Oberflachs
Sign in to saveOberflachs is a former municipality in the district of Brugg in Canton Aargau in Switzerland. It is located about 6 km south west of the town of Brugg. On 1 January 2014 the former municipalities of Oberflachs and Schinznach-Dorf merged into the new municipality of Schinznach.
Key facts
- Swiss town.subject_name
- Oberflachs
- Swiss town.image_photo
- Oberflachs 8523.JPG
- Swiss town.municipality_type
- former
- Swiss town.imagepath_coa
- Wappen Oberflachs AG.svg
- Swiss town.imagepath_flag
- CHE Oberflachs Flag.svg
- Swiss town.canton
- Aargau
- Swiss town.iso code region
- CH-AG
- Swiss town.district
- Brugg (district)
- Swiss town.postal_code
- 5108
- Swiss town.municipality_code
- 4109
- Swiss town.area
- 3.38
- Swiss town.elevation
- 401
- Swiss town.population
- 498
- Swiss town.populationof
- Dec 2011
- Swiss town.website
- oberflachs.ch
- Swiss town.neighboring_municipalities
- Auenstein, Schinznach-Dorf, Thalheim, Veltheim
- Swiss town.twintowns
- Seitingen-Oberflacht (Germany)
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Oberflachs is a former municipality in the district of Brugg in Canton Aargau in Switzerland. It is located about 6 km south west of the town of Brugg. On 1 January 2014 the former municipalities of Oberflachs and Schinznach-Dorf merged into the new municipality of Schinznach.
==History== thumb|left|Aerial view (1953) While various Roman era bricks and coins have been discovered, the first record of Oberflachs is in 1342 as Obreflaht. From the Middle Ages until 1732, Kasteln Castle held the rights to low justice in the village. The rights to administer High Justice was held by the bailiwick of Schenkenberg and was acquired in 1460 by the city of Bern. In 1732 the village came fully under Bern's authority when Bern bought the Kasteln Castle. By 1607 the village is identified as a partly independent municipality.