Zuzgen

Geschichte

Zuzgen is a municipality in the Rheinfelden District of canton Aargau in Switzerland. It is located in the West of the Fricktal region, around three kilometers southwest of the border with Germany, and has a border with Canton Basel-Landschaft.GeographyThe village lies in the mid-reaches of the Möhlin valley through which flows the Möhlinbach in a northwesterly direction towards the Rhine. The flat valley floor alongside the Möhlinbach is, on average, close to 200 meters wide and is bordered on both sides by the hills of the Tabel Jura which have very steep lower slopes leading to flat upper plateau's that are intensively farmed.In the North the almost circular Chriesiberg is found and in the East lies the Lohnberg with a hamlet of the same name. This flat plateau is around one kilometer wide and stretches for over four kilometers to the southwest . The two-kilometer-long Reckental stretches to the south of the village. To the west lies a further plateau where the hamlet of Erfleten is found.Zuzgen has an area, of 8.39km2. Of this area, 4.97km2 or 59.2% is used for agricultural purposes, while 2.89km2 or 34.4% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 0.45km2 or 5.4% is settled, 0.01km2 or 0.1% is either rivers or lakes.