Neftenbach

Neftenbach

State :	Switzerland Switzerland
Canton :	Canton Zurich Zurich (ZH)
District :	Winterthurw
BFS no. :	0223i1 f3 f4
Postal code :	8412 Aesch 8412 Hünikon 8412 Riet 8413 Neftenbach
Coordinates :	692 602 / 264934 coordinates: 47 ° 31 '43 " N , 8 ° 40' 6" O ; CH1903: 692 602 / 26493447.528611 8.668328 415
Height :	415 m above sea level M.
Height range :	382–609 m above sea level M.
Area :	15.07 km²
Residents:	5679 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	377 inhabitants per km²
Proportion of foreigners : (residents without citizenship )	11.8% (December 31, 2018)
Mayor :	Maja Reding Vestner (Free Voters Neftenbach)
Website:	www.neftenbach.ch

Location of the municipality
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Neftenbach is a municipality in the Winterthur district of the canton of Zurich in Switzerland . On January 1, 2013, the hamlet of Oberhueb (also Obere Hueb ) was separated from the municipality of Buch am Irchel and Neftenbach was connected. This increases the land area of the municipality by 4.6 hectares.

coat of arms

Blazon

Quartered diagonally in silver and blue

The coat of arms goes back to the barons von Wart . It was designated as the municipal coat of arms in 1921.

geography

Neftenbach is located in the lower Tösstal , 19 km as the crow flies from Zurich . It lies on a gravel terrace on the southern slope of the Irchel . Of the community area - 1495 ha - 55% are used for agriculture, 30% is forest, 10% is settlement area and 4% is used for transport. In addition to the core village around the church, the community includes the settlements of Aesch, Hünikon , Irchelhöfen and Riet.

Aerial photo (1962)

Community portrait

The rural community is embedded in an Ice Age side valley between the slopes of the Irchel and the Taggenberg. There are local shopping opportunities, commercial and service companies, transport connections for individual and public transport as well as school, cultural and leisure activities.

The Wart Castle with the adjoining vineyards is a landmark of the community. In addition to the two main varieties Pinot Noir and Riesling x Sylvaner, specialties such as Chardonnay , Sauvignon Blanc , R Noiseling and Cabernet Sauvignon are produced on the vineyards of Neftenbach .

Sports and leisure facilities in the community are: youth club “InPoint”, swimming pool, sports facilities “Rietweg”, tennis courts, nature trail, beach volleyball court, skate park, riding arena and library. The community has a triple sports hall for training and competition. Various organizations such as the Spitex services, non-profit organizations, advice centers, the retirement homes and the “Geeren” retirement home provide their services here. The local and viticulture museum is located west of the village in the vineyards.

population

Population development
year	Residents
1836	1452
1850	1490
1880	1421
1900	1608
1941	706
1950	1853
1970	2180
1990	3731
2005	4549
2010	5224
2013	5438
2015	5564
2018	5692

Population density: 347.6 inh / km ²
Denomination: 46.7% Evangelical Reformed , 18.4% Roman Catholic , 34.9% other or no denomination (as of 2018)

politics

The seven-person council consists of six men and one woman. Party composition: 4 free voters Neftenbach , 2 SVP and 1 FDP . The current mayor since September 2019 is Maja Reding Vestner (as of 2020). In 2011 Neftenbach received the Energy City Label for the first time. In 2015 the label was awarded again. An energy city is a municipality or city that continuously advocates the efficient use of energy, climate protection and renewable energies as well as environmentally friendly mobility. It receives the label every four years from the Energiestadt sponsoring association .

history

The village of Neftenbach 1781

In Roman times there was a Roman estate in Steinmöri below the cemetery on Sattleracherstrasse and Aspacherstrasse , which is now overbuilt. During the excavations in 1986, a coin hoard with 1243 Roman silver coins from AD 197–265 was discovered in a bronze vessel.

The first written mention of Neftenbach took place in 1209, when a people priest from "Neftimbach" was involved in a legal transaction. The cellar of the Frohhof in Neftenbach still indicates a residential tower that stood there. He probably belonged to the ministerial family "von Neftenbach", which was first mentioned in 1267 and at that time were probably followers of the Kyburg family . The sex itself can be proven in various places up to 1468. The area later belonged to the barons of Wart , whose coat of arms has been the official municipal coat of arms since 1921. In May 1799 there was a clash between French and Austrians near the village during the battle near Winterthur , which is still reminiscent of a stray bullet in the church choir.

Culture

Attractions

photos

Castle Wart
The 1986 find: bronze jug with Roman coins.
Talguet, family seat of important Winterthur families; Location above the former Wart Castle
Local and viticulture museum
Neftenbach Church

Personalities

Johann Jakob Redinger (1619–1688), Protestant clergyman, philologist and headmaster
Heinrich Ernst (1846–1916), architect
Nicole Brüngger-Skoda (* 1977), figure skater and trainer
Manuel Akanji (* 1995), football player

literature

Eugen Ott, Hans Kläui, Otto Sigg : History of the community Neftenbach. Neftenbach 1979.
Hans Martin Gubler: The art monuments of the canton of Zurich - the district of Winterthur, northern part. Society for Swiss Art History GSK, Bern 1986, ISBN 3-7643-1812-0 , pp. 31–87. (= Art Monuments of Switzerland , Volume 79.)
Jürg Rychener: The Roman estate in Neftenbach. 2 volumes Zurich / Egg 1999. (= Monographs of Cantonal Archeology Zurich , 31 / 1–2).

Web links

Commons : Neftenbach - 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 .

↑ The members and departments of the municipal council ( Memento of the original from February 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Neftenbach community @1@ 2

^ Energy city Neftenbach. Retrieved May 11, 2019 .

↑ Dr. Emil Stauber: The castles of the Winterthur district and their families . In: 285th New Year's sheet of the Winterthur City Library . Winterthur 1953, p. 194-195 .

[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 .