Rothrist
Sign in to saveRothrist is a municipality in the district of Zofingen in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland.
Key facts
- Swiss town.subject_name
- Rothrist
- Swiss town.municipality_type
- municipality
- Swiss town.image_photo
- Rothrist preghejo 013.jpg
- Swiss town.imagepath_coa
- Wappen Rothrist AG.svg
- Swiss town.imagepath_flag
- CHE Rothrist Flag.svg
- Swiss town.canton
- Aargau
- Swiss town.iso code region
- CH-AG
- Swiss town.district
- Zofingen
- Swiss town.postal_code
- 4852
- Swiss town.municipality_code
- 4282
- Swiss town.area
- 11.84
- Swiss town.elevation
- 411
- Swiss town.population
- 7321
- Swiss town.populationof
- December 2006
- Swiss town.popofyear
- 2006
- Swiss town.website
- www.rothrist.ch
- Swiss town.neighboring_municipalities
- Aarburg, Boningen (SO), Murgenthal, Oftringen, Olten (SO), Strengelbach, Vordemwald
- Swiss town.twintowns
- Eggerberg (Switzerland)
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Rothrist is a municipality in the district of Zofingen in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland.
==History== Originally an Alamanni settlement, the modern village of Rothrist is first mentioned in 1263 as Routris. The Herrschaft rights were held by the Counts of Frohburg until 1299, when they transferred to the Habsburgs. Following the conquest of the Aargau in 1415, it became part of Bern. Under both the Habsburgs and Bern, it was part of the court of Aarburg. From 1798 until 1802 it was part of the Canton of Bern, and in 1803, it came to the newly created Canton of Aargau as part of the Zofingen district. In 1706 the municipality built its first schoolhouse on the Hölzli. In 1917 a district school opened. The municipal museum (Heimatmuseum) was built in 1970.