Marthalen

Marthalen
State :	Switzerland
Canton :	Zurich (ZH)
District :	Andelfingen
BFS no. :	0035
Postal code :	8460 Marthalen 8464 Ellikon am Rhein
Coordinates :	691 116  /  275 815 coordinates: 47 ° 37 '36 "  N , 8 ° 39' 3"  O ; CH1903:  691 116  /  275,815
Height :	457  m above sea level M.
Height range :	343–442 m above sea level M.
Area :	14.13  km²
Residents:	1908 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	130 inhabitants per km²
Proportion of foreigners : (residents without citizenship )	10.5% (December 31, 2018)
Mayor :	Matthias Stutz (SVP)
Website:	www.marthalen.ch
Location of the municipality

Marthalen (in local dialect : Maartel  ) is a municipality in the district of Andelfingen in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland . In the village of Marthalen, the many still-preserved timber frame houses stand out.

coat of arms

Blazon

In gold a torn green oak with foliage and fruits

geography

Marthalen is located in the Zurich wine country . The municipality of Marthalen comprises the villages of Marthalen and Ellikon on the Rhine and the hamlets of Niedermarthalen and Radhof on an area of ​​1,414 hectares . More than a third of the area, namely 540 hectares, is covered by forest. The community is characterized by a highly developed agriculture with predominant arable farming.

Neighboring communities are clockwise from the northwest: Rheinau , Benken , Trüllikon , Kleinandelfingen and Flaach in the canton of Zurich, Buchberg and Rüdlingen in the canton of Schaffhausen , and Lottstetten in the district of Waldshut in Germany . The border between Germany and Switzerland runs in the southwest .

population

Population development
year	1649	1771	1850	1900	1920	1950	1980	2000	2010
Residents	862	1012	1401	1164	1296	1215	1259	1803	1935

Around 2,000 people live in the community, around 100 of them in Ellikon.

In 2010 65.3% belonged to the Evangelical Reformed denomination, 15.2% to the Roman Catholic, 19.5% were members of another denomination or were non-denominational.

societies

Marthalen has its own gymnastics club , a football club (Ellikon / Marthalen) and a Cevi . There are also two music associations, the trombone choir and the Helvetia music association, as well as a church choir and a Guggenmusik . Ellikon has its pontooners .

politics

The mayor is Matthias Stutz (SVP; as of February 2019). Traditionally, the Swiss People's Party (SVP) is the strongest party in the community. It reaches around 50% of the vote in national elections.

history

Border guard at the ferry in Ellikon am Rhein, Company III / 64, 1914–1918

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

Finds show that the area was probably populated as early as the Stone and Bronze Ages. Remnants of pots from a pit in Steinacker (Niedermarthalen) could be assigned to the La Tène period . A Roman settlement was found in the Unterwil district in the 17th century and the ruins of a Roman watchtower were discovered north of Ellikon am Rhein . The Roman road from Vitodurum ( Oberwinterthur ) to Iuliomagus (Schleitheim) crossed the area. Graves in the Leeberen district and the name of Ellikon (Eleen-inc-hova = Eleninge's place of residence) confirm the Alemannic settlement.

Marthalen and Ellikon were first mentioned as Martella and Eleeninchova in 858 in connection with the transfer of properties to the large landowner Wolvene by King Ludwig the German , who in turn awarded them to the Rheinau monastery . From 1408 the bailiwick belonged as a Rheinau fiefdom to Schaffhausen patricians . The high courts were exercised by the Landgraviate of Thurgau and later by the County of Kyburg . Kyburg had to pledge the bailiwick to the city ​​of Zurich in 1424 and sell it in 1452. In the later 15th century, there is evidence that "community meetings" were held in Marthalen. In 1754 Marthalen was able to buy his way out of the Rheinau monastery thanks to the negotiating skills of the subordinate Hans Jacob Wipf. In 1798 the cantons of Schaffhausen and Zurich exchanged the villages of Dörflingen and Ellikon am Rhein.

