Hirslanden

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Hirslanden coat of arms
Coat of arms of Zurich
Hirslanden
quarter of Zurich
Map of Hirslanden
Coordinates 685 180  /  246.59 thousand coordinates: 47 ° 21 '53 "  N , 8 ° 33' 59"  O ; CH1903:  six hundred eighty-five thousand one hundred eighty  /  246.59 thousand
height 466  m
surface 2.20 km²
Residents 7403 (Dec. 31, 2014)
Population density 3365 inhabitants / km²
BFS no. 261-073
Post Code (8032)
Urban district District 7 since 1893/1913

Hirslanden is a district of the city of Zurich . The formerly independent municipality Hirslanden was incorporated in 1893 and is today together with Fluntern , Hottingen and Witikon the Kreis 7 .

coat of arms

Blazon

In blue a leafy golden millet with three spikelets

history

Village and community

Historic village center with the Hirslanden mill (right) and the servants' house (left, today Hirslanden district meeting place)
Balgrist and Witikon in the background on a recording by Werner Friedli (1953)

The first written mention of Hirslanda goes back to the year 946 and is related to the payment of tithes to the Grossmünsterstift.

A real center never formed in Hirslanden, the community was a scattered settlement with smaller settlement focal points on the Landstrasse zur Forch and in the Klus . The greatest concentrations were formed at Kreuzplatz, at Hegibach and (formerly called Im Dorf ) at the parish hall (today tram stop Wetlistrasse).

Hirslanden came under the jurisdiction of the Kelnhof (Meierhof) Stadelhofen, which belonged to the Fraumünster . Since the middle of the 13th century, the Zürcher Mülner were feudal lords , who in 1358 sold their rights to the city of Zurich via Stadelhofen. In 1384, the city of Zurich incorporated Stadelhofen and its associated areas into the Upper Vogtei Küsnacht, which lasted until the collapse of the Ancien Régime in 1798 and the establishment of the Helvetic Republic .

After Hirslanden had been part of the Grossmünster church for decades , it founded the parish of Neumünster in 1834 together with the parishes of Hottingen and Riesbach , a public limited company with the aim of building its own church. The Neumünster was built between 1836 and 1839 and is located on Neumünsterstrasse, which leads from Hegibachplatz towards Lake Zurich . The area belongs to Riesbach (Quartier Weinegg ). However, the name Neumünster is more firmly rooted and also denotes a nearby school building and the post office 8032, which does not follow the abstract urban division, but pragmatically serves the Neumünster area.

Incorporation to Zurich

The municipality within the Zurich district before the merger in 1893

In 1893 the Hirslanden municipality and ten other independent municipalities became part of the city of Zurich. The city and the new eleven municipalities were divided into five city districts (I to V). Hirslanden formed together with Fluntern , Hottingen and Riesbachstrasse the town circle V .

The division of the original five urban districts was revised in 1913, and urban districts 1 to 8 were newly formed by dividing the city district III into three and dividing the city district V into two. As a result, District V was renumbered to today's Stadtkreis 7, while the former municipality of Riesbach became the new Stadtkreis 8. With the spin-off of Riesbach, Hirslanden lost the Balgrist area and parts of the area around Kreuzplatz, which were newly allocated to Riesbach in order to compensate for the size of the districts.

With the second incorporation in 1934, eight more municipalities were added to the city, which were combined in the new city districts 9 to 11, while the old city ​​districts were left unchanged with two exceptions: Wipkingen moved to district 10, while the new municipality Witikon dem already existing district 7 was assigned. The latter had a late effect on Hirslanden, which after the Balgrist lost another area when Eierbrecht was reassigned to Witikon in 1964.

While the Eierbrecht area is isolated from the rest of the district, the Balgrist area is closely related to Hirslanden.

economy

Feudal house from 1747 near the Nägeli mill (Forchstrasse 246)

Today, Hirslanden is primarily a residential area, in which the street names Hammer , Drahtzug and Schlyfi still remind us that two blacksmiths, a mill and a loop once used the water power of the Wehrenbach and the Stöckentobelbach (also known as the Elefantenbach ) coming from the Adlisberg .

The residential area is mixed with small businesses (local shops and boutiques) and service companies that concentrate on Forchstrasse and Klusplatz.

Healthcare

Theodosianum / Klus Park Age Center

Theodosianum at Asylstrasse 130

The Theodosianum at Klusplatz, which opened in 1898, was run by the Franciscan Sisters from Ingenbohl as a hospital and nurses' school until 1970. The property in the style of a Nordic Renaissance castle and the associated park were then taken over by the City of Zurich, which set up the Klus Park senior citizens' center there by a municipal council resolution of 1973 .

Hirslanden Clinic

The Hirslanden Clinic, founded in 1932, and the neighboring Balgrist University Clinic are located in the Balgrist area, which since the statistical regional rochade of 1913 no longer belongs to Hirslanden, but to Weinegg .

traffic

Streets

Hegibachplatz with the Forchbahn stop

Hirslanden's main traffic artery has always been the old country road, which served as a center and was expanded into today's Forchstrasse in 1846. The grotesque division of the quarters becomes particularly clear on Forchstrasse, which the neighborhood boundary follows for long stretches: from Balgrist to the city limits, the road today belongs to Riesbach, while a narrow strip was left along the Wehrenbach near Hirslanden. The main flow of traffic also runs parallel to the slope of the Adlisberg, whereas the streets running across the slope between Hegibachplatz and Klusplatz (Hegibachstrasse and Hofackerstrasse) have significantly less traffic.

Forchstrasse is the main feeder road to Forchautostrasse (A52) , which begins in Zumikon and leads to Hinwil .

