Bad Zurzach
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Bad Zurzach is a municipality
in the district of Zurzach
in the canton
of Aargau
in Switzerland
. It is the seat of the district.
Bad Zurzach was previously known as Zurzach; the population voting for the official name change in a referendum of 21 May 2006. Located on the Rhine, Bad Zurzach has a thermal water bath and an outdoor bathing facility. The old market town, the St. Verena convent church with its treasure, the Roman Catholic Church
and the late Roman castle Tenedo on the Kirchlibuck hill are listed as heritage sites of national significance
.
Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 3.1% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 12.7% and transportation infrastructure made up 7.5%. while parks, green belts and sports fields made up 4.3%. Out of the forested land, 40.8% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.8% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 15.3% is used for growing crops and 8.7% is pastures, while 1.1% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is flowing water.
Across the Rhein River is the town of Rheinheim in the German state of Baden-Württemberg
.
(82.9%), with Serbo-Croatian
being second most common ( 3.3%) and Italian
being third ( 3.2%).
, the gender distribution of the population was 49.9% male and 50.1% female. The population was made up of 1,274 Swiss men (31.6% of the population), and 736 (18.3%) non-Swiss men. There were 1,410 Swiss women (35.0%), and 610 (15.1%) non-Swiss women. In there were 17 live births to Swiss citizens and 11 births to non-Swiss citizens, and in same time span there were 39 deaths of Swiss citizens and 7 non-Swiss citizen deaths. Ignoring immigration and emigration, the population of Swiss citizens decreased by 22 while the foreign population increased by 4. There were 2 Swiss men who emigrated from Switzerland to another country, 1 Swiss woman who emigrated from Switzerland to another country, 69 non-Swiss men who emigrated from Switzerland to another country and 40 non-Swiss women who emigrated from Switzerland to another country. The total Swiss population change in 2008 (from all sources) was a decrease of 39 and the non-Swiss population change was an increase of 66 people. This represents a population growth rate of 0.7%.
The age distribution, , in Bad Zurzach is; 310 children or 7.6% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 482 teenagers or 11.9% are between 10 and 19. Of the adult population, 482 people or 11.9% of the population are between 20 and 29 years old. 404 people or 9.9% are between 30 and 39, 690 people or 17.0% are between 40 and 49, and 605 people or 14.9% are between 50 and 59. The senior population distribution is 497 people or 12.2% of the population are between 60 and 69 years old, 373 people or 9.2% are between 70 and 79, there are 184 people or 4.5% who are between 80 and 89,and there are 34 people or 0.8% who are 90 and older.
the average number of residents per living room was 0.58 which is about equal to the cantonal average of 0.57 per room. In this case, a room is defined as space of a housing unit of at least 4 m² (43.1 sq ft) as normal bedrooms, dining rooms, living rooms, kitchens and habitable cellars and attics. About 41.7% of the total households were owner occupied, or in other words did not pay rent (though they may have a mortgage
or a rent-to-own agreement).
, there were 271 homes with 1 or 2 persons in the household, 811 homes with 3 or 4 persons in the household, and 501 homes with 5 or more persons in the household. , there were 1,653 private households (homes and apartments) in the municipality, and an average of 2.3 persons per household. there were 564 single family homes (or 28.5% of the total) out of a total of 1,978 homes and apartments. There were a total of 16 empty apartments for a 0.8% vacancy rate. , the construction rate of new housing units was 2.5 new units per 1000 residents.
In the 2007 federal election
the most popular party was the SVP
which received 34.58% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the CVP
(20.8%), the SP
(19.14%) and the FDP
(12.88%). In the federal election, a total of 1,103 votes were cast, and the voter turnout
was 48.2%.
The historical population is given in the following table:
. Two of the sites are churches, the former collegiate church
of St. Verena on Hauptstrasse and the Reformed Church at Schwertgasse 153. In the city, the Gasthof (combination hotel and restaurant) Zur Waag at Hauptstrasse 25 and the Salzbohrtürme on Bohrturmweg are both on the list. Outside the old city, the Tenedo (which has been a pre-historic, roman era
, medieval
and modern settlement) and the Roman Rhine watchtower at Oberfeld make up the rest.
