Mülligen
Mülligen is a municipality in the district of Brugg in canton of Aargau in Switzerland. History The earliest known settlement was in the Early Middle Ages, though the only traces of the settlement are two groups of graves. Mülligen is first mentioned in the 12th century as Mülinon. Until the 17th century it was known as Mülinen. The rights to high and low justice were held by the Habsburgs through Königsfelden Abbey. After the secularization of the abbey, those rights were held by Bern. Originally the major economic activity in Mülligen was agriculture and viticulture. After 1730, small scale textile production provided another source of income. Then in 1849 a Gypsum processing plant opened in the village. Starting about 1830, the residents of Mülligen worked in the spinning mill in Windisch, and the first industrial plant in Mülligen opened in 1909. In 1924, a gravel plant opened in the village, and it was expanded in 1955. In 1964 the bovine artificial insemination center of the Swiss Association for Artificial Insemination opened. The passenger ferry on the river Reuss was replaced in 1940 by a bridge. Benefiting from the village's proximity to the junction of the A1 and A3 motorways, A1-A3, Mülligen has become a residential village with many commuters to Brugg, Baden and Zurich. Geography Mülligen has an area, , of . Of this area, or 36.7% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 32.0% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 28.2% is settled (buildings or roads), or 2.5% is either rivers or lakes and or 0.3% is unproductive land. Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 6.0% and transportation infrastructure made up 11.4%. Power and water infrastructure as well as other special developed areas made up 9.8% of the area 31.0% of the total land area is heavily forested. Of the agricultural land, 24.7% is used for growing crops and 10.4% is pastures, while 1.6% 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, near the Reuss river and along the southern slope of the Eiteberg. It consists of the village of Mülligen and the hamlets of Trotte. Coat of arms The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Or a Mill Wheel Sable and Coupeaux. The coat of arms of Mülligen is an example of canting because of the mill wheel (). Demographics Mülligen has a population () of , 12.7% of the population are foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1997–2007) the population has changed at a rate of 17.3%. Most of the population () speaks German (94.9%), with French being second most common ( 1.3%) and Italian being third ( 1.0%). The age distribution, , in Mülligen is; 91 children or 9.8% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 121 teenagers or 13.0% are between 10 and 19. Of the adult population, 137 people or 14.7% of