Sursee

Sursee (Swiss German Soorsi ) is a municipality with old city and main town right in the same constituency Sursee the canton of Lucerne in Switzerland.

  • 3.1 languages
  • 3.2 religions, denominations
  • 3.3 origin - Nationality

Geography

The city is located on a Sursee geographical node at the northwestern end of Lake Sempach. The place name Sursee is composed of the notions Sure and lake. The sura ( in Aargau Suhre ) flows in a curved run through the town and then flows from the north through the Surseerwald. In a community on Lake Sempach municipality, small natural island is protected (gamma island). Sursee has a quay on Triechter mentioned basin with views of the Alps. The rest of the lake shore is protected and has the name Cell moss. The municipality is located between the square of Sempach, A2 motorway, Surseerwald ( in the northwest) and the railway line Luzern- Olten. The areas Allmendfeld north of A2 and some roads west of the railway line are the exception.

Almost one fifth is covered by forests ( Surseerwald ) and approximately one third ( 30.8 %) is used for agriculture. Nearly half of the municipal area is built-up area ( 46.7 %). The city is divided into the old town quarters, railroad suburb, Mariazell and Neufeld.

Sursee borders Geuensee, Knutwil, Mauensee, Oberkirch and Schenkon. With the communities Oberkirch, Schenkon and Mauensee Sursee forms a continuous settlement area with approximately 15,000 residents.

History

Background and the Alemannic time

As early as the Neolithic and Bronze Age the lakeshore of Lake Sempach were populated with small villages. In the Roman era there was a west of the old Vicus, a Roman town with a market and administrative functions. In the 8th century, a first wooden church for a small village community was built on the highest point of the moraine hill at Surat. When enlarged the village with time to 800 and about around the year 1000 stone churches were built. Northeast of the city Alemannic burial site and remains of an early medieval church was excavated in interspersed with marl cell moss.

Medieval small town

Is first mentioned in historical Sursee as Surse than the Lehnherr Ulrich I of Lenzburg the Canons Beromunster the upper church gives, together with an associated yard.

On the basis of older, rural settlement, the small town of Sursee developed by the mid-13th century. Through the counts of Kyburg as the successor of Lenzburg, it is equipped with first municipal rights after the extinction of Kyburg 1264 in the city right letter from 1299 as a pre-existing rights - guaranteed by the Dukes of Austria and by others - such as the right to hold markets freedoms were supplemented. During the 14th century, the dukes of Austria extended these urban privileges with trade and customs privileges. Even after the conquest by the Lucerne in 1415 knew Sursee its municipal rights and freedoms in Lucerne subjects country to true. The city Sursee developed in the late Middle Ages to a community that gave its meaning as stages and market town on the old Gotthard route, as administrative center for important monasteries such as by regsames Crafts and Trades expressed. The historic town of Sursee gives still the picture of this late medieval and early modern development.

The modern age

The 19th century was also a time in Sursee diverse upheavals in politics, society and economy. Emerged locals newspapers, trade and business tried to innovative new features and along with many short-lived attempts, the furnace factory Sursee Founded in 1871, developed (AG Ofenfabrik and Therma- works later) to the largest industrial company that employed in its heyday around 350 workers. In those decades was from the old city a modern village in 1831 ( united since 2000) in a population and civil community as well as the corporation aufteilte community.

A modern center

As capital of the Office Sursee the city still houses the District Court, the Government governorship and the Land Registry. Responsible for church and pastoral care are the Roman Catholic parish and parish as well as the Reformed parish with a large parish in the whole office.

In the last hundred years a major complex of schools and other educational institutions has emerged in Sursee. It comprises the upper center, vocational training center with commercial and industrial vocational school, the district school as Matura and Diplommittelschule as well as education and counseling center for dairy farming, building and agriculture, which has taken the place of the former agricultural school. Special schools for vulnerable and disabled children and young people complete the offer. In 1940, the first modern hospital was opened in Sursee, which was kantonalisiert in the years 1971/72 and extended the same time. In recent years it has also combines the management of hospitals and Sursee Wolhusen. The care of the elderly is provided by the regional nursing home and the Betagtenzentrum St. Martin. With around 10,000 jobs Sursee is the service center for the region.

Population

The population grew from 1798 to 1990, was the particularly strong growth of between 1950 and 1970.

Languages

The population used as everyday language, a high- Alemannic dialect. At the last census in 2000 gave 86.87 % German, 2.83% Albanian and Serbo-Croatian at 2.83% as the main language.

Religions, denominations

Previously, the entire population was a member of the Roman Catholic Church. Today ( as of 2000) are 74.50 % Roman Catholic, Evangelical Protestant, and 9.82% to 3.04% Orthodox Christians. In addition, one finds 4.73 % Muslim, 3.71% and 1.10% non-religious members of other non-Christian faiths. The Orthodox Slavs are almost exclusively from the republics of the former Yugoslavia. The Muslims are Albanian, Bosniak, Turkish and Kurdish origin. The members of other non-Christian faiths are almost all Hindus of Tamil origin.

