Benken ZH

ZH is the abbreviation for the canton of Zurich in Switzerland and is used to avoid confusion with other entries of the name Benken .

Benken
State :	Switzerland
Canton :	Zurich (ZH)
District :	Andelfingen
BFS no. :	0022
Postal code :	8463
Coordinates :	691 299  /  278 876 coordinates: 47 ° 39 '15 "  N , 8 ° 39' 14"  O ; CH1903:  six hundred and ninety-one thousand two hundred ninety-nine  /  two hundred and seventy-eight thousand eight hundred and seventy-six
Height :	420  m above sea level M.
Height range :	396-567 m above sea level M.
Area :	5.66  km²
Residents:	855 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	151 inhabitants per km²
Proportion of foreigners : (residents without citizenship )	13.6% (December 31, 2018)
Mayor :	Heidi Romer ( independent )
Website:	www.benken-zh.ch
Benken
Location of the municipality

Benken is a municipality in the Andelfingen district of the canton of Zurich in Switzerland . The 48 meter high tower of the reformed church characterizes the townscape and also the village center, which has existed in this form since the Middle Ages.

Benken ZH, historical aerial photo from 1919, taken by Walter Mittelholzer

coat of arms

Blazon

Diagonally divided by silver and blue, above a blue ploughshare, below a silver vine knife with a golden handle

geography

The community is located in the Zürcher Weinland , immediately east of the German-Swiss border ( Jestetter tip of the Waldshut district , Baden-Württemberg ). The location of Benken on the southwest slope of the Cholfirst is open and sunny, near the Rhine loop near Rheinau not far from Schaffhausen .

population

Population development
year	Residents
1634	256
1878	475
1850	590
1900	547
1950	492
2000	704
2010	799
2011	817

politics

Heidi Romer is the mayor (as of May 2020).

economy

In addition to agriculture, peat mining played an important role in the Benkenerried for a long time . Quartz sand mining began in 1860 and was delivered to the emerging glass and foundry industry in Bülach and Zurich.

history

The earliest traces of settlement are a Roman villa and early Halemannic graves. Benken as Pecchinhova was first mentioned in a document in 858 in a deed of donation to the Rheinau monastery . In the 13th century the place is called Benchon . In 1540 Zurich took control of Benken.

Attractions

See also : List of cultural assets in Benken ZH

Others

In the last few years, Benken has become known primarily for considering the possibility of building a repository for high-level and long-lived medium-level waste in the region there.

Sealed borehole of the NAGRA.

In 1985 the waste disposal company NAGRA presented a study on the feasibility of a repository in the crystalline rock of northern Switzerland with the so-called " Project Guarantee ". Since this study could not provide complete proof of the feasibility, the government ordered further investigations which should also be extended to sediment as host rock. After a broad selection process that included possible locations in Weiach and Böttstein , among others , NAGRA decided in 1994 to concentrate the further geological investigations on the Opalinus Clay rock in the Zurich wine region . The results of a deep drilling near Benken and a seismic survey in the region formed the basis for a new feasibility study, which was handed over to the authorities in December 2002.

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 .
• HW Ernst: Benken parish . 1964
• WU Guyan: Benken in the Zurich wine country . 1984

Web links

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

• Official website of the municipality of Benken ZH
• Statistical data for the municipality of Benken
• Martin Illi: Benken (ZH). 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. ^ Benken community: Portrait of the Benken community , accessed on October 18, 2017.
4. ^ Charles Knapp, Maurice Borel, Victor Attinger, Heinrich Brunner, Société neuchâteloise de geographie (editor): Geographical Lexicon of Switzerland . Volume 1: Aa - Emmengruppe . Verlag Gebrüder Attinger, Neuchâtel 1902, p. 189, keyword Benken   ( scan of the lexicon page ).