Feuerthalen

Feuerthalen

State :	Switzerland Switzerland
Canton :	Canton Zurich Zurich (ZH)
District :	Andelfingenw
BFS no. :	0027i1 f3 f4
Postal code :	8245 Feuerthalen 8246 Langwiesen
Coordinates :	690 587 / 283 097 coordinates: 47 ° 41 '32 " N , 8 ° 38' 43" O ; CH1903: six hundred ninety thousand five hundred and eighty-seven / 283,09747.692223 8.64528 400
Height :	400 m above sea level M.
Height range :	390-560 m above sea level M.
Area :	2.48 km²
Residents:	3623 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	1461 inhabitants per km²
Proportion of foreigners : (residents without citizenship )	22.8% (December 31, 2018)
Mayor :	Jürg Grau ( SVP )
Website:	www.feuerthalen.ch
Feuerthalen from Munot seen from
Location of the municipality
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Feuerthalen is a municipality in the Andelfingen district of the canton of Zurich in Switzerland . Langwiesen belongs to the community .

coat of arms

Blazon

A silver paw cross in blue , raised by a silver scythe leaf

geography

Feuerthalen is located north of the heavily forested Cholfirst in a river landscape formed by the Rhine in the outskirts of the Andelfingen district, directly on the riverbank opposite the city of Schaffhausen , with which it is connected via a road bridge. 16.1 percent of the municipal area is used for agriculture, 43.8 percent is covered with forest, 10.4 percent is traffic area, 28.1 percent is settlement area and 1.6 percent is water. Feuerthalen is the northernmost municipality in the canton of Zurich and has an international border with the exclave Büsingen on the Upper Rhine (Germany).

population

Population development
year	Residents
1634	205
1739	300
1836	655
1850	769
1900	1,992
1950	2,739
1960	2,961
1990	2,772
2000	2,973
2010	3,443

politics

The SVP has 31.52%, the SP 18.65%, the glp 14.34%, the Greens 11.89%, the FDP 9.13%, the CVP 5.25%, the EPP 3.27% the BDP 2.31% and the EDU 1.33% of the vote ( National Council election 2019 ).

Mayor is Jürg Grau (as of May 2020).

history

Rhine bridge Feuerthalen - Schaffhausen

View from Schaffhausen over the Rhine to Feuerthalen

Aerial photo from 1929, taken from a height of 500 meters by Walter Mittelholzer

Langwiesen was the first of the two villages to be mentioned in a document as Langewisa in 876, when the Rheinau abbot Wolvene handed over the lands to Count Gozbert. In the 10th century ownership passed to the Diocese of Constance .

The first documented mention of Feuerthalen was in 1318 as Furtal an dem Rine . The name is derived from the ford that existed here in the Middle Ages. Feuerthalen has had market rights since 1528.

On April 13th, 1799, the covered Rhine bridge built by Hans Ulrich Grubenmann between 1754 and 1756 was burned down by Napoléon Bonaparte's troops. When the Austrian troops were shelling the retreating French, 24 houses were destroyed in the village, including the studio of Johann Heinrich Bleuler , who made a chalk watercolor of the Burning Bridge. The original is in the graphic collection of the ETH. In the course of the event at that time, a 10,000-strong French troop contingent was stationed in Feuerthalen for 14 months.

Churches

There are two churches in Feuerthalen:

The reformed church dates from the Middle Ages and was first mentioned in documents in 1390.
The Catholic Church of St. Leonhard was consecrated in 2008. The rotunda is currently (as of 2014) the third youngest Catholic church building in the canton of Zurich.

Sights and culture

Hilari , a carnival-like custom , is always celebrated in mid-January .

Personalities

Johann Ludwig Bleuler (1792–1850), publisher, landscape draftsman and painter
Heinrich Zollinger (1818–1859), botanist, geologist, explorer in the Malay Archipelago
Othmar Ammann (1879–1965), Swiss-American bridge construction engineer
Heinrich Sutermeister (1910–1995), composer
Peter Sutermeister (1916–2003), writer
Marcel Strauss (* 1976), racing cyclist

literature

Hermann Fietz: The art monuments of the canton of Zurich, Volume I: The districts of Affoltern and Andelfingen. (= Swiss art monuments. Volume 7). Edited by the Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Bern 1938. DNB 365803030 .

Web links

Commons : Feuerthalen - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Permanent and non-permanent resident population by year, canton, district, municipality, population type and gender (permanent resident population). In: bfs. admin.ch . Federal Statistical Office (FSO), August 31, 2019, accessed on December 22, 2019 .
↑ Data on the resident population by home, gender and age (community profile). Statistical Office of the Canton of Zurich, accessed on December 22, 2019 .
↑ Elections 2019. Accessed May 25, 2020 .

[1] Permanent and non-permanent resident population by year, canton, district, municipality, population type and gender (permanent resident population). In: bfs. admin.ch . Federal Statistical Office (FSO), August 31, 2019, accessed on December 22, 2019 .

[2] Data on the resident population by home, gender and age (community profile). Statistical Office of the Canton of Zurich, accessed on December 22, 2019 .

[3] Elections 2019. Accessed May 25, 2020 .