Rekingen

Rekingen (in the background Reckingen / Baden)

Rekingen (Swiss German: rækχiŋ ː ə ) is a municipality in the district of the Swiss canton of Aargau Zurzach. It is located on the High Rhine on the border with Germany.

Geography

The village on the northern edge of the Jura extends in an east-west direction in the narrow plain along the Rhine. Both the western and the eastern end of the village there is an extensive factory facilities. From south to north, the narrow and in places up to 120 meters deep gorge of Chrüzlibachs runs. To the east of Canyon is the 556 meter high Güggehübuck, the west of the 545 meter high Obergrüt. Both hills are extremely steep at the bottom and be fairly flat at the top.

Approximately half a kilometer south of the village branches off a short tributary from the west. There, on the southern slope of Obergrüt, there is an extended quarry. This provided the raw material for the now disused cement factory on the eastern edge of the village. The transport of the mined material was carried out by a 1.3 km long conveyor belt. This first runs high above the gorge and then through a 900 meter-long tunnel under the northern tip of the Güggehübucks through.

The area of the municipality is 310 hectares, of which 178 hectares are forested and built over 79 hectares. The highest point is 556 meters on the plateau of Guggenhübucks, the deepest at 323 meters on the Rhine.

Neighboring municipalities are Kuessaberg with the district Reckingen in the north, Mellikon in the east, in the southeast Böbikon, Baldingen in the south, Tegerfelden in the southwest and Zurzach in the West.

History

During the Bronze Age the area was settled, as evidenced by finds of graves, weapons and items. During the reign of the Romans was in Rekingen a large estate. It was built around 50 AD and was used to supply the military camp in Vindonissa. In the immediate vicinity there was the settlement Tenedo ( Zurzach ). Around the year 260 burned marauding Alemanni settled the estate. Order 370, the Rhine was the northern border of the Roman Empire, at Rekingen were two watchtowers. The first was in 1876 removed during railway construction, the second in 1936 exposed, explored and then covered up again. In the first decade of the 5th century, the Romans withdrew permanently.

About a hundred years later, the Alamanni settled definitively the area from this period are numerous tombs. In the High Middle Ages, initially ruled by the Counts of Lenzburg, then the counts of Kyburg, and from 1265 the Habsburgs. The first mention was made in the year 1261, as Cuonrad fr wurden.Der called Rechunch as landlords and Burcardus de Rechunch as witnesses place name comes from Old High Reccingun and means " among the people of Recco ."

The Confederates conquered the Aargau in 1415 and Rekingen now belonged to the Official Unterehrendingen in the county of Baden, a commons regime. 1529 came a large part of the population over the Reformation. In order to prevent that the whole village would be reformed, let the Canons of Zurzach in 1678 to build a Catholic chapel. The school took its start in 1790, but remained until 1852 denominationally separated. 1798, the French marched into Switzerland and proclaimed the Helvetic Republic. Rekingen became a municipality in the canton of Baden short-lived, since 1803 it belongs to the canton of Aargau.

The industry continued in 1864 collection, as the lime factory was opened; this lasted until 1989. The opening of the railway line Winterthur - Bülach -Koblenz on August 1, 1876. In 1914, the Swiss soda factory (now Solvay), founded in Zurzach, which exploited the rich salt deposits ( the factory site is partially on Rekinger floor ). In 1975, on the eastern edge of the village, the Holder Bank Cement AG ( now Holcim ) the production of cement at the factory, however, was in 1995 decommissioned.

Attractions

Coat of arms

The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is: " Shared by Yellow with black R and blue with yellow half mill wheel. » The coat of arms was first mapped to the church seal of 1851. The mill-wheel is reminiscent of the three mills that once existed in Rekingen.

Population

Population development:

On December 31, 2013 962 people lived in Rekingen, the proportion of foreigners was 29.9 %. At the 2000 census, 41.2 % were Roman Catholic, reformed 33.8 % and 10.8 % Muslim; 2.3% belonged to other faiths. 84.2 % identified German as their main language, Albanian 5.8%, 3.8 % Italian, 1.0% per English, Portuguese and Serbo-Croatian.

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. Rekingen part of the Justice of the Peace District Zurzach.

Economy

In Rekingen there according to Census 2008, about 300 jobs, of which 1% in agriculture, 7 % in industry and 92 % in services. Although a part of the factory site of the chemical company Solvay is on Rekinger floor, count the jobs there in the statistics to Zurzach. Therefore, most workers are considered commuters and work in Zurzach and environment.

Since the beginning of 2002 is on the former cement plant site a hub for container traffic by rail. This is partly located on the bottom of the neighboring community Mellikon. After initial problems and the takeover of the container terminal by the company Swissterminal in 2006, container traffic picks up significantly. So now served daily by trains from the major ports such as Hamburg right after Rekingen.

Traffic

The busy main road 7 from Basel to Winterthur runs between the village center and the Rhine. At the eastern edge of the village there is a railway station on the SBB railway line Koblenz- Bülach -Winterthur. A bus company operates from regional bus Zurzach Zurzach on Rekingen after Böbikon.

Education

The municipality has a kindergarten and a school building in which the primary school and secondary school are taught. The junior high school and the school district can be visited in Zurzach. The nearest Canton schools ( high schools ) are located in Baden and betting rings.