Bad Zurzach - Bad Zurzach

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Bad Zurzach
CantonAargau
Residents
4.242 (2017)
height
340 m, 345 m
Tourist info 41 56 269 00 60
http://www.badzurzach.ch/de
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Bad Zurzach

Bad Zurzach is the capital of the district Available and is located in the canton Aargau in the Switzerland, the place is at the Rhine crossing to Rheinheim (D).

background

The place was already settled in prehistoric times, the name "Tenedo" comes from Celtic times. The Rhine crossing gained importance under the Romans, after the fall of the "Limes" the settlement on the Rhine became a border town on the northern border of the Roman Empire and consequently in the 4th century. secured with Roman forts.

A few years after the stay of Saint Verena in Zurzach in the 4th century. After the withdrawal of the Roman troops in 401, a church was built in honor of the patron saint, which became a pilgrimage destination in the 9th century. a Benedictine monastery. In 1415, Aargau, and thus Zurzach, was conquered by the Swiss Confederation Market town of Zurzach The place repeatedly and unsuccessfully applied for the town charter in importance. The importance as a place of pilgrimage went after that of Zurich outgoing Reformation, Zurzach retained its importance as a trade fair venue. In 1876 the Canon Monastery of S. Verena was dissolved.

With the construction of the railroad Koblenz - Zurzach - Eglisau - Winterthur and the construction of today's bridge began industrialization, salt deposits discovered in 1914 were exploited by the Swiss soda factory, and thermal water was not given much importance. In 1955 the thermal water was first drilled and used, with the rise of thermal tourism in 1964 the tower hotel was built as a landmark of Zurzach. The rheumatism and rehabilitation clinic opened in 1973 and Zurzach made the transition from spa tourism to the modern wellness market, which resulted in the change of name from Zurzach to Bad Zurzach precipitated.

getting there

By train

With the regional train Swimming which runs every hour and is compressed on weekdays together with the extended S41 every half hour, or with the S41 from Winterthur above Bulach - Eglisau to Koblenz.

By bus

Of Brugg there is a direct post bus connection.

In the street

By car on the main road that runs along the Rhine from Koblenz AG leads to Glattfelden (Bülach).

mobility

Map of Bad Zurzach

There is a free bus connection from the train station to the thermal baths.

Tourist Attractions

Verena Minster (left) and upper church
reformed Church
Salt drilling rigs
  • the Marketplace von Zurzach, which is known as the so-called. Medullary spots the market but never received city rights. The town center is surrounded by stately exhibition halls around which the Zurzach exhibition was held until 1855.
  • the 1 Verena MinsterVerena Minster, the former monastery church has served as a Catholic parish church since the monastery was abolished in 1876.
  • 2 Upper churchUpper church the late Gothic St. Mary's Church from 1517, has served as a concert and exhibition space since 1944. Since 1997 there has been a permanent exhibition of works by the painter Pieter van de Cuylen.
  • the 3 reformed Churchreformed Church from 1716/17 is one of the earliest Protestant church buildings of the transverse church type in Switzerland.
  • 4 KirchlibuckKirchlibuck A church was built on the striking remains of a late Roman fort in the late 5th century. Today's church with the cycle of pictures about the life of St. Verena was rebuilt around 1620.
  • 5 Zurzach CastleBad Zurzach Castle in the former "Villa Himmelrych" built in the 19th century with the August Deusser Museum. Works by Johann Ulrich Steiger can be seen in the palace gardens.
  • 6 District museum «Höfli»District museum «Höfli»Finds on the history of Zurzach from Roman times up to the end of Zurzach as a trade fair location are on display.
District museum «Höfli». E-mail: . Open: daily, 2 pm-5pm.Price: free entry.
  • 7 Salt derricksSalt - derricks, The wooden drilling rigs of the Zurzach saltworks, built in 1916 and decommissioned around 1970, are industrial witnesses of salt production.

activities

  • Thermal bath. The thermal bath is definitely the attraction of Zurzach. It is speared from a spring of Glauber's salt at almost 40 ° C.
  • Themed trails have been set up through Bad Zurzach:
- the art path, the house path, the nature path, the forest path, the family and play path, historical paths
  • Visit of the Jewish cultural route between the synagogues in Lengnau and Endingen with the Jewish cemetery in between. Until the 18th century. were the two villages of Lengnau and Endingen, located near the exhibition center of Zurzach,
Jewish cultural path c / o David Krammer, Margoa Switzerland, Israelite retirement and nursing home, Grabenstrasse 9, 5426 Lengnau. Tel.: 41 56 266 54 54, Email: . Open: Sun from May 11th to September 14th, the synagogue of Lengnau is open every day from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. .

shop

kitchen

nightlife

accommodation

  • 1  Spa hotel, Quellenstrasse 31. Tel.: 41 (0) 56 265 22 22. Price: double room from 320 to 360 CHF (half board and free entry to the thermal baths incl. SPA wellness center).
  • 2  Park Hotel, Badstrasse 44. Tel.: 41 (0) 56 269 88 11. Price: Double 240 CHF (including breakfast and free entry to the thermal baths including SPA wellness center).
  • 3  Zurzacherhof, Dr. Martin Erb-Strasse 5. Tel.: 41 (0) 56 269 77 77. Price: double room from CHF 200 (including breakfast).
  • 4  Tower hotel, Quellenstrasse 30. Tel.: 41 (0) 56 265 24 40. Price: DR 290 CHF (HB and free entry to the thermal baths including SPA wellness center).

health

  • Zurzach has one family doctor emergency service
  • those connected to the thermal baths with the spas 1 Rehabilitation ClinicRehabilitation Clinic Zurzach as well as the one connected to the Schulthess Clinic 8 Schulthess Clinic / Park HotelSchulthess Clinic in the Park Hotel are rehabilitation facilities for patients after hospitalization and do not have a service mandate for the public emergency service.

Practical advice

trips

  • The Wine trail, Endingen - Unterendingen - Tegerfelden - Döttingen - Klingnau

literature

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