Embrach
| Embrach | |
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| State : |
 Switzerland
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| Canton : |
 Zurich (ZH)
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| District : | Bulach |
| BFS no. : | 0056 |
| Postal code : | 8424 |
| UN / LOCODE : | CH EBH |
| Coordinates : | 686 985 / 262.81 thousand |
| Height : | 425 m above sea level M. |
| Height range : | 357–609 m above sea level M. |
| Area : | 12.69 km² |
| Residents: | 9440 (December 31, 2018) |
| Population density : | 676 inhabitants per km² |
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Proportion of foreigners : (residents without citizenship ) |
27.7% (December 31, 2018) |
| Mayor : | Erhard Büchi ( FDP ) |
| Website: | www.embrach.ch |
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Embrach , in the local dialect Ämbri [æmbri], 1809–1931 officially Unterembrach, is a political municipality that belongs to the district of Bülach in the Swiss canton of Zurich .
coat of arms
- Two crossed silver Peter keys in red
Seals with images of Peter existed until the middle of the 16th century. So today's Peter keys are based on this tradition. The change to the secular symbol took place because of the Reformation ( iconoclasm ).
geography
Embrach is located in the Embrachertal, 6 kilometers northeast of Zurich International Airport , in a wide U-shaped side valley of the Töss . The valley floor is 500 ha in size, 5 km long and up to 1.5 km wide. The plain is bounded by the slopes of the Blauen in the east, the Dattenberg in the west, the Ghei and the Egg in the south and the Tössschlucht in the north. The torrent drains the Embrachertal northwards into the Töss near Rorbas . The landscape was formed by the Linth Glacier in the Riss Cold Age.
Of the total area of 12.72 km² in Embrach, 45% is forest or woodland, 33% is agricultural land and 20% is settlement area plus roads.
The settlement of Embrach mainly stretches along the main traffic axis from Hinterdorf in the south to the Hard Psychiatry Center in the north. Embrach is a 3 km long street village . The through-road-free slopes of the Sonnenberg and Guldenberg in the east of the village, where wine has been grown since the Middle Ages, are considered the best residential area.
The highest point is the table in the Blauen area at 609 m above sea level. M. The lowest point is the Töss west of the "Kleinwasserkraftwerk Freienstein" at 360 m above sea level. M. The village center with the reformed church is 428 m above sea level. M. about 6 km northeast of the international airport Zurich. The geographical center ( area focus ) is located in the reason southwest of the Badi Talegg leisure pool . The northernmost point is the Töss north of the Neumoos farm, the easternmost point is on the Oberembrach - Pfungen road at the junction to the Freienhof. The southernmost point is on the northwestern edge of the multi-component landfill Zürcher Unterland (DEZU) - a former clay pit, and the westernmost point on the edge of the forest near the Plattenwiese not far from the Embrach-Winkel road.
population
| year | 1850 | 1900 | 1920 | 1940 | 1960 | 1980 | 1990 | 2000 | 2007 | 2012 | 2014 |
| population | 1429 | 1581 | 1647 | 1825 | 2201 | 5766 | 6851 | 7380 | 8577 | 8975 | 9084 |
Proportion of foreigners 2012: 24.7%
denominations 2012: Reformed 36%, Catholic 27%, other / none 37%
economy
There are 3,044 private households in Embrach. The population density is 675 people on 1 km². A good every second (56%) Embracher owns a car. Embrach offers 3,500 jobs, 30% of which are part-time. The service sector has a share of a good 75%, the manufacturing sector, industry just under 25% and the rest is spread over 24 farms. Trade and repair have 25%, transport 20% (especially companies in Embraport), health and social services 18% (Hard psychiatry center, retirement home, doctors), manufacturing 17%, real estate, IT, administration, education 11%, construction 7%. A total of 4500 Embrachers are employed. Unemployment is around 3%; it was significantly higher in 2004 and significantly lower in the early 1990s. 55,000 SFr. (47'900 SFr. Median ) deserves a Embrach-employed average. With that he has a fortune of almost CHF 200,000. per person. In a prime location, a single-family home costs from 1 million SFr, with land prices up to 600 SFr. for the m² and average construction costs of 600 per m³. The floor is available in less exclusive locations for CHF 400. the m². 4 ½ room rental apartments have prices between 1,400 and 2,100 SFr. in the month.
