Fällanden

Fällanden

State :	Switzerland Switzerland
Canton :	Canton Zurich Zurich (ZH)
District :	Uster
BFS no. :	0193i1 f3 f4
Postal code :	8117 Fällanden 8118 Pfaffhausen 8121 Benglen
Coordinates :	690 736 / 247484 coordinates: 47 ° 22 '19 " N , 8 ° 38' 24" O ; CH1903: 690,736 / 24748447.371944 8.640007 453
Height :	453 m above sea level M.
Height range :	434–643 m above sea level M.
Area :	6.38 km²
Residents:	8672 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	1359 inhabitants per km²
Proportion of foreigners : (residents without citizenship )	24.0% (December 31, 2018)
Mayor :	Tobias Diener ( FDP )
Website:	www.faellanden.ch
Fällanden Church
Location of the municipality
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Fällanden is a municipality in the district of Uster in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland . The community includes the village of Fällanden and the former court settlements of Benglen , Pfaffhausen and Neuhausen .

Historic aerial photo by Walter Mittelholzer from 1923

geography

The agglomeration community lies between the northeastern slope of the Pfannenstiel chain and the northwestern bank of the Greifensee .

The center of Fällanden is at the foot of the hill ( 453 m ), where the traffic routes Dübendorf - Maur and Schwerzenbach - Zurich cross. From there the place has expanded into the flat Glatt valley , but also up the slope.

Benglen and Pfaffhausen, today larger villages, are located on terraces around 150 meters above the village.

The Jörentobel (also Fällandertobel) with a large erratic block swarm made of rock from the Glarus Alps is part of the federal inventory of landscapes and natural monuments of national importance .

history

Archaeological excavations show Mesolithic residential areas as well as Neolithic and Bronze Age settlement areas in the Greifensee area to below the present-day village. Fällanden is first mentioned as Fenichlanda around 820. In the 9th / 10th In the 18th century, the Fraumünster owned large estates, while the Grossmünster received large parts of the tithe. The property of the Fraumünster was administered by the Mülner as a fief from a local Kehlhof at the latest since 1250 . The bailiwick rights were with the Counts of Rapperswil until 1300 and came to Zurich with the rule of Greifensee in 1402.

coat of arms

Blazon

In gold a soaring red lion, tailed with a green peacock bump.

The community bears the coat of arms of the Aeppli family from Zurich. The seal of Heinrich Aeppli, adorned with the lion, who was Vogt of Greifensee in 1421 and acquired the castle stables and the courts of Maur in 1424, can be found on documents from 1422 and 1439. The Aeppli von Fällanden coat of arms is the red lion with peacock tail, the may point to relations with Austria, in Gerold Edlibach's coat of arms book (1493), anonymous from 1531, in the chronicle of Johannes Stumpf (1547/48) and in the gender book of Johann Friedrich Meiss (1740). Hans Konrad Gyger was one of the first to use the Aeppli coat of arms as a heraldic symbol of the village of Fällanden in his Zurich map from 1667. In the 19th century, the lion turned to the right was placed in the seal of the municipal council office, and since 1884 it has adorned a pane of the church. On December 18, 1926, the local council recognized the Aeppli coat of arms as the official coat of arms of Fällanden.

population

Population development
year	Residents
1634	284
1799	632
1850	848
1900	696
1950	866
1970	4,260
1990	6,489
2000	6'423
2007	7,177
2010	7,971

While 6,707 people lived in the community at the end of 2003, on December 31, 2004 there were already 6,928 inhabitants (3,525 women and 3,403 men). The population has increased by 3.3% within a year. At the end of 2004, a total of 5,723 Swiss (82.8%) and 1,196 foreigners (17.2%) were registered in the municipality. At the end of 2004, 3,156 (+ 10%) people lived in the Fällanden part of the village, 1,946 (+ 0.75%) in Benglen and 1,826 (+ 3%) in Pfaffhausen. As of December 31, 2007, 7,177 people had their civil law residence in the municipality. This corresponds to an increase of 4% compared to the previous year. In the three parts of the municipality Fällanden has 3,305, Benglen 1,893 and Pfaffhausen 525 inhabitants.

politics

The strongest party in the municipality is the SVP, which has had a share of 30.79% of the vote since the last National Council elections. It is followed by the SP with 18.35%, the FDP with 17.05%, the GLP with 11.15%, the CVP 8.9% and the Greens 8.5%.

Members of the Fällander Municipal Council ( term of office 2018–2022)
Surname	Taking office	function	Political party
Tobias Diener	2010/2018	Parish President, Head of Presidential Affairs	FDP
Ruedi Maurer	2015	Head of Population and Security, Vice-President	independent
Maia Ernst	2010	Head of Society	GLP
Pierre-André Schärer	2014	Head of Building Construction	independent
Rita Niederöst	2019	Head of Real Estate Department	SP
Chris Rossmann	2019	Head of Finance and Taxes	FDP
Thomas Bürki	2014	Head of Civil Engineering and Works	independent

economy

Important branches of business are agriculture, hospitality and small businesses. Axpo AG and the power station of the city of Zurich maintain a substation for electricity on Dübendorfstrasse . This is where the 380 kV Sils-Fällanden line ends , which also passes through the hamlet of Benglen.

Buildings

St. Catherine of Siena (Fällanden) (1992)

Attractions

In the “Stocklen” area, renaturation to a wetland began in August 2019 .

Personalities

Albert Meyer (1870–1953), Federal Councilor
Alex Eugster , singer, entrepreneur and record producer
Kurt Baebi , musician, composer
Heidi Bruggmann , professional musician
Marc Sway , musician
Johann Rudolf Wolf (1816–1893), astronomer.

literature

Hans Martin Gubler: Art Monuments of Switzerland Volume 66 "The Art Monuments of the Canton of Zurich Volume 3: The Districts Pfäffikon and Uster" Society for Swiss Art History GSK Bern 1978, ISBN 3-7643-0991-1 , pp. 605–618.
Roger Sablonier : Fällanden: Economy and social life of a village before 1800 , Chronos , Zurich 1986, DNB 206576269 .

Web links

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

Official website of the municipality of Fällanden
Statistical data from the canton on the municipality of Fällanden
Martin Leonhard: Fällanden. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

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 .
^ Roger Sablonier , Fällanden. Economy and social life in a village before 1800. Chronos Verlag Zurich 1986.
↑ National Council elections 2007: comparison 2003 - 2007 in municipalities. Statistical Office of the Canton of Zurich, accessed on August 28, 2009 .
↑ Creating even more space for nature: “Stocklen Renaturation”. In: naturschutz.ch. August 14, 2019, accessed August 20, 2019 .

[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] Roger Sablonier , Fällanden. Economy and social life in a village before 1800. Chronos Verlag Zurich 1986.

[4] National Council elections 2007: comparison 2003 - 2007 in municipalities. Statistical Office of the Canton of Zurich, accessed on August 28, 2009 .

[5] Creating even more space for nature: “Stocklen Renaturation”. In: naturschutz.ch. August 14, 2019, accessed August 20, 2019 .