Laufenburg

Laufenburg is a town on the River Rhine. Because the Rhine is the border, part of the town is in northwestern Switzerland and another part is in the German Black Forest. The combined population of the twin towns is about 6200 people.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Laufenburg railway station and Laufenburg ruin.

Laufenburg railway station

Railway station

Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.

Laufenburg railway station is a railway station in the municipality of Laufenburg, in the Swiss canton of Aargau. It is the easternmost passenger stop on the Koblenz–Stein-Säckingen line; between here and Koblenz the line is freight-only.

Laufenburg ruin

Castle

Photo: Roland Zumbuehl, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Laufenburg ruin is a castle.

Old armory

Photo: PantaRhei, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Murg and Kaisten.

Murg

Village

Photo: UnFUG-Fabi, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Murg is a municipality in the district of Waldshut in Baden-Württemberg in southwestern Germany, on the right bank of the High Rhine. The small river Murg flows into the Rhine in the municipality.

Kaisten

Village

Photo: MRB, CC BY-SA 2.5.

Kaisten is a municipality in the district of Laufenburg in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland. On 1 January 2010 the municipality of Ittenthal merged into the municipality of Kaisten.

Laufenburg

Type: Locality with 3,680 residents
Also known as: “CH4170”
Location: Laufenburg District, Canton of Aargau, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude

47.5566° or 47° 33′ 24″ north

Longitude

8.0632° or 8° 3′ 47″ east

Population

3,680

Elevation

347 metres (1,138 feet)

Open location code

8FVCH347+J7

GeoNames ID

7286278

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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Bulgarian to Ukrainian—“Laufenburg” goes by many names.

Bulgarian: “Лауфенбург”
Chinese: “勞芬堡”
Esperanto: “Laufenburg AG”
German: “Laufenburg AG”
Kazakh: “Лауфенбург”
Norwegian Nynorsk: “Laufenburg i Sveits”
Persian: “لوفانبورگ، سوئیس”
Russian: “Лауфенбург”
Tosk Albanian: “Laufenburg AG”
Ukrainian: “Лауфенбург”

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Gesundheitszentrum Fricktal AG, Spital Laufenburg and Laufenburg station.

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