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Bözen
Aargauvillage
Bözen
Total population
736
Demographic figures from Swiss Federal Statistical Office. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.
City facts
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Overview
Bözen is a village in the Swiss canton of Aargau. It lies to the west of the Bözberg in the upper Frick valley. Until 31 December 2021, Bözen was an independent municipality in the district of Brugg, since then it has been one of four villages in the newly created municipality of Böztal in the district of Laufenburg.
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History
The earliest evidence of people in Bözen are a Neolithic stone ax, a Roman Estate and Alamanni graves. Bözen is first mentioned in 1284 as Boze. During the Middle Ages it was owned by Elfingen. Then, in 1291 it was sold, along with most of the Aargau, by Murbach Abbey to the Habsburgs In 1322 it came under the authority of Königsfelden abbey in Windisch. The village was bought by Bern in 1514. Starting in the 16th century, Bözen together with Elfingen and Effingen formed a low justice district. The chapel of Bözen was first mentioned in 1381, and was originally part of the parish of Elfingen. Presumably in 1600 the parish was transferred to Bözen. Economically the village was dominated by agriculture with a number of vineyards (in the mid-19th Century, some 50 ha). With the construction of the Bözbergtunnel in 1875 the village grew. Between 1840 and 1925, the main industry was home straw production for the straw plaiting industry. Starting in 1980 there was a building boom, and the number of commuters increased thanks to regular bus service to Brugg (starting in 1990).
Geography
Bözen has an area, , of . Of this area, or 66.1% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 21.8% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 11.1% is settled (buildings or roads) and or 0.3% is unproductive land. Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 0.3% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 4.6% and transportation infrastructure made up 6.1%. 19.2% of the total land area was heavily forested and 2.5% is orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 37.5% is used for growing crops and 22.8% is pastures, while 5.8% is used for orchards or vine crops.
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Geography
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Nearby places in Aargau
- Zeihen1.3 mi away · pop. 1,170
- Ittenthal1.9 mi away · pop. 236
- Oberzeihen2.1 mi away
- Herznach2.2 mi away · pop. 1,506
- Linn2.8 mi away · pop. 129
- Sulz2.8 mi away · pop. 1,160
- Frick3.1 mi away · pop. 5,483
- Ursprung3.5 mi away
- Kaisten3.5 mi away · pop. 2,649
- Gipf-Oberfrick3.8 mi away · pop. 3,502
- Villnachern3.9 mi away · pop. 1,655
- Gansingen4.1 mi away · pop. 1,030
Geography & sun
Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.
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Books about Bözen
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Official Identifiers
BFS — Swiss Federal Statistical Office
- BFS-Nr
- 4094
- Population (Wikidata)
- 745
- Wikidata
- Q66620
Gemeindenummer via Wikidata P771
Sources
- • Wikipedia
- • Wikidata
- • Open-Meteo / sunrise-sunset.org
- • Wikipedia Pageviews API
- • Open Library
- • BFS — Swiss Federal Statistical Office — Gemeindenummer via Wikidata P771