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Municipality in Aargau, Switzerland

Rottenschwil

Rottenschwil is a municipality in the district of Muri in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland.

Rottenschwil
Rottenschwil · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Rottenschwil is a municipality in the district of Muri in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Rottenschwil

One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Flachsee

    Flachsee is an artificial lake on the Reuss at Rottenschwil, south of Bremgarten in the Aargau region of Switzerland. The reservoir was formed after the construction of the dam in 1975 at Bremgarten-Zufikon.

    1.3 km · reservoir on the Reuss in Unterlunkhofen in the canton of Aargau, Switzerland · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Rottenschwil

Airports
Zürich (ZRH), 21 km · EuroAirport Basel–Mulhouse–Freiburg (BSL), 71 km · Bodensee Friedrichshafen (FDH), 95 km
  • Geneva → Rottenschwil
    209 km · quickest by road, 3h 59m · CHF27–36
  • Bâle / Mulhouse → Rottenschwil
    90 km · quickest by road, 2h 15m · €12–17
  • Friedrichshafen → Rottenschwil
    92 km · quickest by road, 2h 45m · €16–22
  • From anywhere
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Rottenschwil

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Rottenschwil. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextA bit further away, but also worth a day trip: Appenzell — As close to the stereotypical image of Switzerland with wooden farm houses and traditional clothes as it gets.

From Wikivoyage: Zurich, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    152 km
  2. 02
    Cinque TerreIT

    7 ways of moving, 22 sources

    370 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    705 km
  4. 04
    HvarHR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    786 km
  5. 05
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    798 km

If you know how people move in Rottenschwil – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Rottenschwil

Rottenschwil is 15 km from Zürich, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Aristaumunicipality in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland3.5 km
  • Oberwil-Lielimunicipality in the district of Bremgarten in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland2.2 km
  • Zufikonmunicipality in Switzerland3.3 km
  • Oberlunkhofenmunicipality in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland2.4 km
  • Jonenmunicipality in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland3.1 km
  • Unterlunkhofenmunicipality in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland1.3 km