Buttwil

Geschichte

Buttwil is a municipality in the district of Muri in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland.The village is 2km west of Muri.HistoryButtwil is first mentioned in 1160 as Butwile. From its founding the Benedictine Muri Abbey possessed extensive real estate in the village. With the conquest of Aargau in 1415 the high court right, which had been held by the Habsburgs, went to the Swiss Confederation. The low court right remained at the Abbey.The chapel of St. James was built in 1666 and was a chapel of ease in the Muri parish.This former farming village showed, up about 1950, a steady population decline. This was followed by a sharp increase since 1970 is due to the virtually fog-free area and the short commutes on the train to Zurich and Lucerne. Since 1984 there has been a bus connection to Muri.GeographyButtwil has an area, of 4.52km2. Of this area, 2.92km2 or 64.6% is used for agricultural purposes, while 1.03km2 or 22.8% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 0.56km2 or 12.4% is settled (buildings or roads).Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 6.2% and transportation infrastructure made up 5.5%. Out of the forested land, 21.2% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.5% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 38.7% is used for growing crops and 22.6% is pastures, while 3.3% is used for orchards or vine crops.