Opfikon

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Opfikon
Coat of arms of Opfikon
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Canton ZurichCanton Zurich Zurich (ZH)
District : Bulachw
BFS no. : 0066i1 f3 f4
Postal code : 8152 Opfikon
8152 Glattbrugg
8152 Glattpark
UN / LOCODE : CH OFN (Opfikon)
CH GTG (Glattbrugg)
Coordinates : 685 518  /  254232 coordinates: 47 ° 26 '0 "  N , 8 ° 34' 20"  O ; CH1903:  685518  /  254232
Height : 459  m above sea level M.
Height range : 418–482 m above sea level M.
Area : 5.59  km²
Residents: i20,361 (December 31, 2018)
Population density : 3642 inhabitants per km²
Proportion of foreigners :
(residents without
citizenship ) 		44.9% (December 31, 2018)
Unemployment rate : 2.9%
City President : Paul Remund ( FDP )
Website: www.opfikon.ch
Location of the municipality
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Opfikon (in the local dialect Opfikä [ ˈopfikχe ]) is a political municipality and city in the district of Bülach in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland .

The equally well-known town of Glattbrugg belongs to the political community , which is why the community is often unofficially referred to as Opfikon-Glattbrugg .

geography

The Zürcher Unterländer municipality is located in the Zürcher Unterland in the associated Glatt Valley , between Zurich , Wallisellen, Rümlang and the airport municipality of Kloten . The landscape is rather flat, the lowest point at 420.4  m above sea level. M. is located on the municipality boundary to Rümlang . The highest point of the community is in the Hardwald at 481  m above sea level. M. The municipality area of Opfikon is settled to 37% to 17% is forest, 1.2% are waters continue to serve 27% of agriculture and 17.6% of circulation. Since the turn of the millennium, the settlement areas of the city of Zurich and those of the municipality of Opfikon in the Glattpark and Glattbrugg area have been growing together.

population

end of 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
Residents 15'075 15,363 15,967 16'045 16,338 17'085 18,482 19,461 19,864 20'252 20,889

history

Today's community has its origins in two settlements: Opfikon, on the right of the Glatt , and Oberhausen, on the left of the Glatt. As the name implies, the Glattbrugg was not a settlement, but the bridge over the Glatt. The left bank forge and mill later also used the name Glattbrugg.

After the Counts of Kyburg died out in 1264, blood jurisdiction came to Habsburg- Austria. The Habsburgs divided their extensive property into "offices" for the administration and receipt of taxes, with Opfikon and Oberhausen being assigned to the Schwamendingen office . From King Albrechts Urbar (around 1305) we can deduce: « Ze Opphinkon lit a guot which is characteristic of the gotzhus ( St. Martin monastery ) of Zurichberg; this applies to the law of two quarters and two quarters. Everyone has a vasnight thuon ... »The court in Oberhausen was obliged to pay tithes to the Grossmünster . The jurisdiction was probably partly with the Habsburgs and the Lords of Rümlang; probably at the end of the 14th century it went to the city of Zurich councilor family Biberli. As early as 1370, the Habsburgs pledged Kyburg offices to their then Vogt and keeper on the Kyburg. In 1384 the entire pledge was transferred to the Counts of Toggenburg , after which the Kyburg rule came through inheritance and as a pledge to the Countess Kunigunde of Montfort-Toggenburg. After Duke Friedrich IV was ostracized , the rule of Kyburg became an imperial pledge. On February 9, 1424, the city of Zurich acquired the pledge by paying 8,750 guilders to Countess Kunigunde, which enabled them to double their territory in one fell swoop.

In 1390 and 1411 Heinrich Biberli was the bailiff in Opfikon, and the bailiwick then passed to the family of his son-in-law. Biberli's daughter Anna was married to Peter Kilchmatter, the son of Rudolf II Kilchmatter ("the younger"); At that time the richest citizen of the city of Zurich, owner of the iron mines in Flums and from 1393 to 1413 like Biberli councilor of Constaffel .

In Helvetic , the canton of Zurich was divided into 15 districts and the localities were assigned to municipalities that were oriented towards the parishes and from which the later political communities emerged. Opfikon became part of the municipality of Kloten in the Bassersdorf district; since the Glatt formed the district boundary, Oberhausen was assigned to the Seebach municipality in the Regensdorf district.

