Bad Zurzach
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former municipality in Zurzach in the canton of Aargau, Switzerland
Key facts
- Country
- Switzerland
- Canton
- Aargau
- District
- Zurzach
- Executive
- Gemeinderat , with 5 members
- Mayor
- Gemeindeammann , Reto S. Fuchs Ind. , (as of 2013)
- Parliament
- None (Gemeindeversammlung)
- Total
- 6.52 km (2.52 sq mi)
- Elevation hauptstrasse schwertgasse
- 340 m (1,120 ft)
- Density
- 672/km (1,740/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
- Iso 3166 code
- CH-AG
- Surrounded by
- Döttingen , Klingnau , Küssaberg (DE-BW), Rekingen , Rietheim , Tegerfelden
- Website
- www.badzurzach.ch
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- neighborhood
- Official name
- Bad Zurzach
- Country
- Switzerland
- Located in
- Zurzach
- Official language
- German
- Population
- 4514
- Area
- 6.52
- Elevation
- 345
- Capital of
- Zurzach District
- Shares border with
- Rekingen
- Official website
- www.zurzach.ch/gemeinde
- Image
- Zurzach thermalbad.jpg
- Dialing code
- 056
- Licence plate code
- AG
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- postal code
- 5330
- Commons category
- Bad Zurzach
- replaced by
- Zurzach
- external data available at URL
- geo.ld.admin.ch/boundaries/municipality/4323
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Encyclopedic overview
Bad Zurzach ( Swiss Standard German pronunciation: [baːd ˈtsʊrtsax] ) is a village and former municipality in the district of Zurzach in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland. It is the seat of the district. On 1 January 2022 the former municipalities of Bad Zurzach, Baldingen, Böbikon, Kaiserstuhl, Rekingen, Rietheim, Rümikon and Wislikofen merged into the new municipality of Zurzach.
Bad Zurzach was previously known as Zurzach; the population voting for the official name change in a referendum of 21 May 2006. Located on the Rhine, Bad Zurzach has a thermal water bath and an outdoor bathing facility. The old market town, the St. Verena convent church with its treasure, the Roman Catholic Church and the late Roman castle Tenedo on the Kirchlibuck hill are listed as heritage sites of national significance.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bad Zurzach” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.