Spreitenbach

Spreitenbach is a municipality inside the district of Baden inside the canton of Aargau in Switzerland, located in the Limmat Valley. It lies southeast of the district center, directly at the border with the canton of Zurich. It is one of the smallest cities in Switzerland. In Switzerland, a city needs 10,000 or more to be taken into consideration as a town. The goalkeeper Diego Benaglio, of the National Football Team of Switzerland, spent his teenagers there.

The first historical point out of Spreitenbach was inside the year 1124. Along with many convents, the maximum distinguished landholders have been the Knights of Schönenwerd. They were pressured to sell all in their farms to the Wettingen Abbey among 1274 and 1287.

In 1415 the Old Swiss Confederacy conquered Aargau and Spreitenbach changed into made a part of the district of Dietikon in the County of Baden, a unit within the confederacy. In 1541 the Wettingen Abbey received low justice. In 1670 and again in 1785, a number of the houses inside the city have been destroyed in fires. In March 1798, France invaded Switzerland and d the Helvetic Republic. Spreitenbach have become a municipality within the brief-lived canton of Baden; given that 1803 the municipality has been inside the canton of Aargau.