Glattfelden

Glattfelden
State :	Switzerland
Canton :	Zurich (ZH)
District :	Bulach
BFS no. :	0058
Postal code :	8192 Glattfelden 8192 Zweidlen
UN / LOCODE :	CH GFN
Coordinates :	679 857  /  268 362 coordinates: 47 ° 33 '40 "  N , 8 ° 29' 59"  O ; CH1903:  679 857  /  268362
Height :	387  m above sea level M.
Height range :	333-545 m above sea level M.
Area :	12.29  km²
Residents:	5200 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	320 inhabitants per km²
Proportion of foreigners : (residents without citizenship )	24.5% (December 31, 2018)
Mayor :	Ernst Gassmann ( FDP )
Website:	www.glattfelden.ch
Location of the municipality

Glattfelden is a municipality in the Bülach district of the canton of Zurich in Switzerland on the border with Germany .

coat of arms

Blazon

In gold, three black stag poles lying on top of each other

geography

Glattfelden is located in the Zurich Unterland on the last section of the Glatt river , which flows into the Rhine near Rheinsfelden . In addition to the village of Glattfelden, the place includes the settlements of Schachen, Aarüti, Rheinsfelden and Zweidlen . Neighboring communities are: Weiach , Hohentengen , Eglisau , Bülach , Hochfelden and Stadel . The Neuhus exclave , a single farm in the Rheinaue, also belongs to the municipality , which means that Glattfelden has a common border with Hüntwangen .

population

Population development
year	Residents
1634	593
1771	634
1836	1098
1850	1247
1880	1756
1900	1584
1950	2209
2000	3544
2007	3938

• Population density: 346.1 inh / km ²
• Denomination: 40.0% Protestant Reformed , 24.2% Roman Catholic , 35.8% no or other denominational affiliation (as of 2012)

politics

Glattfelden, historical aerial photo from 1919, taken from a height of 100 meters by Walter Mittelholzer

The community president is Ernst Gassmann (FDP, as of July 2018).

Other members of the municipal council are the previous Robert Wermelinger (GLP & Impuls 8192), Martina Schurter (Green Party), Marco Dindo (SVP).

New in office since 2018: Michele Dünki (SP), Rene Gasser (FDP) and Adrian Rösti (as President of School Maintenance) (SVP).

economy

traffic

Glattfelden railway station

Glattfelden is on the main road no. 7 Basel – Winterthur, which bypasses the village as the cantonal A50 motorway.

The Glattfelden train station is located outside Glattfelden in the Bülach municipality on the Bülach – Schaffhausen railway line and is served by the S9 line of the Zurich S-Bahn . The bus line 540 of the Zürcher Verkehrsverbund connects the train station with the village and on to Zweidlen train station.

Zweidlen has its own train station, which is located near Rheinsfelden on the Winterthur-Koblenz line (S36). This was closed in the course of austerity measures in passenger traffic in 1995 and reopened five years later after protests.

Attractions

See also : List of cultural assets in Glattfelden

• Gottfried Keller Center with Museum
• Poet's path from Glattfelden to Kaiserstuhl
• Eglisau-Glattfelden power plant in Rheinsfelden
• Film studios Glattfelden , the largest film studios in Switzerland, formerly the production facility of Lüthi and Blanc , but demolished in 2010

photos

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  reformed Church

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  Bell house from 1526, Gottfried Keller center

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  old mill from 1675 opposite the abandoned house of Gottfried Keller's uncle

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  old house from 1679

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  Exterior view of the former Glattfelden film studio

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  Gottfried Keller fountain

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  Reformed rectory

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  Catholic Church

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  angle

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  Former spinning mill

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  Eichhölzli schoolhouse

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  Schoolhouse yard

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

• Johann Kaspar Hagenbuch (1700–1763), theologian, antiquarian and university professor
• Paul Böhringer (1852–1929), theologian
• Samuel R. Külling (1924–2003), theologian and university professor

Personalities associated with the community

The village of Glattfelden on a drawing by Gottfried Keller from 1834.

• The place is famous for the close relationship that the Swiss poet and Zurich writer Gottfried Keller had with him. In his youth he spent his summer holidays in Glattfelden.
• The pastor and lexicographer Josua Maaler lived and died in Glattfelden. He is the author of the first dictionary to focus on the German language.

literature

• Hermann Fietz: The art monuments of the canton of Zurich, Volume II: The districts of Bülach, Dielsdorf, Hinwil, Horgen and Meilen. (= Art Monuments of Switzerland. Volume 15). Edited by the Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Bern 1943. DNB 365803049 .
• A. Näf: History of the parish Glattfelden . Bülach, 1863. Facsimile reprint: Traffic and Beautification Association Glattfelden. Glattfelden 1985.
• P. Gisin et al .: Glattfelden. A church chronicle . (Ed. Municipality of Glattfelden). Glattfelden 1993.
• Harry Nussbaumer: Stories about Glattfelden's story . Self-published, Glattfelden 2013. ISBN 978-3-03304136-3

Web links

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

• Official website of the municipality of Glattfelden
• Ueli Müller: Glattfelden. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Gottfried Keller Center

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. ^ The coat of arms of Glattfelden
4. ^ Statistical Office of the Canton of Zurich - database (community portraits) . accessed on January 16, 2014.
5. ↑ Martin Huber: Next stop: No man's land. In: Tages-Anzeiger .ch from 18./19. July 2016. Retrieved July 19, 2016.