There are 12 restaurants and 3 hotels in Embrach.
education
As an authority, the school administration is responsible for the proper fulfillment of all tasks. It works primarily on the strategic level. She appoints a school management for the operational tasks. The school management ensures pedagogical, personnel and administrative management within the framework of the competencies assigned to it. She supports and advises the school administration in all school matters. The school administration ensures that the school is run professionally in terms of administration and organization. The school is divided into kindergarten, primary and secondary schools. 1,600 schoolchildren and students from Embrach are taught at various locations. Three main locations are in "Dorf", "Hungerbühl" and "Ebnet". In addition to various grass pitches, gyms are available. At the beginning of the new century, the village and Hungerbühl were newly built, renovated and expanded. The modern, climate-neutral triple gymnasium "Breite", the addition of the secondary school building in Hungerbühl and the primary school building on Schützenhausstrasse are new, contemporary buildings. Vocational and secondary schools are in Bülach, Winterthur and Zurich. You can study in Winterthur and Zurich.
Industrial history
Textile industry
The Zinggeler silk twisting mill was opened in 1871 as the first industrial company in Embrach . The building was demolished in 1988 and converted into a parking lot for the Reformed Church. What remains is the Chlostergumpen (nature reserve with supra-communal significance), the water reservoir of the former silk twisting mill. Countless weaving and spinning mills were built in the valley. The Spirella company can be seen as the last heir to this tradition. It still produces shower curtains in Embrach for the world market. All other businesses have disappeared since 1987.
Pottery industry
The brickworks west of the Hard on the road to Pfungen, whose history dates back to the Middle Ages, was a pioneer in the field of pottery . Ofenganz, Klinkerganz, the stoneware factory and the Zangger / Neri pottery continued this tradition until around 1980. Today one is limited to the trade in goods or has broken up. Only the Landert pottery was still producing in Embrach until spring 2010.
Machine industry
There were blacksmiths in Embrach since the Middle Ages, they supplied the farmers with tools and later with machines for agriculture. In the course of time, other companies were established. Meili weapons until 1914 - Bölsterli "Setma" electric motors - Zwinggi, washing machines, hydropower plants, milling machines - Karl Keller, precision mechanics - Krebser Kehrli, medical technology - Oskar Diener, medical technology and precision mechanics - Abraham Ganz , industrial pioneer in Hungary from Embrach.
communication
Telecommunication found its way into Embrach in the form of the telegraph in 1872, 23 years later the first telephone connection was available and since 1992 everyone has been able to make mobile calls. Several providers are available for broadband internet and digital television. One problem is the analog radio reception, various attempts to improve reception from the Zurich area have failed, most recently a project on the Sonnenberg.
Raw materials and mineral resources
Quartz sand for the glassworks in Bülach was mined in Embrach for a long time; there was even a mine for it on the slope east of the Dreispitzes. There are large deposits of gravel under Embrach, but a large part of it has already been mined. The mining area once extended to where the Coop is today. Hydropower was already being used by the Illinger mill in the 9th century, and from the middle of the 19th century the emerging industry dammed up every trickle and built a large number of water reservoirs in the valley to use the power of the water. A water wheel is turning (again) in the Haumühle, and since 2004 a small power plant on the Töss (half on the municipality of Boden) has been producing electricity for up to 1,000 people again.
traffic
Medieval trade route
The route Kloten - Embrach - Andelfingen was part of a medieval trade route from southern Germany. The route went from Stein am Rhein via Stammheim, Andelfingen, Pfungen, Embrach to Kloten, from there to Baden , on to Geneva and Lyon to the trade fairs. The road was also used for goods traffic to France and Spain and was very busy. Mainly wine, iron, salt, linen, fruits and spices were transported, as records of the customs in Kloten show. The path is shown in early maps as a driveway without fortifications, a dirt road, and occasionally even just as a mule track .
