The city of Laufenburg

6 September 2020

The town and the Rhine bridge were mentioned for the first time in a document from 1207. For a long time, this bridge was the most important road crossing over the Upper Rhine. The old wooden Rhine Bridge in Basel dates from 1225-1244 (or earlier) but was less important then.

 

The town belonged to Habsburg until it was divided into two parts in 1801. Laufenburg’s history as a German city began after the Peace of Lunéviller (1801). In 1803, Laufenburg, on the left bank of the Rhine, was assigned to the newly founded canton of Aargau, which was a member of the new (Swiss) confederation (Mediation Act of 1803).

(Source and further information: www.laufenburg.ch).