Windisch - Geography

Geography

Windisch has an area, as of 2009, of 4.91 square kilometers (1.90 sq mi). Of this area, 1.16 square kilometers (0.45 sq mi) or 23.6% is used for agricultural purposes, while 1.22 square kilometers (0.47 sq mi) or 24.8% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 2.23 square kilometers (0.86 sq mi) or 45.4% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.31 square kilometers (0.12 sq mi) or 6.3% is either rivers or lakes.

Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 5.3% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 21.6% and transportation infrastructure made up 9.6%. Power and water infrastructure as well as other special developed areas made up 1.8% uof the area while parks, green belts and sports fields made up 7.1%. 22.4% of the total land area is heavily forested and 2.4% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 13.8% is used for growing crops and 6.9% is pastures, while 2.9% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is in rivers and streams.

The municipality is located in the Brugg district, between the Aare and Reuss rivers in the region known as the Wasserschloss. It consists of the former linear villages of Windisch and Oberburg as well as the hamlets of Fahrgut, Schürhof, Lindhof and Bachtalen and the region around the former Königsfelden Abbey.