Modern road construction
The bridge construction in 1838 over the Töss near Bruni, today Tössallmend Neftenbach , makes this river crossing independent of the weather. This clears the way for the road construction Pfungen - Embrach - Rorbas. This covered wooden bridge stood until 1974 and was rebuilt for forest traffic upstream at the Winterthur riding arena for monument conservation reasons . A stone bridge was built over the torrent near Rorbas in 1840. The Kohlschwärze (the slippery, moist forest on the northern slope of the Blauen over the Töss) is a geological, hydrological problem area that has repeatedly led to file entries since the Middle Ages; the road there could only be completed in 1850. The line Embrach - Lufingen - Marchlen - Kloten was built to the south from 1841 to 1850. 12 years later the daily stagecoach Rorbas - Embrach - Kloten - (Zurich) drove on this route. In the north, the stretch of road Rorbas - Wagenbrechi - Chrützstrass - Glattfelden was built between 1842 and 1843. Road construction began in 1857 over the range of hills to the west. From 1858, the Embrach Dreispitz - Eschenberg - Bülach route with its gentle climbs was open all year round. Earlier connections to Bülach were steep, unpaved cart and mule tracks, in poor condition. The road construction Embrach - Nürensdorf took place in 1864. This made the valley accessible from all directions via a modern road network. These new artificial roads and bridges were built according to the French model with a foundation track over 5 meters wide. The surface consisted of gravel, partly natural asphalt from the canton of Neuchâtel. These roads and bridges withstood the loads and volumes of modern traffic until 1970. The streets of Embrach have been electrically lit since 1905. The Zum Wilden Mann restaurant, a drinking parlor with centuries-old tavern rights, was demolished in 1929 so that the increasing traffic could better roll through the center of Embrach.
The first road law of 1833 initiated the liberal road construction in the canton. The connections, which had been bad until then, were brought up to date in a very short time. In a first tranche, 16 existing connections to 2nd class streets were expanded. That meant: with a stone bed, straight lines as possible, defusing height differences with curves.
From the stagecoach to the Zurich Transport Association
In 1862 the valley received a stagecoach on the Rorbas - Embrach - Kloten route for 20 years. The Swiss Northeast Railway (NOB - Director Alfred Escher ) received the concession for the construction of the railway line Winterthur - Embrach - Bülach - Koblenz in 1870. Construction began in 1874, an average of 1400 workers from Italy, 225 trolleys and 60 horses were used. The torrent at the Haumühle was spanned in 1875 with a railway bridge (metal / stone). The bridge had to be reinforced in 1907 and was rebuilt in 1950 as a stone arch bridge. The Dattenberg was pierced on October 23, 1875. The tunnel and the entire railway line were opened in 1876. As a result, the settlement area of Embrach developed in a northerly direction, the village character changed from a heap village to a long street village. The NOB was incorporated into the SBB in 1902 .
The first licensed bus line began operating in 1932 on the Rorbas - Freienstein - Embrach - Kloten route. The license went to PTT in 1942 and started again in Teufen. Today route 520 is operated by PostBus and runs from Teufen am Rhein via Tössegg via the Embrach-Rorbas station to Zurich Kloten Airport. The Zürcher Verkehrsverbund (ZVV) has been optimizing connections with the S-Bahn and bus lines since 1990. Embrach is connected to the cities of Bülach (5 minutes), Kloten (10 minutes), Winterthur (20 minutes) and Zurich (35 minutes) every half hour.
Future Autobahn
The biggest problem facing the community is private traffic. In 2007, according to the canton's survey, 17,000 motor vehicles drove on Dorfstrasse in Embrach every working day. A northern bypass and an eastern bypass were already planned in the building and zoning regulations of 1953 and 1962. The 1973 opened bonded warehouse Embraport with many branches of international shipping companies on 100,000 m 2 surface should be connected to a high-performance road to Basel. The northern bypass was built in 1976, but a continuation through the Dattenberg has not yet been implemented.
In the traffic structure plan of March 26, 2007 of the canton of Zurich, a motorway is planned that will connect Winterthur with Bülach (part of the outer northern bypass of Zurich) and thus relieve Embrach of through traffic. Alternatives to the four-lane motorway, also entered in the structure plan above, are once again an eastern bypass Embraport - Lufingen and a tunnel through the Dattenberg to Bachenbülach. The money for both projects is not in sight in the medium or long term.
history
Early days
The first traces of a settlement are grave finds near the Ofengupf in Oberembrach from the Bronze Age around 800 BC. Many Roman settlements are documented in the catchment area of the Embrachertal. In the valley itself there are only a few Roman traces, only a few coins and broken fragments are documented. The name Embrach is certainly of Gallo-Roman origin. Imbriacus (first written down as Imbriaguam in 1044), from Imbri (rain) Acus (field), i.e. rain field. Or Imbrex (Roman round brick) Acus, i.e. the bricker's field.
