Lufingen

Lufingen
State :	Switzerland
Canton :	Zurich (ZH)
District :	Bulach
BFS no. :	0063
Postal code :	8426
Coordinates :	687 081  /  260 556 coordinates: 47 ° 29 '24 "  N , 8 ° 35' 39"  O ; CH1903:  687,081  /  260,556
Height :	459  m above sea level M.
Height range :	435-590 m above sea level M.
Area :	5.18  km²
Residents:	2401 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	464 inhabitants per km²
Proportion of foreigners : (residents without citizenship )	18.7% (December 31, 2018)
Mayor :	Jürg Badertscher (LL)
Website:	www.lufingen.ch
Location of the municipality

Lufingen is a municipality in the Bülach district in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland .

geography

Aerial photo (1959)

Lufingen is located between Glattal and Tösstal in the Zurich Unterland . Augwil also belongs to the municipality of Lufingen . 50.2% of the municipal area is used for agriculture, 38.3% is forest, 3.4% is used for transport, 7.9% is settlement area and 0.2% is water.

population

Population development

year	Residents
1634	148
1836	262
1920	368
1960	421
1976	615
2003	1342
2006	1533
2007	1552
2008	1608
2009	1699
2010	1756
2011	1823
2012	1836
2013	1872
2014	1914

Postbus stop in Lufingen

history

In 1157, Lufingen was first mentioned in a document as Luvingen , when Canon Domenicus donated land in Lufingen to the monastery of St. Blasien in the Black Forest in Strasbourg . Luvingin 1157 = with the people in the hole (mhd. Lûf <hole, abyss>). From 1496 to 1498 Heinrich Brennwald was rector of the parish church in Lufingen. The jurisdiction of Lufingen was sold in December 1645 by the St. Blasien monastery to its Zurich bailiff in Stampfenbach , Gerold Edlibach. The council of Zurich approved this purchase and granted Edlibach feudal rights, since the city was the supreme lieutenant of its subject area. In 1647 he sold the jurisdiction to his brother-in-law, Johann Heinrich Waser , Vogt von Kyburg and then mayor of Zurich.

Attractions

See also : List of cultural assets in Lufingen

politics

The Swiss People's Party has 48.7%, the Swiss Social Democratic Party 15.5%, the Free Democratic Party 14.9%, the Swiss Green Party 5.8%, the Christian Democratic People's Party 2.8% and the Evangelical People's Party 5.3% of the vote.

coat of arms

Blazon : "In gold on gleichgipfligem green Dreienberg growing a rotstämmige green fir."

This official coat of arms replaced older, non-uniformly used representations in 1861.

Personalities

• Romano Spadaro (* 1948), manager and former sports official

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

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

• Official website of the municipality of Lufingen
• Statistical data on the municipality of Lufingen
• Ueli Müller: Lufingen. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

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. ↑ Norbert Domeisen. Mayor Johann Heinrich Waser (1600–1669) as a politician. A contribution to Swiss history in the 17th century. Zurich 1975. pp. 91–93 ( Memento of the original from March 31, 2016 on WebCite ) 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.