Wettingen

Wettingen is a residential municipality in the district of Baden in the Swiss canton of Aargau, and with roughly 20,000 inhabitants it is the second-largest municipality in the canton. It lies on the right bank of the Limmat in the Limmat Valley, just before the river enters the deep valley at Baden. Most of the built-up area stands on the Wettingerfeld, a flat plain bounded by the Limmat to the south and west, by the steep southern slope of the Lägern to the north and by the Sulperg to the east, with a vineyard on part of the Lägern slope. The old village centre sits at the northeastern edge of the plain. The municipality covers about 10.6 square kilometres, and its neighbours include Baden, Neuenhof, Würenlos, Otelfingen and Ennetbaden. The former Cistercian abbey and a group of Neolithic stone-lined graves are listed as Swiss heritage sites of national significance. German is the main language of its residents.