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Schafisheim
Schafisheim is a municipality in the district of Lenzburg in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland. History Evidence of earlier settlements near Schafisheim include urn graves of the Hallstatt period and a Roman era farm. The modern village of Schafisheim is first mentioned around 1261-64 as ''Scafusa''. The high court right was held by the Habsburgs, and then from 1415 by Bern. A farm owned by Murbach Abbey had the '' Twinggericht'' (low justice and property rights) over the village, which was held until 1482. The ''Twinggericht'' right went to the Lords of Baldegg, then, in 1671, to a branch of the Hallwyl family. In the 15th Century the head ''Twingherren'' was probably living at Schafisheim Castle. After passing through several other hands, the ''Twingherren'' power came in 1736 to the brothers Samuel and Etienne Brutel. Schafisheim chapel of ease is first mentioned in 1360. At that time it belonged to the Staufen parish. In 1496-98, the chapel of St. Leodegar was bui ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lenzburg (district)
Lenzburg District is a district of the Canton of Aargau in Switzerland, lying at the center of the canton. The district capital is the town of Lenzburg. It has a population of (as of ). Geography The Lenzburg district has an area, , of . Of this area, or 41.5% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 33.2% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 19.6% is settled (buildings or roads). Coat of arms The blazon of the district coat of arms is ''Argent a Hurt.'' Demographics Bezirk Lenzburg has a population () of . , 19.7% of the population are foreign nationals.Statistical Department of Canton Aargau -Bereich 01 -Bevölkerung accessed 20 January 2010 Economy there were 24,407 workers who lived in the district. Of these, 18,072 or about 74.0% of the residents worked outsid ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Staufen, Switzerland
Staufen is a municipality in the district of Lenzburg in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland. Geography Staufen has an area, , of . Of this area, or 40.1 % is used for agricultural purposes, while or 31.7 % is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 26.6 % is settled (buildings or roads).Swiss Federal Statistical Office-Land Use Statistics 2009 data accessed 25 March 2010 Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 2.2 % of the total area while housing and buildings made up 14.8 % and transportation infrastructure made up 4.5 %. Power and water infrastructure as well as other special developed areas made up 4.2 % of the area. Out of the forested land, all of the forested land area is covered with heavy forests. Of the agricultura ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gränichen
Gränichen is a municipality in the district of Aarau of the canton of Aargau in Switzerland. Geography The river Wyna flows north at first and heads northwest thereafter. The valley has an average width of about . On both sides of the valley there are steep hills with tributary valleys and small high plateaus. The landscape is not dissimilar to that of the Tafeljura, even though - geographically and geologically speaking - Gränichen lies in the Midland of Switzerland. The hills on the left side of the valley are (from north to south): Manzenberg ( ), Wällenen (559 m), Moosberg (550 m), Heidberg () and Pfendel (). These are foothills of the Schornig (), which marks the transition to the valley of the river Suhre. The hills on the right side of the valley are called Fuden (), Räckholderen (), Breitenberg () and Surberg (). In front of the Breitenberg is the Schulthess () which has almost the shape of an ellipsis. The Dossen () und the high plateau of the Liebegg are foo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lenzburg
Lenzburg is a town in the central region of the Swiss canton Aargau and is the capital of the Lenzburg District. The town, founded in the Middle Ages, lies in the Seetal valley, about 3 kilometres south of the Aare river. Lenzburg and the neighbouring municipalities of Niederlenz and Staufen have grown together in an agglomeration. History A Neolithic grave field of the Cortaillod culture has been discovered on the ''Goffersberg'' (close to the Lenzburg Castle) dating from 4300 - 3500 BCE. A Roman theater was uncovered when a motorway was built in 1964. It was part of a small settlement with 500 inhabitants that existed for approximately 200 years. The settlement was abandoned in the 3rd century. In the 5th and 6th centuries, an Alamanni settlement existed. Lenzburg is first mentioned in 924 as ''de Lencis''. In 1036, Lenzburg Castle was used for the first time as seat for the Count of Lenzburg, then an important lord. The house however died out in 1173, and the castle was t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hunzenschwil
Hunzenschwil is a municipality in the district of Lenzburg in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland. History Under the Romans, the area that would become Hunzenschwil was an extensive brickyard. The modern village of Hunzenschwil was first mentioned in 1101 as ''Hintziswil''. In 1201, it was mentioned as ''Hunzeliswilre''. In the 14th Century, the Habsburgs had the high court rights over the village, and in 1415 these rights went to Bern. The low court right was held by various owners before 1412 when it went to the Habsburg appointed Vogt at Lenzburg. In 1433, the low court rights went to Bern, and then in 1550 Hunzenschwil joined with Niederlenz, Rupperswil and Staufen to form an independent lower court. Religiously, this area belongs to the parish of Suhr, but it has had its own church since 1960. Although the municipality is on the road between Bern and Zurich and at the junction that goes toward Zurzach, in the past it was dominated by agriculture. In the 18t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rupperswil
