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Rümikon is a village and former
municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality' ...
in the district of
Zurzach Zurzach () is a municipality in the district of Zurzach in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe. It is bordered by Italy to the sou ...
in the canton of
Aargau Aargau ( ; ), more formally the Canton of Aargau (; ; ; ), is one of the Canton of Switzerland, 26 cantons forming the Switzerland, Swiss Confederation. It is composed of eleven districts and its capital is Aarau. Aargau is one of the most nort ...
in
Switzerland Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe. It is bordered by Italy to the south, France to the west, Germany to the north, and Austria and Liechtenstein to the east. Switzerland ...
. Its late Roman watchtower at the ''Sandgraben'' is listed as a heritage site of national significance. On 1 January 2022 the former municipalities of
Bad Zurzach Bad Zurzach is a village and former municipalities of Switzerland, municipality in the district of Zurzach (district), Zurzach in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland. It is the seat of the district. On 1 January 2022 the former municipalities of Ba ...
, Baldingen,
Böbikon Böbikon is a village and former municipality in the district of Zurzach in Canton Aargau in Switzerland. It is located just 2 km south of the border with Germany. On 1 January 2022 the former municipalities of Bad Zurzach, Baldingen, Böb ...
, Kaiserstuhl,
Rekingen Rekingen is a village and former municipality in the district of Zurzach in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland. On 1 January 2022 the former municipalities of Bad Zurzach, Baldingen, Böbikon, Kaiserstuhl, Rekingen, Rietheim, Rümikon and Wisl ...
,
Rietheim Rietheim is a village and former Municipalities of Switzerland, municipality in the district of Zurzach (district), Zurzach in the Cantons of Switzerland, canton of Aargau in Switzerland. On 1 January 2022 the former municipalities of Bad Zurzach ...
, Rümikon and
Wislikofen Wislikofen is a village and former municipality in the district of Zurzach in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland. On 1 January 2022 the former municipalities of Bad Zurzach, Baldingen, Böbikon, Kaiserstuhl, Rekingen, Rietheim, Rümikon and ...
merged into the new municipality of
Zurzach Zurzach () is a municipality in the district of Zurzach in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe. It is bordered by Italy to the sou ...
.


History

Along the river Rhine, in the municipal area, are the remains of two
Roman era In modern historiography, ancient Rome is the Roman people, Roman civilisation from the founding of Rome, founding of the Italian city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the Fall of the Western Roman Empire, collapse of the Western Roman Em ...
watchtowers. The community name may come from an earlier, nearby
Alamanni The Alemanni or Alamanni were a confederation of Germanic tribes * * * on the Upper Rhine River during the first millennium. First mentioned by Cassius Dio in the context of the campaign of Roman emperor Caracalla of 213 CE, the Alemanni c ...
settlement. The modern village of Rümikon is first mentioned in 1113 as ''Ruminchon''. The
Freiherr (; male, abbreviated as ), (; his wife, abbreviated as , ) and (, his unmarried daughters and maiden aunts) are designations used as titles of nobility in the German-speaking areas of the Holy Roman Empire, the Austro-Hungarian Empire and in ...
von Waldhausen granted the village to the provost of Wislikofen, who ran the low courts. Between 1415 and 1798 the village went to the district of Ehrendingen in County of Baden. For centuries the most important industry in the village was fishing. In 1440 John Escher mortgaged the farm Rümikon except for the ''Fischenz'' or fishery to four brothers from Rümikon. In 2009, the ''Fischenz'' was acquired by the local citizen's community. Rümikon was part of the
parish A parish is a territorial entity in many Christianity, Christian denominations, constituting a division within a diocese. A parish is under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of a priest#Christianity, priest, often termed a parish pries ...
of
Schneisingen Schneisingen is a municipalities of Switzerland, municipality in the district of Zurzach (district), Zurzach in the Cantons of Switzerland, canton of Aargau in Switzerland. Geography Located in the Surb river valley, Schneisingen has an area, , ...
until 1857, when it joined the
Wislikofen Wislikofen is a village and former municipality in the district of Zurzach in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland. On 1 January 2022 the former municipalities of Bad Zurzach, Baldingen, Böbikon, Kaiserstuhl, Rekingen, Rietheim, Rümikon and ...
parish. The Anna chapel was built in 1710, renovated in 1797 and renovated again in 1973. In 2000, about 80% of the workers commuted to jobs outside the municipality. In 1876 the joint Mellikon-Rümikon railway station was built on the
Koblenz Koblenz ( , , ; Moselle Franconian language, Moselle Franconian: ''Kowelenz'') is a German city on the banks of the Rhine (Middle Rhine) and the Moselle, a multinational tributary. Koblenz was established as a Roman Empire, Roman military p ...
-
Winterthur Winterthur (; ) is a city in the canton of Zurich in northern Switzerland. With over 120,000 residents, it is the country's List of cities in Switzerland, sixth-largest city by population, as well as its ninth-largest agglomeration with about 14 ...
line. Since 1995 this was replaced with a station in the village.


