Künten

Also known as Künten AG, Kunten, Kuenten

Künten is a municipality in the district of Baden in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland. It lies on the Reuss River and includes the previously independent community of Sulz, which merged with Künten in 1973.

Key facts

Swiss town.subject_name: Künten
Swiss town.image_photo: Kuenten 140.jpg
Swiss town.municipality_type: municipality
Swiss town.imagepath_coa: Wappen Künten AG.svg
Swiss town.imagepath_flag: CHE Künten Flag.svg
Swiss town.canton: Aargau
Swiss town.iso code region: CH-AG
Swiss town.district: Baden
Swiss town.postal_code: 5444
Swiss town.municipality_code: 4031
Swiss town.area: 4.89
Swiss town.elevation: 425
Swiss town.website: kuenten.ch
Swiss town.neighboring_municipalities: Bellikon, Eggenwil, Fischbach-Göslikon, Niederwil, Remetschwil, Stetten

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Encyclopedic overview

9 sections

Contents

History
Geography
Coat of arms
Demographics
Heritage sites of national significance
Economy
Religion
References
External links

==History== Various finds point to an early settlement. Coins, shards, bronze and iron tools from a Roman settlement from the early 2nd century were discovered near Künten, while archaeologists discovered a burial mound near Sulz. Chünten and Sulzo were first mentioned in documents around 1160 in the Acta Murensia, which identified the villages as the property of Muri Abbey. The place name Künten comes from the late Latin (praedium) Quintinacum and means "estate belonging to Quintinus". The current form of the name came about through a sound shift via the Old High German Chüntinacha.

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