Greifensee ZH
| ZH is the abbreviation for the canton of Zurich in Switzerland and is used to avoid confusion with other entries of the name Greifensee . |
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 Switzerland
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| Canton : |
 Zurich (ZH)
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| District : | Uster |
| BFS no. : | 0194 |
| Postal code : | 8606 |
| Coordinates : | 693 682 / 246912 |
| Height : | 439 m above sea level M. |
| Height range : | 435–488 m above sea level M. |
| Area : | 2.27 km² |
| Residents: | 5358 (December 31, 2018) |
| Population density : | 2122 inhabitants per km² |
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Proportion of foreigners : (residents without citizenship ) |
19.9% (December 31, 2018) |
| Mayor : | Monika Keller Seitz ( FDP ) |
| Website: | www.reifensee.ch |
 The historical center |
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Greifensee is a municipality in the Uster district in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland .
geography
Greifensee is located in the Zurich Oberland . Its overbuilding is the only one of the places around the Greifensee to reach its banks. The community is bordered by Niederuster in the south, Nänikon (Uster) in the south-east, Volketswil in the north-east, Schwerzenbach in the north-west, and on the opposite bank of the Greifensee in the west, Fällanden and Maur in the south-west.
history
Early days
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The area around today's Greifensee municipality has been known to have been settled since the Neolithic Age ( ceramic finds around 4000 BC), and four sites of earlier pile dwellings are known to exist in the municipality. The late Bronze Age pile dwelling village on the north bank of the Greifensee in the Böschen district was discovered in 1975. Scuba divers first found ceramics, which ranged from elaborately decorated pots and bowls to simple, large storage containers. During the scientific dives, the structures of a village with 24 huts were revealed. The condition of the woods allowed a precise dendrochronological dating to the year 1051 BC. The building history and construction methods could be researched in detail. A feature of the building was a frame that rested on sleepers on the ground. A platform that protruded from the frame and was supported by stakes carried the huts. The walls were made of planks or rods covered with clay. Also loom weights , spindle whorls made of clay, tools, needles and hooks of bronze and charred crab apples and grains were recovered. The wet soil settlement was ten years after the start of construction destroyed by fire and never rebuilt.
Thanks to the neighboring prehistoric site of Storen / Wildsberg , Greifensee is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site of prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps .
The canton archeology of Zurich was able to secure various finds from the following millennia, such as heavy bronze bracelets , thick glass bracelets and, above all, bronze fibulae , occasional daggers with flint blades presumably from the Mediterranean region and France . Finds from Roman times were made in neighboring communities, in Riedikon am Greifensee and in Pfäffikon, around nine kilometers away, at the Irgenhausen fort . Due to the high population density of the region, however, the contiguous sites mentioned at the beginning are rather rare, in contrast to accidental individual finds.
middle Ages
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The place itself arose around the Greifensee Castle , the previous building of which was probably built in the 12th century by a Count of Rapperswil . The name Greifensee appears for the first time as " R. et H. minstri de Grifense " in a document dated April 29, 1260, in which two noble knights testify to the settlement of a dispute. According to another source, Greifensee was first mentioned in a document in 1261. Since that time, the name Greifensee has been used equally for castle, town and the adjacent lake, even if the lake was sometimes still called Glattsee after its drainage around 1300 . On January 7, 1300, Countess Elisabeth von Rapperswil , married to Count Rudolf von Habsburg-Laufenburg , pledged Greifensee to the knight Hermann II von Landenberg : “ We Elizabeth the greuenne von Habsburch and happy raprechtswile announce to everyone ... that is, we with gray Ruodolfs von Habsburch ünsers Wirtes hant ... Gesezzet han ze rightem phande Grifense the castle and the statute with the sewe, to whom one speaks Glatse ». To pledge included not only the castle, town and the lake, but a larger number of farms, along with supporting fields, meadows, forests and even the courtiers themselves. Mitverpfändet were also associated lower and middle court rights and the right ( Church set ), the priest in Appoint Uster .
The small town was never able to develop properly economically, as it had no market rights and remained poorly developed in terms of transport. As a result of over-indebtedness, the Landenbergers sold the castle and rule of Greifensee in 1369 to Count Friedrich Donat and Diethelm von Toggenburg for 7,219 Rhenish guilders . As early as 1402, Greifensee came from Friedrich VII , the last Count of Toggenburg , for 6,000 guilders as pledge to the city of Zurich. In 1419 Zurich came into permanent possession of the rulership, and so the former rule of Greifensee - Heinrich Biberli was de facto governor from 1403 - became the first bailiff of the city of Zurich . The Landvogt Salomon Landolt ( Gottfried Keller's Landvogt von Greifensee ), who ruled here from 1781 to 1786, is famous . Greifensee Castle was destroyed in the Old Zurich War in 1444: Only two of the 64 defenders survived, 62 men were beheaded by the Confederates (see Greifensee's murder ).
