Geography
Laufenburg has an area, as of 2009, of 2.28 square kilometers (0.88 sq mi). Of this area, 0.37 km2 (0.14 sq mi) or 16.2% is used for agricultural purposes, while 0.8 km2 (0.31 sq mi) or 35.1% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 0.89 km2 (0.34 sq mi) or 39.0% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.18 km2 (0.069 sq mi) or 7.9% is either rivers or lakes.
Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 8.3% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 15.4% and transportation infrastructure made up 9.2%. Power and water infrastructure as well as other special developed areas made up 3.1% of the area while parks, green belts and sports fields made up 3.1%. Out of the forested land, 33.3% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.8% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 5.3% is used for growing crops and 11.0% is pastures. All the water in the municipality is in rivers and streams.
The municipality is the capital of the Laufenburg district. It consists of the left bank or Swiss section of the town of Laufenburg, with the German section of Laufenburg across the Rhine river.
Read more about this topic: Laufenburg, Switzerland
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