Public transport

The community has had a tram connection since 1894 . Together with Hottingen, the Zurich Electric Tramway (ESZ) was founded in 1893 and the first two electric tram lines opened in Zurich on March 8, 1894, with a depot and power station in Burgwies. As part of the municipalization of the tram operations, the ESZ went to the city on July 1, 1896, which formed the municipal urban tram Zurich (StStZ) from the ESZ and took over seven other tram operations over the years and integrated them into the StStZ, from which in 1950 the Zurich Transport Authority (VBZ) was created.

Since 1912, the Forchbahn has also opened up Hirslanden, which shares the VBZ tracks and is managed by them. In 1997 the Burgwies depot was closed and rebuilt between 2005 and 2007; A Migros branch opened there in mid-2006 , and the new Zurich Tram Museum was opened at Whitsun 2007 .

The more southern Hirslanden is accessed by tram line 11 and the Forchbahn (S18), the Klusplatz in the north can be reached with the tram lines 3, 8 and 15. At Klusplatz there is a connection to three regional bus routes and the trolley bus route 34 to Witikon. Since 1998, the extended trolleybus route 33 has been connecting Klusplatz with Hegibachplatz, where trolleybus route 31 ended from 1979 to 2017 (previously to Burgwies), thus ensuring the north-south connection in the district. On the other hand, there is only one study of the rail taxi, which is to connect Hirslanden directly with the much higher-lying Witikon, which was commissioned by the two district associations . Instead, trolleybus route 31 has been running to Kienastenwies in Witikon since December 2017.

geography

Waters

Sculpture in the Elefantenbach
View from Uetliberg on Hirslanden, Seefeld in the foreground

The Stöckentobel in the east, which forms a natural border with Witikon, is characteristic of the striking topography of the quarter . The Elefantenbach in Stöckentobel, known for the elephant sculpture erected in 1898, joins the Wehrenbach in the south to form a torrent ; the border to the Weinegg district follows the watercourse. The Hegibach, on the other hand, which crosses the district and gives its name to today's traffic junction Hegibachplatz and Hegibachstrasse , has been canalized over long stretches and runs under the road surface.

There are hardly any standing water in Hirslanden. Exceptions are the pond near Degenried and the Burgwies pond, which was created in 1883 as a water reservoir for the old Hirslanden mill.

schools

Zurichberg open-air school

Hirslanden School

The Hirslanden public school consists of the two school buildings Hofacker and Freiestrasse.

Zurichberg open-air school

Today's open-air school in Zürichberg on Biberlinstrasse was founded in 1914 as a forest school. The Zurich Forest Recreation Center Foundation wanted to offer children at risk of tuberculosis relaxation here. On January 1, 1939, the facility was taken over by the City of Zurich and renamed the Zurichberg Open Air School. It is open to Zurich teachers who want to teach their class for a week in a natural environment.

Culture

Hirslanden neighborhood meeting place

The Hirslanden neighborhood meeting place in the servant house of the Hirslanden mill at Forchstrasse 248 began operations in April 2005. It offers a café and a multi-purpose room, a larger hall for events and smaller rooms for groups and meetings. The building has been owned by the City of Zurich since 1971.

Personalities

  • The artist Arnold Böcklin had a studio building built on today's Böcklinstrasse. From 1885 to 1892 he created well-known works there and received his circle of friends, to whom u. a. Gottfried Keller and Rudolf Koller belonged. In 1981 the building was added to the inventory of supraregional protected objects.
  • The artist Karl Bickel was born in Hirslanden in 1886.
  • The Silesian politician Herman Greulich obtained Swiss citizenship in the then independent municipality of Hirslanden and lived at Klusstrasse 28 from 1875 until his death in 1925, he was the founder and editor of the workers' newspaper Tagwacht and is also one of the founders of the Swiss SP .
  • The soprano singer Maria Stader lived at Hirslanderstrasse 18 in the 1950s and 60s.

See also

literature

  • Martin Illi: Hirslanden. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  • Building Department of the City of Zurich, Office for Urban Development (ed.): Hirslanden, Riesbach . Building culture in Zurich. tape II . NZZ-Buchverlag, Zurich 2003, ISBN 3-03823-011-1 .
  • Presidential Department of the City of Zurich, Statistics City of Zurich (Ed.): District mirror Hirslanden . Zurich 2007 ( read online ).

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hochbauamt der Stadt Zürich, Büro für Archäologie (Ed.): Every drop for hydropower . Mills and factories on the Wildbach and Wehrenbach in Zurich. Zurich 1996.
  2. ↑ http://www.stadt-zuerich.ch/kluspark  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.stadt-zuerich.ch  
  3. ↑ Hirslanden district association: project study rail taxi to Witikon
  4. ↑ New with the trolleybus from Witikon directly to the city center: Quartier Hegibachplatz still very well developed
  5. ↑ Thomas Widmer: The children's surprises. In: Tages-Anzeiger. January 13, 2012, accessed September 9, 2014 .
  6. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from November 16, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ Files of the Zurich Forest Recreation Center Foundation in the Zurich City Archives (VHc76) (PDF)
  8. ^ Building construction department of the city of Zurich (ed.): Quartiertreff Knechtenhaus Mühle Zürich-Hirslanden: conversion and repair . Construction documentation. Zurich April 2005 ( stadt-zuerich.ch [PDF; accessed April 22, 2020]).
  9. ^ Jean-Daniel Gross, Kaarina Bourloud. The Hirslanden mill's servant house: from rural buildings to neighborhood meeting places. In: City of Zurich, Archeology and Monument Preservation: 2003–2006, pp. 46–49.
  10. ↑ Zurich: Hirslanden (formerly Hottingen), Böcklinstrasse 17, studio building, so-called Böcklinatelier Vers. No. 602. In: Zürcher Denkmalpflege: Report 16 (2001–2002), pp. 314–319