Menzingen ZG

ZG is the abbreviation for the canton of Zug in Switzerland and is used to avoid confusion with other entries of the name Menzingen .

Menzingen

State :	Switzerland Switzerland
Canton :	Canton of Zug Train (ZG)
District :	No district divisionw
BFS no. :	1704i1 f3 f4
Postal code :	6313
UN / LOCODE :	CH EDB (Edlibach) CH MZN (Menzingen)
Coordinates :	687 398 / 226153 coordinates: 47 ° 10 '50 " N , 8 ° 35' 30" O ; CH1903: 687398 / 22615347.180553 8.591669 805
Height :	805 m above sea level M.
Height range :	510-1209 m above sea level M.
Area :	27.51 km²
Residents:	4539 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	165 inhabitants per km²
Proportion of foreigners : (residents without citizenship )	19.4% (December 31, 2,015)
Mayor :	Andreas Etter ( CVP )
Website:	www.menzingen.ch
Menzingen
Location of the municipality
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Menzingen is a municipality in the canton of Zug in Switzerland . It was created in its current form in 1848, when the "community on the mountain" - as it was usually called at the time - was separated from the Neuheim community .

geography

Menzingen is located in the hilly landscape in the northeastern part of the canton of Zug and borders the canton of Zurich . The community consists of the three localities Edlibach , Finstersee and Menzingen.

Since 2002 Menzingen has been the seat of the Menzingen Cantonal School (KSM). The General House of the Society of St. Pius X and the Institute of the Sisters of the Holy Cross (Menzinger Sisters) are located in Menzingen.

history

Menzingen, historical aerial photo from June 9, 1948, taken by Werner Friedli

Menzingen is first mentioned in a document as Mentzenheim in the Liber Heremi around 1060 , when Count Ulrich von Kiburg handed over a hat to the Einsiedeln monastery during the term of office of Abbot Hermann (1051-1065). According to Professor Paul Kläui, this place name will probably be a spelling mistake, because the well-known copy by Aegidius Tschudi includes the comment "forte Mentzingen - Zugerbiet" (perhaps Menzingen im Zugerbiet).

It was first mentioned in a document as «Mêincingin» in 1217/22. During the same period, other first mentions of place names in the municipality, seven between 1200 and 1250 and another six between 1250 and 1300.

The Alemannic form of settlement with numerous individual farms can still be seen today. The place belongs to the old-free communities of the office of Zug.

In 1480 Menzingen became its own parish; previously the Schönbrunn Chapel was the place of worship for the mountain community. The Gothic ribbed vault in the choir of the church and the St. Anna chapel date from this period. During the construction of today's church (1620–1637) the magnificent high altar and the richly carved portal were created. Late baroque and classicism characterize the ceiling painting and the colored stucco .

The Libell dispute of 1604 brought political independence to three outer rural communities. This led to the building of a town hall in Menzingen in 1611. The house was sold in 1900 and still stands today as an inn at the Rössli at Hauptstrasse 5.

In 1821 37 craftsmen founded the Brotherly Association of Honorable Masters of Menzingen . The championship Menzingen took on the training of journeyman and later founded a school and a health insurance company. Since then, alongside the guilds in the city of Zug, it has been the only craftsmen's brotherhood in the canton of Zug. Today she mainly maintains the social life, especially on championship day during the carnival season . Traditionally there is a vigil, a children's ball with gifts and an evening championship ball.

In connection with the dispute over the distribution of the so-called Viennese congress money, the municipality declared its withdrawal from the cantonal association in 1823.

In 1835 a coal store was discovered above Finstersee in Greit im Steigholz am Höhronen . Despite the thinness of the seam , high-quality brown coal was mined in several places in the area . As a result of the difficult conditions, little income could be generated, so that the last company stopped mining in 1860. During the two world wars, production was resumed.

In 1844 the Congregation of the Sisters of the Holy Cross , who became known as the Menzinger Sisters and are active worldwide today, was founded. You also ran the Bernarda teacher seminar in Menzingen, which was closed in 2006.

The dissatisfaction of the residents of Neuheim that had been part of the Menzingen parish since the High Middle Ages, which was revealed during the Sonderbund War , led to the separation of the Neuheim parish, which took place in 1848.

population

Population development
year	1850	1880	1900	1910	1920	1930	1941
Residents	2,112	2,316	2,495	2,690	2,912	2,976	2,922

year	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990	2000	2010
Residents	3,398	3,340	3,483	3,564	4,197	4,495	4,361

politics

Municipal council

The Menzingen municipal council consists of six members and is set up as follows (as of June 2019):

Andreas Etter ( CVP ): Mayor ; Finance department

Susan Staub (CVP): Social and Health Department

Barbara Beck-Iselin ( ALG ): Central Services Department

Herbert Keizer ( independent ): Construction department

Isabelle Menzi (CVP): Education Department

Fabian Arnet (independent): community clerk

Cantonal elections

In the elections to the Zug Cantonal Council in 2018, the share of the vote in Menzingen was: CVP 39.5%, SVP 27.1%, FDP and young liberals 16.8%, glp 4.0%, ALG and CSP 10.8%, SP , JUSO, SP60 + 1.7%.