Middle Ages with written certificates
Alemannic settlement around 750 and first documented mention in 820 can be found at Weiler and Mühle Illingen as goods of the Grossmünster in Zurich ( Rotulus , with land register ). The mill is clearly a sign of extensive agriculture in the Embrachertal. In 1992, excavations carried out by the monument preservation department exposed the foundation walls of the first monastery (dated to the 9th century), the predecessor building of the Canons' Monastery of St. Peter . Hunfried , Canon of Strasbourg, signed Embrach over to Bishop Wilhelm of Strasbourg in 1044 . The existing canon monastery was donated to the Strasbourg church (Hunfried deed). Secular power subsequently went to the Toggenburgs. Von Heidegg (they had tavern rights) and Bochsler were nobles living in Embrach from the 14th century. In the Sempach War in 1386, the confederates looted and pillaged the church and monastery. Reconstruction began in 1392. Inheritance disputes over the Toggenburgs' lands led to the Old Zurich War in 1444 . In this turmoil, large parts of the village of Embrach, including the Canon Monastery, were again completely destroyed by the Confederates. The village, monastery and church were rebuilt from 1446 onwards.
Embrach became federal in 1452, it came to the city with the Habsburg Kyburg . A Latin school in the Canon Monastery is documented for 1454. At the turn of the century in 1500 the population grew rapidly. The consequences were massive inflation, falling wages and widespread poverty. What followed today was what we would call the economic development program. Viticulture and the use of wood were promoted, taxes were waived and the poor looked after. Viticulture employed more people than agriculture. Deforestation increased the cultivation area, but led to legal uncertainty, which was on record at Embrach at the time.
From the Reformation to the civil parish
Heinrich Brennwald (1478–1551, author of a four-volume Swiss chronicle) took office in 1518 as the last provost of the Embrach monastery. The canon monastery under Brennwald was secularized in 1524 as part of the Zurich Reformation . Embrach was now reformed . A gradual ban on immigration from 1556 was intended to prevent the economic collapse. The current municipal coat of arms with two crossed Petrus keys first appeared in 1547. With the Zwingli Reformation , more and more investments were made in children's education. Classes took place in the parish hall of the inn and from 1740 in the journeyman's house from 1522, now known as the “old parish hall”. The first teachers were church people, from 1640 the office of teacher was mainly occupied by civilians. An extremely long, cold winter in 1571 caused enormous increases in food and soil prices (sometimes 1000%). Zurich granted the municipality the pledging of large parts of the municipality's property so that the municipality can help itself “through this difficult thürung”. A fifth of the population became the sub-peasant class and was dependent on alms from the community because of the unfortunate circumstances. The very extensive community-owned farms, lands and forests (including Oberbetzental, Graspelhof, Hardrütenen, Illinghof, Oberbalsberg) were ceded to community citizens in 1686–1695 for use as arable land. A local hailstorm devastated the village in 1715. A large donation from the whole region and Zurich came together to repair the damage. The repairs took 2 to 3 years. The Hardwald was flattened by autumn storms in 1739, and the economic damage to the community was enormous. In 1746, the community had to pledge the community hall and the community butcher's shop in order to cope with their tasks. In this context, too, the ban on traditional community drinks for new citizenships was part of the process. In future, a naturalization fee was levied, which was used to alleviate poverty in the population. An earthquake shook Embrach in 1778, and the church from 1446 collapsed. The building was never really stable, it was constantly being improved and patched. A new church was completed in 1780 before the major political upheavals at the turn of the century . It is David Vogel's Queroval Church, which is still in use today .
