Leimbach (City of Zurich)

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Leimbach coat of arms
Coat of arms of Zurich
Leimbach
quarter of Zurich
Map of Leimbach
Coordinates 681 210  /  242530 coordinates: 47 ° 19 '43 "  N , 8 ° 30' 47"  O ; CH1903:  six hundred and eighty-one thousand two hundred and ten  /  242530
height 476  m
surface 2.92 km²
Residents 5936 (Dec. 31, 2014)
Population density 2033 inhabitants / km²
BFS no. 261-023
Post Code 8041
Urban district District 2 since 1893/1913

Leimbach is a district of the city of Zurich and is located at the foot of the Uetliberg in the Sihl valley . The formerly independent municipality of Enge was incorporated into the city in 1893 and brought the hamlets of Unterleimbach and Mittelleimbach that belonged to it into the city, which have since been summarized as Leimbach. Together with Enge and Wollishofen , they form district 2 .

coat of arms

Blazon

Two crossed silver potato spatulas in red, raised by a golden ball

history

Leimbach was first mentioned in a document in the years 942 and 948. Ecclesiastically, Leimbach was divided into two parts: the St. Aegidius (Gilg) chapel was a branch church of St. Peter (Zurich) , while Oberleimbach belonged to Adliswil in the Middle Ages . In 1440 Leimbach belonged to Manegg . The church patronage was probably with the Manesse , as the chapel stood on its property and in 1314 was furnished by them with real estate, land interest in Stäfa and Leimbach, this with the permission of Abbess Elisabeth von Matzingen from Fraumünster . In 1400 the widow of the Jew Hirzlin Vislin sold the Veste Manegg together with the church set of the chapel to the Cistercian women in Selnau . In 1497 the chapel was dilapidated. It had a polygonal choir with a tabernacle from 1504. The chapel was partially destroyed during the Reformation , and the remains of the chapel were sold to private customers in 1504 by the Zurich hospital. The walls of the chapel on a hill above the village of Leimbach were preserved until 1865. The local farmhouse was therefore called zu Sankt Gilgen .

The municipality within the Zurich district before the merger in 1892

At the beginning of the early 19th century, the settlement consisted of the hamlets of Unterleimbach , Mittelleimbach and Oberleimbach and the individual farms of Höckler , Frymannshäuser, Hüsli and Ris. Oberleimbach , which politically belonged to the municipality of Wollishofen until 1893, was transferred to the municipality of Adliswil when it was incorporated and is still part of it today. The other localities belonged politically to the municipality of Enge and form today's district of Leimbach .

About a hundred meters above Unterleimbach, on a Molasses spur in the forest, lies the ruins of the former Manegg castle of the Manesse family , whose name is still known today because of the Manesse Codex commissioned by the family around 1300 .

  • Aerial photo from 1962

  • Leimbach seen from the Felsenegg

  • Oberleimbach Sood

  • Mittelleimbach

Churches

Roman Catholic Church Maria Hilf

There are two churches in Leimbach:

  • The Evangelical Reformed Church owns the Leimbach Church , which replaced a previous church built in 1899 in 1971. It was built by the architect Oskar Bitterli and has works of art by Sven Knebel, Jost Kaufmann and Walter Käch.
  • The Roman Catholic Church is represented in Leimbach with the parish Maria Hilf . Their church also replaces a previous church, the interior of which can be found in the weekday chapel. The current church dates from 1972–1974 and was built by the architect Walter Moser. It received the city council's award for good buildings in 1976.

Infrastructure

In addition to school buildings for all ages, Leimbach has a fast connection to Zurich city center with the Sihl Valley Railway . The Leimbach cemetery is the youngest of the 19 municipal cemeteries; it dates from 1972.

literature

  • Episcopal Ordinariate Chur (ed.): Schematism of the Diocese of Chur. Chur 1980
  • Building Construction Department of the City of Zurich, Office for Urban Development: Enge, Wollishofen, Leimbach . Verlag Neue Zürcher Zeitung , Zurich 2006 (Baukultur in Zurich, Volume V), ISBN 3-03823-074-X
  • Presidential Department of the City of Zurich, Statistics City of Zurich: Leimbach quarter mirror . Zurich 2015 ( read online )

Web links

Commons : Leimbach (City of Zurich)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Felix Marbach: Zurich-Wollishofen , in: Bischöfliches Ordinariat Chur (ed.): Schematismus des Bistums Chur. , P. 274
  2. ↑ See the following: Robert Schönbächler: Churches and places of worship in the city of Zurich. New Year's Gazette Industriequartier / Aussersihl. Zurich 2013, pp. 52–53.