Möhlin

Möhlin is a municipality of about 11,100 inhabitants in the district of Rheinfelden in the canton of Aargau, Switzerland. The area around it was settled in prehistoric times, with a Neolithic settlement discovered at Chleizelgli and scattered Bronze Age items around the municipality. There was a Roman-era estate as well as three watchtowers along the Rhine, and during the Early to High Middle Ages it was the site of a fortified refuge. The modern village is first mentioned in 794 as Melina; a knight in the service of the House of Zähringen and a 15th-century Rheinfelden mayor both bore the name von Meli, derived from Möhlin. The municipality came into being when eight hamlets merged over the course of the 15th century, jurors from Möhlin are first mentioned in 1473, and from 1135 until 1797 the village was under Habsburg-Austrian rule.