The entire town of Bad Zurzach is designated as part of the Inventory of Swiss Heritage Sites
.
there were 2,017 workers who lived in the municipality. Of these, 1,129 or about 56.0% of the residents worked outside Bad Zurzach while 1,026 people commuted into the municipality for work. There were a total of 1,914 jobs (of at least 6 hours per week) in the municipality. Of the working population, 12.5% used public transportation to get to work, and 40.9% used a private car.
. Of the rest of the population, there were 9 individuals (or about 0.23% of the population) who belonged to the Christian Catholic
faith.
). Of the school age population , there are 262 students attending primary school, there are 170 students attending secondary school, there are 133 students attending tertiary or university level schooling in the municipality.
Bad Zurzach is home to the Fleckenbibliothek Bad Zurzach library. The library has 10,302 books or other media, and loaned out 33,758 items in the same year. It was open a total of 298 days with average of 11 hours per week during that year.
Municipalities of Switzerland
Communes , also known as municipalities, are the smallest government division in Switzerland, numbering 2,596 . While many have a population of a few hundred citizens, the largest cities such as Zürich or Geneva also have the legal status of municipalities...
in the district of Zurzach
Zurzach (district)
Zurzach District is a district in the Swiss Canton of Aargau with the administrative capital of Zurzach. It covers the Studenlands and is located in the northeastern part of the canton. The district capital is Bad Zurzach. The main valleys are the Surb and the Aare. It has a population of ...
in the canton
Cantons of Switzerland
The 26 cantons of Switzerland are the member states of the federal state of Switzerland. Each canton was a fully sovereign state with its own borders, army and currency from the Treaty of Westphalia until the establishment of the Swiss federal state in 1848...
of Aargau
Aargau
Aargau is one of the more northerly cantons of Switzerland. It comprises the lower course of the river Aare, which is why the canton is called Aar-gau .-History:...
in Switzerland
Switzerland
Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....
. It is the seat of the district.
Bad Zurzach was previously known as Zurzach; the population voting for the official name change in a referendum of 21 May 2006. Located on the Rhine, Bad Zurzach has a thermal water bath and an outdoor bathing facility. The old market town, the St. Verena convent church with its treasure, the Roman Catholic Church
Roman Catholic Church
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the world's largest Christian church, with over a billion members. Led by the Pope, it defines its mission as spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ, administering the sacraments and exercising charity...
and the late Roman castle Tenedo on the Kirchlibuck hill are listed as heritage sites of national significance
Swiss Inventory of Cultural Property of National and Regional Significance
The Swiss Inventory of Cultural Property of National and Regional Significance is a register of some 8,300 items of cultural property in Switzerland...
.
Geography
Bad Zurzach has an area, , of 6.52 square kilometres (2.5 sq mi). Of this area, 1.64 km² (0.633207540091757 sq mi) or 25.2% is used for agricultural purposes, while 2.78 km² (1.1 sq mi) or 42.6% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 1.82 km² (0.702705928638414 sq mi) or 27.9% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.28 km² (0.10810860440591 sq mi) or 4.3% is either rivers or lakes and 0.01 km² (2.5 acre) or 0.2% is unproductive land.Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 3.1% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 12.7% and transportation infrastructure made up 7.5%. while parks, green belts and sports fields made up 4.3%. Out of the forested land, 40.8% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.8% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 15.3% is used for growing crops and 8.7% is pastures, while 1.1% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is flowing water.
Across the Rhein River is the town of Rheinheim in the German state of Baden-Württemberg
Baden-Württemberg
Baden-Württemberg is one of the 16 states of Germany. Baden-Württemberg is in the southwestern part of the country to the east of the Upper Rhine, and is the third largest in both area and population of Germany's sixteen states, with an area of and 10.7 million inhabitants...
.
Demographics
Bad Zurzach has a population of , 34.7% of the population are foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1997–2007) the population has changed at a rate of 4.2%. Most of the population speaks GermanGerman language
German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
(82.9%), with Serbo-Croatian
Serbo-Croatian language
Serbo-Croatian or Serbo-Croat, less commonly Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian , is a South Slavic language with multiple standards and the primary language of Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro...
being second most common ( 3.3%) and Italian
Italian language
Italian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia...
being third ( 3.2%).
