Gontenschwil
Sign in to saveGontenschwil is a municipality in the district of Kulm in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland. thumb|Aerial view (1964)
Key facts
- Swiss town.subject_name
- Gontenschwil
- Swiss town.municipality_type
- municipality
- Swiss town.image_photo
- Gasthaus Gontenschwil.JPG
- Swiss town.imagepath_coa
- Wappen Gontenschwil.svg
- Swiss town.imagepath_flag
- CHE Gontenschwil Flag.svg
- Swiss town.canton
- Aargau
- Swiss town.iso code region
- CH-AG
- Swiss town.district
- Kulm
- Swiss town.postal_code
- 5728
- Swiss town.municipality_code
- 4135
- Swiss town.area
- 9.74
- Swiss town.elevation
- 531
- Swiss town.population
- 2101
- Swiss town.populationof
- December 2006
- Swiss town.popofyear
- 2006
- Swiss town.website
- www.gontenschwil.ch
- Swiss town.neighboring_municipalities
- Leimbach, Oberkulm, Pfeffikon (LU), Reinach, Rickenbach (LU), Schmiedrued, Zetzwil
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Gontenschwil is a municipality in the district of Kulm in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland. thumb|Aerial view (1964)
==History== Gontenschwil is first mentioned in 1173 as Gundoltswilre in a grant to the monastery at Beromünster. In 1236, ownership of part of village went to Engelberg Abbey, in 1266 it transferred to the Monastery of St. Leonhard in Basel, and in 1274 to the Knights of Malta. The secular owners of the village included the Counts of Lenzburg, then in 1173 the Counts of Kyburg, in 1273 the Kyburg rights transferred to the Habsburgs. The village was ruled by the Habsburg vassals, the Counts of Reinach. By this time, the local castle is no longer mentioned. The rights to low justice remained in the hands of wealthy citizens of Gontenschwil. After the conquest of the Aargau by Bern in 1415, Gontenschwil formed its own court within the district () of Lenzburg.