Leibstadt is a municipality in the district of Zurzach in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland.

As a border village, Leibstadt was in danger any time the Habsburgs and the Confederation fought.

A chronicle records that on 1 March 1499 men from Gansingen and Mettau attacked and burned most of the villages in the area, including Leibstadt.

[4] Between 1635 and 1798 the villages of Leibstadt and Schwaderloch formed the Roll'sche district of Bernau.

In 1866 the two municipalities merged to form Leibstadt and became part of the Zurzach district.

Into the latter half of the 20th century, agriculture was the main source of industry and income in Leibstadt.

The largest nuclear power plant in Switzerland, which cost about 4.8 billion CHF, came online in 1984.

It produces about 7.2 billion kWh of electricity per year and provides about three-fifths of the jobs in the community.

In 1866 the municipality was created when the formerly independent villages of Oberleibstadt and Unterleibstadt merged.

[9] The age distribution, as of 2008[update], in Leibstadt is; 137 children or 10.3% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 176 teenagers or 13.3% are between 10 and 19.

[12] About 56.7% 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).

[10] In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SVP which received 62.66% of the vote.

In 2003 a Greenpeace activist was able to climb on top of the reactor dome before being noticed.

[17] The ruins of Bernau Castle are near the municipality As of  2007[update], Leibstadt had an unemployment rate of 2.36%.

[10] From the 2000 census[update], 773 or 59.6% were Roman Catholic, while 198 or 15.3% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church.

[19] In 2014 the crime rate, of the over 200 crimes listed in the Swiss Criminal Code (running from murder, robbery and assault to accepting bribes and election fraud), in Leibstadt was 24.1 per thousand residents.