Frick is a municipality in the district of Laufenburg in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland. At the nearby Wittnauer Horn, a prehistorical fortificati…Frick is a municipality in the district of Laufenburg in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland. At the nearby Wittnauer Horn, a prehistorical fortification was discovered with objects dating back to the Late Bronze Age. A Roman villa was located at the site of the later village in the 2nd century, and a small Roman fort was built in the early 4th century to protect the military road from Vindonissa to Augusta Raurica. A Roman settlement developed in the vicinity of the fort, replaced by an Alemannic settlement during the 6th to 9th centuries. The Alemannic settlement had a fortified church, the foundations are still visible near the current village church. The name of the village was taken from that of the encompassing region of Frickgau, from a Vulgar Latin ferraricia, in reference to the iron mine located here in the Roman era, whence early Romance *Ferrícia, Old High German *Ferríkkea, recorded as Fricho in the 11th century.
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