, the gender distribution of the population was 49.9% male and 50.1% female. The population was made up of 1,274 Swiss men (31.6% of the population), and 736 (18.3%) non-Swiss men. There were 1,410 Swiss women (35.0%), and 610 (15.1%) non-Swiss women. In there were 17 live births to Swiss citizens and 11 births to non-Swiss citizens, and in same time span there were 39 deaths of Swiss citizens and 7 non-Swiss citizen deaths. Ignoring immigration and emigration, the population of Swiss citizens decreased by 22 while the foreign population increased by 4. There were 2 Swiss men who emigrated from Switzerland to another country, 1 Swiss woman who emigrated from Switzerland to another country, 69 non-Swiss men who emigrated from Switzerland to another country and 40 non-Swiss women who emigrated from Switzerland to another country. The total Swiss population change in 2008 (from all sources) was a decrease of 39 and the non-Swiss population change was an increase of 66 people. This represents a population growth rate of 0.7%.
The age distribution, , in Bad Zurzach is; 310 children or 7.6% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 482 teenagers or 11.9% are between 10 and 19. Of the adult population, 482 people or 11.9% of the population are between 20 and 29 years old. 404 people or 9.9% are between 30 and 39, 690 people or 17.0% are between 40 and 49, and 605 people or 14.9% are between 50 and 59. The senior population distribution is 497 people or 12.2% of the population are between 60 and 69 years old, 373 people or 9.2% are between 70 and 79, there are 184 people or 4.5% who are between 80 and 89,and there are 34 people or 0.8% who are 90 and older.
the average number of residents per living room was 0.58 which is about equal to the cantonal average of 0.57 per room. In this case, a room is defined as space of a housing unit of at least 4 m² (43.1 sq ft) as normal bedrooms, dining rooms, living rooms, kitchens and habitable cellars and attics. About 41.7% of the total households were owner occupied, or in other words did not pay rent (though they may have a mortgage
Mortgage loan
A mortgage loan is a loan secured by real property through the use of a mortgage note which evidences the existence of the loan and the encumbrance of that realty through the granting of a mortgage which secures the loan...
or a rent-to-own agreement).
, there were 271 homes with 1 or 2 persons in the household, 811 homes with 3 or 4 persons in the household, and 501 homes with 5 or more persons in the household. , there were 1,653 private households (homes and apartments) in the municipality, and an average of 2.3 persons per household. there were 564 single family homes (or 28.5% of the total) out of a total of 1,978 homes and apartments. There were a total of 16 empty apartments for a 0.8% vacancy rate. , the construction rate of new housing units was 2.5 new units per 1000 residents.
In the 2007 federal election
Swiss federal election, 2007
Elections to the Swiss Federal Assembly, the federal parliament of Switzerland, were held on Sunday, 21 October 2007. In a few cantons, a second round of the elections to the Council of States was held on 11 November, 18 November, and 25 November 2007...
the most popular party was the SVP
Swiss People's Party
The Swiss People's Party , also known as the Democratic Union of the Centre , is a conservative political party in Switzerland. Chaired by Toni Brunner, but spearheaded by Christoph Blocher, the party is the largest party in the Federal Assembly, with 58 members of the National Council and 6 of...
which received 34.58% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the CVP
Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland
The Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland is a Christian democratic political party in Switzerland. It is the fourth-largest party in the National Council, with 31 seats, and the largest in the Council of States, with 15 seats. It has one seat, that of Doris Leuthard, on the Swiss...
(20.8%), the SP
Social Democratic Party of Switzerland
The Social Democratic Party of Switzerland is the largest centre-left political party in Switzerland....
(19.14%) and the FDP
Free Democratic Party of Switzerland
The Free Democratic Party was a classical liberal political party in Switzerland. It was one of the major parties in Switzerland until its merger with the smaller classical liberal Liberal Party, to form FDP.The Liberals on 1 January 2009....