Modern times
It was not until 1520 that the Zurich council decided to rebuild, with the respected Zurich chronicler and bailiff (1504–1506) Gerold Edlibach playing a key role. “ Anno domi 1520 jar at sant michelstag, the gentlemen of Zurich became ratt dz schloss griffensee again and again if you catch the hoffstatt for hours on end, jm jar like obstat. »The district of Uster was created in 1831 , whereby Greifensee lost its political importance as an administrative center.
Archive for local history
The Greifensee Local History working group collects, documents and archives what is representative of Greifensee's past and present. These are documents, newspaper articles, the news from Greifensee (NaG), posters and flyers, family trees, books, pictures, photos, slides, films, clothes and objects from steam radio to sewing machines to headlocks. Interviews with contemporary witnesses are carried out regularly and recorded in writing, often combined with sound recordings. A yearbook with thematic articles and a detailed chronicle is published every two years.
In 1976 the working group for local history Greifensee was established by the then mayor Kurt Müller. Annelies Luther has led the group for many years.
coat of arms
The municipal coat of arms shows a rising red griffin in gold . This coat of arms seems to have been arbitrarily awarded to the Greifensee office in the 15th century as a " talking coat of arms " ( Greif from the name of Grifense , since the 13th century). The noble family von Landenberg-Greifensee used the coat of arms of the Landenbergs, later also the older coat of arms of Greifensee, a shield quartered in yellow and black, or this coat of arms quartered with the Landenberg coat of arms. The rising red griffin in the yellow field is documented for the first time in the year book of 1473, also in the Edlibacher Chronik of 1485 (for the castle and town of Greifensee). In a copy from 1506 it is shown upside down as a golden griffin in a red field. A silver griffin on a green field is mentioned in 1513. From the 17th century, the coat of arms is shown uniformly in the form that is now valid. It became the municipal coat of arms with a municipal council resolution of June 2, 1930.
The historic town of Greifensee
Greifensee still has a historic town center that is worth seeing , thanks to the Barons von Landenberg: Hermann II von Landenberg called himself von Landenberg-Greifensee from 1300 and experienced one in the service of King Albrecht I as secretarius (administrative secretary ) and marshal one remarkable social and political advancement. His name is documented in Duke Albrecht's service in the so-called " Güssinger Feud " around 1281, before Hermann II died in Bohemia in 1306 as a loyal follower of Habsburg Austria.
His son, Hermann IV ( the younger marshal ) - court master of Duke Otto - expanded the town with a fortress belt . For the salvation of his soul and that of his wife, he donated the Gallus Chapel, which has largely been preserved in its original structure from 1330/40 . It is considered to be the town's oldest intact Gothic architectural monument: originally integrated into the eastern corner of the town's triangular defensive wall, the fortified church incorporated into the inner wall roughly replicates the layout of the town in the middle of the 14th century. In Greifensee Castle a little, which was St. Catherine consecrated chapel built.
The Landenberghaus - one of the rare secular Romanesque buildings in the canton of Zurich - was built in the early days of Greifensee . By Landsberg Alley and the former moat separated from the castle, the living or hall building for the castle dominion was built about 10 meters probably already to the 1250th The southern and western masonry has largely been preserved in its original state. The parsonage built with the Landenberghaus - the core of the building could also go back to the time the town was founded - with its lakeside facade formed part of the circular wall that was destroyed in 1444 .
Attractions
population
Greifensee experienced a sudden increase in population when the building contractor Ernst Göhner built several prefabricated housing estates in the area of the municipality from the end of the 1960s . As a result, the population rose from under 500 to over 5000 in around 10 years.
| Population development | |||
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| year | Residents | year | Residents |
| 1634 | 133 | 2005 | 5111 |
| 1799 | 278 | 2006 | 5049 |
| 1836 | 406 | 2007 | 4816 |
| 1900 | 289 | 2008 | 4976 |
| 1950 | 279 | 2009 | 4968 |
| 1960 | 421 | 2010 | 5094 |
| 1970 | 2674 | 2011 | 5122 |
| 1980 | 5440 | 2012 | 5214 |
| 1990 | 5300 | 2013 | 5305 |
| 1995 | 5038 | 2014 | 5300 |
| 2000 | 5202 | 2015 | 5360 |
| 2001 | 5256 | 2016 | 5366 |
| 2002 | 5219 | 2017 | 5354 |
| 2003 | 5210 | 2018 | 5358 |
| 2004 | 5198 | 2019 | 5379 |
politics
The mayor is Monika Keller Seitz ( FDP , as of December 2017). Her predecessor was Beat Brand (Aktion G Greifensee) from 2002 to 2014.
