Killwangen is a

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

in the district of

Baden Baden (; ) is a historical territory in South Germany, in earlier times on both sides of the Upper Rhine but since the Napoleonic Wars only East of the Rhine. History The margraves of Baden originated from the House of Zähringen. Baden is ...

in the canton of

Aargau Aargau, more formally the Canton of Aargau (german: Kanton Aargau; rm, Chantun Argovia; french: Canton d'Argovie; it, Canton Argovia), is one of the 26 cantons forming the Swiss Confederation. It is composed of eleven districts and its capita ...

Switzerland ). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...

History

The town was first known as ''Chullewangen'' as early as 1227. The name is alemannish in origin. For nearly 600 years, Killwangen was dependent on the monastery in nearby Wettingen. In 1798, Napoleon's troops came through Switzerland and the

Helvetic Republic The Helvetic Republic (, , ) was a sister republic of France that existed between 1798 and 1803, during the French Revolutionary Wars. It was created following the French invasion and the consequent dissolution of the Old Swiss Confederacy, ma ...

was born. Killwangen was part of the

Canton of Baden The Canton of Baden (german: Kanton Baden) was a canton of the Helvetic Republic (a Napoleonic-era precursor of modern-day Switzerland). Its capital was the town of Baden. Formation The canton was created in 1798 from the merger of the County of ...

which enjoyed a short history as a separate Canton, being absorbed by the new Canton of Aargau in 1803. On 7 August 1847, the first railway line in Switzerland opened between Baden and Zurich. On 1 February 1848, the town received its own railways station on the pioneer line.

Geography

Killwangen has an area, , of . Of this area, 27.6% is used for agricultural purposes, while 50.6% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 19.3% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (2.5%) is non-productive (rivers or lakes). The town lies in the

Limmat valley The Limmat Valley (German: ''Limmattal'') is a river valley and a region in the cantons of Zürich and Aargau in Switzerland. Geography The Limmat () is a long river located in the cantons of Zürich (ZH) and Aargau (AG). It is the c ...

between

and

Zürich Zürich () is the list of cities in Switzerland, largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zürich. It is located in north-central Switzerland, at the northwestern tip of Lake Zürich. As of January 2020, the municipality has 43 ...

. Killwangen lies on the south side of the

Limmat The Limmat is a river in Switzerland. The river commences at the outfall of Lake Zurich, in the southern part of the city of Zurich. From Zurich it flows in a northwesterly direction, after 35 km reaching the river Aare. The confluenc ...

river, within easy walking distance of the Heitersberg. Elevation of the Limmat at Killwangen is a.s.l. The highest point in Killwangen is the Sennenberg ridge at . Neighboring towns are Wurenlos to the North, Spreitenbach to the east, Neuenhof to the West and Oberrohrdorf to the south.

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 the appropriate image. The verb ''to blazon'' means to create such a description. The vis ...

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 latter two being outer garments). The coat of arms on an escutcheon forms the central ele ...

is ''Gules a Mullet Argent under a Chevron rose of the same.''Flags of the World.com
accessed 8 February 2010

Demographics

Killwangen has a population (as of ) of . , 23.6% of the population was made up of foreign nationals.Statistical Department of Canton Aargau -Bereich 01 -Bevölkerung
accessed 20 January 2010 Over the last 10 years the population has grown at a rate of 30.7%. Most of the population () speaks German (88.2%), with Italian being second most common ( 2.7%) and Serbo-Croatian being third ( 1.9%).
accessed 8 February 2010 The age distribution, , in Killwangen is; 175 children or 9.8% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 180 teenagers or 10.1% are between 10 and 19. Of the adult population, 249 people or 14.0% of the population are between 20 and 29 years old. 244 people or 13.7% are between 30 and 39, 319 people or 17.9% are between 40 and 49, and 274 people or 15.4% are between 50 and 59. The senior population distribution is 192 people or 10.8% of the population are between 60 and 69 years old, 99 people or 5.6% are between 70 and 79, there are 43 people or 2.4% who are between 80 and 89,and there are 6 people or 0.3% 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 49 homes with 1 or 2 persons in the household, 257 homes with 3 or 4 persons in the household, and 229 homes with 5 or more persons in the household. The average number of people per household was 2.44 individuals. there were 294 single family homes (or 37.8% of the total) out of a total of 778 homes and apartments.Statistical Department of Canton Aargau
accessed 20 January 2010 The historical population is given in the following table:

