Obergösgen

Church Obergösgen and in the background of the cooling tower of a nuclear power plant Gösgen

Obergösgen is a municipality in the district of Gösgen the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland.

Geography

Obergösgen is located on 390 m above sea level. M., between Olten and Aarau, 4 km east-northeast of the city of Olten ( straight line ). The village extends north into a broad valley of the Aare valley of the Aare, at the foot of the Jura, in the east of Solothurn midlands.

The area of ​​3.6 km ² large municipality area includes a portion of the Nieder Office. The southern boundary runs partly along the old Aare, which draws a wide arc to the southeast here, partly on the low terrace south of the old Aare. A large part of the water of the Aare is derived below Olten in a side channel ( Gösger channel) and used by the location at Niedergösgen power station Olten- Gösgen. The middle part of the so-called Schachen, the island between the original course of the Aare and the Gösger channel also belongs to Obergösgen. From the Aare, the communal land extends northward through the wide Talniederung and the level of Obergösgen to the Tägermoos. This flows from the north of the bridge into the creek level and flows east from Obergösgen into the Aare. Northeast of the bridge Bach reaches the area at the height of the Buerwaldes, in the 453 m above sea level. M. the highest point of Obergösgen is. From the municipality surface 1997 21 % came from settlements, 29 % of forest and shrubs, 43% to agriculture and slightly more than 7% was unproductive land.

To Obergösgen include the settlement Schachen ( 384 m above sea level. M. ) on the lower terrace to the south of Alte Aare, the residential and industrial area Sandacker ( 382 m above sea level. M. ) between the Aare River and Gösger channel and the settlement web stream (400 m ü. M. ) then east to the village on the same stream. Neighboring communities of Obergösgen are in the north Lostorf, in the east Niedergösgen, in the south and in the west Däniken and Dulliken Winznau.

Population

With 2132 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012) Obergösgen belongs to the medium-sized municipalities in the canton of Solothurn. Of the residents 86.2 % are German, 3.3 % and 2.7 % speak Italian albanischsprachig (as of 2000). The population of Obergösgen amounted in 1850 to 366 residents in 1900 to 428 inhabitants. During the 20th century, the population increased steadily until 1970 on 1793 people. After a temporary period of stagnation, a significant population increase has been recorded since 1990 (1749 inhabitants) again.

Economy

Obergösgen was until well into the 20th century a predominantly coined by farming village. Early on, the settlement Schachen developed into a transshipment point of the rafting. Today, farming, fruit growing and cattle breeding have only a minor role in the occupational structure of the population. Many other jobs are in the manufacturing and services available. Smaller commercial and industrial zones have been created, especially in the field of Schachen. Obergösgen comprises mainly small and medium sized companies in the fields of construction and transport industry, information technology, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering and metal and mechanical workshops. In recent decades, the village has developed into a residential community. Many workers are therefore commuters who work mainly in the regions of Olten and Aarau.

Traffic

The community is easily accessible via. It lies on the road from Olten along the northern banks of the Aare to Aarau. By bus the BOGG (bus Olten Gösgen Gaeu ), which serves the route from Olten to Niedererlinsbach, Obergösgen is connected to the public transport network.

History

Obergösgen can look back on a long tradition of settlement. In the Obergösger Hard several grave mounds were found from the Iron Age that were created in the period 600-400 BC. A Celtic retreat and probably was also a settlement on the ground of Obergösgen At the site of the later castle Göskon. During the construction of Gösger channel one also came across findings, which point to a Roman settlement.

The first written mention of the village was carried out in 1161 under the name Gozequovon. Later, the names appeared Gözchen and Gözchon ( 1226 ), Gözzichon ( 1277 ), Göskon and Gössikon ( 1453). Only when the neighboring village Bözach took the name Niedergösgen, the old Gösgen was renamed Obergösgen to help distinguish. The name goes back to the Old High German personal name Gozo. With a name ending in -tions (actually a drawing together of - igkofen ) he means as much as in the courts of the people of Gozzo, where so-called relocated farms are meant.

In the Talniederung near the mouth of the brook bridge in the Aare the Barons of Gösgen built their ancestral castle in the High Middle Ages. The rule Gösgen was a fief of the Counts of Frohnburg. With the construction of a new castle was the ancestral home in 1230 moved to Niedergösgen. Until far into the 14th century, the old castle was inhabited Göskon. After the Barons were extinct in the male line of Gösgen, Obergösgen went in 1399 to the definitively about Falkensteiner.

Fall into severe financial difficulties, Thomas Falkenstein had to sell in 1458 the entire reign of Solothurn. Obergösgen was thus assigned the Bailiwick Gösgen and the district court Lostorf. After the collapse of the Ancien Régime (1798 ) Obergösgen belonged during the Helvetic Republic to the administrative district of Solothurn and from 1803 to the District Gösgen.

Since the Aare caused each large floods at high tide, the lower terrace was not colonized in the range of Obergösgen. Furthermore, there were a result of the relocation of the river frequently border disputes with neighboring Dulliken. With the construction of Gösger channel in the time from 1913 to 1917, the Aare was regulated, which drew a significant transformation of the landscape by itself. Large parts of the floodplain were drained and won new cultivated land and settlement area.

Attractions

The parish church of Santa Maria Regina (formerly St. Dionysius ) originally goes back to the Middle Ages. A new church was built in 1509 and expanded in 1642. Although the Homeland Security had raised objections, this church was founded in 1954 with the exception of Käsbissenturms demolished by 1509 and replaced by a new vessel, which was inaugurated in 1956. On the Schachen between the old course of the Aare and the Gösger channel are the remains of the former castle Göskon.

Pictures

Church Interior

Organ of the Church of St. Regina

View of the nuclear power plant

Coat of arms

Blazon

The coat falls back on the old Amtei and today's district coat of arms and plays the castle Göskon and its location on the river Aare to.