National Council elections

In the Swiss parliamentary elections in 2015, the share of the vote in Menzingen was: CVP 34.8%, SVP 28.3%, FDP 18.8%, SP 9.8%, GPS 5.3%, glp 1.7%.

Attractions

In the community there are Zuger houses that are well worth seeing, often with splendid floral decorations.

The Capuchin convent Maria-Hilf stands on the Gubel with a pilgrimage chapel from the Rococo.
The St. Wendelin pilgrimage chapel to the east of the village was built in 1597.
From 1858 there was a spa house near Edlibach under the name Bad Schönbrunn . The Kurhaus was replaced by a modern building from 1968 to 1970 and since then has housed an educational center, which has been known as the Lassalle House since 1993 .
Institute of the Sisters of the Holy Cross .

photos

Center at the school house
Neudorfstrasse with post
church
Institute of the Sisters of the Holy Cross
Memorial stone mother Bernarda Heimgartner
Chapel of St. Wendelin
Gubel restaurant and chapel
Menzingen from afar
Moraine landscape around Menzingen

Personalities

Benedikt Staub (1617–1672), abbot of the Cistercian monastery in Wettingen

Philipp Etter (1891–1977), Federal Councilor

Josef Stierli (1913–1999), church historian and head of the Jesuit educational center

Bruno Pezzatti (* 1951), FDP National Councilor
Peter Hegglin (* 1960), CVP Council of States, former member of the government
Tony Rominger (* 1961), racing cyclist

literature

Linus Birchler : The art monuments of the canton of Zug, Volume I: Introduction and Zug-Land. (= Art Monuments of Switzerland. Volume 5). Edited by the Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Bern 1934.

Web links

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

Website of the community of Menzingen
Renato Morosoli: Menzingen (municipality). 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 .
↑ Permanent resident population by nationality category, gender and municipality ( memento from January 1, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (permanent resident population)
↑ Menzingen Cantonal School. Retrieved September 15, 2019 .
^ Rudolf Henggeler: 900 years of Menzigen, page 11
↑ Josef Grünenfelder: Die Kunstdenkmäler des Kanton Zug, new edition I, The former Äussere Amt , 1999 ISBN 3-909164-69-2, page 133
^ Menzingen championship , Zug Kultur, accessed on June 22, 2017.
↑ The Menziner coal mines 1837-1943 in mänziker Zytig no. 37, August 2005
↑ How the Canton of Zug left the nuns hanging in Zentralplus.ch
↑ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Eidgenössische Volksensus 2000 - Population development of the municipalities 1850–2000 ( Memento of March 14, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). Federal Statistical Office, Neuchâtel 2002, ISBN 3-303-01154-0
↑ Canton of Zug - Menzingen list results graphically (CG) (pdf)
↑ National Council elections 2015: strength of the parties and voter turnout by municipality. In: Results of the National Council elections 2015. Federal Statistical Office, 2016, accessed on June 15, 2016 .
^ Josef Grünenfelder, Uta Fromherz: Institute Menzingen. Canton of Zug. (Swiss Art Guide, No. 891, Series 90). Ed. Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Bern 2011, ISBN 978-3-03797-016-4 .

[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] Permanent resident population by nationality category, gender and municipality ( memento from January 1, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (permanent resident population)

[3] Menzingen Cantonal School. Retrieved September 15, 2019 .

[4] Rudolf Henggeler: 900 years of Menzigen, page 11

[5] Josef Grünenfelder: Die Kunstdenkmäler des Kanton Zug, new edition I, The former Äussere Amt , 1999 ISBN 3-909164-69-2, page 133

[6] Menzingen championship , Zug Kultur, accessed on June 22, 2017.

[7] The Menziner coal mines 1837-1943 in mänziker Zytig no. 37, August 2005

[8] How the Canton of Zug left the nuns hanging in Zentralplus.ch

[9] Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Eidgenössische Volksensus 2000 - Population development of the municipalities 1850–2000 ( Memento of March 14, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). Federal Statistical Office, Neuchâtel 2002, ISBN 3-303-01154-0

[10] Canton of Zug - Menzingen list results graphically (CG) (pdf)

[11] National Council elections 2015: strength of the parties and voter turnout by municipality. In: Results of the National Council elections 2015. Federal Statistical Office, 2016, accessed on June 15, 2016 .

[12] Josef Grünenfelder, Uta Fromherz: Institute Menzingen. Canton of Zug. (Swiss Art Guide, No. 891, Series 90). Ed. Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Bern 2011, ISBN 978-3-03797-016-4 .