Niederweningen

Niederweningen
State :	Switzerland
Canton :	Zurich (ZH)
District :	Dielsdorf
BFS no. :	0091
Postal code :	8166
UN / LOCODE :	CH NWG
Coordinates :	670 835  /  262 316 coordinates: 47 ° 30 '28 "  N , 8 ° 22' 44"  O ; CH1903:  670,835  /  262,316
Height :	505  m above sea level M.
Height range :	438–859 m above sea level M.
Area :	6.85  km²
Residents:	3053 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	446 inhabitants per km²
Proportion of foreigners : (residents without citizenship )	17.2% (December 31, 2018)
Mayor :	Andrea Weber Allenspach ( independent )
Website:	www.niederweningen.ch
View from the Lägern to Niederweningen
Location of the municipality

Niederweningen is a municipality in the district of Dielsdorf in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland .

coat of arms

Blazon

In red, an eight-pointed silver star in front of a formed silver crescent

geography

Niederweningen lies between Egg and Lägern at the western end of the Wehntal , which is drained by the Surb . The 688 ha total area of ​​the municipality is divided into 49% agriculture, 38% forest, 4% traffic area and 9% settlement area.

The municipality borders on Siglistorf ( AG ) in the north, Schleinikon in the east, Otelfingen in the southeast, Wettingen ( AG ) in the south, Ehrendingen ( AG ) in the west and Schneisingen ( AG ) in the northwest .

Niederweningen is the westernmost municipality in the canton of Zurich. The highest point is at the Burghorn at 859  m above sea level. M. on the Lägernkrete in the immediate border to the Aargau community Wettingen.

history

During the excavations from 1840 to 1911 on the Schöfflisdorf, Oberweningen and Schleiniker plates as well as in Niederweningen, the 28 burial mounds on the Egg were explored, which were attributed to the younger Stone Age (2000 BC). The Wehntal was already settled in Roman times. The two manors in Oberweningen and Schleinikon-Dachsleren bear witness to this. In 507 the region came under the rule of the Burgundian King Gundobad. Around 700 the Alemanni settled the valley. The Wano clan settled in a few. The place name is derived from the term "situs Waninctale" (among the people of Wano). From the year 1000 the Wehntal belonged to the Duchy of Swabia-Alemania within the German Empire. The Zähringer ruled from 1127 to 1218. They were followed in the 11th century by the barons of Regensberg . Ulrich von Weningen was the head of the Regensberg Meierhof in Niederweningen and as such held the highest office in the village.

On March 17, 1409 Niederweningen came under the authority of the city-state of Zurich, which lent money to the impoverished aristocracy and to which parts of today's cantonal territory fell through unredeemed pledges. As early as 1431 Regensberg complained about the violation of his old freedoms. In 1439 the so-called Old Zurich War broke out. At the time of the Regensberg rule, agriculture had to pay interest in the form of kernels, oats and spelled, as well as chickens, eggs, geese and pigs. A wax interest guarantees the existence of beekeeping. According to the Habsburg land register, there were more free farmers in Schleinikon and Dachsleren in the 14th century.

Agriculture in Niederweningen was in a state of upheaval in the 16th and 17th centuries. From 1608 to 1668, 150 Jucharten forests were cleared in favor of arable land and vineyards. As the capital of the Wehntal, the community was able to organize some things itself, others fell under the responsibility of the bailiff of the cathedral chapter of Constance and the governor of Regensberg.

The Helvetic brought the Mediation Constitution in 1803 and with it the municipality Niederweningen with the five-member council and the mayor at the top. Niederweningen belonged to the Bülach district and within this administrative unit to the Schöfflisdorf guild court. The term guild court emphasized the equality of the landscape with the city of Zurich, which until 1798 only had a guild constitution.

In 1842 a postal connection to Zurich was established. In the summer of 1890, the Swiss Northeast Railway began building the railway line from the previous Dielsdorf terminus into the Wehntal to Niederweningen, the so-called Wehntalbahn .

Aerial photo (1953)

politics

The SVP has 42.0%, the SP 21.1%, the FDP 13.9%, the Greens 9.0%, the CVP 4.6%, and the EPP 3.8% of the vote. Another important group was the Niederweningen Free Voters.

Andrea Weber Allenspach has been the mayor since 2006. The municipal councilors for the 2014-2018 legislature are Sybille Hauser, Christian Moser, Mark Staub and Ruth Weber. All five members of the municipal council are independent (as of December 2017).

schools

In addition to the primary school Mammutwis and the kindergarten, Niederweningen is the local secondary school center, which, together with the Schmittenwis school complex, houses the secondary school of the Wehntal communities of Niederweningen, Schleinikon , Schöfflisdorf and Oberweningen . Since January 1, 2010, all four schools in the Wehntal have been united in a single school community Wehntal. Ann Barbara Franzen (FDP) has been president since then.

economy

• Bucher Industries

Churches

There are two church buildings in Niederweningen:

• The Reformed Church Niederweningen characterizes the townscape.
• The Niederweningen Catholic Chapel was built in 1956 and redesigned in 2014.

traffic

Niederweningen is the end point of the Wehntalbahn (Oberglatt – Niederweningen), which is served by the S 15 Rapperswil - Uster - Zurich HB - Oberglatt - Niederweningen . The S 15 trains run every half hour. The municipality is accessed from the two train stations Niederweningen Dorf and Niederweningen , the latter is located directly on the border with the neighboring municipality of Schneisingen in Aargau . Postbuses run to Döttingen in the further course of the Surb Valley , as the Surb Valley Railway, which was envisaged by federal law in 1915 , was never built. Postbus routes also lead in the direction of Baden and Siglistorf, Kaiserstuhl. The post bus line 354 runs from Baden via Niederweningen to Kaiserstuhl and the post bus line 355 from Niederweningen to Endingen .

The main road 17 from Zurich to Döttingen leads through Niederweningen.

Personalities

• Adolf Meyer (1866–1950), Swiss-American psychiatrist.

Attractions

See also : List of cultural assets in Niederweningen

Mammoth finds

Mammoth find 2003

During the construction work for the Wehntalbahn, bones of seven mammoths were found. In 1967 the remains of a 20,000-year-old post-glacial wild horse were found during excavation work on the premises of the Bucher-Guyer AG company . In 2003 the remains of a mammoth bull and a tusk were unearthed during various excavation work. This prompted the Association for Local History to build a mammoth museum together with representatives of the paleontological museum and cantonal archeology in Niederweningen. Since October 2005, the "Mammoth Museum Niederweningen" has offered a comprehensive overview of the largest mammoth finds in Switzerland.

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  Mammoth museum

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  Mammoth tusk

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  Farmhouse

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  Farmhouse

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  railway station

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  church

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  The village seen from the main road 17

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  The village entrance (from the east)

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 : Niederweningen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of the Niederweningen community
• Statistical data for the Niederweningen community
• Alfred Häberle: Niederweningen. 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. ↑ mammutmuseum.ch: Home - Mammutmuseum Niederweningen , accessed on February 15, 2011