Heimgarten fruit growing association
The Heimgarten fruit growing cooperative in Bülach was founded in 1892 or 1893 at the suggestion of Julius Sponheimer . Friedrich Fellenberg was one of the co-founders .
In particular, settlers from Germany who had escaped the compulsory vaccination settled in the settlement .
The settlement included the vegetarian rest home and the vegetarian guesthouse "Villa Trautheim" with air and sun baths, as well as a theosophical center .
In 1907 the settlement went bankrupt.
When the Eden non-profit fruit growing settlement in Oranienburg near Berlin was about to be founded in 1893 , the cooperative asked to adopt its statutes and also its name. The assembly then decided against it.
Residents
Among the residents of the Heimgarten fruit growing association known by name were the architect Franz Plöttner, the orchard owner Georg Utermöhlen and the chemist Ernst Woehrle. You are a signatory of the "Committee for the Protection and Promotion of the Inventions of Hermann Ganswindt zu Schöneberg near Berlin", which appeared in 1902 in the Berliner Börsenzeitung. After the first flight of a flying machine developed by him in 1901, Hermann Ganswindt was accused of fraud in 1902 and taken into custody. The Untermöhlen brothers had been the general agency in Switzerland for "Ganswindt wheels with wire axles" since 1899.
literature
- Werner Onken : Model experiments with socially responsible soil and money . Lütjenburg 1997, online
- Heimgarten bei Bülach , Neujahrsblatt 1994 of the reading society Bülach (35th New Year's Gazette), Bülach 1993.
- Ulrich Linse (ed.): Back, oh human, to mother earth. Rural municipalities in Germany. 1890-1933 , Munich 1983.
- Friedrich Fellenberg, The Heimgarten colony. History, career and reasons for the decline , Berlin 1908.