Rupperswil is a municipality in the district of Lenzburg in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland. History A partially preserved Roman era tile kiln from the 2nd Century was discovered in 1911. There is also evidence of the emergence of a late- Alamanni village in the 8th Century. The modern village of Rupperswil is first mentioned in 1173 as ''Rubeswile''. It belonged to the realm of Lenzburg and passed from the Lenzburg family to the Kyburgs then in 1273 to the rule of the Habsburgs. After the conquest of the Aargau in 1415 it became part of the Bernese District (german: Hochgerichtsbezirk) of Lenzburg. Around the beginning of the 13th to the mid-14th Century, the Lords of Rubiswile, a Kyburg Ministerialis family (unfree knights in the service of another lord) is mentioned. They were the first '' Twingherren'' of Rupperswil. The ''Twingherrschaft'' was acquired between 1295-1312 by the Lords of Baldegg which then passed to the Lords of Reinach, and finally to the L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seon, Switzerland
Seon is a municipality in the district of Lenzburg in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland. Geography Seon lies within the Seetal valley, on the banks of the Aabach river. The municipality has an area, , of . Of this area, or 51.2% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 29.5% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 19.8% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.1% is either rivers or lakes.Swiss Federal Statistical Office-Land Use Statistics 2009 data accessed 25 March 2010 Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 2.4% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 10.7% and transportation infrastructure made up 4.0%. Power and water infrastructure as well as other special developed areas made up 1.8% of the area Out of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viticulture
Viticulture (from the Latin word for ''vine'') or winegrowing (wine growing) is the cultivation and harvesting of grapes. It is a branch of the science of horticulture. While the native territory of ''Vitis vinifera'', the common grape vine, ranges from Western Europe to the Iran, Persian shores of the Caspian Sea, the vine has demonstrated high levels of adaptability to new environments, hence viticulture can be found on every continent except Antarctica. Duties of the viticulturist include monitoring and controlling Pest (organism), pests and Plant pathology, diseases, fertilizer, fertilizing, irrigation (wine), irrigation, canopy (grape), canopy Glossary of viticultural terms#Canopy management, management, monitoring fruit development and Typicity, characteristics, deciding when to harvest (wine), harvest, and vine pruning during the winter months. Viticulturists are often intimately involved with winemakers, because vineyard management and the resulting grape characteristics ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A1 Motorway (Switzerland)
The A1 is a motorway in Switzerland. It follows Switzerland's main east–west axis, from St. Margrethen in northeastern Switzerland's canton of St. Gallen through to Geneva in southwestern Switzerland. The motorway spans 383 km (240 mi). Besides the motorway's main route, it has several branches that are variously numbered A1a, A1h, A1l and A1.1. It was opened for the Swiss national exhibition of 1964. After the construction of the third Baregg Tunnel tube, the traffic jams in this area were reduced, but the Gubrist Tunnel remains with the old capacity as a new point of heavy traffic. The A1 motorway is connected via a taxiway at the hangar 5 with the airfield of Payerne Air Base Payerne Airport is a military airfield of the Swiss Air Force north of Payerne in Switzerland, located approximately halfway between Lausanne and Bern. History In 2004 the International Air Show Air04 was held at Payerne. On 8 July 2010, Paye ... and can, if necessary, used as runw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aarau
Aarau (, ) is a List of towns in Switzerland, town, a Municipalities of Switzerland, municipality, and the capital of the northern Swiss Cantons of Switzerland, canton of Aargau. The List of towns in Switzerland, town is also the capital of the district of Aarau (district), Aarau. It is German-speaking and predominantly Protestant. Aarau is situated on the Swiss plateau, in the valley of the Aare, on the river's right bank, and at the southern foot of the Jura Mountains, and is west of Zürich, south of Basel and northeast of Bern. The municipality borders directly on the canton of Solothurn to the west. It is the largest town in Aargau. At the beginning of 2010 Rohr, Aargau, Rohr became a district of Aarau. The official language of Aarau is (the Swiss variety of Standard) Swiss Standard German, German, but the main spoken language is the local variant of the Alemannic German, Alemannic Swiss German (linguistics), Swiss German dialect. Geography and geology The old city of Aarau ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blazon
In heraldry and heraldic vexillology, a blazon is a formal description of a coat of arms, flag or similar emblem, from which the reader can reconstruct the appropriate image. The verb ''to blazon'' means to create such a description. The visual depiction of a coat of arms or flag has traditionally had considerable latitude in design, but a verbal blazon specifies the essentially distinctive elements. A coat of arms or flag is therefore primarily defined not by a picture but rather by the wording of its blazon (though in modern usage flags are often additionally and more precisely defined using geometrical specifications). ''Blazon'' is also the specialized language in which a blazon is written, and, as a verb, the act of writing such a description. ''Blazonry'' is the art, craft or practice of creating a blazon. The language employed in ''blazonry'' has its own vocabulary, grammar and syntax, which becomes essential for comprehension when blazoning a complex coat of arms. Ot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
