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The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Kloten (disambiguation) .

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State :	Switzerland
Canton :	Zurich (ZH)
District :	Bulach
BFS no. :	0062
Postal code :	8302
UN / LOCODE :	CH KTN
Coordinates :	686 325  /  255953 coordinates: 47 ° 26 '55 "  N , 8 ° 35' 0"  O ; CH1903:  686,325  /  255953
Height :	435  m above sea level M.
Height range :	418–602 m above sea level M.
Area :	19.27  km²
Residents:	19,679 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	1021 inhabitants per km²
Proportion of foreigners : (residents without citizenship )	32.8% (December 31, 2018)
City President :	René Huber ( SVP )
Website:	www.kloten.ch
Playground, farmhouse and reformed church in Kloten.
Location of the municipality

Kloten (in local dialect : Chloote [ ˈχloːtə ]) is a town in the Bülach district of the Swiss canton of Zurich .

coat of arms

Blazon

In red a half silver lion armed with eagle fangs

The coat of arms goes back to the Lords of Kloten, who had had half a lion in their seal as a sign of belonging to Habsburg since 1331. It was first used as the municipal coat of arms in 1793.

geography

Kloten is located about 10 km northeast of the center of the city of Zurich in the plain of the Glatt valley . From the Altbachtal of the flows here Bassersdorf coming Altbach after passing under the airport area below Glattbrugg in the Glatt . The municipality extends from the wooded hilltop in the Hard and from the Balsberg in the south over the ridges of the hamlets of Gerlisberg and Bänikon to the narrow Eigental, an important regional nature reserve. Zurich Airport is located in the plain on the Glatt in the west of the municipality and in the subsequent Rümlanger Ried , which takes up a significant part of the Kloten municipality. To the north of the urban settlement lie the Homberg, Buehalm and Schlatt forests, from which the Ruebisbach and Himmelbach flow to the Glatt.

Of the 1,928  hectare municipal area, 34% is agricultural land, 26% is forest, 22% is transport infrastructure and 17% is settlement area.

The political municipality of Kloten includes the city districts Zentrum , Geissberg , Hostrass , Oberfeld , Rütlen , Spitz , Bramen , Balsberg , Holberg , Hohrainli , Kaserne , Chaseren and Freienberg as well as the settlements of Egetswil , Geerlisberg , Bänikon , Obholz , in the Eigental , in Rank and am Aalbühl and a large part of Zurich Airport.

The neighboring communities of Kloten are Winkel , Lufingen , Oberembrach , Nürensdorf , Bassersdorf , Dietlikon , Wallisellen and Opfikon in the Bülach district and Rümlang in the Dielsdorf district .

population

	Population development
year	Residents
1467	370
1634	842
1710	1328
1850	1524
1900	1363
1950	3429
1970	16,388
2000	16,525
2010	17,995
2015	18,412
2017	19,869
2018	20,152
2019	20,635

• Proportion of foreigners: 33.8% (as of end of 2019)
• Gender: proportion of women 50.6%, proportion of men 49.4% (as of end of 2019)
• Denomination: 23.8% Protestant Reformed , 28.5% Roman Catholic , 47.7% no or other denomination (as of 2016)

history

Kloten on the Wild map from 1848

Aerial photo from 1919, taken from a height of 100 meters by Walter Mittelholzer

Traces of Stone Age settlement were found in the area of ​​the airport , at Aalbühl the remains of a settlement from the Early Bronze Age and a Roman estate , in Hagenholz and in Homberg stone box graves from the Hallstatt period . In Roman times, Kloten was at the crossroads of the Roman road from Vindonissa ( Windisch ) to Brigantium ( Bregenz ) with a path leading from the north towards Turicum ( Zurich ); near the reformed church in today's city center there was a Roman settlement between the 1st and 3rd centuries AD, and a fort in the 4th century AD . Legion bricks attest to the presence of Legions XXI Rapax and XI Claudia . Perhaps the place name documented as Chlotun since the middle of the 12th century goes back to an education * Claudiodunum from the legion's name with gall. dunon , fixing, Anhöh, Mountain 'back; Another interpretation sees a purely Celtic composition in the name with the fore link * klau̯o- 'bolt, nail'> air. cló 'nail'.

