Rottenschwil
Sign in to saveRottenschwil is a municipality in the district of Muri in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland.
Key facts
- Swiss town.subject_name
- Rottenschwil
- Swiss town.municipality_type
- municipality
- Swiss town.image_photo
- Rottenschwil 088.jpg
- Swiss town.imagepath_coa
- CHE Rottenschwil COA.svg
- Swiss town.imagepath_flag
- CHE Rottenschwil Flag.svg
- Swiss town.canton
- Aargau
- Swiss town.iso code region
- CH-AG
- Swiss town.district
- Muri
- Swiss town.postal_code
- 8919
- Swiss town.municipality_code
- 4238
- Swiss town.area
- 4.49
- Swiss town.elevation
- 387
- Swiss town.population
- 807
- Swiss town.populationof
- December 2006
- Swiss town.popofyear
- 2006
- Swiss town.website
- www.rottenschwil.ch
- Swiss town.neighboring_municipalities
- Aristau, Besenbüren, Hermetschwil-Staffeln, Jonen, Oberlunkhofen, Unterlunkhofen
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Rottenschwil is a municipality in the district of Muri in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland.
==History== thumb|left|Reuss Bridge near Rottenschwil The earliest trace of a human settlement in the area around Rottenschwil, is a Roman era farm. The modern municipality of Rottenschwil is first mentioned in 1281 as Rotolfswile. The major land owner in the area was Hermetschwil Abbey, but the Habsburgs held the vogtei office over the Abbey's land. With the conquest of the Aargau in 1415 those rights transferred to the Swiss Confederation. From 1415 until 1798, Rottenschwil was a part of the district of Muri in the Freie Ämter, which were governed as "subject lands" by all or some of the Confederates. A ferry over the Reuss river is first mentioned in 1312. In 1510, Muri Abbey sold their quarter of the profits from the ferry to the city of Bremgarten. Frequent floods strongly affected the population and buildings. In 1580 Hermetschwil Abbey helped construct a milldam on the river.