Sarmenstorf
Sarmenstorf (Swiss German: sɑ ː ˌ rmiʃ dɔrf ) is a municipality in the district Bremgarten in the Swiss canton of Aargau. It lies on the eastern edge of the Lake Valley.
Geography
The village is situated on a flat saddle between the Bünztal and the valley, about two kilometers east of Lake Hallwil. It is located between the foothills of Lindenberg in the southeast and Rietberg in the northwest. The municipal area is drained to the north by the Erusbach which opens at Dottikon in the Bünz. There is no real village center. The municipality consists of the villages Chile angle, angle frogs, Oberndorf and Vorstatt that have grown together in recent decades. While frogs angle and Vorstatt lie on the flat plateau, the upper village and Chile angles are slightly elevated on a ridge. This rises gently towards the southeast sneeze Mountain, a spur of the Lindenberg.
The area of the municipality is 830 hectares, of which 244 hectares are covered by forest and built over 99 hectares. The highest point is located on 702 meters at the Niesen mountain, the deepest at 504 meters at the Erusbach.
Neighboring municipalities are Villmergen in the north, Büttikon in the northeast, Uezwil in the east, in the southeast Kallern, Bettwil and driving cheeks in the south and Meisterschwanden and Seengen in the West.
History
Major findings indicate that the Sarmenstorfer municipal area was already inhabited during the Neolithic period. In 1926/27 were examined to 2200 BC in the necropolis of Sarmenstorf in Zigiholz several grave mounds from the time. These tombs were used during the Bronze Age around 1400 BC again for burials. In Murimooshau a farm was excavated in 1927 from the Roman period and examined. The main building was 56 meters long and consisted of six rooms. When the estate was populated, can not be reconstructed due to the small number of objects found. The laterally offset Badetrakt was preserved and placed under a protective roof, covered the rest of the system again.
The settlement by the Alamanni occupied by a burial ground in the area Buel. The first mention of Sarmarsdorf place in the year 1173rd The village name comes from the Old High German Saramannesthorf and means " village of Saraman ". The village was to 1173 belonged to the counts of Lenzburg, then the pin Beromunster. Other major landowners of the time were the monasteries of Einsiedeln, St. Blaise and Säckingen. The Habsburgs took over in 1306, the country's sovereignty and thus the high justice.
1415 conquered the Lucerne villages Büttikon, Hilfikon, Sarmenstorf, Uezwil and Villmergen. But in 1425 they had to return the area to the common possession of the Confederates. Sarmenstorf was now chief town of the same office in the liberal offices, a common rule. The lower courts of the Bailiwick Sarmenstorf changed hands several times their owner, by the Lords of Küssnacht about the Lords of Eschenz, the monastery Hermetschwil, the Lords of Hilfikon to family of rolling from Solothurn.
In March 1798, the French invaded Switzerland and proclaimed the Helvetic Republic. Sarmenstorf spent five years as district capital in the short-lived Canton of Baden. Since 1803, the municipality in the canton of Aargau. In the 19th century, the industry continued slow feeder, so opened the first book printing of the Free Office in Sarmenstorf 1835. In the same year Elise Ruepp opened a private Töchterinstitut, which also trained teachers. On 18 December 1916, the village received a connection to the railway network, as the Wohlensee Meisterschwanden Railway was opened. However, the railway line had to cease operations on May 31, 1997. Until about 1980, the population stagnated, but since then it increased by more than half.
Attractions
The history of the Catholic Parish Church of the Holy Cross dates back to the early Middle Ages. For 1986, the remains of a Carolingian church building came during archaeological excavations dating from around 800 to light. A new building erected in 1622 using partially its foundations. The present building was built 1778-1786. On the north side of the parish church a ossuary chapel in 1780 grown, the adjacent parsonage dates back from 1744 / 45th
The interior of the parish church is held in the then prevailing rococo style for the most part. Main focus is flanked by two figures epitaph. The figures represent two Anglo-Saxon pilgrims who, according to legend, in the nearby hamlet Büelisacher (municipality Büelisacker ) were murdered and then migrated with their severed heads after Sarmenstorf. Your bones are buried in the sacrificial altar.
At the northeastern edge of the village, on the road to Büttikon, is the Wendelinskapelle built in 1650. She was a foundling, which is interpreted as a pre-Christian sacrificial altar, built and contains the remains of the catacomb Firmanus. In the village center several houses have been preserved from the early 19th century.
Coat of arms
The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is: " In red two crossed yellow pilgrims rods. » The pilgrims bars first appeared in 1734 on a document of the monastery Muri. You remember the saga of the two murdered Anglo-Saxon pilgrims. Until 1905, the bars on a blue field on a green three mountain appeared since then floating freely in red
Population
Population development:
On December 31, 2013 2670 people lived in Sarmenstorf, the proportion of foreigners was 12.2 %. At the 2000 census, 64.9 % were Roman Catholic, reformed 19.9% , 1.3% Orthodox Christian and 2.1% Muslim; 1.2% belonged to other faiths. 93.8 % identified German as their main language, 2.2 % speak Italian, 0.7% each Spanish and Serbo-Croatian, 0.6% each Albanian and English.
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 Bremgarten is responsible. At the local level there is a justice of the peace, who is also responsible for the communities Büttikon, Hilfikon, Uezwil and Villmergen.
Economy
In Sarmenstorf there are operating according to Census 2008 slightly more than 600 jobs, of which 9% in agriculture, 36 % in industry and 55 % in services. Many workers are commuters and work in the surrounding communities, especially in Villmergen and Wohlen.
Traffic
Sarmenstorf is located on the busy main road between Wohlen and the Valley. Between Wohlen and Meisterschwanden bus services BDWM of transport, the 1997 replaced the Wohlensee Meisterschwanden train. The former railway line has been converted into a cycle path. The nearest motorway junction (A1 ) is located about 15 minutes away near Lenzburg.
Education
The municipality has two kindergartens and primary schools. The middle school and the high school will be conducted together with the community Meisterschwanden. The school district can be visited in driving cheeks. The nearest district school (high school ) is located in Wohlen.
Personalities
- Augustin Keller (1805-1883), politician and co-founder of the Christian Catholic Church
- Kaspar Koch (1742-1805), priest and revolutionary
- Xaver Stalder (1862-1936), Government