Maschwanden

Maschwanden

State :	Switzerland Switzerland
Canton :	Canton Zurich Zurich (ZH)
District :	Affoltern
BFS no. :	0008i1 f3 f4
Postal code :	8933
Coordinates :	674 899 / 232127 coordinates: 47 ° 14 '9 " N , 8 ° 25' 40" O ; CH1903: six hundred and seventy-four thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine / 23212747.235825 8.427783 398
Height :	398 m above sea level M.
Height range :	386–476 m above sea level M.
Area :	4.69 km²
Residents:	656 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	121 inhabitants per km²
Proportion of foreigners : (residents without citizenship )	11.0% (December 31, 2018)
Mayor :	Christian Gabathuler
Website:	www.maschwanden.ch
Maschwanden against the Lindenberg
Location of the municipality
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Maschwanden is a municipality in the Affoltern district in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland .

Reformed Church from 1505

Gasthof Kreuz with tavern rights

Maschwander Allmend nature reserve

geography

Aerial photo (1947)

Flat moor landscape "Maschwander Allmend" comprises the flat floodplain at the confluence of the Reuss and Lorze (Rüssspitz, 2006)

Maschwanden is located in the extreme southwest of the canton of Zurich on the edge of the Reuss plain near the confluence of the Lorze and the Reuss . In the west of the municipality, the Lorze forms the natural border with the canton of Zug . The Rüssspitz nature reserve on the other side of the Lorze is part of the extensive community of Hünenberg . In the north, Maschwanden borders on the municipality of Obfelden , in the northeast on Mettmenstetten , in the east on Knonau and in the south on the municipality of Cham in the canton of Zug.

With an area of 4.67 km ² , Maschwanden is the second smallest municipality in the Affoltern district. 61% of the municipal area is used for agriculture, 24% is forested, 3% is traffic areas and 5% is occupied by the settlement.

history

Maschwanden is mentioned for the first time in the oldest foundation letter of the Muri monastery (written around 1160, a copy of the 14th century) in the Acta Murensia as Maswanden . At the same place there is another mention as Maswandon , which should go back directly to an original document from 1189. The Old High German basic form could be based on the weakly declined personal name Mano or the Upper German diminutive Mani and were called ze Manin swanton or ze Manines swanton ("during the clearing of the Mano and the Mani"). An Old High German Massin swanton , derived from the personal name Masso , would also be easy to imagine .

In a document from 1260 Maschwanden is attested as a castle town ("in castro dicto Maswandon"). Maschwanden castle and town were almost the same size as Regensberg . It was on a hill on the edge of the marshland near the Lorze. As with many such towns, the outer facades of the houses formed the curtain wall. There was a fortified tower, water well, and craft shops such as blacksmiths and pottery.

The city of Maschwanden was under the rule of the Barons von Eschenbach . Because of their involvement in the regicide of Albrecht I , the city of Maschwanden was destroyed by the Habsburgs in 1309 and never rebuilt. Maschwanden came under Habsburg rule. In 1406 the city of Zurich acquired jurisdiction over the Maschwander office. The Obervogtei Maschwanden- Freiamt became part of the newly created Landvogtei Knonau in 1512 .

Even before the town was destroyed, today's village of Maschwanden with the mill in the upper village and an inn in the center was built to the north and east of it. When the village church was built in 1505, stones from the former town and castle were used again.

The former castle hill was completely removed by gravel mining in the 19th and 20th centuries. The last archaeological emergency excavations took place in 1934. The profits from the municipality's own gravel plant made up around 20% of the income of the municipality around 1890, which was able to finance various otherwise unrealizable projects.

coat of arms

Blazon

A curly, black tip in gold, covered and separated by three planetary symbols Earth (2, 1) in mixed up colors.

The municipal coat of arms was used by the former Maschwanden bailiwick in the 16th century.

population

With around 664 inhabitants (as of the end of 2013), Maschwanden is the municipality with the smallest population in the Affoltern district and one of the smallest in the canton of Zurich. In 2000, almost a third of the population in Maschwanden was still employed in the first sector. Maschwanden's motto is: "We want to remain a farming village".

Population development
year	Residents
1634	339
1786	507
1850	578
1900	493
1920	424
1950	470
1970	400
1990	495
2000	574
2010	612
2019	640

Attractions

literature

Hermann Fietz: The art monuments of the canton of Zurich, Volume I: The districts of Affoltern and Andelfingen. (= Swiss art monuments. Volume 7). Edited by the Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Bern 1938. DNB 365803030 .
Bernhard Schneider among others: The independent development of the community of Maschwanden. 1991.

Web links

Commons : Maschwanden - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Official website of the municipality of Maschwanden
Statistical data for the municipality of Maschwanden
Martin Illi: Maschwanden. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Link catalog on the topic of Maschwanden at curlie.org (formerly DMOZ )

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 .
↑ Acta Murensia . In: Martin Kiem (Ed.): Sources on Swiss History III . 1883, p. 29, 121 .
^ Daniel Gut: Lunnern. London's twin in the Reuss Valley. A linguistic and cultural-historical location of settlement names . BoD, Norderstedt 2010, ISBN 978-3-8370-8758-1 , p. 80 .
^ Daniel Gut: Lunnern. London's twin in the Reuss Valley. A linguistic and cultural-historical location of settlement names . BoD, Norderstedt 2010, ISBN 978-3-8370-8758-1 , p. 79-82, 113 .
↑ ^a ^b Martin Illi: Maschwanden. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
^ History website of the municipality of Maschwanden
↑ "" first on the Zürcher Taler from 1512, then [...] 1576 and 1599. The municipality probably only adopted the coat of arms of the Obervogtei Maschwanden in the 19th century [documented 1832 ...] On January 11, 1928, the municipal council decided to to continue the coat of arms unchanged. "" The cleaning up of the Zurich municipal coats of arms ", communications of the Antiquarian Society in Zurich 49 (1977), p. 71 .

[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] Acta Murensia . In: Martin Kiem (Ed.): Sources on Swiss History III . 1883, p. 29, 121 .

[4] Daniel Gut: Lunnern. London's twin in the Reuss Valley. A linguistic and cultural-historical location of settlement names . BoD, Norderstedt 2010, ISBN 978-3-8370-8758-1 , p. 80 .

[5] Daniel Gut: Lunnern. London's twin in the Reuss Valley. A linguistic and cultural-historical location of settlement names . BoD, Norderstedt 2010, ISBN 978-3-8370-8758-1 , p. 79-82, 113 .

[HLS-6] Martin Illi: Maschwanden. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

[7] History website of the municipality of Maschwanden

[8] "" first on the Zürcher Taler from 1512, then [...] 1576 and 1599. The municipality probably only adopted the coat of arms of the Obervogtei Maschwanden in the 19th century [documented 1832 ...] On January 11, 1928, the municipal council decided to to continue the coat of arms unchanged. "" The cleaning up of the Zurich municipal coats of arms ", communications of the Antiquarian Society in Zurich 49 (1977), p. 71 .