Hedingen

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Hedingen
Hedingen coat of arms
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Canton ZurichCanton Zurich Zurich (ZH)
District : Affoltern
BFS no. : 0005i1 f3 f4
Postal code : 8908
Coordinates : 676 449  /  239158 coordinates: 47 ° 17 '56 "  N , 8 ° 26' 58"  O ; CH1903:  six hundred seventy-six thousand four hundred and forty-nine  /  239158
Height : 501  m above sea level M.
Height range : 475–745 m above sea level M.
Area : 6.53  km²
Residents: 3734 (December 31, 2018)
Population density : 572 inhabitants per km²
Proportion of foreigners :
(residents without
citizenship ) 		15.7% (December 31, 2018)
Mayor : Rudolf Fornaro ( FDP )
Website: www.hedingen.ch
Hedingen seen from the Rütelimatten

Hedingen from the Rütelimatten seen from
Location of the municipality
Türlersee Zürichsee Bezirk Horgen Bezirk Zürich Bezirk Dietikon Kanton Zug Kanton Aargau Aeugst am Albis Affoltern am Albis Bonstetten ZH Hausen am Albis Hedingen Kappel am Albis Knonau Maschwanden Mettmenstetten Obfelden Ottenbach ZH Rifferswil Stallikon Wettswil am Albis Bezirk MeilenMap of Hedingen
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Hedingen ( Zurich German : Hedige [ˈhedigə] ) is a municipality in the Affoltern district of the Swiss canton of Zurich .

geography

Hedingen is located in the southwest of the canton of Zurich and, at 6.59 km 2 , is the sixth smallest municipality in the Affoltern district after Wettswil am Albis , Maschwanden , Ottenbach , Knonau and Rifferswil . The hamlets Fromoos and Ismatt belong to the community. Hedingen is 13 kilometers from Zurich by air and 17 kilometers from Zug .

Neighboring communities from the northeast, clockwise, are: Bonstetten ZH , Stallikon and Affoltern am Albis , and in the canton of Aargau ( Bremgarten district ) Jonen , Arni AG and Islisberg .

geology

From a geological point of view, Hedingen is located in the molasse basin of the Swiss plateau . In the course of the Tertiary , the basin was filled with debris from the emerging Alps , whereby the sediments can be divided into different layers. Deposits under marine conditions are referred to as sea molasses, those under fluvial conditions as fresh water molasses . The community lies west of the Albis mountain range in a moraine landscape that opens up towards the Reuss plain .

Hedingen and the other communities in the Affoltern district were given the decisive influence on the landscape by the advance of the Reuss Glacier during the various ice ages . The glacier deepened and widened existing valleys and created new valleys. The decisive watercourse is the Hofibach, which rises in Hedingen and flows into the Jonenbach .

climate

Hedingen is in the temperate climate zone . The climate is shaped on the one hand by the winds from western directions, which often bring precipitation , and on the other hand by the bise (east or north-east wind), which is usually associated with high pressure, but brings cooler weather phases in all seasons than would be expected on average. The foehn , which is important in the Alpine valleys and on the edge of the Alps , does not normally show any special climatic effects on Hedingen. The closest MeteoSwiss climate measuring stations are in Lucerne and Zurich-Affoltern , 13 and 27 km away, respectively. Both stations deliver approximately the same values. This results in an average annual temperature of 8.7 ° C for Hedingen. The coldest month is January with -0.4 ° C, the warmest is July with 21.0 ° C. The amount of precipitation is around 1100 mm per year, with higher amounts being measured in the three summer months than in winter due to the convective precipitation .

history

Archaeological finds show traces of settlement from the 7th / 8th centuries. Century BC A settlement from Roman times was found on the Kreuzrain. The name "Hedingen" is made up of the Old High German personal name Hadu, Hado and the suffix -ing and comes from the time of the Alemannic conquest in the 6th / 7th. Century; its meaning is "with the people, the clan of Hadu / Hado". The current church was built in 1510, its predecessor in 10/11. Century. Around 1116 the church and village belonged to the Pfäfers monastery , to which Hedingen was subordinate to the lower court .

Hedingen Castle, first mentioned in 1298, was behind the church. It is not known whether the von Hedingen knight dynasty , who lived in the 13th and 14th centuries, lived in the castle. Hedingen owned high court to the Zurich Open Office and was in Zurich in 1512 Landvogtei Knonau incorporated.

The crisis at the end of the 17th century forced over 200 people from the Knonaueramt, 77 of them from Hedingen, to emigrate to Brandenburg .

Historical aerial photo from 500 m by Walter Mittelholzer from 1923

coat of arms

Blazon

A slanted, overturned black tip in gold.

Description = The coat of arms of Hedingen represents a shield figure and is interpreted as a sloping ploughshare tip in a golden field of ears. The shield figure appears in the coat of arms seal of the knight Johannes von Hedingen as early as 1288. The Hedingen Bailiwick, which has been in Zurich since 1503 and merged with the Maschwanden-Freiamt Bailiwick in 1507, continued to run the shield.

population

Maienbrunnenhaus from 1805 or earlier, timber frame house in the hamlet of Ismatt
Population development
year Residents
1470 100
1634 448
1689 689
1850 992
1888 807
1900 1138
1960 1840
1990 2190
2000 2991
2004 3107
2007 3318
2013 3585
2018 3729

politics

At the ballot box on February 8, 2010, the voters decided that the school community would be integrated into the political community and thus a so-called unitary community would be formed. As a result, the President of School Maintenance is now a member of the local council. In the current legislature (2018–2022), the local council consists of the following people:

  • Rudolf Fornaro ( FDP ), mayor
  • Nicole Doppler (FDP)
  • Christine Erni (FDP)
  • Claude Hafner ( SVP )
  • Roland Schneider ( glp ), also school president

economy

The most important employers in Hedingen are Kolb AG and Ernst Schweizer AG .

traffic

By the municipality Hedingen 1864 by leading Zurich-train-Lucerne railway opened railway line Zurich-train ; it is served by lines S 5 Zug - Affoltern a. A. - Zurich HB - Uster - Pfäffikon SZ and S 14 Affoltern a. A. - Altstetten - Zurich HB - Oerlikon - Wallisellen - Hinwil served by the Zurich S-Bahn . Since the opening of the Uetliberg tunnel in May 2009, the Postbus line 200 has served Hedingen; it runs daily between Affoltern am Albis and Zurich's Enge train station .

Attractions

In the hamlet Ismatt a group of planks stand houses from the 17th and 18th centuries. The Maienbrunnenhaus was dismantled in 1983 at its previous location in the Maienbrunnen industrial area, each bar numbered. In the Ismatt the house was rebuilt next to a timber frame construction from 1804.

Hedinger Weiher, a former mill pond, acquired by the community in 1938 , has been a bathing establishment since 1945.

  • church

  • Hedinger Weiher

Personalities

literature

  • Martin Illi: Hedingen. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  • Hermann Fietz: The art monuments of the canton of Zurich, Volume I: The districts of Affoltern and Andelfingen. (=  Swiss art monuments. Volume 7). Edited by the Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Bern 1938. DNB 365803030 .

Web links

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

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. ^ Heinz Gallmann: Zurich German Dictionary . Verlag Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Zurich 2009.
  4. ↑ Lexicon of Swiss municipality names . Edited by the Center de Dialectologie at the University of Neuchâtel under the direction of Andres Kristol. Frauenfeld / Lausanne 2005, p. 433.