Leibstadt

Also known as Leibstadt AG

Leibstadt is a municipality in the district of Zurzach in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland.

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Swiss town.subject_name: Leibstadt
Swiss town.municipality_type: municipality
Swiss town.image_photo: Leibstadt.jpg
Swiss town.image_caption: Leibstadt village
Swiss town.imagepath_coa: CHE Leibstadt COA.svg
Swiss town.canton: Aargau
Swiss town.iso code region: CH-AG
Swiss town.district: Zurzach
Swiss town.postal_code: 5325
Swiss town.municipality_code: 4311
Swiss town.area: 6.39
Swiss town.elevation: 347
Swiss town.population: 1282
Swiss town.populationof: December 2005
Swiss town.popofyear: 2005
Swiss town.website: www.leibstadt.ch
Swiss town.neighboring_municipalities: Dogern (DE-BW), Full-Reuenthal, Leuggern, Schwaderloch, Wil
Swiss town.imagepath_flag: CHE Leibstadt Flag.svg

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Official name: Leibstadt
Population: 1605
Area: 6.39
Elevation: 339
Official website: www.leibstadt.ch
Image: Leibstadt.jpg
Dialing code: 056
Licence plate code: AG

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Commons category: Leibstadt
postal code: 5325
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external data available at URL: geo.ld.admin.ch/boundaries/municipality/4311

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Leibstadt is a municipality in the district of Zurzach in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland.

==History== Leibstadt is first mentioned about 1240 as Leibesteit. In the 13th and 14th Centuries it was ruled by the Habsburgs. In 1323 two mills are mentioned in Leibstadt. After the 1415 conquest of the Aargau, the two parts of the village (Oberleibstadt and Unterleibstadt, separated by a creek) were ruled separately by various overlords. The former was part of the Austrian district of Laufenburg, while the latter was part of the Swiss Confederation's district of Leuggern in the County of Baden. As a border village, Leibstadt was in danger any time the Habsburgs and the Confederation fought. A chronicle records that on 1 March 1499 men from Gansingen and Mettau attacked and burned most of the villages in the area, including Leibstadt. Between 1635 and 1798 the villages of Leibstadt and Schwaderloch formed the ''Roll'sche district of Bernau. Until 1816 Oberleibstadt belonged to the municipality of Leuggern and then formed its own political municipality (until 1832 it included Full-Reuenthal) within the Zurzach district. Unterleibstadt was an independent political municipality in the Laufenburg district. In 1866 the two municipalities merged to form Leibstadt and became part of the Zurzach district. The first school was founded in 1756 by the Knights order from Leuggern.