Government

Members of the town council are voted on once every four years. The town council is composed of five councilors, of which one is elected as the chairperson (Gemeindaaman. The five town councilors for 2014-2017 are as follows: * Werner Scherer, Gemeindeammann (SVP) * Walter Hubmann, Vizeammann (independent) * Patrick Bellini, (CVP) * Jürg Lienberger, (SVP) * Hanspeter Schmid, Gemeinderat (independent)

Religion

From the , 667 or 48.4% are

Roman Catholic Roman or Romans most often refers to: *Rome, the capital city of Italy *Ancient Rome, Roman civilization from 8th century BC to 5th century AD *Roman people, the people of ancient Rome *'' Epistle to the Romans'', shortened to ''Romans'', a lette ...

, while 414 or 30.1% belonged to the

Swiss Reformed Church The Protestant Church in Switzerland (PCS), (EKS); french: Église évangélique réformée de Suisse (EERS); it, Chiesa evangelica riformata in Svizzera (CERiS); rm, Baselgia evangelica refurmada da la Svizra (BRRS) formerly named Federation o ...

. Of the rest of the population, there are 5 individuals (or about 0.36% of the population) who belong to the Christian Catholic faith.Statistical Department of Canton Aargau - Aargauer Zahlen 2009
accessed 20 January 2010

Economy

Killwangen is primarily a bedroom community, as most of the employed workforce commutes daily to Baden, Spreitenbach or to jobs in the Zurich agglomeration. , Killwangen had an unemployment rate of 4.57%. , there were 11 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 6 businesses involved in this sector. 233 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 construction. ...

and there are 15 businesses in this sector. 158 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 second ...

, with 54 businesses in this sector. there were 739 total workers who lived in the municipality. Of these, 649 or about 87.8% of the residents worked outside Killwangen while 295 people commuted into the municipality for work. There were a total of 385 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

Transportation

Killwangen is served by half hour S-Bahn (commuter service) from

Killwangen-Spreitenbach railway station Killwangen-Spreitenbach is a railway station in the municipality of Killwangen in the Swiss canton of Aargau. As the name suggests, the station also serves the adjacent municipality of Spreitenbach. The station is located on the Zurich to Olte ...

as well as by the Baden transit corporation which operates frequent bus service as. Killwangen-Spreitenbach is a stop of the

S-Bahn Zürich The S-Bahn is the name of hybrid urban- suburban rail systems serving a metropolitan region in German-speaking countries. Some of the larger S-Bahn systems provide service similar to rapid transit systems, while smaller ones often resemble co ...

on the lines S3 and S12.

Education

Killwangen operates a newly built and consolidated kindergarten facility and a newly expanded (2016) primary school. Children from the 7th class and older travel to nearby Spreitenbach to middle school. High schools in Wettingen and Baden follow for those students with qualifying performance. The Swiss population is well educated. In Killwangen about 84.1% 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 ''Fachhochschule'' (; plural ''Fachhochschulen''), abbreviated FH, is a university of applied sciences (UAS), in other words a German tertiary education institution that provides professional education in many applied sciences and applied arts ...

''). Of the school age population (), there are 119 students attending

primary school A primary school (in Ireland, the United Kingdom, Australia, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, and South Africa), junior school (in Australia), elementary school or grade school (in North America and the Philippines) is a school for primary e ...

in the municipality.

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