Hirzel

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Hirzel
Hirzel coat of arms
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Canton ZurichCanton Zurich Zurich (ZH)
District : Horgen
Political community : Horgeni2
Postal code : 8816
Coordinates : 688 748  /  230249 coordinates: 47 ° 13 '2 "  N , 8 ° 36' 37"  O ; CH1903:  six hundred eighty-eight thousand seven hundred and forty-eight  /  230249
Height : 678  m above sea level M.
Area : 9.68  km²
Residents: 2185 (December 31, 2016)
Population density : 226 inhabitants per km²
Mayor : Markus Braun (independent)
Website: www.horgen.ch
Drumlin landscape in Hirzel

Drumlin landscape in Hirzel
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Hirzel (Switzerland)
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Parish before the merger on January 1, 2018

Hirzel , in the older Zurich German local dialect im Hirschel, in Hirsel [ɪm hirʃəl ɪm hirsəl] , is a locality belonging to Horgen in the canton of Zurich , Switzerland .

The political communities Hirzel and Horgen were merged on January 1, 2018.

geography

Hirzel is lying on the Zimmerberg . The height of the Hirzelpass is in the municipality, the pass road forms the shortest road connection between Wädenswil on Lake Zurich and Sihlbrugg in the Sihl valley . It replaced the 600-year-old mule track over the Hirzel Höhi .

The moraine landscape is included in two federal inventories of landscapes and natural monuments of national importance (object number 1307) and moorland landscapes of particular beauty and national importance (object number 37). The Hirzel drumlins are sparsely forested.

history

Aerial photo (1947)

From the resolution of Horgen on May 13, 1773 until December 31, 2017, Hirzel was a politically independent municipality. On January 1, 2018, Hirzel was again merged with the municipality of Horgen.

Coat of arms and place name

Blazon : in silver a leaping black stag .

The place name first attested to in 1296 (cum bonis in Hirsol) is a combination of the Old High German hir (u) z "deer" and sol "wallow, pool, swamp hole, swampy spot" and thus means "swamp hole where game roams around" . Originally it was a field name that only became a place name secondarily.

population

Population development
year Residents
1678 about 800
1776 approx. 1300
1850 1516
1920 1080
1941 977
1970 1189
1990 1761
2009 2100
2017 2179

The population during the last centuries can be described as rural-peasant. Since 1950, more and more new buildings have been built. Due to the proximity to Zurich and the preferred location of Hirzel in a local recreation area, newcomers from the neighboring communities on the lake settled. In the first few years this often led to different political interests. Today the newcomers are well integrated into the authorities and also into community life. For the elderly, there is the Spyrigarten senior citizens ' center in the center of the village in the immediate vicinity of the Reformed Church , consisting of a nursing home group and apartments for the elderly from the Spyrigarten cooperative.

economy

There are still around forty farms in Hirzel.

A bakery and the village shop “Volg” ensure the supply of everyday necessities; the butcher, the dairy and the "Landi" have been closed in recent years. There are also a few restaurants, two car garages and a club in the village.

The majority of the working population commutes to the greater Zurich area every day.

Attractions

The bridgeheads of the Babenwaag on the southern border of the municipality
  • The birth house of Johanna Spyri (Meta-Heusser-Heim) and the Spyrimuseum are internationally known due to the popularity of the fictional character « Heidi ».
  • The moorland of the Hirzel in interaction with the hills and the forests are typical of the Hirzel.
  • The hilly landscape with its many large old linden trees on each drumlin is a popular motif for landscape paintings and landscape photography. From the Zimmerberg ridge above Höchi you can enjoy an impressive view of the Sihlwald and the surrounding hills and mountains.
  • The old mule track from Lake Zug to Horgen on Lake Zurich leads over the Hirzel Höhi and is now signposted. Goethe also wrote about the steep path from the Sihlbrugg over the Rübgarten, on which he continued after a rest in the "Krone" Sihlbrugg.
  • The «Sihlsprung», a section of the Sihl that still has the original, wild character of the river.
  • The «Babenwaag», an old covered wooden bridge that leads over the Sihl into the Zugerland.
  • The "Fahrenweid" near the Spyriwald, with the small animal zoo, is a local recreation area
  • The Reformed Church from 1620 with epitaphs from several centuries
  • The Catholic Church of St. Anthony from 1991.
  • Former Dürrenmoos farmhouse, timber frame construction, early 16th century

  • Meta-Heusser-Heim: Birthplace of Johanna Spyri

  • Johanna Spyri Museum

  • "Spreuermühle", mentioned in 1408: Johanna Spyri is said to have danced at the Chilbi in the associated dance and dining room

  • former farmhouse Dürrenmoos

  • Half-timbered farmhouse in the town center

  • Partly overbuilt drumlin with a characteristic tree

Personalities

Johanna Spyri
  • Salomon Tobler (1794–1878), pastor of Hirzel from 1826 to 1840; wrote his verse epic Die Enkel Winkelried’s here
  • Meta Heusser (1797–1876), author of late Pietist poetry
  • Jakob Christian Heusser (1826–1909), crystallographer, mineralogist and geologist; Born in Hirzel, brother of Johanna Spyri
  • Johanna Spyri (1827–1901), writer (including the novel Heidi  )
  • Ludwig Tobler (1827–1895), Germanist, folklorist and philosopher of language; Born in Hirzel, son of Salomon Tobler
  • Adolf Tobler (1835–1910), Romanist; Born in Hirzel, son of Salomon Tobler
  • Hans H. Günthard (1916–2006), chemist, Marcel Benoist Prize winner; Born in Hirzel, brother of Jack Günthard
  • Jack Günthard (1920–2016), gymnast, Olympic champion; Born in Hirzel, brother of Hans H. Günthard

literature

  • Jürg Winkler: Hirzel. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  • 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 .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ortsnames.ch.
  2. ↑ Project Horgen Hirzel 2018 - Current situation. (No longer available online.) In: horgen.ch. Horgen community, January 20, 2017, archived from the original on December 27, 2017 ; accessed on November 5, 2019 .
  3. ↑ admin.ch: SR 451.11 Appendix Landscapes and Natural Monuments of National Importance (Ordinance on the Federal Inventory of Landscapes and Natural Monuments) , accessed on October 12, 2010
  4. ↑ admin.ch: 451.35.de.pdf (application / pdf-Objekt; 502 kB) , accessed on October 12, 2010
  5. ↑ 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. 446 f.