Buchs ZH

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

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State :	Switzerland
Canton :	Zurich (ZH)
District :	Dielsdorf
BFS no. :	0083
Postal code :	8107
Coordinates :	675.34 thousand  /  256966 coordinates: 47 ° 27 '33 "  N , 8 ° 26' 16"  O ; CH1903:  six hundred seventy-five thousand three hundred forty  /  256966
Height :	442  m above sea level M.
Height range :	417–648 m above sea level M.
Area :	5.84  km²
Residents:	6397 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	873 inhabitants per km²
Proportion of foreigners : (residents without citizenship )	25.7% (December 31, 2018)
Mayor :	Thomas Vacchelli ( independent )
Website:	www.buchs-zh.ch
Location of the municipality

Buchs is a municipality in the district of Dielsdorf in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland .

coat of arms

Blazon

An oval cut green tree trunk in gold on a green ground

geography

Buchs is located in the Furt valley at the foot of the Lägern , near the city of Zurich .

The neighboring communities of Buchs are the communities Otelfingen , Regensdorf , Dällikon , Dänikon , Boppelsen , Niederhasli with Nassenwil, Regensberg as well as the district capital Dielsdorf .

population

Population development
year	Residents
1634	326
1850	649
1900	501
1950	627
1970	1552
1990	3516
2000	4182
2007	5097
2011	5695
2015	6236

The population grew from 1900 to 1960 from approx. 500 to approx. 800 inhabitants. By 1983 it grew to around 2500 people and in 2002 it had a population of 4259.

history

Ref. Church

Remnants of the cryptoporticus

Buchs (ZH), historical aerial photo from 1922, taken by Walter Mittelholzer

The village has been known as Puhsaha (Bach bei Buchs) since the 9th century . Around 870 , the landowner gave Landelohe and thus Puhsaha to the St. Gallen monastery . Since a Roman road ran through the Furttal , Roman manors were built in Buchs and Dällikon , traces of which can still be seen today. In Buchs, the remains of the crypto portico of the manor can be viewed freely.

Buchs is the godparent community of Rüti GL .

traffic

Public transport

Like all municipalities in the canton of Zurich, Buchs is part of the Zürcher Verkehrsverbund (ZVV), zone 111.

Buchs is served as follows: From the S6, which runs every half hour from the Buchs-Dällikon station to Baden and Zurich HB during operating hours. Bus line 485 runs from Buchs via Regensdorf to Zurich-Frankental. Line 455 is a commuter bus that serves Buchs-Dällikon station from Monday to Friday in the morning and in the evening.

The coverage by public transport should not be described as optimal. It is approx. 750 meters from the train station to the next stop, which is served all day. The same also applies to the developments in the north-west, in particular. The walk to the train station is up to one kilometer. This fact is partly due to the settlement structure and the hillside location. This could be remedied by extending bus line 485 and / or line 455 if this only served the S6 in the main load direction. In this way the circuit could be extended.

Private transport

Buchs is on the main road between the Zurich-Affoltern motorway exit and the Wettinger Kreuz. The road is often used as an alternative route when traffic jams in the Gubrist tunnel and / or at the Limmattaler Kreuz. The traffic volume is up to 13,000 vehicles per day on weekdays. Relief of this situation can only be expected after the expansion of the Zurich north ring and the Gubrist tunnel. This will only be the case after 2020. Another focal point is the connection road between Buchs and Dielsdorf. At peak times, around 450 vehicles run per hour, some of which later find their way through the village center to the main road or drive along school paths. Therefore this connection should be blocked. It is still being discussed whether there should be a full or partial closure (as of December 2015).

Art and culture

Attractions

See also : List of cultural assets in Buchs ZH

• church
• Quartz mine with Restaurant "mine". The mine can be visited by appointment.
• Cryptoporticus ( Cryptoporticus ) of the Roman estate . Freely accessible and covered.
• Nature reserve

and display information about the image

Panorama of boxwood with the bearings in the background

politics

Thomas Vacchelli has been mayor since 2014 (as of December 2017).

literature

• Hermann Fietz: The art monuments of the canton of Zurich, Volume II: The districts of Bülach, Dielsdorf, Hinwil, Horgen and Meilen. (= Art Monuments of Switzerland. Volume 15). Edited by the Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Bern 1943. DNB 365803049 .
• Beat Horisberger: The manor in Buchs and the Roman settlement in the Furttal. Monographs of Canton Archeology Zurich, ISBN 3-905681-11-0 .
• Konrad Grendelmeier, Tony Kaiser: Buchs as it used to be. Published by the municipality of Buchs, 1985.

Web links

Commons : Buchs ZH  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of the municipality of Buchs ZH
• Statistical data from the municipality of Buchs. ( Memento from December 13, 2015 in the web archive archive.today )
• Martin Illi: Buchs (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. ↑ Permanent resident population by municipalities in 2002 (b). ( Memento of August 12, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) .
4. ↑ Buchs parish. Historical .
5. ↑ StiASG , Urk. III 306. Online at e-chartae , accessed on June 19, 2020.
6. ↑ fahrplan.zvv.ch