Whisper

Fluntern district of Zurich
Coordinates	684 660  /  247880 coordinates: 47 ° 22 '35 "  N , 8 ° 33' 35"  O ; CH1903:  six hundred eighty-four thousand six hundred and sixty  /  247880
height	510  m
surface	2.84 km²
resident	8685 (Dec. 31, 2020)
Population density	3058 inhabitants / km²
BFS no.	261-071
Postal code	8044
Urban district	District 7 since 1893/1913

Fluntern is a district of the city of Zurich . The formerly independent municipality Fluntern was incorporated in 1893 and is today along with Hottingen , Hirslanden and Witikon the Kreis 7 . The quarter has had over 8,000 inhabitants since 2016.

coat of arms

Blazon :

Two crossed silver lily wands in blue

position

Vorderberg in 1947: aerial photo by Werner Friedli

The quarter is located on the south-western slopes of the Zürichberg . The area extends from the universities ( University of Zurich and ETH Zurich ) above the city center to over the highest point of the Zürichberg in the direction of Schwamendingen . The difference in height between the lowest and highest point is about 230 meters.

story

Fluntern old church

Early history and community

The earliest finds date from the Iron Age and the Romans . The area was settled by the Alamanni . Fluntern was first mentioned in writing as Flobotisreine in 876 .

In 1127 which was created on the Zurich mountain Augustiner - Monastery of St. Martin . In 1525 it was disbanded as a result of the Reformation . Today various hallway names and the Altes Klösterli restaurant are still reminiscent of its location. The Catholic Church of St. Martin on Krähbühlstrasse, built in 1938, continues the tradition of Martin's patronage.

Viticulture was the most important trade in Fluntern for centuries. Large parts of the municipality up to over 600 meters in height were vineyards, but they had to give way more and more to the expanding city.

The old church near the Vorderberg dates from 1763. In 1887, the Fluntern cemetery was laid out on the Allmend - as a replacement for the small cemetery on the Platte from 1787 - where numerous well-known personalities were subsequently buried.

Incorporation

Fluntern municipality within the Zurich district before the merger in 1893

In 1893 the independent municipality came to the city of Zurich. Urban life in Fluntern had already spread before that, after the buildings of the ETH , the university , the university hospital and other hospitals had been built on the outskirts and partly also in the Flunterns area . The other end of the quarter, the Allmend Fluntern , developed into a popular destination for city dwellers. The mountain was also used for recreation: in 1889 and 1890, the Zurich-Fluntern recreation home for the less well-off and the Zurichberg Hotel of the Zurich Women's Association for non-alcoholic establishments were built , and in 1904 the Bircher-Benner Clinic was built . The villas that made Fluntern one of Zurich's posh quarters stretched further and further up. In 1920, the Zurich city architect Karl Moser built the new Fluntern church.

A tram line, initially the central Zürichbergbahn , has led to the Fluntern Church since 1895, and from 1924 to Allmend Fluntern , which is now the Zoo stop . Until 1919 and 1938, respectively, the trams drove through Moussonstrasse as well as Zürichbergstrasse and Plattenstrasse; At the upper end of Moussonstrasse, the direction of travel was changed by means of a hairpin . A tram depot used to stand above the Fluntern church.

Local breakdown

View from the Great Church to the north of the Zürichberg

The flat lowest part of the quarter by the universities (ETH and University of Zurich) is known as the plate . Above is the Vorderberg , the center of Fluntern, on the next terrace . To the north of it lies the Hinterberg . The Allmend Fluntern lies on the unwooded part of the ridge, but partly belongs to Hottingen . Klösterli is the name of the piece of the Allmend that stretches on the northeast side of the hill to Schwamendingen.

Vorderberg

From traffic - road, bus and tram - enclosed economy to the Vorderberg

The center of the quarter is the Vorderberg, today a close traffic junction, where, in addition to trams and buses, the roads leading up the mountain intersect with the most important road connection along the slope. As an island in the middle of the traffic flow, there are three old houses. The inn was first mentioned in 1640 and served as a community center, next to which the community meeting was held, and as a school room until 1761. The Nägelihaus adjoining to the north dates from 1726. In 1962 the group of houses should have given way to a redesign of the square; The residents of Fluntern resisted the demolition, and the voters of Zurich decided in 1963 to keep it.

Next to it is the old church of Fluntern, which was consecrated as a prayer house in 1763 and was only given a bell tower by means of a roof turret in 1862 after it had been elevated to a parish church the year before. There are various shops and the school building around the group of houses.

A redesign of the Vorderberg has been called for for a long time, as the district center has been characterized by motorized traffic since the 1960s and there is no open space.