Geography

Rümikon has an area, , of . Of this area, or 41.0% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 44.8% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 8.6% is settled (buildings or roads), or 6.6% is either rivers or lakes.Swiss Federal Statistical Office-Land Use Statistics
2009 data accessed 25 March 2010
Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 1.4% and transportation infrastructure made up 6.2%. Out of the forested land, 39.3% of the total land area is heavily forested and 5.5% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 24.1% is used for growing crops and 15.5% is pastures, while 1.4% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is flowing water. The village is located in the Zurzach district, between the
Rhine The Rhine ( ) is one of the List of rivers of Europe, major rivers in Europe. The river begins in the Swiss canton of Graubünden in the southeastern Swiss Alps. It forms part of the Swiss-Liechtenstein border, then part of the Austria–Swit ...
river and the
Jura mountains The Jura Mountains ( ) are a sub-alpine mountain range a short distance north of the Western Alps and mainly demarcate a long part of the French–Swiss border. While the Jura range proper (" folded Jura", ) is located in France and Switzerla ...
. It consists of the
linear village In mathematics, the term ''linear'' is used in two distinct senses for two different properties: * linearity of a '' function'' (or '' mapping''); * linearity of a ''polynomial''. An example of a linear function is the function defined by f(x)= ...
of Rümikon.


Coat of arms

The
blazon In heraldry and heraldic vexillology, a blazon is a formal description of a coat of arms, flag or similar emblem, from which the reader can reconstruct an accurate image. The verb ''to blazon'' means to create such a description. The visual d ...
of the municipal
coat of arms A coat of arms is a heraldry, heraldic communication design, visual design on an escutcheon (heraldry), escutcheon (i.e., shield), surcoat, or tabard (the last two being outer garments), originating in Europe. The coat of arms on an escutcheon f ...
is ''Azure a Salmon Argent between three Mullets of the same one and two.''


Demographics

Rümikon has a population () of , 45.0% of the population are foreign nationals.Swiss Federal Statistical Office - Superweb database - Gemeinde Statistics 1981-2008
accessed 19 June 2010
Over the last 10 years (1997–2007) the population has changed at a rate of -9.7%. Most of the population () speaks
German German(s) may refer to: * Germany, the country of the Germans and German things **Germania (Roman era) * Germans, citizens of Germany, people of German ancestry, or native speakers of the German language ** For citizenship in Germany, see also Ge ...
(96.5%), with Turkish being second most common ( 1.3%) and
Arabic Arabic (, , or , ) is a Central Semitic languages, Central Semitic language of the Afroasiatic languages, Afroasiatic language family spoken primarily in the Arab world. The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) assigns lang ...
being third ( 0.9%).Swiss Federal Statistical Office
accessed 22-June-2010
, the gender distribution of the population was 47.3% male and 52.7% female. The population was made up of 81 Swiss men (36.8% of the population), and 23 (10.5%) non-Swiss men. There were 100 Swiss women (45.5%), and 16 (7.3%) non-Swiss women. In there were 4 live births to Swiss citizens and births to non-Swiss citizens, and in same time span there was 1 death of Swiss citizens and non-Swiss citizen deaths. Ignoring immigration and emigration, the population of Swiss citizens increased by 3 while the foreign population remained the same. There was 1 Swiss man who immigrated from another country back to Switzerland, 1 Swiss woman who immigrated from another country back to Switzerland, 8 non-Swiss men who emigrated from Switzerland to another country and 6 non-Swiss women who emigrated from Switzerland to another country. The total Swiss population change in 2008 was an increase of 6 and the non-Swiss population change was an increase of 10 people. This represents a
population growth rate Population growth is the increase in the number of people in a population or dispersed group. The global population has grown from 1 billion in 1800 to 8.2 billion in 2025. Actual global human population growth amounts to around 70 million annu ...
of 7.8%. The age distribution, , in Rümikon is; 20 children or 8.8% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 27 teenagers or 11.9% are between 10 and 19. Of the adult population, 39 people or 17.2% of the population are between 20 and 29 years old. 19 people or 8.4% are between 30 and 39, 40 people or 17.6% are between 40 and 49, and 37 people or 16.3% are between 50 and 59. The senior population distribution is 26 people or 11.5% of the population are between 60 and 69 years old, 8 people or 3.5% are between 70 and 79, there are 9 people or 4.0% who are between 80 and 89, and there are 2 people or 0.9% who are 90 and older.Statistical Department of Canton Aargau -Bevölkerungsdaten für den Kanton Aargau und die Gemeinden (Archiv)
accessed 20 January 2010
, there were 8 homes with 1 or 2 persons in the household, 28 homes with 3 or 4 persons in the household, and 50 homes with 5 or more persons in the household. , there were 87 private households (homes and apartments) in the municipality, and an average of 2.6 persons per household. there were 35 single family homes (or 35.7% of the total) out of a total of 98 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 0 new units per 1000 residents. In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SVP which received 41.47% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SP (18.33%), the
Green Party A green party is a formally organized political party based on the principles of green politics, such as environmentalism and social justice. Green party platforms typically embrace Social democracy, social democratic economic policies and fo ...
(15.34%) and the CVP (11.16%). In the federal election, a total of 78 votes were cast, and the
voter turnout In political science, voter turnout is the participation rate (often defined as those who cast a ballot) of a given election. This is typically either the percentage of Voter registration, registered voters, Suffrage, eligible voters, or all Voti ...
was 53.4%. The historical population is given in the following table:


