Lenzburg
Sign in to saveLenzburg is a town in the central region of the Swiss canton of 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.
Key facts
- Swiss town.subject_name
- Lenzburg
- Swiss town.municipality_type
- municipality
- Swiss town.image_photo
- Lenzburg DJI 0960.jpg
- Swiss town.imagepath_flag
- CHE Lenzburg Flag.svg
- Swiss town.imagepath_coa
- CHE Lenzburg COA.svg
- Swiss town.canton
- Aargau
- Swiss town.iso code region
- CH-AG
- Swiss town.district
- Lenzburg
- Swiss town.postal_code
- 5600
- Swiss town.municipality_code
- 4201
- Swiss town.area
- 11.33
- Swiss town.elevation
- 405
- Swiss town.population
- 7731
- Swiss town.populationof
- 2006
- Swiss town.website
- www.lenzburg.ch
- Swiss town.mayor
- Daniel Mosimann
- Swiss town.mayor_party
- SP
- Swiss town.neighboring_municipalities
- Ammerswil, Egliswil, Hendschiken, Möriken-Wildegg, Niederlenz, Othmarsingen, Rupperswil, Seon, Staufen
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Lenzburg is a town in the central region of the Swiss canton of 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== thumb|left|upright|Coat of Arms from Lenzburg castle, showing some of the history of the castle. At the bottom, the coat of arms of the von Erlach family, above that the flag of the canton of Bern, all topped by the [[Reichsadler of the Holy Roman Empire.]] 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.