Fehraltorf

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Fehraltorf
Coat of arms of Fehraltorf
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Canton ZurichCanton Zurich Zurich (ZH)
District : Pfaffikonw
BFS no. : 0172i1 f3 f4
Postal code : 8320
UN / LOCODE : CH FTF
Coordinates : 699 393  /  249 229 coordinates: 47 ° 23 '11 "  N , 8 ° 45' 18"  O ; CH1903:  six hundred and ninety-nine thousand three hundred and ninety-three  /  249 229
Height : 530  m above sea level M.
Height range : 513–611 m above sea level M.
Area : 9.47  km²
Residents: 6435 (December 31, 2018)
Population density : 669 inhabitants per km²
Proportion of foreigners :
(residents without
citizenship )
18.6% (December 31, 2018)
Mayor : Wilfried Ott ( SVP )
Website: www.fehraltorf.ch
View of Fehraltorf from the west

View of Fehraltorf from the west

Location of the municipality
Greifensee Pfäffikersee Kanton St. Gallen Kanton Thurgau Bezirk Bülach Bezirk Hinwil Bezirk Meilen Bezirk Uster Bezirk Winterthur Bauma Fehraltorf Hittnau Illnau-Effretikon Lindau ZH Pfäffikon ZH Russikon Weisslingen Wila Wildberg ZHMap of Fehraltorf
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Fehraltorf is a municipality in the Pfäffikon district in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland .

coat of arms

Blazon

Split by blue and silver with a lily of mistaken color, angled on the left by two silver roses, on the right by two blue stars

geography

The street village is located in the Kempttal northwest of Pfäffikon . The landscape is flat with interspersed hills. Of the municipal area, 56.1% is used for agriculture, 27.1% is covered with forest, 5.6% is traffic area and 10.3% is settlement area, 0.7% is water. The highest point of the community is 610  m above sea level. M. , the lowest point at 514  m above sea level. M.

history

In the area around Fehraltorf, archaeological finds from the Late Bronze Age testify to continuous settlement.

In the 530s, Fehraltorf came to the Merovingian Empire together with northern Switzerland ; grave goods in the 57 graves that were uncovered in 2015 are evidence of this.

The Alemanni inhabited the area at least since 745 . In the Middle Ages the settlement was called Altorff or Altdorf or Rüeggisaltorf or Rüedgersaltorf; the name Fehraltorf (fehr = fern) was created to better distinguish it from Mönchaltorf , both of which were subject to interest at the Rüti monastery . In the 15th century , jurisdiction under the Kyburg district came into the possession of the city of Zurich .

In 1787 a quarter of the otherwise mainly arable population was employed in the cotton home industry. In 1798 Fehraltorf became the capital of a district of the same name, and the village has been part of the Pfäffikon district since 1831. The influence of industrialization remained comparatively small.

With the construction boom that began in the 1960s, Fehraltorf grew ever closer to the greater Zurich area and gained in population and economic importance.

population

Historic aerial photo from 1920, taken by Walter Mittelholzer
Population development
year Residents
1467 190
1634 341
1733 800
1850 1014
1860 1081
1900 938
1910 910
1930 1023
1950 1136
1980 2486
2000 4687
2009 5670
2015 6309

politics

In the 2007 National Council elections , the SVP received 39.6%, the SP 17.7%, the FDP 16.9%, the Greens 9.9%, the CVP 4.0% and the EPP 4.0% of the votes Fehraltorf.

The municipal council consists of Wilfried Ott (SVP) (mayor), Anton Muff (DGF), Fritz Schmid ( independent ), Walter Schweizer (DGF), Walter Egli (SVP) and Christian Wegmüller (FDP).

traffic

The municipality has been connected to the Swiss railway network through the Fehraltorf station since May 3, 1876, when the Effretikon – Hinwil railway was opened by the Effretikon – Pfäffikon – Hinwil (EH) railway company. The Zurich S-Bahn serves the station with the S 3 ( Bülach -) Hardbrücke - Zurich HB - Stadelhofen - Effretikon - Wetzikon . In addition, the S 19 ( Koblenz - Baden -) Dietikon - Zurich HB - Wallisellen - Effretikon (- Pfäffikon ZH ) has been running through Fehraltorf at peak times since December 13, 2015 .

The Flugsportgruppe Zürich Oberland association operates the Speck-Fehraltorf airfield .

schools

There are 8 kindergartens, a primary school and a secondary school in the municipality of Fehraltorf. The number of students has increased almost fivefold since 1960 (1960: 157; 1990: 575; 2012: 640; 2017: 740).

sports clubs

Fehraltorf is the home of the football club FC Fehraltorf , which was founded in 1930 and whose top-ranked teams play in the third division . The men's team of the handball community Pfäffikon-Fehraltorf competes in the 4th league . In the gymnastics sector there is, among other things, the Fehraltorf gymnastics club .

Personalities

  • Heinrich Bachofner (1828–1897), educator, social politician, founder of the Swiss Institute for Epileptics (today the Swiss Epilepsy Foundation )
  • Emil Briner (1867–1929), painter
  • Hermann Brüngger (1888–1958), educator, local historian
  • Salomon Corrodi (1810-1892), landscape painter, watercolorist and etcher
  • Rudolf Hospinian (1547–1626), Protestant clergyman and theologian in Zurich
  • Heinrich Weiss (1789-1848), liberal-radical Regierungsrat
  • Muriel Grässli (* 1987), volleyball player

Attractions

literature

  • Hermann Brüngger. Fehraltorf through the centuries. Pfäffikon, A. Peter book and art print shop, 1933.
  • Hans Martin Gubler, The Art Monuments of the Canton of Zurich Volume 3: The Districts of Pfäffikon and Uster. Edited by the Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Bern 1978 (Art Monuments of Switzerland Volume 66). ISBN 3-7643-0991-1 . Pp. 56-75.
  • Fehraltorf: A cultural cross-section. Published by the Fehraltorf community. 1984.
  • Beat Frei. Fehraltorf in upheaval 1900-2000. Fehraltorf 2000.

Web links

Commons : Fehraltorf  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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. Early medieval cemetery in Fehraltorf excavated. Media release by the Building Department of the Canton of Zurich dated January 14, 2016.
  4. ^ Ueli Müller: Fehraltorf. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  5. Statistical data of the canton on the municipality of Fehraltorf
  6. http://www.dgf.ch
  7. ^ Fehraltorf local council In: Zürcher Oberländer . March 30, 2014. Accessed March 30, 2014.
  8. schulefehraltorf.ch: School. Retrieved March 11, 2011.
  9. http://www.fehraltorf.ch/index.php?page=9017
  10. football.ch: FC Fehraltorf. ( Memento of the original from March 12, 2011 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.football.ch
  11. handball.ch: Schedule M4-02, 2010.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / vvs.handball.ch  
  12. fehraltorf.ch: clubs. ( Memento of the original from February 19, 2011 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fehraltorf.ch
  13. Salomon Corrodi at archive.org/stream (accessed December 31, 2016).