Heritage sites of national significance

The ''Sandgraben'', a portion of the Roman era Rhine fortifications, is listed as a Swiss heritage site of national significance.


Economy

, Rümikon had an unemployment rate of 2.62%. , there were 11 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 5 businesses involved in this sector. 24 people are employed in the
secondary sector In macroeconomics, the secondary sector of the economy is an economic sector in the three-sector theory that describes the role of manufacturing. It encompasses industries that produce a finished, usable product or are involved in constructi ...
and there are 2 businesses in this sector. 32 people are employed in the
tertiary sector The tertiary sector of the economy, generally known as the service sector, is the third of the three economic sectors in the three-sector model (also known as the economic cycle). The others are the primary sector (raw materials) and the ...
, with 9 businesses in this sector. there were 121 workers who lived in the municipality. Of these, 98 or about 81.0% of the residents worked outside Rümikon while 55 people commuted into the municipality for work. There were a total of 78 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, 13.8% used public transportation to get to work, and 64.2% used a private car.


Religion

From the , 100 or 44.1% were
Roman Catholic The Catholic Church (), also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.27 to 1.41 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2025. It is among the world's oldest and largest international institut ...
, while 76 or 33.5% belonged to the
Swiss Reformed Church The Protestant Church in Switzerland (PCS), formerly named Federation of Swiss Protestant Churches until 31 December 2019, is a federation of 25 member churches – 24 cantonal churches and the Evangelical-Methodist Church of Switzerland. The P ...
. Of the rest of the population, there were 4 individuals (or about 1.76% of the population) who belonged to the Christian Catholic faith.Statistical Department of Canton Aargau - Aargauer Zahlen 2009
accessed 20 January 2010


Education

In Rümikon about 76.3% of the population (between age 25-64) have completed either non-mandatory upper secondary education or additional higher education (either university or a ''
Fachhochschule A (; plural ), abbreviated FH, is a university of applied sciences (UAS), in other words a Hochschule, German tertiary education institution that provides professional education in many applied sciences and applied arts, such as engineering, te ...
''). Of the school age population () in the municipality.


Transport

Rümikon AG railway station is served by
Zurich S-Bahn The Zurich S-Bahn () system is a network of rail lines that has been incrementally expanded to cover the ZVV area, which comprises the entire canton of Zurich and portions of neighbouring cantons (Aargau, Glarus, Schaffhausen, Schwyz, ...
line S36, which links
Bülach Bülach () is a historic town and a municipality in Switzerland in the canton of Zürich. It is the administrative capital of Bülach district. It is situated in the Glatt Valley (German: ''Glattal'') to the east of the small river Glatt and ab ...
and Waldshut.


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Rumikon Cultural property of national significance in Aargau Former municipalities of Aargau