Aarau (che)

Aarau

Aarau ranks 4,283rd in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Shūnan, Brentwood, Essex, and Bismarck, North Dakota. Memorable people born in Aarau include Maximilian Bircher-Benner, Silvan Widmer, and Renato Steffen. Memorable people who died in Aarau include Heinrich Zschokke. Aarau has been the birth place of many soccer players, and physicians and the death place of many writers. Aarau is located in Switzerland.

Aarau is a town, a municipality, and the capital of the northern Swiss canton of Aargau. The town is also the capital of the district of Aarau. It is German-speaking and predominantly Protestant. Aarau is situated on the Swiss plateau, in the valley of the Aare, on the river's right bank, and at the southern foot of the Jura Mountains, and is west of Zürich, 58 kilometres south of Basel and 65 kilometres northeast of Bern. The municipality borders directly on the canton of Solothurn to the west. It is the largest town in Aargau. At the beginning of 2010 Rohr became a district of Aarau. Read more on Wikipedia