Böbikon

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Böbikon

Location of Böbikon

Coordinates: 47°33′N 8°20′E / 47.550°N 8.333°ECoordinates: 47°33′N 8°20′E / 47.550°N 8.333°E

Country

Area

• Total

2.59 km² (1.00 sq mi)

Elevation

444 m (1,457 ft)

Population (Dec 2015)

• Total

165

• Density

64/km² (160/sq mi)

Postal code

5334

SFOS number

4302

Surrounded by

Baldingen, Lengnau, Mellikon, Rekingen, Wislikofen

Website

www.boebikon.ch
SFSO statistics

Böbikon is a municipality in the district of Zurzach in Canton Aargau in Switzerland. It is located just 2 km south of the border with Germany.

Originally an Alamanni village in a forest clearing, Böbikon is first mentioned in 1113 as Bebikon. West of the village are the ruins of the a small village that was inhabited between 1100-1250. The major landowners were St. Blaisen Abbey and Zurzach Abbey. The rights to hold courts was held in the 14th and 15th Centuries by the Lords of Liebegg. Between 1506-1671, the court rights were held by Sion Abbey in Klingnau, and after that those rights were in private hands.

The chapel (now a building from the 18th Century), together with tithes were initially the property of St. Blaisen Abbey, while the village was part of the parish of Wislikofen. In 1883 the village and chapel became part of the newly founded parish of Baldingen.

Even at the end of the 20th Century agriculture dominated the economy of the village. In 1990, three-quarters of the jobs in the village were in agriculture.

Böbikon has an area, as of 2009^[update], of 2.59 square kilometers (1.00 sq mi). Of this area, 1.43 km² (0.55 sq mi) or 55.2% is used for agricultural purposes, while 0.99 km² (0.38 sq mi) or 38.2% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 0.19 km² (0.073 sq mi) or 7.3% is settled (buildings or roads).

Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 3.1% and transportation infrastructure made up 4.2%. Out of the forested land, 36.7% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.5% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 35.5% is used for growing crops and 15.4% is pastures, while 4.2% is used for orchards or vine crops.

The municipality is located in the Zurzach district, in a forested valley between the Surbtal and the Rhine river. The Chrüzlibach stream runs through the village and the valley. Besides the main town of Böbikon, there are two hamlets, each with about a dozen residents. They are Güggehü (about 500 m (1,600 ft) to the north), and Rütihof (about 1,000 m (3,300 ft) to the south-west). The neighboring municipalities are Rekingen in the north west, Mellikon in the north, Wislikofen in the east, Lengnau in the south, and Baldingen in the west.

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