Enlightenment change
Founding of the canton of Zurich in 1803 by Napoleon ( mediation constitution ). Oberembrach became independent in 1809. First cantonal referendum on March 10, 1831. The liberal constitution based on the “ Memorial of Uster ” was up for debate. As a result, a huge political, economic and state upswing set in. The hitherto poor transport connections were also tackled. In rapid succession, the landscape was opened up with roads (1838–1864) and railways (1874–1876). The administrative center in Embrach was abolished in 1831 and Bülach has been the district capital ever since. From 1850 onwards, a postman distributed the mail in the village and the surrounding area.
On Easter Tuesday 1856, Eduard Gotthard Engel was the victim of a robbery. As early as July 2, 1856, the two perpetrators, the day laborers Jakob Bosshard and Jakob Reinberger, were beheaded with the guillotine in Zurich . Thousands of onlookers were witnesses. This was one of the last civilian executions in the canton of Zurich.
Until the present
For a long time, energy from hydropower was used in the Embrachertal, various ponds still bear witness to this today. That changed when the electricity company was founded in 1904. A year later the streets were lit electrically. The parish hall on Dorfstrasse was built in 1920. During the economic crisis, the Chlostergumpen was converted into the “Zwinggi” swimming pool with an ABM in 1934, with a diving platform. The end came in 1965 due to massive water pollution, Oberembrach and Lufingen directed their sewage into the tributaries. An overall improvement took place between 1963 and 65; not everyone was satisfied with the result. The distribution of the potential building land was too one-sided.
Because of its geographically favorable location to Winterthur , Bülach , Zurich and especially to Zurich Airport , Embrach became more and more of a sleeping community from 1960–1965. The Swissair built on tricorn an entire residential quarters for its employees. To the east of the village center on the Sonnenberg, single-family houses were built in a prime location on the former vineyard site. Moderate blocks of flats were built in the field. Seven years after the closure of the "Zwinggi", the Embrachers received an indoor and outdoor pool built in 1972, today's "Badi Talegg". It was renovated and expanded in 2004–2005.
A huge construction site in 1972 showed major changes on the northern edge of Embrach. The Embraport duty-free warehouse opened its doors in 1973. A piece of foreign land in the community, so to speak. Unfortunately, the authorities messed around with the traffic engineering of this facility. The population bears the effects to this day.
After a long period of planning beginning in 1918 (the Embrach location was discussed from 1945), the third psychiatric clinic in the canton of Zurich was not opened on Embracher Hard until 1974. The Hard Psychiatry Center has become an important employer. A transit center for asylum seekers has been on the site since 1989.
The implementation of the psychiatry concept for the canton of Zurich from August 1998 means setting up outpatient and semi-inpatient offers and reducing inpatient offers. The Hard Psychiatry Center is becoming less important and is looking for new tasks. In 2008, the care center was reopened by the Zürcher Unterland (KZU) hospital association in part of the Hard building.
The municipalities of the Embrachertal have been running the Embrachertal Regional Retirement Home since 1982. A renovation and expansion was decided in 2008, the house offers age-appropriate living and care space for 100 elderly people.
Hurricane Lothar devastated large areas of community and private forest on the Blauen and Dattenberg in 1999. The economic consequences are forgotten and nature is recovering splendidly, as can be seen, for example, around the table on the blue. The Töss Gorge on the northern border of Embrach was added to the list of floodplain areas of national importance in 2003.
This also applies to the Au hunting shooting range that has existed since 1965 (partly in the above protected area). A report by the government council of the Canton of Zurich found considerable environmental pollution, especially polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons ( PAH ). This material comes from the clay pigeons used . These are banned today. The lead pollution is very high and clearly exceeds the Swiss limit value. The facility was temporarily closed in autumn 2008. Remedial measures are being examined.
At the outermost edge of the municipal ban, the Töss power plant at the “Blumer Areal” in Freienstein was modernized by “toesStrom AG” (no typographical errors - is on the homepage ...). The output is 2,000,000 kWh per year, which is the electricity needs of around 1,000 people in the canton of Zurich. The electricity works of the Canton of Zurich (EKZ, takeover of EW Embrach in April 2010) have a financial stake in the company and are responsible for its operation.
