Hombrechtikon
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 Switzerland
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| Canton : |
 Zurich (ZH)
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| District : | miles |
| BFS no. : | 0153 |
| Postal code : | 8634 Hombrechtikon 8714 Feldbach |
| Coordinates : | 700 818 / 234488 |
| Height : | 464 m above sea level M. |
| Height range : | 406-582 m above sea level M. |
| Area : | 12.18 km² |
| Residents: | 8757 (December 31, 2018) |
| Population density : | 636 inhabitants per km² |
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Proportion of foreigners : (residents without citizenship ) |
20.3% (December 31, 2018) |
| Mayor : | Rainer Odermatt ( FDP ) |
| Website: | www.hombrechtikon.ch |
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Hombrechtikon is a municipality in Switzerland . It is located on the upper right bank of Lake Zurich in the Meilen district in the canton of Zurich . Hombrechtikon includes the village of Feldbach ZH on Lake Zurich and the hamlets of Uetzikon, Dändlikon, Herrgass, Lutikon, Lützelsee and Schirmensee.
geography
The area of the municipality is 1220 ha , of which 61% is agriculture, 15% is forest and 14% is settlement. Feldbach is on the lake, where the SBB train station is located. The actual village towers over the lake on the back of the pan handle . The protected moor landscape with the Ütziker Ried and the Lützelsee lies on a plateau in a hollow of the pan handle in the municipality area above the village .
history
A stone ax find in the Fromatt from the Neolithic Age (approx. 4500 BC) suggests that people roamed the area of today's community back then. The oldest traces of settlement were left by the pile dwellers around 3800 BC. Near Feldbach ( Seegubel ) on Lake Zurich.
The name hunbrestinchon was first mentioned in documents in 1194. The name goes back to an Alemannic clan founder named Humbracht . The name Hombrechtikon means together with the final syllable -ikon : The court of Humbracht.
The individual hamlets and outposts kept changing hands. Starting with the monastery of St. Gallen , the monastery of Einsiedeln , the island parish of Ufenau , the Habsburgs and finally in 1408 the city of Zurich . From 1831 Hombrechtikon belonged to the Oberamt Meilen, today's district of Meilen.
politics
coat of arms
Blazon : "In red a bound golden sixteen-year sheaf ."
Today's coat of arms is supposed to remind you that Hombrechtikon had to pay taxes to the Catholic Church before the Reformation . The oldest known depiction of the coat of arms can be seen on the steeple of the church of Hombrechtikon and dates from 1676.
population
| Population development | |
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| year | Residents |
| 1634 | 617 |
| 1772 | 1501 |
| 1850 | 2649 |
| 1900 | 2292 |
| 1950 | 3079 |
| 1970 | 4589 |
| 1990 | 6865 |
| 2000 | 7246 |
| 2010 | 7957 |
| 2015 | 8463 |
| 2017 | 8801 |
The proportion of foreigners is 20.4%.
- Religion : 36.1% Reformed , 28.4% Roman Catholic .
Attractions
- Reformed Church , in its present form a 1758-59 by Jakob Grubenmann newly built rococo church . The tower comes from a late Gothic predecessor church.
- Catholic Church of St. Nicholas , built in 1968-1969 by architect Walter Moser takes, outside the formal language Le Corbusier's church Notre-Dame-du-Haut and is built like this on a slightly elevated terrain.
- Country houses and farmhouses in various outlying hamlets , in particular in Schirmensee (former Rössli inn ), in Feldbach (late Gothic-Baroque group of houses belonging to the Bühler family), Lützelsee (Menzi house, representative frame building around 1680), Lutikon ( Egli house , beautifully painted frame house from 1665–1666) and Langenried (Dändliker house, 1683)
- Stricklerhuus village museum
traffic
The municipality of Hombrechtikon can be easily reached by both private and public transport. It is connected to the motorway network via the Rüti / Hombrechtikon junction of the Oberlandautobahn (A53). The Feldbach station on the right bank of the Zürichseebahn is served every half hour by the Zürich S-Bahn :
- S 7 Winterthur - Kloten - Zurich HB - Stadelhofen - Meilen - Rapperswil
The following bus lines exist, which are operated by the Zurich Lake and Oberland Transport Authority (VZO):
- 880 Rüti station - Bad Kämmoos - Bubikon - Wolfhausen - Hombrechtikon - Stäfa Frohberg
- 955 Stäfa station - Laubisrüti - Hombrechtikon Post
- 970 Hombrechtikon Post - Eichtal - Feldbach train station
Sports
Together with the surrounding communities, Hombrechtikon has a wide range of sporting activities.
Handball
Due to the regional boom, many young people from Hombrecht attend the handball school sport or regularly attend training sessions at HC GS Stäfa , which plays a notable role nationally in terms of youth development. The first team is represented in the National League (NL).
do gymnastics
The largest sports club in Hombrechtikon is the gymnastics club TV Hombrechtikon with its sections. Of the total of 450 athletes, 200 do gymnastics in the youth groups.
Artistic cycling
The fringe sport is very pronounced in Hombrechtikon. In addition to many national successes, the athletes at the ATB Hombrechtikon celebrate international successes (third place in the 2005 and 2006 World Championships).
Personalities
- Heinrich Bosshard von Rümikon (1748–1815), farmer, lay preacher and geodesist
- Johann Heinrich Staub (1781–1854), textile industrialist
- Gottlieb Bodmer (1804–1837), portrait painter and lithographer
- Dorothea Trudel (1813–1862), pietistic healer
- Felix Heusser (1817–1875), country doctor and surgeon
- Johann Friedrich Dändliker (1821–1900), Pietist and head of the Diakonie House in Bern
- Alice Wegmann-Dändliker (1850–1909), writer
- Amalie Halter-Zollinger (1892–1985), dialect poet
- Paul Speck (1896–1966), sculptor and modeller (in Karlsruhe and Zurich)
- Constantin Polastri (1933–2009), painter
- Romeo Borbach (* 1938), jazz musician
- Hans Ledermann (* 1957), racing cyclist
- Cecilia Bartoli (* 1966), opera singer
- Thomas Frischknecht (* 1970), mountain bike world champion and Olympic silver medalist
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 .
Web links
- Official website of the municipality of Hombrechtikon
- Statistical data for the municipality of Hombrechtikon
- Christine Barraud Wiener: Hombrechtikon. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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 .
- ↑ Data on the resident population by home, gender and age (community profile). Statistical Office of the Canton of Zurich, accessed on December 22, 2019 .
- ↑ History of Hombrechtikons (PDF; 428 kB)
- ↑ https://www.schienenverkehr-schweiz.ch/Bahnhof/Feldbach