Friesenberg

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Coat of arms of Friesenberg
Coat of arms of Zurich
Friesenberg
quarter of Zurich
Map of Friesenberg
Coordinates 680.53 thousand  /  246280 coordinates: 47 ° 21 '45 "  N , 8 ° 30' 17"  O ; CH1903:  six hundred and eighty thousand five hundred and thirty  /  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

Blazon

In black over a green three-mountain, three golden stars in diagonal bars

history

The Werd and Friesenberg quarters (in the foreground), view from the Uetliberg

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

Aerial photograph by Walter Mittelholzer (1933)
Northeastern border of Friesenberg: The Birmensdorferstrasse

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

Old mill belonging to Friesenberg Castle , 12th century

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:

There are three cemeteries in the Friesenberg district:

literature

  • Presidential Department of the City of Zurich, Statistics City of Zurich: District mirror Friesenberg . Zurich 2015 ( read online )

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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.
  2. ^ Parish website, title page. Retrieved July 1, 2013.