Agasul

State :

Switzerland

Canton :

Zurich (ZH)

District :

Pfaffikon

Political community :

Illnau-Effretikon

Postal code :

8308

Coordinates :

698 443 / 253 534 coordinates: 47 ° 25 '31 " N , 8 ° 44' 36" O ; CH1903: six hundred ninety-eight thousand four hundred and forty-three / two hundred and fifty-three thousand five hundred thirty-four

Height :

518 m above sea level M.

Residents:

70 (December 31, 2015)

Website:

www.illnau-effretikon.ch

Agasul, March 2016

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Agasul , in Zurich German Agisuul [ˈɑgɪsuːl] , is a hamlet in the Swiss municipality of Illnau-Effretikon with 70 inhabitants (2015).

geography

Agasul is about three kilometers east of Effretikon, halfway between Illnau and Weisslingen . The hamlet is characterized by farmhouses from the 18th century.

history

The first mention of the place can be dated to 782 at the latest. Agasul belongs to the so-called Upper Courts, together with Billikon, Kemleten (Chämleten), First, Schömlet, Horben, Prestberg, Mesikon, Luckhausen , Guggenbüel and Talmühle, which were combined to form the Upper Court Community at the end of the 18th century . In 1811 the Effretikon, Moosburg and Bietenholz farms were merged into the Lower Hofgemeinde by resolution of the government council of the Canton of Zurich . Together with the since 16./17. Century existing village communities Ober-Illnau, sub-Illnau, Ottikon and Bisikon the seven were civilian communities dissolved and in the years 1929-1932 compiled in 1974 by independent community Illnau.

Sights and culture

Volume 3 of the Art Monuments of the Canton of Zurich from the series Die Kunstdenkmäler der Schweiz (1978) includes a half-timbered double farmhouse in Agasul by master carpenter Hans-Ulrich Wettstein from Dürstelen (1789), another half-timbered farmhouse by Hans-Ulrich Brüngger from Unterillnau ( 1765) and other farmhouses are mentioned, including a solid building in traditional form from 1850.

Agasul entered the world of beautiful literature through Gottfried Keller's story Ursula , even if only by the name of a figure: The snail of Agasul is one of the enthusiastic Anabaptists who received the returning rice traveler Hansli Gyr with their dissolute speeches.

Surname

The place Agasul is first mentioned in the 8th century as Aghinsulaca (a little after 764) or Aginsulaga (774). The name means "the Schweinepferch Ago" to althochdeutsch Ago, genitive Agin (Male proper noun) and sũlag "Schweinepferch". The hamlet does not have a pig in its coat of arms, but a deer.

traffic

Agasul can be reached on a side street from Illnau. The road continues to Weisslingen; other side roads lead from Agasul to the neighboring hamlets of Luckhausen and First, the latter also on to Kyburg .

Agasul is connected to public transport with the hourly bus number 640 in the Zurich transport network .

gallery

Panoramic view of Agasul
On the street of Weisslingen
Farm shop in Agasul

Web links

Commons : Agasul - collection of images, videos and audio files

Short portrait of the village of Agasul (Agasul Weidhof)

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b Hans Kläui , Viktor Schobinger : Zurich place names. Origin and meaning. Edited by Zürcher Kantonalbank. 2nd edition Zurich 1989, p. 22.

↑ Population: Population statistics as of December 31, 2015. City of Illnau-Effretikon, accessed on March 26, 2016 .

↑ StiASG , Urk. I 19. Online at e-chartae , accessed on June 12, 2020.

↑ Hans Martin Gubler: The districts of Pfäffikon and Uster . In: Society for Swiss Art History (Ed.): Die Kunstdenkmäler des Kantons Zürich . tape 3 . Birkhäuser, Basel 1978, ISBN 3-7643-0991-1 , p. 106 .

↑ Gottfried Keller: Zurich Novellas . In: Max Zollinger (Ed.): Gottfried Keller's works in ten parts . Bong, Berlin / Leipzig [1921], p. 285.

^ Document book of the city and landscape of Zurich. Edited by a commission of the antiquarian society in Zurich . 1st volume, arr. by Jakob Escher-Bürkli and Paul Schweizer . Höhr, Zurich 1888, p. 3 and 4. The two documents can be found in full in the document book of the Sanct Gallen Abbey. Edited at the event of the antiquarian society in Zurich. by Hermann Wartmann in Sanct Gallen. Part I: Years 700-840. Hühr, Zurich 1863, p. 46 f. and 69 f.

↑ Timetable query on sbb.ch on March 27, 2016.

[kl-schob-1] A ^b Hans Kläui , Viktor Schobinger : Zurich place names. Origin and meaning. Edited by Zürcher Kantonalbank. 2nd edition Zurich 1989, p. 22.

[2] Population: Population statistics as of December 31, 2015. City of Illnau-Effretikon, accessed on March 26, 2016 .

[3] StiASG , Urk. I 19. Online at e-chartae , accessed on June 12, 2020.

[4] Hans Martin Gubler: The districts of Pfäffikon and Uster . In: Society for Swiss Art History (Ed.): Die Kunstdenkmäler des Kantons Zürich . tape 3 . Birkhäuser, Basel 1978, ISBN 3-7643-0991-1 , p. 106 .

[5] Gottfried Keller: Zurich Novellas . In: Max Zollinger (Ed.): Gottfried Keller's works in ten parts . Bong, Berlin / Leipzig [1921], p. 285.

[6] Document book of the city and landscape of Zurich. Edited by a commission of the antiquarian society in Zurich . 1st volume, arr. by Jakob Escher-Bürkli and Paul Schweizer . Höhr, Zurich 1888, p. 3 and 4. The two documents can be found in full in the document book of the Sanct Gallen Abbey. Edited at the event of the antiquarian society in Zurich. by Hermann Wartmann in Sanct Gallen. Part I: Years 700-840. Hühr, Zurich 1863, p. 46 f. and 69 f.