Mettauertal
Sign in to saveMettauertal is a municipality in the district of Laufenburg in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland. On 1 January 2010 the municipalities of Hottwil, Etzgen, Mettau, Oberhofen and Wil merged to form the new municipality of Mettauertal.
Key facts
- Swiss town.subject_name
- Mettauertal
- Swiss town.image_photo
- Mettauertal Hottwil 067.jpg
- Swiss town.municipality_type
- municipality
- Swiss town.imagepath_coa
- CHE Mettauertal COA.svg
- Swiss town.imagepath_flag
- CHE Mettauertal Flag.svg
- Swiss town.canton
- Aargau
- Swiss town.iso code region
- CH-AG
- Swiss town.district
- Laufenburg
- Swiss town.postal_code
- 5276
- Swiss town.municipality_code
- 4184
- Swiss town.area
- 21.56
- Swiss town.elevation
- 381
- Swiss town.population
- 2007
- Swiss town.populationof
- December 2006
- Swiss town.website
- www.wil-ag.ch
- Swiss town.neighboring_municipalities
- Gansingen, Laufenburg, Leibstadt, Leuggern, Mandach, Remigen, Schwaderloch, Villigen
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Mettauertal is a municipality in the district of Laufenburg in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland. On 1 January 2010 the municipalities of Hottwil, Etzgen, Mettau, Oberhofen and Wil merged to form the new municipality of Mettauertal.
==Geography== Mettauertal had an area, (as of the 2004/09 survey) of . Of this area, about 51.2% is used for agricultural purposes, while 40.1% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 7.5% is settled (buildings or roads) and 1.3% is unproductive land. Over the past two decades (1979/85-2004/09) the amount of land that is settled has increased by and the agricultural land has decreased by .