Stilli

View over the river Aare to Stilli

Stilli (Swiss German: ʃti.lɪ ) is a village in the district of Brugg in the canton of Aargau. It is about three and a half kilometers north-east of the district municipal seat. Until the end of 2005 Stilli was an independent municipality and since then is Villigen. With an area of ​​57 hectares Stilli was the second smallest municipality in the canton.

Geography

The territory of Stilli was limited to a three- kilometer long, 25-210 m wide shoreline on the west bank of the Aare, the river bed took up more than one third of the area. A 40 -meter-high embankment formed the defunct municipal border with Villigen. The village is located approximately one mile north of the mouth of the river Limmat in the Aare, in the so-called moated castle in Switzerland. In the Aare the small island Fischergrieni, created by alluvial sediment located.

History

The first recorded mention of the industrial name Stilli dates back to 1269th In Old High German " quietly flowing water body " to refer to a. The settlement Stilli was built around 1450 when the landlord of the Schenkenberg decided to establish at this point a ferry across the river Aare and thus to open new revenue sources. To the tavern and the Mühlem to people settled who lived mainly from fishing and shipping. The skipper of Stilli goods transported from Bern, Lucerne and Zurich to Laufenburg and Zurzach, sometimes even to Holland.

Land were part of the yard clean, which belonged to the monastery Wittichen in the Kinzig Valley (Black Forest). When in 1460 the city of Bern conquered the area west of the Aare and as an official Schenkenberg anfügte the subject territories of the Bernese Aargau, changed to the rights of the monastery nothing. However, the nuns had to accept the introduction of the Reformation in 1528. 1544 sold the monastery clean the yard to the Count Hartmann of Hallwyl. 1566 Stilli was the capital of a new judicial district, which also included the villages Lauffohr, Mönthal, pure, Remigen, Riniken, Rüfenach and Villigen. Between 1588 and 1599 the city of Brugg acquired two-thirds of the court, the city of Bern, the remaining third.

In March 1798, the French conquered Switzerland, the disempowered " Gracious gentlemen " of Bern and proclaimed the Helvetic Republic. The Court came to the net new canton of Aargau. 1799 was the front line during the Second Coalition War right through the lower Aare valley. In the region there were several military camp of the French army. By requisitions and looting the villagers suffered great distress. 1803 sparked the canton to the yard clean and raised the villages to independent communities. 1903 ended the traditional ferry service with the opening of a bridge. In September of 2003, the voters of Stilli to give up the independence of their community and to join on 1 January 2006 the municipality of Villigen.

Coat of arms

The blazon of the municipal coat of arms former is: ". Anchor in blue white, covered by crosswise gestelltem white rudder and white sting " The coat of arms motif first appeared in 1838 on a paper seal. Reminds is thus to river navigation, which was once the single most important economic factor of the community.

Population

Population development:

At 31 December 2004, one year prior to the incorporation, 397 people lived in Stilli, the proportion of foreigners was 25.9 %. At the 2000 census, 38.8 % were reformed, 32.2 % Roman Catholic and 10.9% Muslim. 84.9 % identified German as their main language, 5.0 % speak Italian, Serbo-Croatian 2.5%.

Traffic

Stilli located at the intersection of the main road 5 with several side roads, a bridge leads over the Aare Würenlingen. The village is accessible by two postal routes that lead from Brugg railway station to Bad Zurzach or after Doettingen ( with numerous additional courses to the Paul Scherrer Institute in Villigen ). The station Siggenthal Würenlingen is about half a kilometer away on the other side of the river.