Friesenberg
Friesenberg quarter of Zurich |
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Coordinates | 680.53 thousand / 246280 |
height | Ø 475 m |
surface | 5.15 km² |
Residents | 10,695 (December 31, 2014) |
Population density | 2077 inhabitants / km² |
BFS no. | 261-033 |
Post Code | 8045, 8055 |
Urban district | District 3 |
Friesenberg is a quarter at the foot of the Uetliberg in the city of Zurich in Switzerland . The quarter is part of the formerly independent community of Wiedikon , which was incorporated in 1893 and today forms urban district 3.
coat of arms
- In black over a green three-mountain, three golden stars in diagonal bars
history
The name Friesenberg has no geographical reference to the area, but goes back to the knight family de Vriesenberch , who lived in the castle on Goldbrunnegg in the 13th century , part of the flank of the Uetliberg. Very little is known about knights and the castle: The castle was one of the endpoints of the Letzigraben , which led to the Hardturm on the Limmat , although both the year of construction and the exact year the castle was destroyed are unknown. The documentary mentions are limited to inventories and land registers, where in 1317 - almost 100 years after the first mention - the Friesenberg stables are already reported. The place where the ruins of Friesenberg Castle are today changed from owner to owner several times over the next 600 years until it came into the hands of the City of Zurich in 1902.
At that time, the entire upper part of Wiedikon was still undeveloped and only included individual farms and several clay pits. From 1880 onwards, a building boom took hold of the still vacant areas of the Sihlfeld (Werd and Hard in Aussersihl, as well as the lower Wiedikon), which was completely built over until around 1910 except for the Sihlfeld cemetery . After these land reserves had been used up, a first wave began in 1930 to build over the upper part of Wiedikon. For the new settlement area on the Uetliberghang below the castle ruins and beyond the Uetlibergbahn , the term Friesenberg was first established at this time . A second wave of construction covered the area after the Second World War and around 1970 the entire area was built over, with the exception of the former clay pits. In the meantime, an industrial and commercial district, the Binz, has been built where the clay pit used to be.
geography
To the northwest, Friesenberg borders along the Gratstrasse (on the Uetliberg) on the communities of Stallikon and Ringlikon past Hohenstein (a clearing with a tea house) down to the Triemli City Hospital , which is also located on Friesenberg soil. To the northeast, the Birmensdorferstrasse to Heuried represents the border to the Albisrieden and Sihlfeld quarters and between Heuried and Laubegg to Alt-Wiedikon. To the south-east it runs briefly along the Sihl to the new Uetliberg tunnel of the A3 motorway and finally goes back up to the ridge of the Uetliberg, on the right of the Falletsche. The Wollishofen and Leimbach districts border Friesenberg to the south.
The most important roads are u. a. the Schweighof-, Birmensdorfer-, Friesenberg- and Üetlibergstrasse. Friesenberg can be further divided, the most important areas are Friesenberg, Albisgüetli and Heuried, others are Döltschi, Kolbenhof and Binz.
A large area of Friesenberg on the slope of the Uetliberg is forested. There are a number of smaller and larger paths here. A little below the tree line is the finish and panorama path with a very nice view of Zurich.
In the Albisgüetli there is the (restaurant) Schützenhaus with a shooting range, where the boys' shooting takes place every year, and a little below the road traffic office of Zurich.
Attractions
The former castle mill could have belonged to the first presumed castle Friesenberg in the 12th century. From 1387 to 1436 it was owned by the Aeppli, then the Oetenbach Monastery , then the Werdmüller von Zürich, who had all employed the feudal people. In 1602, the Burgmühle was acquired by the previous fiefdom family Bosshart, who lived in it until 1813 when it was replaced by the Gut family. Until 1800 it was the only farmhouse in the Friesenberg and in 1871 the first Friesenberg inn was opened here.
The majority of the numerous housing estates on Friesenberg are owned by housing cooperatives , in particular the family home cooperative in Zurich , which has had a significant impact on the area since its creation in the 1920s.
Churches and cemeteries
There are two churches in Friesenberg:
- The Reformed Church Friesenberg belongs to the church district three of the Evangelical Reformed parish of Zurich and was built between 1941 and 1947 according to plans by Müller and Freytag, Thalwil . It is in the immediate vicinity of the Catholic Church.
- The Roman Catholic Church is represented in Friesenberg with the Church of St. Theresa . This church was built in the years 1931–1933 and is considered an early example of modern church building in Switzerland and the most consistent design in the design language of the Bauhaus style by architect Fritz Metzger . The church has frescoes by Richard Seewald from 1946.
There are three cemeteries in the Friesenberg district:
- The Jewish cemetery Unterer Friesenberg was established in 1866 by the Israelitische Cultusgemeinde Zürich . On top of it there is an abdication hall in historicizing style by the architects Chiodera and Tschudy .
- The Oberer Friesenberg cemetery was built in 1952 as the successor to the Unterer Friesenberg cemetery. Famous personalities such as Mascha Kaléko and Sigi Feigel are buried in it.
- As the youngest of the three cemeteries, the Üetliberg municipal cemetery was added in 1971 . Like the Oberer Friesenberg cemetery, it was built above the Panoramaweg and has an exceptional panorama of the city.
literature
- Presidential Department of the City of Zurich, Statistics City of Zurich: District mirror Friesenberg . Zurich 2015 ( read online )
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ See the following: Robert Schönbächler: Churches and places of worship in the city of Zurich. New Year's Gazette Industriequartier / Aussersihl. Zurich 2013, pp. 54–55.
- ^ Parish website, title page. Retrieved July 1, 2013.