paving ( 535 m above sea level. M. ) and Upper Ruti (605 m above sea level. M. ) on Wil, Meier heap ( 562 m above sea level. M. ) in Oberhofen and deciduous mountain ( 649 m above sea level. M. ) Hott Wilerhorn (646 m above sea level. m. ) Wessenberg (605 m above sea level. M. ) and Beiberg ( 585 m above sea level. M. ) at Hottwil.
The area of the municipality is 2156 hectares, of which 890 hectares are forested and built over 135 hectares. Mettauertal is thus the area the largest municipality in the canton of Aargau. The highest point is the summit of the 649 meter high hill west of foliage Hottwil, the deepest point is located on 300 meters south-west of the Rhine Etzgen.
Neighboring municipalities are Schwaderloch in the north, body city in the northeast, and Leuggern Mandach in the east, in the southeast Villigen, Remigen in the south, Gansingen in the southwest as well as running castle in the west. In the northwest Mettauertal borders the German communities Albbruck and Laufenburg ( Baden) in Baden -Württemberg.
History
A 1922 gold coin found in Mettau points out that during the Roman era there was a way of Vindonissa by the Mettauertal to the Rhine. During the 4th century, the Rhine formed the northern border of the Roman Empire. The Legio VIII Augusta built in the year 371 at Etzgen three watchtowers, of which, however, no traces have been preserved. From the 5th century, the Alamanni settled in the region.
In the Middle Ages, four of the five villages first mentioned ( Hottwil 1150 Mettau 1254 Wil 1318 Etzgen 1448 ). In the villages Etzgen, Mettau and Wil Counts of Habsburg- Laufenburg practiced the country's domination, from 1386, the elder branch of the Habsburgs. From 1468 on, the villages were pledged to the Burgundians, but came back in 1477 to Further Austria. The Austrian rule ended in 1797 with the occupation of the Frick Valley by French troops. The region was formed in February 1802 Canton Frick Valley, who joined in August of the Helvetic Republic and thus was Swiss. Another course of the story took Hottwils: The Habsburgs pawned the village in 1316 to the Lords of Wessenberg. In Waldshuterstrasse war the village was conquered by the Bernese, the 1528 also introduced the Reformation. Until the conquest by the French in 1798 Hottwil was in the Bernese Aargau.
In 1800 the village Oberhofen emerged as expanding settlements. 1803, the year of foundation of the canton of Aargau, Wil, Oberhofen and Etzgen belonged to the municipality Mettau. Wil immediately formed an independent municipality, followed Oberhofen 1832 Etzgen a year later. Hottwil was independent since time immemorial; in contrast to the other communities, it did not belong to the district of Laufen castle, but to the district of Brugg. Although settled in Etzgen after the opening of the railway line stone Säckingen -Koblenz in 1892 individual industrial establishments to which communities to Etzgerbach and Mettauerbach remained largely dominated by agriculture and developed in the second half of the 20th century to residential communities.
On 20 March 2008 the municipal assemblies of Etzgen, Hottwil, Mettau, Oberhofen and Wil decided to merge the municipality Mettauertal. This decision was confirmed in ballots on 1 June 2008 with clear majorities. The merger was completed on 1 January 2010, the management of the new community is located in Mettau. Goose gene that had been initially also involved in the merger project had clearly rejected on 21 September 2007 the merger, after which the remaining municipalities drew up a new (and ultimately successful ) project.
Attractions
Coat of arms
The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is: " Azure, two white wave beams unsighted radiant yellow sun. " This coat of arms was approved on 27 November 2009 at the first community meeting of the new community of the present voters with two proposals for selection were.
Population
The following information is based on the sums of the five merged municipalities.
Population development:
On December 31, 2013 1912 people lived in Mettauertal, the proportion of foreigners was 11.4 %. At the 2000 census, 63.6 % were Roman Catholic and 21.0% were reformed ( Hottwil is reformed majority, the remaining villages are mostly Roman Catholic). 96.0 % identified German as their main language.
Politics and Law
The Assembly of the voters, the municipal assembly, shall exercise the legislative power. Executive authority is the seven-member council. This is elected by the people in Majorzverfahren ( majority voting procedure), his term of office is four years. The council 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 Laufenburg is responsible. At the local level there is a justice of the peace, who is also responsible for Gansingen next Mettauertal.
Economy
In the community there are Mettauertal according to Census 2008, around 800 jobs, of which 22 % in agriculture, 43 % in industry and 35 % in services. The industrial workplaces focus on Etzgen where the metal processing industry is represented by several companies. The other four villages are dominated by agriculture - industrial. In Mettau and Wil additional wine production. Many working population commuters and work in the larger communities of the Frick Valley and the lower Aare valley.
Traffic
The roads are in accordance with the geographical events of the community focused on three main axes. Due to the industrial zone of the Rhine Etzgen run along the major main road and the railway line 7 stone Säckingen -Koblenz. From Etzgen from the main road runs via Mettau Oberhofen Gansingen and on over the Bürersteig towards Brugg. Southeast of Mettau branches off another road that Wil and Hottwil catalogs and on the Bürersteig meets the road up to Brugg. Smaller side streets connect Hottwil with Gansingen, Mandach and Villigen.
From Laufen castle, where connection is made to the Regio S- Bahn Basel, the municipal area is accessible by two postal routes. The first line runs over Etzgen and body city after Doettingen, the second connecting all the villages community together and runs on to Brugg. The Rhine Valley railway line together with the Etzgen station is decommissioned since 1994 between Laufenburg and Koblenz for passenger traffic. Mettauertal heard how all the churches of the district Laufenburg to Tarifverbund Northwestern Switzerland.
Education
In the villages Etzgen and Wil there ever a schoolhouse with primary school and kindergarten. The school site Hottwil and Mettau was abolished in 2006, in Oberhofen this step was repeated with the end of the school year 2009/10. The secondary school, secondary school and the district school is visited in the school center in Blue Running castle. The nearest district school (high school ) is located in Aarau; due to inter-cantonal agreement can young people from parts of the Frick Valley high school in Muttenz ( Basel-Landschaft ) complete.