Mönchaltorf
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| State : |
 Switzerland
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| Canton : |
 Zurich (ZH)
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| District : | Uster |
| BFS no. : | 0196 |
| Postal code : | 8617 |
| Coordinates : | 697 055 / 240 881 |
| Height : | 442 m above sea level M. |
| Height range : | 435-569 m above sea level M. |
| Area : | 7.59 km² |
| Residents: | 3769 (December 31, 2018) |
| Population density : | 435 inhabitants per km² |
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Proportion of foreigners : (residents without citizenship ) |
15.8% (December 31, 2018) |
| Mayor : | Urs Graf ( FDP ) |
| Website: | www.moenchaltorf.ch |
 Village church in Mönchaltorf, mentioned in 902 |
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Mönchaltorf , formerly Mönch-Altorff , is a municipality in the district of Uster in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland .
geography
The place is nestled between the district capital Uster and the neighboring towns of Gossau , Esslingen , Egg and the Greifensee at the foot of the Pfannenstiel in a former swamp area . Two streams flow through the village and join in the center of the village. The hamlet of Heusberg belongs to Mönchaltorf and was part of the parish of Uster until 1770. Heusberg is one of two exclaves in the canton of Zurich (the other exclave concerns the municipality of Glattfelden in the Bülach district with the Neuhaus exclave, a single farm in the Rheinaue).
history
The place is documented for the first time in 741 as the Alemannic mansion settlement "Villa Altorf". When it was taken over by the St. Gallen Monastery in 744 , it was given the name "Altorf monarchorum" (Mönch-Altorf).
In the hamlet of Burg , the former Liebenberg Castle was on fire . In the early 13th century it was the seat of the Liebenberg ministers . From 1293 to 1391 it was the St. Gallen fiefdom of Giel von Glattburg (von Liebenberg) and then was bought by the Habsburg-Austrian servants Gessler, who pledged it to the city of Zurich in 1408, where it was destroyed in the Old Zurich War in 1440 stayed. A second castle under the name Liebenberg was located east of Kollbrunn above the Tösstal .
In 1909, the Uster-Mönchaltorf-Oetwil electric tram went into operation, which ceased operations in 1949.
coat of arms
- In silver a Benedictine clad in black, holding a gold book in his right hand.
population
| Population development | |
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| year | Residents |
| 1771 | 695 |
| 1850 | 1148 |
| 1860 | 1189 |
| 1900 | 804 |
| 1941 | 706 |
| 1950 | 837 |
| 1960 | 1023 |
| 1970 | 1604 |
| 1980 | 2863 |
| 1990 | 3494 |
| 2000 | 3180 |
| 2010 | 3431 |
| 2018 | 3498 |
politics
In the cantonal elections on April 13, 2015, the SVP achieved 33.8%, the SP 19.8%, the FDP 15.1%, the BDP 10.2%, the glp 6.1%, in the Mönchaltorf municipality Greens 4.4% of the vote. In addition, the other parties received the following percentages: EDU 3.7%, EVP 2.9%, CVP 2.1%, AL 1.2% and SD 0%.
Urs Graf ( FDP ) has been municipal president since 2018. Previous municipal presidents were Gustav Stehli ( SVP ), Felix Hess ( SVP ), until 2006 Ruedi Lerch ( FDP ), and from 2006 to 2018 Annemarie Beglinger-Vögeli ( FDP ).
| Members of the Mönchaltorfer Municipal Council (2018-2022) | |||
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| Surname | Taking office | function | Political party |
| Urs Graf | 2014/2018 | Parish President / Presidential | FDP |
| Christina Thomas | 2018 | Security / Environment and Agriculture | independent |
| Bernhard Kaderli | 2014 | Finances / real estate | FDP |
| Marlis Smurf | 2016 | society | SP |
| Hans-Rudolf Galliker | 2010 | Education / 2nd Vice President | FDP |
| Rolf Möckli | 2018 | Civil engineering / works | SVP |
| Andrea Larry-Hug | 2014 | Building construction / planning / real estate / culture / 1st Vice President | SP |
traffic
The following bus line exists, which is operated by the Zurich Lake and Oberland Transport Authority (VZO):
- 842 Uster train station - Riedikon - Mönchaltorf - Esslingen train station - Oetwil am See
There is also the Aaspitz / Mönchaltorf landing stage on Greifensee , where scheduled boats dock in summer.
Attractions
The church, mentioned for the first time in 902, got its present form through structural changes in the 14th and 15th centuries. In 1522, master Ulrich Schmid created the splendidly carved wooden ceiling, which is now a listed building. The Mönchaltorfer Untervogt and Captain Felix Keller (1664–1724) had the so-called Hauptmannshof built in 1709. It has belonged to the Zurich Homeland Security Foundation since 1982 .
The Silberweide nature station is located in upper Greifensee, in the middle of the Greifensee nature reserve. The nature station, in operation since August 2005, offers numerous activities in the field of environmental education.
Culture
Various cultural events take place in the church. A meeting point is the “Mönchhof”, which opened in 1990, a village center with common rooms and shops. The Chilbi market takes place every year in autumn.
Personalities
- Johann Georg Schulthess (1724–1804), clergyman and founder of the Berlin Monday Club
- Leon Schlumpf (1925–2012), Federal Councilor
- Walter Matthias Diggelmann (1927–1979), writer
- Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf (* 1956), Federal Councilor
- Dominik Schlumpf (* 1991), ice hockey player
photos
Village fountain in front of the Mönchhof
Restaurant mill
Half-timbered house in the village center
Mönchaltorfer Aa in the center of the village
literature
- Hans Martin Gubler: Art Monuments of Switzerland Volume 66 "The Art Monuments of the Canton of Zurich Volume 3: The Districts of Pfäffikon and Uster" Society for Swiss Art History GSK Bern 1978, ISBN 3-7643-0991-1 , pp. 677-693.
Web links
- Official website of the Mönchaltorf community
- Statistical data from the canton on the municipality of Mönchaltorf
- Paul Hess: Mönchaltorf. 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 .
- ↑ Party strengths in the 2015 cantonal elections , accessed on September 6, 2016.
- ↑ http://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/zuerich/Eveline-Widmer-I-kume-us-Moenchaltorf/story/21341772
- ↑ Information on the election results of the Mönchaltorf municipality , accessed on September 26, 2016.