(12.88%). In the federal election, a total of 1,103 votes were cast, and the voter turnout
Voter turnout
Voter turnout is the percentage of eligible voters who cast a ballot in an election . After increasing for many decades, there has been a trend of decreasing voter turnout in most established democracies since the 1960s...
was 48.2%.
The historical population is given in the following table:
| year | population |
|---|---|
| 1975 | 3,072 |
| 1980 | 3,141 |
| 1990 | 3,641 |
| 2000 | 3,905 |
Heritage sites of national significance
There are six sites in Bad Zurzach that are Swiss heritage site of national significanceSwiss Inventory of Cultural Property of National and Regional Significance
The Swiss Inventory of Cultural Property of National and Regional Significance is a register of some 8,300 items of cultural property in Switzerland...
. Two of the sites are churches, the former collegiate church
Collegiate church
In Christianity, a collegiate church is a church where the daily office of worship is maintained by a college of canons; a non-monastic, or "secular" community of clergy, organised as a self-governing corporate body, which may be presided over by a dean or provost...
of St. Verena on Hauptstrasse and the Reformed Church at Schwertgasse 153. In the city, the Gasthof (combination hotel and restaurant) Zur Waag at Hauptstrasse 25 and the Salzbohrtürme on Bohrturmweg are both on the list. Outside the old city, the Tenedo (which has been a pre-historic, roman era
Switzerland in the Roman era
The history of Switzerland in the Roman era encompasses the roughly six centuries during which the territory of modern Switzerland was a part of the Roman Republic and Empire...
, medieval
Middle Ages
The Middle Ages is a periodization of European history from the 5th century to the 15th century. The Middle Ages follows the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 and precedes the Early Modern Era. It is the middle period of a three-period division of Western history: Classic, Medieval and Modern...
and modern settlement) and the Roman Rhine watchtower at Oberfeld make up the rest.
The entire town of Bad Zurzach is designated as part of the Inventory of Swiss Heritage Sites
Inventory of Swiss Heritage Sites
The Inventory of Swiss Heritage Sites is part of a 1981 Ordinance of the Swiss Federal Council implementing the Federal Law on the Protection of Nature and Cultural Heritage.-Sites of national importance:-Types:...
.
Economy
, Bad Zurzach had an unemployment rate of 2.04%. , there were 24 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 9 businesses involved in this sector. 397 people are employed in the secondary sector and there are 38 businesses in this sector. 1,874 people are employed in the tertiary sector, with 205 businesses in this sector.there were 2,017 workers who lived in the municipality. Of these, 1,129 or about 56.0% of the residents worked outside Bad Zurzach while 1,026 people commuted into the municipality for work. There were a total of 1,914 jobs (of at least 6 hours per week) in the municipality. Of the working population, 12.5% used public transportation to get to work, and 40.9% used a private car.
Religion
From the , 1,730 or 44.4% were Roman Catholic, while 1,149 or 29.5% belonged to the Swiss Reformed ChurchSwiss Reformed Church
The Reformed branch of Protestantism in Switzerland was started in Zürich by Huldrych Zwingli and spread within a few years to Basel , Bern , St...
. Of the rest of the population, there were 9 individuals (or about 0.23% of the population) who belonged to the Christian Catholic
Christian Catholic Church of Switzerland
The Christian Catholic Church of Switzerland is the Swiss member church of the Union of Utrecht, also known as Old Catholic Church, originally founded by the jansenists, with a later influx of discontented Catholics following their disappointment with the First Vatican Council. It has 14,000...
faith.
Education
In Bad Zurzach about 66.8% of the population (between age 25-64) have completed either non-mandatory upper secondary education or additional higher education (either university or a FachhochschuleFachhochschule
A Fachhochschule or University of Applied Sciences is a German type of tertiary education institution, sometimes specialized in certain topical areas . Fachhochschulen were founded in Germany and later adopted by Austria, Liechtenstein, Switzerland and Greece...
). Of the school age population , there are 262 students attending primary school, there are 170 students attending secondary school, there are 133 students attending tertiary or university level schooling in the municipality.
Bad Zurzach is home to the Fleckenbibliothek Bad Zurzach library. The library has 10,302 books or other media, and loaned out 33,758 items in the same year. It was open a total of 298 days with average of 11 hours per week during that year.