Attractions

See also : List of cultural assets in Marthalen

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  Marthalen Castle (built around 1440)

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  "Unterer Hirschen" (local council office), built in 1715

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  Upper mill

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  Lower forge

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  Old tavern, built in 1660

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  Old fire station, built in 1676

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  Kehlhof

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  old rifle house

Agriculture, Industry and Transport

In agriculture, grain cultivation and vines (1,528 and 224 Juch species in 1771) were dominant. In addition, the farmers had water meadows with a canal system , which was preserved until the 1950s. The market rights granted by the city of Zurich in 1725 led to an upswing in the industry (dye works, tanneries, gunsmiths, coppersmiths). The first industrial companies were a horse hair spinning mill in 1843 and a chemical factory for artificial fertilizers in 1860 at the railway station of the Rheinfallbahn Winterthur – Schaffhausen railway, which opened in 1857, followed by a light metal foundry in 1920. In the 1960s, gravel mining in the Niederwiesen area was intensified. The regional product center of the Volg has been located in Marthalen since 1990 .

traffic

Marthalen train station

Marthalen station was relocated to the Fleudenbüel area south of Ruedelfingerstrasse. As a result, since December 2014, 200-meter-long double-decker S-Bahn trains have been able to stop. The train station is becoming an increasingly important traffic junction. From 5:30 a.m. to 12:30 a.m., at least two trains per hour and direction of the S33 run. During rush hour, the accelerated S11, which only stops in Neuhausen and Marthalen between Schaffhausen and Winterthur, runs directly to Zurich. In addition, the station is now served by 4 postbus lines that bring numerous commuters from the surrounding communities to the station. Currently (timetable year 2014) the following lines operate from Marthalen:

• S 12 Brugg - Altstetten - Zurich HB - Stadelhofen - Winterthur - Schaffhausen / Wil - Schaffhausen (SBB)
• S 33 Winterthur - Schaffhausen (Thurbo)
• SN3 Winterthur - Schaffhausen (- Stein am Rhein ) (Thurbo)
• 620 Marthalen - Rheinau (Postbus)
• 621 Marthalen - Ossingen (Postbus)
• 630 Marthalen - Schaffhausen (Postbus)
• 847 Marthalen - Schlatt TG (Postbus)

The Rhine ferry Ellikon – Nack runs from Ellikon to Nack (municipality of Lottstetten in Germany).

Possible repository location

Since the 1990s, the Zürcher Weinland has been considered a possible location for a repository for radioactive waste due to its Opalinus Clay rock layers in the geological subsurface . In January 2015, Nagra restricted its open-ended search with three locations for high-level radioactive waste (HAA) and six locations for low and medium-level radioactive waste (SMA) to two locations: the Bözberg region in Aargau and the Zürcher Weinland. Both locations are therefore also suitable for a combined HAA and SMA warehouse and are classified by Nagra as the most geologically and technically suitable locations. Which location (possibly both, one for HAA and one for SMA) will ultimately be selected will be decided in the further course of the procedure by Nagra and ENSI , as well as at the political level by the Federal Parliament and possibly a referendum.

The surface systems for the warehouse are located in the area of ​​the communities Rheinau ZH and Marthalen.

Old family names

• Spalinger, settled in Niedermarthalen around 1340 (oldest Rheinauer Urbar)

Sons and daughters of the church

• Ferdinand Keller (1800–1881), archaeologist and archaeologist
• Ferdy Kübler (1919–2016), racing cyclist and the first Swiss Tour de France winner
• Markus Schulze (* 1960), theologian

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 : Marthalen  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of the municipality of Marthalen
• Statistical data of the Marthalen municipality
• Reinhard Nägeli: Marthalen. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Beaver lake near Marthalen

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. ^ Heinz Gallmann: Zurich German Dictionary . Verlag Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Zurich 2009.
4. ^ Roland E. Hofer, Markus Höneisen, Oliver Landolt, Eduard Joos, Markus Späth-Walter: Schaffhausen (canton). In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
5. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from December 20, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on: February 21, 2012). 
6. ↑ Siting areas for deep geological repositories, safety-related comparison: Suggestions for stage 3 ( Memento of the original dated February 11, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (pdf, 7.5 MB) of Nagra from January 2015, accessed on February 11, 2015