Böbikon

Böbikon is a municipality in the district of Zurzach in Canton Aargau in Switzerland. It is located just 2 km south of the border with Germany.HistoryOriginally an Alamanni village in a forest clearing, Böbikon is first mentioned in 1113 as Bebikon. West of the village are the ruins of the a small village that was inhabited between 1100-1250. The major landowners were St. Blaisen Abbey and Zurzach Abbey. The rights to hold courts was held in the 14th and 15th Centuries by the Lords of Liebegg. Between 1506-1671, the court rights were held by Sion Abbey in Klingnau, and after that those rights were in private hands.The chapel (now a building from the 18th Century), together with tithes were initially the property of St. Blaisen Abbey, while the village was part of the parish of Wislikofen. In 1883 the village and chapel became part of the newly founded parish of Baldingen.Even at the end of the 20th Century agriculture dominated the economy of the village. In 1990, three-quarters of the jobs in the village were in agriculture.GeographyBöbikon has an area, of 2.59km2. Of this area, 1.43km2 or 55.2% is used for agricultural purposes, while 0.99km2 or 38.2% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 0.19km2 or 7.3% is settled (buildings or roads).