politics
Party strength
| National Council elections in% | 1926 | 1939 | 1947 | 1959 | 1967 | 1979 | 1987 | 1999 | 2007 | 2011 | 2015 |
| SVP | 44.5 | 49.6 | 33.6 | 30.8 | 16.2 | 28.3 | 26.2 | 39.7 | 42.8 | 38.9 | 40.9 |
| SP | 31.3 | 16.8 | 35.2 | 29.4 | 35.5 | 27.3 | 17.2 | 18.1 | 17.5 | 15.8 | 16.4 |
| FDP | 15.6 | 10.1 | 10.7 | 17.8 | 23 | 16.0 | 16.4 | 12.8 | 9.3 | 9.2 | 11.8 |
| Green | - | - | - | - | - | - | 12.2 | 3.4 | 7.7 | 4.0 | 3.7 |
| CVP | 7.2 | 3.3 | 5.2 | 6.7 | 5.8 | 7.4 | 5.3 | 7.3 | 8.3 | 5.0 | 5.1 |
| LDU from 2007 GLP | - | 8.6 | 4.7 | 6.6 | 11.1 | 7.3 | 5.2 | 1.9 | 5.2 | 8.9 | 6.0 |
| EPP | - | 10.6 | 9.7 | 8.7 | 8.4 | 9.6 | 6.4 | 3.8 | 4.5 | 2.7 | 2.9 |
Municipal council
(As of 2010)
- Mayor , Erhard Büchi, FDP
- Primary school president, Philipp Baumgartner, independent
- Plant and Safety Manager, Heiner Vögeli, SVP
- Social Director, Regula Bächi-Seiler, FDP
- Head of Health, Peter Hunziker, SP
- Site Manager, Rebekka Bernhardsgrütter Derungs, CVP
- Property manager, Hans Dietrich, CVP
- Schreiber, Hans-Peter Good
Churches
In the Middle Ages there was the Canon Monastery of St. Peter in Embrach , which was dissolved in the course of the Reformation . Today there are four churches in Embrach:
The Evangelical Reformed Church owns
- the Reformed Church Embrach . As a new building, it replaced the Gothic church of the Canons' Monastery of St. Peter, which collapsed in 1778, and is located on the corner of Chorherrengasse and Pfarrhausstrasse. Today's church is a cross oval church of early Swiss classicism and is a listed building. It was built between 1779 and 1780 according to plans by the architect David Vogel .
The Roman Catholic Church is represented in Embrach with the parish of St. Petrus Embrachertal. In addition to Embrach, this parish is also responsible for Lufingen , Oberembrach , Rorbas and Freienstein-Teufen . She owns two churches in Embrach:
- The St. Petrus Chapel was built in 1924 according to plans by the architect Joseph Steiner . It stands on Rheinstrasse near the Embrach train station and was the first Catholic parish church in Embrach after the Reformation until the parish center was built . The chapel was built in neo-Romanesque style and is now used for smaller church services, baptisms and weddings.
- The St. Petrus parish center is located on Steinackerweg and, in addition to the church and various rooms, also houses the parish parsonage. The parish center was built between 1979 and 1980 according to plans by the architects Tanner und Loetscher, Winterthur. In the years 2004–2005, the parish center was expanded to include halls and a meditation room according to plans by the architect Walter Hollenstein.
- The Methodist Church of Embrach is located on Hungerbühlstrasse.
Personalities
- Heinrich Brennwald (* 1478 in Zurich; † 1551 in Zurich) was canon and provost in Embrach from 1498 to 1524. Author of the first Swiss chronicle.
- Jakob Ganz (* 1791 in Embrach; † 1867 in Embrach) was a preacher of the revival movement and a religious writer
- Salomon Tobler (* 1794 in Zurich; † 1878 in Zurich) was pastor of Embrach from 1840 to 1864 and wrote his epic epic Columbus here .
- Abraham Ganz (* 1814 in Unter-Embrach, † 1867 in Budapest, Hungary) industrial pioneer
- Otmar Blumer (* 1848 in Glarus; † 1900 in Unter-Embrach) cotton manufacturer, Zurich Council of States, Zurich Grand Council, chief brigadiers of the cavalry.
- Karl Kolb (* 1889 in Hörhausen, Thurgau) veterinarian, 48 years of school maintenance, 24 years of mayor, colonel in active service,
- Fritz Ganz (* 1916 in Neftenbach; † 1992 in Embrach) electrician, racing cyclist, EWZ and NOK board of directors, trade unionist, 16 years president of school care, president of the old people's home commission, supervisory board of KZU, community president, canton council, canton council president, national councilor.
