Mülligen is a
municipality
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in the district of
Brugg
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in
canton of
Aargau
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Aargau is one of the most nort ...
in
Switzerland
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.
History
The earliest known settlement was in the
Early Middle Ages
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, though the only traces of the settlement are two groups of graves. Mülligen is first mentioned in the 12th century as ''Mülinon''. Until the 17th century it was known as ''Mülinen''.
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The rights to high and low justice were held by the ]Habsburg
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s through Königsfelden Abbey. After the secularization of the abbey, those rights were held by Bern
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.
Originally the major economic activity in Mülligen was agriculture and viticulture
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. After 1730, small scale textile production provided another source of income. Then in 1849 a Gypsum
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processing plant opened in the village. Starting about 1830, the residents of Mülligen worked in the spinning
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* Spin quantum number, a number which defines the value of a particle's spin
* Spinning (textiles), the creation of yarn or thr ...
mill in Windisch, and the first industrial plant in Mülligen opened in 1909. In 1924, a gravel
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Gr ...
plant opened in the village, and it was expanded in 1955. In 1964 the bovine artificial insemination center of the Swiss Association for Artificial Insemination opened.[
The passenger ferry on the river Reuss was replaced in 1940 by a bridge. Benefiting from the village's proximity to the junction of the A1 and A3 motorways, A1-A3, Mülligen has become a residential village with many commuters to Brugg, Baden and Zurich.
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Geography
Mülligen has an area, , of . Of this area, or 36.7% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 32.0% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 28.2% is settled (buildings or roads), or 2.5% is either rivers or lakes and or 0.3% is unproductive land.[Swiss Federal Statistical Office-Land Use Statistics]
2009 data accessed 25 March 2010
Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 6.0% and transportation infrastructure made up 11.4%. Power and water infrastructure as well as other special developed areas made up 9.8% of the area 31.0% of the total land area is heavily forested. Of the agricultural land, 24.7% is used for growing crops and 10.4% is pastures, while 1.6% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is in rivers and streams.[
The municipality is located in the Brugg district, near the ]Reuss Reuss may refer to:
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river and along the southern slope of the ''Eiteberg''. It consists of the village of Mülligen and the hamlets
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of Trotte.
Coat of arms
The blazon
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of the municipal coat of arms
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is ''Or a Mill Wheel Sable and Coupeaux.'' The coat of arms of Mülligen is an example of canting
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because of the mill wheel ().
Demographics
Mülligen has a population () of , 12.7% of the population are foreign nationals.[Statistical Department of Canton Aargau -Bereich 01 -Bevölkerung]
accessed 20 January 2010 Over the last 10 years (1997–2007) the population has changed at a rate of 17.3%. Most of the population () speaks German (94.9%), with French being second most common ( 1.3%) and Italian being third ( 1.0%).
accessed 8 April 2010[Statistical Department of Canton Aargau -Bevölkerungsdaten für den Kanton Aargau und die Gemeinden (Archiv)]
accessed 20 January 2010
the average number of residents per living room was 0.59 which is about equal to the cantonal average of 0.57 per room. In this case, a room is defined as space of a housing unit of at least as normal bedrooms, dining rooms, living rooms, kitchens and habitable cellars and attics.
About 54.7% of the total households were owner occupied, or in other words did not pay rent (though they may have a mortgage
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or a rent-to-own
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agreement). , there were 26 homes with 1 or 2 persons in the household, 138 homes with 3 or 4 persons in the household, and 134 homes with 5 or more persons in the household. The average number of people per household was 2.57 individuals.[ there were 152 single family homes (or 38.7% of the total) out of a total of 393 homes and apartments.][Statistical Department of Canton Aargau]
accessed 20 January 2010 There were a total of 5 empty apartments for a 1.3% vacancy rate.[
In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SVP which received 40.9% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SP (25%), the ]Green Party
A green party is a formally organized political party based on the principles of green politics, such as environmentalism and social justice.
Green party platforms typically embrace Social democracy, social democratic economic policies and fo ...
(9.6%) and the FDP (7.6%).[
In Mülligen about 85.7% of the population (between age 25 and 64) have completed either non-mandatory ]upper secondary education
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Level 2 or ''lower secondary education'' (less commonly ''junior secondary education'') is considered the second and final phase of basic e ...
or additional higher education (either university or a ''Fachhochschule
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'').[ Of the school age population (), there are 55 students attending ]primary school
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in the municipality.[
The historical population is given in the following table:]
Economy
, Mülligen had an unemployment rate of 1.44%. , there were 36 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 8 businesses involved in this sector. 34 people are employed in the secondary sector
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and there are 9 businesses in this sector. 44 people are employed in the tertiary sector
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, with 16 businesses in this sector.[
there was a total of 460 workers who lived in the municipality. Of these, 383 or about 83.3% of the residents worked outside Mülligen while 106 people commuted into the municipality for work. There were a total of 183 jobs (of at least 6 hours per week) in the municipality.Statistical Department of Canton Aargau-Bereich 11 Verkehr und Nachrichtenwesen]
accessed 21 January 2010 Of the working population, 13.6% used public transportation to get to work, and 59.7% used a private car.[
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Religion
From the , 271 or 34.7% were Roman Catholic
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, while 411 or 52.7% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church
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. Of the rest of the population, there were 2 individuals (or about 0.26% of the population) who belonged to the Christian Catholic faith.[Statistical Department of Canton Aargau – Aargauer Zahlen 2009]
accessed 20 January 2010
Weather
Mülligen has an average of 133.5 days of rain or snow per year and on average receives of precipitation
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. The wettest month is August during which time Mülligen receives an average of of rain or snow. During this month there is precipitation for an average of 11.7 days. The month with the most days of precipitation is May, with an average of 13, but with only of rain or snow. The driest month of the year is October with an average of of precipitation over 11.7 days.[, the weather station elevation is 367 meters above sea level.]
References
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Municipalities of Aargau