The name Vorderberg for the area above is being replaced more and more by the name of the VBZ stop Kirche Fluntern .

plate

The former farmer's settlement on a terrace above the city of Zurich was first mentioned in writing around 1650 as uff der Blatte . From the middle of the 19th century, the universities built nearby had a strong influence on the district, which is why the plate was soon also called the Latin Quarter . Numerous inns and guesthouses were built and in 1879 a theater. The plate theater mainly showed Schwänke , but also national shows .

A few houses on the lower Zürichbergstrasse bear witness to the old slab district. The area is now dominated by the buildings of the university hospital and the colleges as well as the sister tower built in 1956 .

In the Klösterli

The residential complex Im Klösterli , today almost entirely enclosed by the zoo, consists of 27 single-family houses. The houses built by Erhard Gull (1895–1970) in 1937 were intended to satisfy the need for affordable residential property for the middle class during the crisis of the 1930s . The houses in the classic modern style face south and have a striking pent roof . They have been a listed building since 2006 .

Churches

Big Fluntern Church

In the area of Fluntern, there were in the Middle Ages already two religious buildings: The Lioba Chapel on the Zurich Mountain, a pilgrimage each year to the one proven 1225 to 1524, and the monastery of St. Martin , which in 1127 as a subsidiary of regulated Augustinian canons was and was dissolved in 1523 or 1525 in the course of the Reformation .

Today there are three churches in Fluntern: The Evangelical Reformed Church has two churches:

• the old church Fluntern (formerly prayer house), which was built in the years 1762–1763,
• and the New Church Fluntern (also Grosse Kirche Fluntern ), which was built by the architect Karl Moser in the years 1918–1920 in the neo-classical style.

The Roman Catholic Church is represented in Fluntern with the parish of St. Martin:

• The St. Martin Church is located on Krähbühlstrasse and was built as a central building by the architect Anton Higi between 1938 and 1939 .

business

In Fluntern there are over 15,000 jobs (2020), almost twice as many as residents. With the two universities, numerous hospitals and research institutions, the numerous jobs in the quarter are primarily in the education / research and health sectors. There is no industry in the “Nobel Quarter”.

sport and freetime

The Allmend Fluntern is still of great importance for the urban population as a destination and place for leisure. In addition to the sports facilities of the universities and the forest, the Zurich Zoo is an attraction that is able to attract a little more than a million visitors a year.

The FIFA has on the Allmend Fluntern its headquarters, the Home of FIFA .

traffic

Fluntern is served by the tram lines 5 and 6 as well as the trolleybus line 33 of the Zurich public transport company . The bus routes from Dübendorf via Gockhausen end at the Fluntern church (Vorderberg).

Many residents of the quarter feel disturbed by private car traffic: on weekdays, many commuters use the road over the Adlisberg as an alternative route, and on the weekends, many zoo visitors travel by car. The southern approaches to Zurich Airport also put a strain on residents in parts of the neighborhood. A cable car from Stettbach train station to the zoo , which is to become an attractive alternative to the car and the long tram ride from the city center, is currently in the planning phase.

Personalities

• Nora Barnacle (1884–1951), partner and future wife of the writer James Joyce, is considered to be the role model for Molly Bloom in Ulysses , buried in the Fluntern cemetery
• Max Bircher-Benner (1867–1939), doctor, nutritionist and inventor of Bircher muesli
• Elias Canetti (1905–1994), writer, buried in the Fluntern cemetery
• Regula Engel-Egli (1761–1853), wife of a Swiss mercenary officer in the service of Napoleon
• Urban Federer (* 1968), Abbot of Einsiedeln, born in Fluntern
• Johann Heinrich Fierz (1813–1877), textile industrialist, national councilor, envoy of the Swiss Federal Council at the opening of the Suez Canal and, from 1872, president of the joint stock building association he founded
• Konrad Furrer (1838–1908), Protestant clergyman, Palestine researcher and professor at the University of Zurich
• Therese Giehse (1898–1975), German actress, buried in the Fluntern cemetery
• Fiona Hefti (* 1980), Miss Switzerland 2004
• James Joyce (1882–1941), writer, buried in Fluntern Cemetery
• Mary Lavater-Sloman (1891–1980), writer, buried in the Fluntern cemetery
• Eduard Osenbrüggen (1809–1879), German-Swiss criminalist and legal scholar , buried in the Fluntern cemetery
• Friedrich Ris (1867–1931), director of the Rheinau Clinic, important dragonfly researcher
• Carl Schroeter (1855–1939), pioneer of nature and landscape protection and one of the founders of geobotany
• Friedrich Staub (1826–1896), dialectologist and founder of the Swiss Idiotikon
• Gustav Adolf Wislicenus (1803–1875), German Protestant theologian and author of The Bible, considered for thinking readers
• Heinrich Zoelly (1862–1937), Mexican-Swiss engineer, best known for the further development of the steam turbine (Zoelly turbine) and the turbine-driven steam locomotive