- Heinz Isler (* 1960), cyclist
Culture and leisure
Artist
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Hedwig Neri
Hedwig Neri (* 1914 in Embrach; † 1997 in Embrach) The ceramic and faience painter Hedwig Zangger-Neri began working in clay with glass, textiles, pencil and oil paint from 1945 onwards. An example is the Murano glass picture in the abdication hall. Not far from there, in the old office building, the Neris live and work. The house is a place of culture and attracts many artists. Ruedi Walter, Inigo Gallo and Margrit Rainer are frequent guests. Today in 2008 Nicola Di Capua and the soprano Gabriela Bergallo hold the scepter in the historic office building.
Bella Neri
Bella Neri , Hedwig Neri's daughter, was trained as an actress in Zurich and is pursuing a career at Cabaret Fédéral , in film and television. She works with Margrit Rainer , Ruedi Walter , Stephanie Glaser , Walter Roderer and many more. Today Bella Neri is engaged in productions of all kinds for children in addition to her stage work.
Alain Garnier
Alain Garnier (born April 30, 1926 in Blois, France, † 2005 in Embrach) Resistance , studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Painter, ceramist, iron sculptor.
One of his early works is the stage set for Jean-Paul Sartre's drama Les mouches in the Le vieux Colombier theater . The meeting with Picasso in 1947 influenced his work, he turned to ceramics and later became a designer at Rosenthal . Garnier moved to Switzerland in 1972 and to Embrach in 1980, where he ran a ceramics workshop with a gallery in the Obermühle and a metal studio in the brickworks. The fountain in front of the post office and the iron sculpture in front of the Dorf schoolhouse come from him. A tragic accident cost him his life in 2005.
Arthur Woods
The American-Swiss artist Arthur Woods (* 1948 in Tahlehquah, Oklahoma, USA) lives in Embrach from 1981-2005. Various space art projects fall during this time. Arthur Woods' Cosmic Dancer was shot to the Russian Mir space station on May 22, 1993 . It is the miniaturization of a sculpture from 1986 that is still in the “Im Grund” housing estate today. Arthur Wood's large-scale oil paintings often show motifs from the area around Embrach, for example the picture "Sunday Walk" in the parish hall. Today Artur Woods owns an art gallery in Stein am Rhein.
Turi Schellenberg
folk music composer, professional musician in various orchestras. Turi Schellenberg is married to Ruth Schellenberg-Biberstein from the well-known Biberstein siblings . You live in Embrach.
Attractions
- Tössschlucht at the Blindensteg. The Töss is of national importance from the jetty to the power plant in the Freienstein floodplain
- Haumühle with historic sawmill and grain mill, powered as ever with mighty water wheels. In addition, the area around the mill is a nature reserve of national importance. With rare plants and the kingfisher that you see here and there. The torrent forces its way through a small gorge before it falls over a waterfall and flows into the Töss in Rorbas .
- The best viewpoint of the Embrachertal and also the Alps is the Forenirchel high above Freienstein. Hiking trail from Teufen Castle, Dättlikon or Freienstein. It's also nice to ride a mountain bike .
- The reformed church in Embrach is an important example of a classicistic oval church .
leisure
- Badi Talegg with indoor pool, whirlpool, outdoor pool with shady trees, sauna.
- Circular hiking on the Blauen, forest nature trail. Easily accessible from the Warpel car park.
- Hiking from Oberembrach to Rorbas lengthways through the municipality, all along the torrent. You can grill at the Haumühle, wood is ready. At the beginning and at the end of the hike there is a post bus stop, restaurants and parking spaces are also available.
- Hike over the Dattenberg from Augwil to Tössegg. On or near the Embrach border, there is a beautiful view of the Alps and the valley. Various opportunities for grilling. Postbus stop “Hinter Marcheln” and over the Rhine in Teufen.
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 .
- Hans Baer: 200 years of the “new” church in Embrach. A contribution to the building history of the Reformed Church in Embrach. 1980.
