Altikon

Altikon
State :	Switzerland
Canton :	Zurich (ZH)
District :	Winterthur
BFS no. :	0211
Postal code :	8479
Coordinates :	701 009  /  270045 coordinates: 47 ° 34 '24 "  N , 8 ° 46' 52"  O ; CH1903:  701009  /  270045
Height :	393  m above sea level M.
Height range :	369–466 m above sea level M.
Area :	7.70  km²
Residents:	706 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	92 inhabitants per km²
Proportion of foreigners : (residents without citizenship )	9.2% (December 31, 2018)
Mayor :	Sandra Reinli
Website:	www.altikon.ch
Location of the municipality

Altikon Church

Altikon village center

Altikon (in local dialect Altike [ ˈɑltikχə ]) is a village and a political municipality in the Winterthur district of the Swiss canton of Zurich . The hamlets of Schneit, Feldi and Herten belong to Altikon.

coat of arms

Blazon

"A black flight in silver"

The coat of arms goes back to the family coat of arms of the Kyburg ministerials from Altikon around 1243, white downward-facing wings in a black field. When it was taken over for the Zurich Upper Bailiwick in 1696, the colors and directions were reversed. The municipal council decided on April 18, 1928 this as the official coat of arms.

geography

The wine region Altikon is located north of Winterthur in the Thurtal . 20% of the community area is covered by forest and around 70% is agricultural area.

population

Population development
year	Residents
1467	62
1836	400
1900	415
1990	543
2013	638

history

The place name appears as an indication of origin in copies of documents from the years 1122 Werner von Altinchoven and 1243 E. de Alticon , in original documents from 1244 ( Cůnrado de Altrinchoven ) / 1246 Berchtoldus miles de Altlinkon . It is a combination of an Old High German personal name expanded to include the affiliation suffix “ -ing- ” with the basic word hof and means something like 'at the courtyards of the Altilo clan'.

The city of Zurich initially acquired the Austrian fiefdom over the castle in 1452 , later also the jurisdiction of Altikon from the Counts of Lupfen and in 1696 transferred the administration to a senior bailiff.

At times (from 1604) Altikon was under the jurisdiction of Im Thurn . Benedikt im Thurn acquired Altikon in 1615 from his brother, the judge Joachim im Thurn. Before that he bought back the share of the silk industrialist David Werdmüller (1548–1612). In 1618 he sold Altikon Castle and Court to Count Maximilian von Pappenheim and Stühlingen for 17,000 guilders. After 1641 the court lord, the Zurich mayor Salomon Hirzel , and his sons ran a cotton factory in Altikon.

Altikon, historical aerial photo from 1923, taken from a height of 400 meters by Walter Mittelholzer

Attractions

See also : List of cultural assets in Altikon

politics

The municipality president is Sandra Reinli (as of 2020).

literature

• Hans Martin Gubler: Art Monuments of Switzerland , Volume 79: The Art Monuments of the Canton of Zurich Volume 8: The District of Winterthur Northern Part . Society for Swiss Art History GSK, Bern 1986, ISBN 3-7643-1812-0 , pp. 200–226.

Web links

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

• Official website of the Altikon community
• Statistical data from the canton on the municipality of Altikon
• Martin Illi: Altikon. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

Individual evidence

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. ↑ ^{a b} Gabrielle Schmid, Andres Kristol: Altikon ZH (Winterthur) . In: Dictionnaire toponymique des communes suisses - Lexicon of Swiss municipality names - Dizionario toponomastico dei comuni svizzeri (DTS | LSG). Center de dialectologie, Université de Neuchâtel, Verlag Huber, Frauenfeld / Stuttgart / Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-7193-1308-5 and Éditions Payot, Lausanne 2005, ISBN 2-601-03336-3 , p. 86.
4. ↑ ^{a b} Phonetic transcription given under ortsnames.ch : altikχə . (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; accessed on July 24, 2020 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )