Rüfenach

Geschichte

Rüfenach is a municipality in the district of Brugg in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland.GeographyThe municipality lies at the foot of the Bruggerberg and the Reinerberg, the southeast foothills of the Jura Mountains.It consists of three villages, Rüfenach, Hinterrein, and Vorderrein. The latter two were part of an independent municipality called Rein until 1898.. Rüfenach lies furthest west in the middle of a flat plain. Hinterrein is slightly higher and lies in the middle. Vorderrein is to the east on a marked hill. The east side of this hill falls sharply to the Aare. The difference in altitude is about 70m.Rüfenach has an area, of 4.17km2. Of this area, 1.98km2 or 47.5% is used for agricultural purposes, while 1.7km2 or 40.8% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 0.48km2 or 11.5% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.02km2 or 0.5% is either rivers or lakes.Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 4.8% and transportation infrastructure made up 5.8%. 40.0% of the total land area is heavily forested. Of the agricultural land, 35.7% is used for growing crops and 8.2% is pastures, while 3.6% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is in rivers and streams. The highest point, the Reinerberg, lies at 522m in altitude, and the lowest in Vorderrein on the Aare at 325m.Neighboring municipalities are Villigen to the north and northeast, Brugg to the southeast, Riniken to the southwest, and Remigen to the northwest.