Hüttikon

Hüttikon
State :	Switzerland
Canton :	Zurich (ZH)
District :	Dielsdorf
BFS no. :	0087
Postal code :	8115
UN / LOCODE :	CH HTT
Coordinates :	671 546  /  255468 coordinates: 47 ° 26 '46 "  N , 8 ° 23' 14"  O ; CH1903:  six hundred seventy-one thousand five hundred and forty-six  /  255468
Height :	433  m above sea level M.
Height range :	414–628 m above sea level M.
Area :	1.59  km²
Residents:	926 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	394 inhabitants per km²
Proportion of foreigners : (residents without citizenship )	14.2% (December 31, 2018)
Mayor :	Markus Imhof ( SVP )
Website:	www.huettikon.ch
View from the warehouse
Location of the municipality

Hüttikon is a municipality in the district of Dielsdorf in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland .

coat of arms

Blazon

In silver over a red double cross a black rafter and a red shield head

geography

Hüttikon parish hall

Hüttikon is located in the Furttal at the foot of the Altberg at the gates of the city of Zurich . The neighboring communities of Hüttikon are the Aargau community of Würenlos , as well as the Zurich communities of Otelfingen , Dänikon and the Limmattal community of Oetwil an der Limmat . Hüttikon is the municipality with the smallest territory in the canton of Zurich.

history

Description of the municipality of Hüttikon from 1873

Hüttikon was first mentioned in a document on February 3, 883. With this document, an Adalbert transferred his goods to the Fraumünster Abbey in Zurich and exchanged them for those in the no longer existing village of Borsikon on the Türlersee . The entire judiciary, i.e. the high court, was in the hands of the Habsburgs in the 14th century . The place itself belonged to the Siggenthal office at that time . Some of the farms in the Hutto settlement at that time came into the possession of the Wettingen monastery and the Baden hospital administration very early on . This close connection with the Aargau is due to the fact that the place belonged to the county of Baden from 1415 to 1798 . From this point on, Hüttikon was a federal subject. During the Helvetic Republic from 1798 to 1803, it was assigned to the newly founded canton of Baden . In 1803 Hüttikon was detached from the canton of Aargau and incorporated into the canton of Zurich. In 1868 it was separated from the Würenlos parish and assigned to the Otelfingen parish . Hüttikon has existed as a municipality in today's sense since 1814.

Aerial photo (1958)

politics

In the 2019 National Council elections, the share of the vote in Hüttikon was: SVP 60.08%, FDP 12.85%, glp 10.41%, SP 5.17%, Greens 3.31%, EDU 3.26%, CVP 2.44 %, and EVP 1.82%.

In no other municipality in the canton did the SVP or any other party achieve such a high percentage of the vote.

Art and culture

See also : List of cultural assets in Hüttikon

Thatched roof house, built in 1682

old syringe and community center, built before 1870

Gasthof Alte Post

The only thatched roof house still in existence in the canton of Zurich was built around 1682 based on the Aargau model and came into the possession of the canton of Zurich in 1940. The Hüttikerschule, which was only operated during the winter, was housed in this house until 1874.

In 1970/71 the thatched roof house was overhauled and covered with reeds imported from Poland and Romania. The reed cover is more durable than the straw cover, and it is difficult to find wheat straw that was threshed by hand these days because combines are now able to harvest much more efficiently. Even though a combine harvester can be set so that it does not shred the straws, it will still injure them and make them unsuitable for a thatched roof (cracks in the straw absorb water). For a few years the house served as a youth hostel .

In the thatched roof house is a kitchen with an open hearth and smoke-blackened beams. The tiled stove dates from 1848. The house was restored in 1985 by the property management of the Canton of Zurich, which has owned the historic house since it was placed under protection.

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 .
• Sabine Moser-Schlüer and Christian Schlüer: Hüttikon. The small village on the border. Edited by the Furttal Local History Association. January 2020.

Web links

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

• Official website of the municipality of Hüttikon
• Martin Illi: Hüttikon. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

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. ↑ Elections 2019. Retrieved May 18, 2020 .