Rothrist

Rothrist is a municipality in the district of Zofingen in the canton of Aargau, Switzerland, set along a bend of the Aare river west of the point where the Pfaffnern and Wigger rivers meet. It consists of the village of Rothrist and a number of scattered hamlets. The modern village began as an Alamanni settlement and is first mentioned in 1263 as Routris; it was held by the Counts of Frohburg, then the Habsburgs, and after 1415 by Bern, before joining the new canton of Aargau in 1803. Home weaving and farming gave way to small factories after the Olten to Bern railway reached the village in 1857. Rothrist covers 11.84 square kilometres, has about 9,300 inhabitants, and its own railway station on the Olten to Bern line with regular service to Langenthal and Baden.