| Members of the Greifensee Municipal Council (2014-2018) | |||
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| Surname | Taking office | function | Political party |
| Monika Keller Seitz | 2010/2014 | Mayor | FDP |
| Markus Bauer | 2014 | Civil engineering, works; 1st Vice President | Action G Greifensee |
| Franziska Graf Schläppi | 2015 | Safety, health | Action G Greifensee |
| Daniel Kiper | 2014 | education | independent |
| Andreas Jakob | 2018 | Social | FDP |
| Bruno Schaerli | 2017 | Finance, real estate; 2nd Vice President | Action G Greifensee |
| Thomas Honegger | 2018 | Building construction, agriculture and forestry | Green |
economy
The administrative headquarters of the global precision balance manufacturer Mettler Toledo and numerous small and medium-sized companies are located in Greifensee . The M fitness park “Milandia” is also located in Greifensee.
traffic
The Nänikon-Greifensee train station is just under 2 km northeast of the city center on the Greifensee / Uster municipal border. It is located on the Glatthalbahn of the SBB and is served by lines S 9 and S 14 of the Zurich S-Bahn .
The connection Uster West of the A53 motorway is just 2.5 km north Greifensee. The way to get there is mostly on secondary roads, as the main road between Volketswil and Uster - which also serves the Uster West connection - bypasses Greifensee to the east.
Sports
- Soccer : FC Greifensee was founded on January 14, 1976. The Grossriet is the home town of the FCG and includes the main square, a side square and artificial turf, as well as an older and newer clubhouse. The FCG Fanion team plays in the 2nd league and is leader and thus winter champion during the winter break (as of the 2011/2012 season).
- Tennis : TC Greifensee was founded in 1972 and has been located at the end of Burstwiesenstrasse ever since. The club has around 130 active members (as of December 31, 2016) who can practice the sport on five tennis courts (with floodlights). The club also has a club house. In the 2013 season, a total of seven teams (2 women, 5 men) took part in the Swiss-wide Interclub championships.
- Badminton : 1984 that found in Greifensee Swiss Open in badminton instead.
Personalities
- Johann Jakob Bodmer (1698–1783), philologist and writer
- Adrian Weyermann , indie pop singer
- Manuel Burkart , comedian from Cabaret Duo Divertimento, grew up in Greifensee
- Nico Elvedi , soccer player from Borussia Mönchengladbach
- Kevin Rüegg , football player at FC Zurich
literature
- Beat Frei: Greifensee. Greifensee Municipality, Greifensee 2006, ISBN 3-033-00675-2 .
- Hans Martin Gubler: The art monuments of the Canton of Zurich Volume 3: The districts of Pfäffikon and Uster. (Art Monuments of Switzerland, Volume 66). Ed. Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Bern 1978, ISBN 3-7643-0991-1 , pp. 465-509.
- Monographs of Canton Archeology Zurich 38: The late Bronze Age village of Greifensee-Böschen . 2007. ISBN 978-3-905681-27-7 .
- Annegret Diethelm, Attilio d'Andrea: Greifensee ZH. (Swiss Art Guide, No. 486). Ed. Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Bern 1991, ISBN 978-3-85782-486-9 .
Web links
- Official website of the Greifensee municipality
- Burgenwelt: Greifensee city fortifications
- Statistical data from the canton on the municipality of Greifensee
- Diethelm Zimmermann: Greifensee (municipality). In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
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 .
- ^ Website of the Greifensee community: History
- ↑ Local history working group . Retrieved December 1, 2014.
- ↑ F. von Wyss, "About the origin and meaning of coats of arms with reference to an old roll of coats of arms from the Zurich City Library", communications from the Antiquarian Society in Zurich , Volume 6 (1849), p. 33 .
- ↑ "Coat of Arms" (greifensee.ch)
- ^ Gallus Chapel on the Greifensee website
- ↑ Landenberghaus on the Greifensee website
- ^ Parsonage on the Greifensee website
- ^ Stefan Hotz: The crooked picture of Göhnerswil. Neue Zürcher Zeitung , November 4, 2010, accessed on June 25, 2020 .
- ↑ http://www.zol.ch/ Bezirk-uster/ According to Keller-ist-Greifenseer-Gemeindepraesidentin/story/ 31972195
- ↑ http://www.zol.ch/ Bezirk-uster/egoensee/Elf-Personen-verlassen-Greifenseer-Behoerden/story/ 16604961
- ↑ http://www.zol.ch/ Bezirk-uster/egoensee/Zum-Abschied-Musik-vom-Lieblingsinstrument/story/ 14160880
- ↑ http://www.egoensee.ch/de/politik/exekutive/
- ↑ http://www.zo-wahlen.ch/Uster/8606-Greifensee/Behoerde/Gemeinderat-Mitglied/