Full-Reuenthal

Geschichte

Full-Reuenthal is a municipality in the district of Zurzach in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland.HistoryFull is first mentioned around 1303-07 as Wulna, and Reuenthal was mentioned at the same time as Ruwental. Full-Reuenthal became a municipality in 1832, when it was separated from Oberleibstadt. In the beginning of the 2000s, extension of the German Bundesautobahn 98 through the area of Full was resisted by local inhabitants.GeographyFull-Reuenthal has an area, of 4.82km2. Of this area, 2.6km2 or 53.9% is used for agricultural purposes, while 1.08km2 or 22.4% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 0.66km2 or 13.7% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.52km2 or 10.8% is either rivers or lakes.Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 2.5% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 5.4% and transportation infrastructure made up 4.4%. Power and water infrastructure as well as other special developed areas made up 1.5% of the area Out of the forested land, 20.7% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.7% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 43.2% is used for growing crops and 8.7% is pastures, while 2.1% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is flowing water.The municipality is located in the Zurzach district, in a Rhine knee (bend in the Rhine River) across from the German city of Waldshut. It consists of the scattered village of Full with the sections of Unterdorf, Fahrhäuser and Jüppen and the haufendorf village (an irregular, unplanned and quite closely packed village, built around a central square) of Reuenthal. It lies near the confluence of the rivers Aare and Rhine. Full-Reuenthal is accessed by Hauptstrasse 7.