Origin - Nationality

From the end of 2011 8'998 7'590 Swiss residents and 1,408 were ( = 15.6%) foreigners. At the last census, 76.67 % were (including dual citizens 80.58 % ) Swiss nationals. The largest immigrant groups come from Serbia and Montenegro ( both Albanians as Slavs ), Italy, Portugal, Sri Lanka, Germany and Croatia.

Traffic

The Surseer station is remote traffic stop of the railway line Luzern- Zofingen - Olten railway station and start the Sursee - Kulmerau train. Furthermore Sursee is the starting point of various bus routes into the surrounding countryside. These are Sursee - Kulmerau - Schöftland, Sursee -Buchs LU Uffikon, Sursee - Schenkon - Beromunster, Sursee - Schlierbach - Etzelwil, Sursee - Ettiswil - Willisau, Sursee - Butisholz - Wolhusen hospital and Sursee Oak Sempach Station.

Sursee situated on the old road Lucerne - Basel Zofingen ( Basel ). Other important road connections are Sursee Willisau, Sursee - Schöftland, Sursee - Sempach, Sursee - New Kirch and Sursee - Beromunster. The town has its own motorway junction on the A2.

Attractions

Sursee has a historic old town with famous late Gothic Town Hall and is located on Lake Sempach. In St. Urbanhof rested Duke Leopold III. of Austria on the eve of the battle of Sempach, in which the Confederates have defeated the Austrian army in 1386. The stately building now houses the town museum. Just outside the city is located since 1960, the Museum of the Swiss Capuchins. The monastery was dissolved in 1998, resp bought and restored by the Roman Catholic parish. rebuilt. On the moraine above the Triechter is the famous place of pilgrimage chapel Maria Zell, an early Baroque sacred building.

St. Urbanhof

Museum of the Swiss Capuchin

Upper Town

Untertor

Town farm

City ​​Theatre

Sports

The FC Sursee has its home ground in Sursee and plays in the first league classic since the 2013/14 season. The handball club BSV RW Sursee is also a sports club with a great tradition in the region Sursee and plays in the second league. In addition Sursee offers a wide range of sports, among others with floorball, volleyball, basketball, ice hockey and badminton.

Culture - Customs

On November 11, the St. Martin is, in the afternoon conducted in Sursee at 15.00 clock the traditional Gansabhauet, a remnant of a widespread in the Ancien Régime, farming game for geese, chickens or other poultry. Perhaps is in Sursee this traditional custom in connection with the tithes of the peasants, office courtyards of the monasteries of Einsiedeln, Muri and St. Urban. Documents can be but that does not. In this festival a dead goose is hung on a wire on a stage in front of City Hall. Boys or young women try blindfolded, dressed in a saber cut to separate the head from his body with a red jacket and the carved and gilded sun visor, the goose. Between the individual clubs will find the rod climbing and the sack race and the Chäszänne ( grimace ) for the children instead. At 18.30 is carried out through the dark old town as another Customs element a lights parade.

Others

For outstanding contribution to the townscape protection Sursee received from the Swiss Heritage Society in 2003, the Wakker prize.

Twin Cities

  • Since 1987, owing to the migrated Surseer doctor Kaspar Köpfli ( 1774-1854 ) founded city Highland ( Illinois) twinned Sursee.
  • A predominantly cultural exchange maintains Sursee with the under Welsh town of Martigny. This partnership was launched at the end of the 90s as Pascal Couchepin in the ways and came into being officially in autumn 1999. In Sursee, the inaugurated in 2003 in front of the town farm Martigny Square ▼ 47.17258.1066666666667 attention to this connection.

Personalities

  • Hans Arnold (1925-2010), Swedish artist and illustrator
  • Heinrich Ludwig von Attenhoferstrasse (1783-1856), physician, Russian Imperial Councillor, politician
  • Karl Attenhoferstrasse (1836-1906), federal judge
  • Carl Beck (1894-1982), politician
  • Franz Xaver Beck (1827-1894), politician
  • Joseph Free (1872-1945), composer
  • Otto Ineichen (1941-2012), businessman and politician
  • Hans Küng, Prof. Dr. theol.
  • Otto Hellmut Lienert (1897-1965), author and writer
  • John Salad (1498-1561), clerk of the court, playwright and historian
  • Josef Schärli (1920-2008), provost of the pin Beromunster and longtime chairman of the National Bureau of the Schoenstatt Movement, was pastor from 1973 to 1988 in Sursee
  • Haris Seferović (* 1992), football player, born and raised in Sursee
  • Shalil Shankar, Pandit, Indian sitar player and composer, honorary citizen of the city Sursee
  • Otto Wüst (1926-2002), Bishop of Basel
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