Au peninsula
The Au peninsula is located in the middle of Lake Zurich in the village of Au between Horgen and Wädenswil .
History and culture
The Au was first mentioned as Owe in 1316 as a fiefdom of the Johanniterkomturei Wädenswil. In 1150 it came into the possession of the city of Zurich and until 1798 belonged to their Landvogtei Wädenswil . The peninsula was covered by oak forests until the 19th century. The Au Consortium founded in 1911 saved the peninsula from overbuilding.
The Au estate was acquired by Hans Rudolf Werdmüller in 1651 . The vineyard on the Auhügel and the small inland lake, the Ausee , also belonged to the estate. The estate was also later inhabited by prominent contemporaries, including the author Mentona Moser (1874–1971), who grew up there with her sister Fanny Moser . The current building complex in the style of a baroque hunting lodge dates largely from the 1930s. Today the estate belongs to the Canton of Zurich .
The vineyard belonging to the cantonal viticulture museum Au is one of the last on the southern shore of Lake Zurich. There is a country inn at the highest point of the peninsula.
leisure
The Au peninsula is a popular excursion destination with numerous walking paths , several Nagelfluh caves and nature protection zones as well as a bathing and play area. It can be reached from various boat stations with public scheduled boats operated by the Zürichsee-Schiffahrtsgesellschaft . The Au ZH train station is in the immediate vicinity of the peninsula.
Trivia
- The poet Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock visited the Au in 1750 and wrote an ode about the beauty of the peninsula on Lake Zurich.
- General Werdmüller was the main character in Conrad Ferdinand Meyer's novella The Shot from the Pulpit from 1878, which is set on the Au estate, among other places .
The Au in art
Hans Erhard Escher: Werdmüller's estate, 1673
Hermann Beul : Au Peninsula , around 1905/10
Web links
- Au consortium
- Viticulture Museum on Lake Zurich
- Lake Zurich in the "Project Gutenberg"
literature
- Emil Stauber: The Au peninsula in Lake Zurich: Historical representation . Orell Füssli , Zurich 1913, OCLC 604513473 .
- Werner Sutter, Peter Ziegler: Au Peninsula Nature impressions on Lake Zurich . Stutz, Wädenswil 2009, ISBN 978-3-85928-079-3 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ ZVV stop timetable - Au Peninsula, boat station ( Memento from January 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
Coordinates: 47 ° 15 ' N , 8 ° 39' E ; CH1903: 691407 / 233842