- Hans Baer: Legends and sagas from the Embrachertal. Reading Society Bülach, 1981
- Hans Baer: Embracher street names ; Njbl. No. 6; Cultural Commission Embrach 1987
- Hans Hans: History of the community Embrach volume 1. From the beginnings to the French Revolution. Culture Commission Embrach, 1994.
- Hans Baer: Embracher running fountain . Cultural Commission Embrach, 1996
- Béatrice Wiggenhauser: Clerical careers: The rural Canons' Monastery of Embrach and its members in the Middle Ages. 1997. ISBN 3-905312-45-X
- Edwin Dünki: Mill and court to Illingen. Njbl. No. 15; Cultural Commission Embrach, 1998
- Markus Stromer: History of the municipality of Embrach. Volume 2: The 19th and 20th Centuries. 1999.
- Hans Baer: Embrach - then and now. Culture Commission Embrach, 2001
- Hans Baer: Zinggeler silk twisting mill, Embrach; on the story of a disappeared contemporary witness of the textile industry ; Culture Commission Embrach 2009
- Hans Baer: Embrach pottery factory; to the story of a disappeared contemporary witness of the ceramics industry ; IMBREX Holding AG 2010
- Hans Baer, Julia Garnier, Heinz Gretler: Alain Garnier 1926 - 2006 ; Culture Commission Embrach 2006
- Hans Baer: Embracher field names, on the history of our local place names ; Culture Commission Embrach 2011
- Hans Baer: The murder in the Hardwald - a true crime story from 1856 ; Culture Commission Embrach 2012
- Hans Baer: The Embracher Obermühle - the history of a vanished farm ; Culture Commission Embrach 2013
- Hans Baer: The Embracher Heidegg - the history of a mysterious castle site ; Culture Commission Embrach 2015
- Hans Baer: Embrach - Unter-Embrach - 8424 Embrach; a century in postcard images ; Culture Commission Embrach 2015
- Hans Baer: Magdalena Jäger - a witch from Embrach; Cultural Commission Embrach 2016
- Hans Baer, Erich Vogt: Neu-Embrach - on the history of the Embracher station district ; Culture Commission Embrach 2017
- Hans Baer: Good shot! - on the history of the Embrach shooting range ; Culture Commission Embrach 2018
Web links
- Hans Baer: Embrach. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Official website of the municipality of Embrach
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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 .
- ↑ Data on the resident population by home, gender and age (community profile). Statistical Office of the Canton of Zurich, accessed on December 22, 2019 .
- ↑ Zürcher Bürger- und Heimatbuch. Zurich Education Council, 1940.
- ↑ Federal Statistical Office: Areal Statistics 2004/09 ( Memento of the original from May 20, 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.
- ^ Geographical Information System of the Canton of Zurich
- ↑ Orstplan Embrach, 1: 5000, MEVA 1994
- ↑ a b c Statistical Office of the Canton of Zurich: Municipality of Embrach: Important parameters ( Memento from September 21, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ a b c d e f g h Stromer Markus, history of the municipality of Embrach. Volume 2: The 19th and 20th Centuries. 1999.
- ↑ a b c Josef Bouvard, Embrach. Personal contact
- ↑ a b c d e Baer Hans, History of the community Embrach Volume 1. From the beginnings to the French Revolution. 1994
- ↑ Post
- ↑ a b ToesStrom AG
- ↑ a b Inventory of historical traffic routes in Switzerland [1]
- ↑ a b Wild Johannes, Wildkarte 1: 25000, 27 sheets, 1843 - 1851
- ↑ PostBus Switzerland Ltd
- ^ SBB Historical Heritage Foundation
- ↑ Zurich Transport Association
- ↑ Building and zoning regulations Embrach 1953 and 1962
- ↑ Traffic structure plan of March 26, 2007 of the Canton of Zurich
- ↑ a b Wiggenhauser Béatrice, Clerical Careers: The rural Canons' Monastery of Embrach and its members in the Middle Ages. 1997. ISBN 3-905312-45-X
- ↑ a b c d Zürcher Unterländer
- ^ Completed study by the government council of the Canton of Zurich
- ↑ Zürcher Tages-Anzeiger
- ↑ Gabriela Bergallo
- ^ Cosmic Dancer
- ^ "Sunday walk" in the parish hall of Embrach ( memento of the original from October 13, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
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