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Möriken-Wildegg

Möriken-Wildegg
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Coat of arms of Möriken-Wildegg
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Möriken-Wildegg is located in Switzerland
Möriken-Wildegg
Möriken-Wildegg
Möriken-Wildegg is located in Canton of Aargau
Möriken-Wildegg
Möriken-Wildegg
Coordinates: 47°25′N 8°11′E / 47.417°N 8.183°E / 47.417; 8.183Coordinates: 47°25′N 8°11′E / 47.417°N 8.183°E / 47.417; 8.183
Country Switzerland
Canton Aargau
District Lenzburg
Area
 • Total 6.6 km2 (2.5 sq mi)
Elevation 387 m (1,270 ft)
Population (Dec 2015)
 • Total 4,395
 • Density 670/km2 (1,700/sq mi)
Postal code 5103
SFOS number 4203
Surrounded by Auenstein, Birr, Brunegg, Holderbank, Lenzburg, Lupfig, Niederlenz, Othmarsingen, Rupperswil, Veltheim
Website www.moeriken-wildegg.ch
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Möriken-Wildegg is a municipality in the district of Lenzburg in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland.

The area was settled in the Late Bronze Age. The hilltop settlement on the Kestenberg had at least two phases (approximately 1050 to 1000 BC and 850 BC.). In the more recent settlement, the buildings were built with logs and traces of constructions and traces of bronze casting were discovered. A Roman era wall at the Lehmgrube river indicates that there was a Roman farm in the area. Möriken-Wildegg is first mentioned in 1283 as de Moerinchon. In the High Middle Ages the village belonged to the Lords of Holderbank and then later to the Twingherrschaft of Wildegg.

Religiously, into the 16th Century the inhabitants of Möriken-Wildegg belonged to the parish of Staufberg. In 1565 they became part of the Holderbank parish. A chapel dedicated to Saint Antonius was mentioned in the 13th Century. It was demolished in 1949 and replaced by a new building. A temporary Catholic church was consecrated in 1951, and a new building was finished in 1967.

Economically, the village was dependent on agriculture and wine production. In the 17th Century, a local noble family started a livestock operation. In the 18th Century home cotton processing started in the village, and a cotton printing company was founded in 1775 by Johann Rudolf Dolder. However, this company collapsed in 1850. A cement factory was built in 1890, and in 1912 employed a maximum of 850 people. A copper wire factory (founded 1920) employed about 200 people in 1992.

An important factor to the growth of Möriken-Wildegg was a that a railroad station on the Aarau-Brugg line opened in the village in 1858. In 1895 it also connected to the Seetalbahn rail line. Though this connection was replaced with bus service in 1984.


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