Rekingen

Rekingen is a village in the district of Zurzach in the canton of Aargau, Switzerland, and was an independent municipality until 1 January 2022, when it merged with Bad Zurzach, Baldingen, Böbikon, Kaiserstuhl, Rietheim, Rümikon and Wislikofen into the new municipality of Zurzach. It lies along the Rhine near the Böbikon valley and is a compact haufendorf, an irregular, closely packed village built around a central square. Settlement is old: a 1956 excavation found the remains of a Roman estate built with bricks from legions based at Vindonissa, and Alamanni graves were found north of the railway station. The name is first recorded in 1261 as Rechunch. Rekingen belonged to the court of Klingnau, and Zurzach Abbey exercised the low court right. Farming and viticulture long dominated, until a mainline railway station opened in 1876 and industry followed, including a lime factory, a cement plant and the Solvay soda works founded in 1914. About 969 people lived there in December 2020.