Near the Glatt stood in the 13./14. In the 18th century, Rohr Castle was the seat of the Lords of Rümlang , which was destroyed in the Sempach War, but rebuilt by the Zurichers and only demolished in 1892. As part of the Kyburg rule , the high and low courts of Kloten came to the Habsburgs in 1264 , and to the city of Zurich in 1424/52. Kloten remained a customs post until 1510 and the court of the Kyburger Unteramt until 1798. In the Helvetic Republic , the municipality of Kloten first came to the newly created Bassersdorf district , then in 1803/1831 to the Bülach district . On September 2, 1839, a people's assembly took place in the run-up to the Zurich Putsch in Kloten. In 1872 the civil parish of Geerlisberg was dissolved, in 1922 that of Kloten; In 1927 the hamlets of Bänikon and Eigenhal, which had previously belonged to Oberembrach, were connected.

The artillery arsenal, which was set up in 1911 , has been used to train transmission troops since 1950 .

In 1961, Kloten reached the size of a town with 10,000 inhabitants.

traffic

Public transport

With the opening of the Wettingen – Effretikon line of the Swiss National Railway , Kloten received a stop in 1877. The Kloten-Balsberg stop is on the same route, both are served by the Zurich S-Bahn line S 7 every half hour.

Under the airport lies underground station Zurich airport on the 1980 opened airport line . In addition to three S-Bahn lines, the airport train station is also served by InterRegio , InterCity and EuroCity trains, which connect Kloten directly with large parts of Switzerland and neighboring countries.

The Glattalbahn connects Kloten with the Zurich transport network.

Private transport

Kloten is on the main roads from Zurich via Bülach to Eglisau and to Rorbas in the Tösstal . The airport motorway and the 51 motorway connect the Kloten transport network to the national motorways.

Airport

In 1946–1948, Zurich-Kloten Airport was built west of the village and has since been expanded in several stages. With up to 30 million passengers, Zurich Airport is the largest airport in Switzerland . Various companies and institutions are based at the airport, for example the Federal Office for Meteorology and Climatology , the airlines Swiss , Helvetic Airways and Edelweiss Air , the technical service company SR Technics , the catering company Gategroup Holding and the Swiss air- rescue service . In 1969 there was an assassination attempt on the airport premises.

In 2009, Kloten was awarded the Energy City label for its sustainable and efficient energy policy. The energy city of Kloten is characterized above all by the high level of mobility that is environmentally friendly thanks to a large range of public transport. In order to promote bicycle traffic , the first PubliBike stations went into operation in 2019 .

economy

Several large companies have their headquarters in Kloten, such as Nobel Biocare , the trading company OPO Oeschger , the logistics group Via Mat and the building materials company Weiacher Kies .

Attractions

• See also : List of cultural assets in Kloten
• Reformed Church of Kloten
• Roman Catholic Church of Christ the King
• Mittelholzer monument on the Butzenbüel, for Walter Mittelholzer (1894–1937), Swiss aviation pioneer

politics

Municipal council

The large municipal council , set up as a legislature in 1970, consists of 32 members; the city administration is subordinate to a seven-member city council.

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A total of 32 seats

• GPS : 3
• SP : 6
• glp : 3
• EVP : 3
• CVP : 2
• FDP : 5
• SVP : 10

City president is René Huber ( SVP , as of 2014). Since the last election on April 15, 2018, the main municipal council has been composed as follows:

• SVP, 10 seats: Tina Kasper (previous), Rico Käser (previous), Silvan Eberhard (previous), Ueli Morf (previous), Sabrina Manhart (previous), Roland Lieb (previous), Sandra Eberhard-Hermoso (new), Oliver Streuli (previously), Ueli Schlatter (previously), Marco Brunner (new)
• SP, 6 seats: Sigrun "Sigi" Sommer (previously), Christoph Fischbach (previously), Maja Hiltebrand (previously), René Roser (previously), Philip Graf (new), Anita Egg (new)
• FDP, 5 seats: Irene Frischknecht (previously), Peter Nabholz (previously), Beat Vorburger (previously), Andreas Keller (new), Marco Vollenweider (previously)
• EPP, 3 seats: Tania Woodhatch (previously), Tim Häfliger (new), Heinrich Brändli (previously)
• Green, 3 seats: Fabienne Kühnis (previously), Reto Schindler (previously), Ektoras Dokos (new)
• glp, 3 seats: Mathias Rieder (previously), Roman Walt (previously), Marc Tuor (new)
• CVP, 2 seats: Pascal Walt (previously), Irina Bannwart (previously)

