Jestetten

Jestetten is a municipality in the district of Waldshut in the far south of Baden-Württemberg, Germany, directly on the border with Switzerland. It lies between the Bülach district of the canton of Zurich and the Klettgau municipality, and in 1973 it was united with the neighbouring village of Altenburg. The municipality sits on the High Rhine about six kilometres downstream of the Rhine Falls, where the river doubles back on itself to form two interconnected peninsulas; the eastern one, called the Schwaben, belongs to Jestetten. Together with Dettighofen and Lottstetten it forms the so-called Jestettenzipfel, an area surrounded by a 55-kilometre stretch of the Swiss border and reachable directly from Germany by only a single road. Jestetten and Altenburg were first mentioned in documents in 871, and nearby Altenburg-Rheinau was one of the largest late Celtic oppida, probably of the Helvetii. Jestetten railway station, on the Eglisau-Neuhausen line and served by Zurich S-Bahn line S9, is one of only two Swiss-operated stations located entirely within Germany.