Möhlintal

The Möhlintal is a 10 kilometer long valley between Möhlin and Wegenstetten in the district of Rheinfelden, Canton of Aargau, Switzerland. The five Möhlintal belonging to communities Möhlin, Zeiningen, Zuzgen, Hellikon and Wegenstetten include a total of around 15,000 inhabitants.

In the upper valley communities of the valley is with some pride also called Wegenstettertal. This name is especially used by some associations and organizations that affect only the upper communities of Möhlintals. At Habsburg times the area landscape Möhlinbach was called. Rarely the Möhlintal is also named Chläfflital. The official or official name of the valley is under the canton of Aargau, however, exclusively Möhlintal.

Location and description

The valley is situated in the northeastern Tafeljura; that part of the Swiss Jura, which was not folded, in contrast to the folded parts ( Faltenjura ). The Möhlintal is practically a straight line from southeast to northwest and is surrounded by extensive tabular plateaus, in which the valley is deepened. It is drained by the Möhlinbach that. Onto a pass between the municipalities Wegenstetten and Hemmiken to around 520 m above sea M. springs and Möhlin to 280 m above sea level. M. empties into the Upper Rhine.

The Möhlintal has, like most other Jura valleys of the Frick Valley region to a relatively narrow valley floor. Due to favorable climatic influences the valley recorded up to 40 days of sunshine over the Swiss Plateau and is also mostly free of fog. On 5 August 2003, the private weather service Meteo Media mass in Möhlin 40.3 ° C even a new Swiss record heat.

Thanks to the relatively mild climate and the ( wind ) protected position of the Möhlintals is the valley for viticulture. Thus, the grape varieties Pinot Noir ( Zeininger Pinot Noir, Red Wine ) and Müller- Thurgau are grown ( Riesling x Sylvaner Zeininger, white wine ) on the south side of the Zeinigerberges at Zeiningen. On the fertile soils in the valley, on the slopes and on the plateaus intensive agriculture is prevalent. Of particular importance for the Möhlintal includes among its cherry production. So it is not surprising that the Chriesiberg at Zuzgen owes its name to the countless cherry trees which stand on its plateau. The Fricktaler cherry is also a nationally known product.

On the northeastern side of the valley is the extensive plateau Looberg - Wabrig - Hersberg which separates the Möhlintal from running parallel to Fischingertal. On this plateau is the airfield Fricktal - Schupfart, where every year the Schupfart Festival takes place in Switzerland widely known occasion. The small ski area Föhrlimatt in Wegenstetten, located on the western flank of the animal stone mountain and a ski lift has, pulls in the winter season each numerous visitors from the region.

Statistical data

• Area: 5,272 ha ( 52.72 km ²), of which 51% agriculture
• 37% forest
• 11% settlement area

History

Landscape Möhlinbach

The landscape Möhlinbach referred to times when the Frick Valley was still part of Further Austria, a subordinate administrative unit of Kameralherrschaft Rheinfelden, which belonged to the upper office Breisgau. It included the places Hellikon, Kaiseraugst, Magden, Möhlin, Obermumpf, Olsberg, Wall Bach, Wegenstetten, Zeiningen and Zuzgen. The villages of the countryside Möhlinbach were the main trigger of the war centimes.

Population

The Möhlintal offers a denominational particularity: In Möhlin Switzerland live far most members of the Christian Catholic Church ( 1000 ). Hellikon however, is the municipality with the highest proportion of Christian Catholics in Switzerland ( around 20 % of the population ). Old Catholic churches and / or chapels are located in Hellikon, Möhlin and Zuzgen.

Traffic

The Möhlintal is the Postbus Northern Switzerland tethered every half hour by bus number 89 ( Möhlin - Wegenstetten ) to the public transport network. In Wegenstetten is also the terminus of the bus is 101 ( Gelterkinden - Hemmiken - Wegenstetten ), which connects the Möhlintal with the neighboring region of Basel. Partly Postbus courses combine the Möhlintal Wegenstetten also with the Fischingertal (via airfield Fricktal - Schupfart ). The Möhlin railway station is on the Bözberg (Basel - Zurich ). Here, on line S1 of the Regio S- Bahn Basel, which runs from Mulhouse in Alsace via Basel to Frick and run the castle. The nearest connection points of the A3 motorway, which crosses the Möhlintal on a viaduct near Zeiningen ( Zeininger viaduct ), located in Rheinfelden (about 3 km west of Möhlin ) or Eiken ( 7 km north of Wegenstetten ).

By Möhlintal or along the plateau between Möhlintal and Fischingertal runs a part of the Frick valley high walk, a regional trail.