literature

• Martin Illi: Whispering. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Martina Wehrli-Johns: Saint Martin on the Zürichberg. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Presidential Department of the City of Zurich, Statistics City of Zurich: Quartierspiegel Fluntern . Zurich 2015 ( read online ).
• Guild Fluntern (Ed.): Fluntern - From the wine-growing village to the city quarter on the Zürichberg . Verlag Schippert, Ebmatingen 1995, ISBN 3-9520779-0-9 .

Web links

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

• District association Fluntern
• Guild Fluntern
• Fluntern tells
• NZZ (September 18, 1982): Fluntern am Zürichberg (PDF; 9.3 MB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Districts and Quarters. In: City of Zurich. Retrieved April 22, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Cécile Brändli-Probst (Red.): Parish of St. Martin Zurich-Fluntern 1940–1990. Zurich 1990. Online citations , accessed on August 25, 2011.
3. ↑ Martin Kreutzberg: Fluntern's staple food: Viticulture in Fluntern . In: Fluntern . 56th year, No. 5 , August 2011, p. 14 .
4. ↑ ^{a b} The Gloriastrasse. In: Gang dur Züri. Retrieved September 5, 2010 . 
5. ↑ Martin Kreutzberg: In service for 125 years . In: Fluntern . 60th year, No. 1 , February 2015, p. 7 .
6. ↑ The tram: More than a means of transport. From the historian's point of view: transport policy and development. In: Trammuseum Zurich. Retrieved October 4, 2010 . 
7. ↑ Tram projects of the StStZ from 1919. In: Trammuseum Zurich. Archived from the original on October 26, 2010 ; Retrieved October 4, 2010 . 
8. ↑ ^{a b} route plan 1907. In: Trammuseum Zurich. Archived from the original on September 1, 2011 ; Retrieved October 4, 2010 . 
9. ↑ ^{a b} City map of Zurich around 1900 on stadt-zuerich.ch
10. ^ ^{A b} Building Department of the City of Zurich, Office for Urban Development (Ed.): Baukultur in Zurich: Oberstrass, Fluntern . Verlag Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Zurich 2010, ISBN 978-3-03823-077-9 .
11. ↑ Martin Kreutzberg: A great place . In: Fluntern . Volume 56, No. 8 , November 2011, p. 7-9 .
12. ↑ Ruedi Baumann: Students sell the heart of Fluntern. In: Tages-Anzeiger. February 23, 2010, accessed December 3, 2011 . 
13. ↑ Minutes of the meeting of the municipal council. In: NZZ Online. March 6, 2003, accessed December 3, 2011 . 
14. ↑ The Plattenstrasse. In: Gang dur Züri. Retrieved September 5, 2010 . 
15. ↑ Martin Kreutzberg: The plate . In: Fluntern . 55th year, no. 5 , August 2010, p. 7-9 .
16. ^ City of Zurich, Office for Urban Development (Ed.): Archeology and Monument Preservation. Report 2006–2008 . gta Verlag, Zurich 2008, ISBN 978-3-85676-238-4 , p. 115 .
17. ^ Fabrizio Brentini: The Catholic Church of St. Martin in Zurich-Fluntern. Society for Swiss Art History GSK, Bern 2013.
18. ↑ See the following: Robert Schönbächler: Churches and places of worship in the city of Zurich. New year's paper Industriequartier / Aussersihl. Zurich 2013, pp. 81–83
19. ↑ Sara Huber: The most common car in Fluntern: a gray VW . In: Fluntermer . No. 2/2020 , February 2021, p. 4 .
20. ↑ Adjusted the borders, it belongs [note: the building] to Hottingen, emotionally to Fluntern. (from: District magazine Fluntern, Extrablatt, April 2007)
21. ↑ Preliminary project for the cable car to the zoo. City council media releases. In: City of Zurich. January 28, 2004, accessed April 13, 2019 . 
22. ↑ Excerpt from the minutes of the government council of the Canton of Zurich, meeting of August 20, 2008 : 1295. Interpellation: Access to the Zurich zoo with a cable car (KR No. 244/2008, DOC 29 KB)
23. ↑ Zoo cable car. Zurich Zoo, accessed on December 22, 2015 .