Full-Reuenthal is a
municipality
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in the district of
Zurzach
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in the
canton
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of
Aargau
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Aargau is one of the most nort ...
in
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.
History
Full is first mentioned around 1303-07 as ''Wulna'', and Reuenthal was mentioned at the same time as ''Ruwental''.
[ Full-Reuenthal became a municipality in 1832, when it was separated from Oberleibstadt. In the beginning of the 2000s, extension of the German ]Bundesautobahn 98
is a long motorway in southern Germany, originally intended to connect Weil am Rhein with the A 8 near Irschenberg.
Currently, only three relatively short unconnected sections have been constructed:
*Weil am Rhein to near Eichsel, wh ...
through the area of Full was resisted by local inhabitants.
Geography
Full-Reuenthal has an area, , of . Of this area, or 53.9% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 22.4% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 13.7% is settled (buildings or roads), or 10.8% is either rivers or lakes.[Swiss Federal Statistical Office-Land Use Statistics]
2009 data accessed 25 March 2010
Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 2.5% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 5.4% and transportation infrastructure made up 4.4%. Power and water infrastructure as well as other special developed areas made up 1.5% of the area Out of the forested land, 20.7% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.7% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 43.2% is used for growing crops and 8.7% is pastures, while 2.1% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is flowing water.[
The municipality is located in the Zurzach district, in a Rhine knee (bend in the Rhine River) across from the ]German
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city of Waldshut. It consists of the scattered village of Full with the sections of Unterdorf, Fahrhäuser and Jüppen and the ''haufendorf'' village (an irregular, unplanned and quite closely packed village, built around a central square) of Reuenthal. It lies near the confluence of the rivers Aare
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and Rhine
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. Full-Reuenthal is accessed by Hauptstrasse 7.
Coat of arms
The blazon
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of the municipal coat of arms
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is ''Or a Water Pump Sable on a Base Vert.''
Demographics
Full-Reuenthal has a population () of , 10.9% of the population are foreign nationals.[Statistical Department of Canton Aargau -Bereich 01 -Bevölkerung]
accessed 20 January 2010 Over the last 10 years (1997–2007) the population has changed at a rate of 0.5%. Most of the population () speaks German
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(95.4%), with Italian
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being second most common ( 1.1%) and Portuguese
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being third ( 1.0%).[Swiss Federal Statistical Office]
accessed 17-June-2010
The age distribution, , in Full-Reuenthal is; 99 children or 12.1% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 112 teenagers or 13.7% are between 10 and 19. Of the adult population, 73 people or 8.9% of the population are between 20 and 29 years old. 80 people or 9.8% are between 30 and 39, 158 people or 19.3% are between 40 and 49, and 125 people or 15.3% are between 50 and 59. The senior population distribution is 69 people or 8.4% of the population are between 60 and 69 years old, 62 people or 7.6% are between 70 and 79, there are 36 people or 4.4% who are between 80 and 89, and there are 4 people or 0.5% who are 90 and older.[Statistical Department of Canton Aargau -Bevölkerungsdaten für den Kanton Aargau und die Gemeinden (Archiv)]
accessed 20 January 2010
the average number of residents per living room was 0.55 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 as normal bedrooms, dining rooms, living rooms, kitchens and habitable cellars and attics. About 74.9% of the total households were owner occupied, or in other words did not pay rent (though they may have a mortgage
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or a rent-to-own
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agreement).
, there were 8 homes with 1 or 2 persons in the household, 115 homes with 3 or 4 persons in the household, and 172 homes with 5 or more persons in the household.[ , there were 299 private households (homes and apartments) in the municipality, and an average of 2.7 persons per household.][ there were 202 single family homes (or 62.7% of the total) out of a total of 322 homes and apartments.][Statistical Department of Canton Aargau]
accessed 20 January 2010 There were a total of 0 empty apartments for a 0.0% vacancy rate. , the construction rate of new housing units was 2.4 new units per 1000 residents.[
In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SVP which received 47.45% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the CVP (14.8%), the SP (13.1%) and the FDP (12.19%). In the federal election, a total of 277 votes were cast, and the ]voter turnout
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was 47.6%.
The historical population is given in the following table:[
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Heritage sites of national significance
The ''Jüppe'', a portion of the Roman era
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Rhine fortifications, is listed as a Swiss heritage site of national significance.
Economy
, Full-Reuenthal had an unemployment rate of 1.65%. , there were 143 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 17 businesses involved in this sector. 47 people are employed in the secondary sector
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and there are 5 businesses in this sector. 60 people are employed in the tertiary sector
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, with 16 businesses in this sector.[
there were 381 workers who lived in the municipality. Of these, 296 or about 77.7% of the residents worked outside Full-Reuenthal while 175 people commuted into the municipality for work. There were a total of 260 jobs (of at least 6 hours per week) in the municipality.Statistical Department of Canton Aargau-Bereich 11 Verkehr und Nachrichtenwesen]
accessed 21 January 2010 Of the working population, 12.6% used public transportation to get to work, and 55.6% used a private car.[
The companies in the municipality includes Kuhn Champignon AG.
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Religion
From the , 533 or 66.1% were Roman Catholic
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, while 182 or 22.6% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church
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. Of the rest of the population, there were 2 individuals (or about 0.25% of the population) who belonged to the Christian Catholic faith.[Statistical Department of Canton Aargau - Aargauer Zahlen 2009]
accessed 20 January 2010
Education
The entire Swiss population is generally well educated. In Full-Reuenthal about 75.5% of the population (between age 25-64) have completed either non-mandatory upper secondary education
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or additional higher education (either university or a ''Fachhochschule
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'').[ Of the school age population (), there are 74 students attending ]primary school
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in the municipality.[
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See also
* Schweizerisches Militärmuseum Full
The Swiss Military Museum () is located at Full-Reuenthal in the Canton of Aargau.
History of the museum
The origins of the museum go back to the ''Verein zur Förderung eines wehrtechnischen Museums'' ("Association for the Promotion of a Mili ...
References
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Cultural property of national significance in Aargau