Badgers

Badgers
State :	Switzerland
Canton :	Zurich (ZH)
District :	Andelfingen
BFS no. :	0025
Postal code :	8447
Coordinates :	688 650  /  280102 coordinates: 47 ° 39 '56 "  N , 8 ° 37' 8"  O ; CH1903:  six hundred eighty-eight thousand six hundred fifty  /  280102
Height :	400  m above sea level M.
Height range :	359-450 m above sea level M.
Area :	2.70  km²
Residents:	1920 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	711 inhabitants per km²
Proportion of foreigners : (residents without citizenship )	12.9% (December 31, 2018)
Mayor :	Daniel Meister ( independent )
Website:	www.dachsen.ch
Badgers
Location of the municipality

Dachsen is a municipality in the Andelfingen district of the canton of Zurich in Switzerland .

coat of arms

Blazon

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

geography

Bahnhofstrasse in Dachsen

Railway station in Dachsen

The municipality of Dachsen is located in the Zurich wine country , in the northwest corner , the Ausseramt . It is embedded between the Cholfirst and the course of the Rhine , which has dug itself deep into the Ice Age gravel plain. The Rhine Falls at 395 m above sea level. M. is in the immediate vicinity. The border between Germany and Switzerland runs to the west .

population

Population development
year	Residents
1637	0170
1799	0370
1850	0501
1900	0570
1950	0690
2000	1533
2006	1774
2010	1941
2015	2000

history

Historic aerial photo by Walter Mittelholzer , 1919

Dachsen, Laufen and the Rhine Falls on Captain Heinrich Peyer's map of Schaffhausen cantons, 1684

Still called Tachsheim in the year 876, the Bailiwick over Dachsen originally belonged to the Barons of Tengen , who at that time were the most important and wealthiest families on the Rhine between the Rhine Falls and Eglisau , but changed hands repeatedly during the 14th and 15th centuries. In the 15th century, high jurisdiction belonged to the County of Kyburg and with this passed to Zurich on February 8, 1452 . In 1544, the lower jurisdiction with penalties up to nine pounds was also assigned to the city ​​of Zurich . She incorporated this into running.

With the fall of the Ancien Régime in 1798, new orders were established. In reality, the canton of Zurich was no longer a state, but an administrative district of the Helvetic Republic . As a new form of community, the municipality was created , the areas of which were usually aligned with the existing parishes. Three municipalities were formed: Dachsen, Uhwiesen and Flurlingen , each of which received its own authority but was subordinate to a common agent.

In the spring of 1799, Dachsen was occupied by the French. The Imperial Austrian army marched into the Rhine area to stand up to them. The artful Rhine bridge went up in flames. After the second battle near Zurich , in which the French triumphed over the Austrians and Russians, the protracted occupation by the Napoleonic troops began and Badgers were plunged into bitter poverty.

Until Napoleon Bonaparte imposed the mediation constitution on Switzerland in 1803 , there were endless constitutional battles in the Helvetic Republic . The previously introduced municipalities were replaced by local councils. The three villages of Dachsen, Uhwiesen and Flurlingen now each formed a community. At that time Hans Friedrich Ehrensperger was the mayor and justice of the peace of Dachsen. Other representatives of the village were councilor and bag maker Jakob Schibli and councilor Heinrich Rubli. After Emperor Napoleon was overthrown in 1814, the restoration began . The canton of Zurich received another constitution. It was divided into eleven senior offices and Dachsen, Uhwiesen and Flurlingen were merged into a single municipality.

On April 2, 1831, at the time of regeneration , Dachsen turned to the Canton of Zurich with the request to become its own political municipality.

"The reasons that support our sincere petition are:

1. That the municipality of Dachsen had its own local and judicial authority until 1798.
2. That the community of Dachsen is away from Uhwiesen, and
3. That the citizenship of active citizens is strong with the absent approx. 140 citizens, [...] "

- Municipality of Dachsen : Brief local history by Hans Kläui

On June 11, 1831, the Council of the Interior dealt with the wish of Dachshund to be separated from the previous association and in the next meeting of the Great Council the municipality of Dachsen was listed as an independent municipality.

politics

The community president is Daniel Meister (independent) and the vice-president is Beat Weingartner (independent) (as of May 2020).

Attractions

See also : List of cultural assets in Dachsen

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 .

Web links

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

• Official website of the municipality of Dachsen
• Statistical data for the municipality of Dachsen
• Martin Illi: Badgers. 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. ↑ Chronicle of the districts of Winterthur and Andelfingen, historical part, written by Dr. Emanuel Dejung, Dr. Werner Ganz, Dr. Paul Kläui, published in 1945, published by Verlag HABosch, Zurich, Dreikönigstr. 34, general bookseller sales: A. Vogel, Buchhandlung, Winterthur
4. ↑ ^{a b} 1100 years Dachsen 876-1976, the Rheinfallgemeinde Dachsen, author: Hans Kläui, published by the municipality Dachsen, published 1976, Kuhn-Druck, Neuhausen am Rheinfall
5. ↑ 1100 years Dachsen 876-1976, the Rheinfallgemeinde Dachsen, author: Hans Kläui, published by the municipality Dachsen, published in 1976, Kuhn-Druck, Neuhausen am Rheinfall, pages 112-113