Baldingen, Aargau

Baldingen is a village and former municipality in the district of Zurzach in canton of Aargau in Switzerland.

The court and justice rights were held by a large number of private owners.

The parish church of St. Agatha, a Catholic neo-Gothic structure with Art Nouveau elements, was built in 1898 by Charles Moser.

The remaining workforce is almost exclusively commuters, as there are no industrial and commercial enterprises in the village.

The population significantly increased after the 1980s, when new single-family houses filled in the gap between the two parts of the village.

559 m (1,834 ft)) is located on the crest of Mount Spornegg, a semicircular hill.

Neighboring municipalities are Rekingen to the north, Böbikon to the east, Lengnau to the south-east, Unterendingen to the south, and Tegerfelden to the west.

The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Azure three Linden leaves slipped and branched Or.

Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks German(98.0%), with French being second most common ( 0.8%) and Dutch being third ( 0.4%).

[8] The age distribution, as of 2008[update], in Baldingen is; 31 children or 10.7% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 58 teenagers or 19.9% are between 10 and 19.

[10] About 81% of the total households were owner occupied, or in other words did not pay rent (though they may have a mortgage or a rent-to-own agreement).

[8] From the 2000 census[update], 121 or 48.6% were Roman Catholic, while 75 or 30.1% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church.

Aerial view from 2000 m by Walter Mittelholzer (1923)
Baldingen village and church
Baldingen church