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TEGERFELDEN
Tegerfelden is in the Canton of Aargau, in the northern part of Switzerland. It lies in the lower Surb Valley. The village is 1,193 ft above sea level, and includes 1,776 acres of land, of which 628 acres are forest. The Forests extend across the summits of the hills called Acheberg to the north, while the agricultural area is mainly in the valley and on the wide plateau of Ruckfeld, the low rolling hills on either side of the valley. For its early history, this area has artifacts dating back to the stone age, and evidence can be found of Roman occupation from 58 B.C. to 401A.D.. Later still it was occupied by the Almen, and later by the French. The village itself received the name Tegerveldt in 1133, later Tegerfelden belonged to the ancestry of the castle of the Barons of Tegerfelden. Ruins of their castle are still visible today, on a promontory of the Ruckfeld, southwest of the village and across the Surb River. In the centuries following 1133, the area came under the control of several different Barons and Counts and other land owners, until 1415, when it passed over to the Swiss Confederation, whose governor in Baden now also become Tegerfeldens decisive authority.
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