Previous seat assignments

2014 - 2018 (SVP: 13, SP: 5, FDP: 4, CVP: 3, EVP: 2, GP: 2, GLP: 2, EDU: 1)

2010 - 2014 (SVP: 12, SP: 6, FDP: 3, CVP: 3, EVP: 3, GP: 2, GLP: 2, EDU: 1)

2006 - 2010 (SVP: 11, SP: 7, CVP: 4, FDP: 3, EVP: 3, GP: 3, EDU: 1)

City Council and City Administration

The city administration is subordinate to a seven-member city ​​council and is headed by the administrative director Thomas Peter. He is also the town clerk.

Since the last election on April 15, 2018, the city council has been composed as follows:

Department	person
economy	Huber, René (SVP) - Mayor
population	Kaeser-Stöckli, Regula (GP)
Health + resources	Wisskirchen, Mark (EPP)
education	Hottinger, Kurt (SVP)
Space + environment	Isler, Roger (FDP)
Social	Kuratli, Gaby (CVP)
safety	Seiler Graf, Priska (SP)

Former city president: 1994 - 2006 Heinzelmann, Bruno (SVP)

Parties

In the 2019 National Council elections, the share of the vote in Kloten was: SVP 38.9%, SP 16.8%, FDP 11.5%, glp 9.7%, Greens 8.8%, CVP 4.8%, EPP 4.2 %, BDP 2.1%, EDU 1.2%.

Name affinity

The city ​​of Kloten (Wisconsin), named after Kloten from Zurich, is located in the US state of Wisconsin .

Another town with the same name is Kloten (North Dakota) in the US state of North Dakota .

Sports

In the center of Schluefweg with the Swiss Arena ice rink, there is also a gym and an indoor and outdoor pool. The outdoor swimming pool was reopened in 2016 after renovation for CHF 7.5 million.

EHC Kloten , founded in 1934, is an ice hockey club that plays in the Swiss national league NLB .

The Kloten-Bülach Jets play floorball in the National League A.

On the sports clubs of Kloten informing club network Kloten .

Personalities

• Johann Heinrich Lips (1758–1817), copperplate engraver, born in Kloten
• Charyl Chappuis (* 1992), Thai-Swiss football player, grew up in Kloten

literature

• Hans Kläui, Alfred Pfister, Heinrich Jäckli & al .: Kloten. From farming village to airport city , Zurich 1964.
• 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 .
• Kloten enjoys - a culinary city portrait A cookbook as a city portrait with 100 recipes from 31 countries by 100 authors and their stories about their home and hometown, published by Stadt Kloten 2017, ISBN 978-3-033-06301-3

Web links

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

• Official website of the city of Kloten
• Ueli Müller: Kloten. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Statistics municipality of Kloten

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. ^ ^{A b} Andres Kristol: Kloten ZH (Bülach) . In: Dictionnaire toponymique des communes suisses - Lexicon of Swiss municipality names - Dizionario toponomastico dei comuni svizzeri (DTS | LSG). Center de dialectologie, Université de Neuchâtel, Verlag Huber, Frauenfeld / Stuttgart / Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-7193-1308-5 and Éditions Payot, Lausanne 2005, ISBN 2-601-03336-3 , p. 485.
4. ↑ Kloten under ortsnames.ch ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . 
5. ↑ Eigental nature reserve.
6. ↑ Hans Kläui, The old Kloten in: Kloten. From farming village to airport city , Zurich 1964.
7. ↑ History of Kloten Airport
8. ↑ Energiestadt in: kloten.ch, accessed on November 12, 2010
9. ^ Stefan Hotz: Canton of Zurich: Publibike bike rental expands into Glatttal. In: nzz.ch . September 5, 2019, accessed September 18, 2019 . 
10. ↑ Elections 2019. Accessed August 1, 2020 . 
11. ↑ http://www.zuonline.ch/buelach/Die-Badi-Kloten-praesentiert-sich-in-neuem-Glanz-/story/28106876
12. ↑ Sportvereine von Kloten ( Memento of the original from 23 August 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.