In mediation , the canton of Zurich was given a new structure and was divided into five districts. Opfikon and Oberhausen were separated from Kloten in 1803 and merged together into the municipality of Opfikon, which was assigned to the Bülach district. This division lasted until the restoration in which Opfikon was assigned to the Oberamt Embrach and the civil parishes replaced the old village parishes from the time before the Helvetic. The political community Opfikon (also known as Opfikon and Oberhausen ) consisted from 1815 of the two civil communities Opfikon and Oberhausen, which corresponded to the old villages; the settlement of Glattbrugg, which had now emerged to the left of the Glatt, was - like the Schmiede and Mühle previously - part of the civil parish of Oberhausen.

The new cantonal constitution, which was voted on in 1831, was clearly adopted in the parish of Kloten. The two parishes of Opfikon and Kloten belonged to the parish, with their four civil parishes of Opfikon, Oberhausen, Kloten and Geerlisberg-Egetswil. The cantonal constitution sealed the end of the Oberamt Embrach, whose new capital was Bülach and its name was changed accordingly to the district of Bülach.

In May 1918, the end of both Opfiker civil parishes was heralded by speaking out in favor of a merger with the political community of Opfikon in both the civil parish of Oberhausen and the civil parish of Opfikon. The two mergers were carried out on December 31, 1918, due to which, since January 1, 1919, there is officially only the political municipality of Opfikon. The strong development of the Glattbrugg settlement largely replaced the name Oberhausen in the 20th century and is as common today as the name Opfikon. To differentiate the political municipality of Opfikon from the village of Opfikon, the name Opfikon-Glattbrugg is often used for the former.

Aerial view (1968)

Since 1968 the municipality has been a town called Opfikon.

politics

Municipal council

The elections of April 15, 2018 for the 2018–2022 legislative period resulted in the following distribution of seats in the municipal council :

7th
3
3
4th
2
7th
2
8th
7th 3 3 4th 2 7th 2 8th 
A total of 36 seats
  • SP : 7
  • glp : 3
  • EVP : 3
  • CVP : 4
  • GM : 2
  • FDP : 7
  • JSVP : 2
  • SVP : 8

Peter Bührer (FDP) is President of the Municipal Council for the 2019/20 year of office.

City council

Political party SVP FDP CVP SP NOK @ GLP EPP
Seats 1 2 1 1 1 1

City president is Paul Remund (FDP).

National elections

In the 2019 National Council elections, the share of the vote in Opfikon was: SVP 34.9%, glp 15.6%, SP 14.7%, FDP 12.8%, Greens 7.8%, CVP 5.9%, EPP 3.3 %, BDP 1.8%, AL 1.1%.

coat of arms

Blazon

Divided by red and silver, at the top a growing black-clad man's torso with silver hair and a stand-up collar, at the bottom a black paw cross

The color of the face changes from silver, golden or natural. In some depictions the neck is tinged with black .

Declaration of coat of arms: The man's trunk is reminiscent of a long-extinct family of Burkhard de Opphinkon, who resided in the area in the 13th century, and from whose coat of arms ( a man's trunk dressed in gold in blue ) - newly tinged - was taken. The black paw cross in silver is taken from the coat of arms of the Canons' Monastery at Grossmünster , which existed from the 9th century to 1832, and to which the neighboring settlement of Oberhausen was subject to a ten-year fee.

Surname

The name Opfikon is a formation with the in today's canton of Zurich as well as in Aargau and Lucerne Canton frequent Ortsnamensuffix - ken (i) - (i) che / that on compositions of one with the suffix -ing- (about <in the People of the named ›) provided personal names with the locativisch used Dat. pl. of the word hof ‹Hof, possession› goes back as a trailing link (this origin is even clearer in the names of - (i) kofen , particularly common in Thurgau and western German-speaking Switzerland ); Names formed according to this pattern are assigned to the 7th / 8th Dated century. The foreground of this settlement name is likely to be based on a personal name * Opfo, which, however, is not documented anywhere and as a short form of another name ( Otfried was suggested ) or as an education for the West Germanic personal name stem * upp- , which becomes Old High German * opf - / * upf- would have developed.

The oldest documented evidence of the name comes from the middle of the 12th century. ( Obtinchofa ); A document from the year 744 ( Ubinchova ) cannot be clearly assigned.

Churches

The modern Evangelical Reformed Church of Opfikon is located at Oberhauserstrasse 71.

The Roman Catholic Church is represented in Opfikon with the St. Annakirche , which was built at Wallisellerstrasse 20 between 1955 and 1956. In 1981/82 it was rebuilt according to plans by the Zurich architect Rudolf Mathys and insulated against aircraft noise.

At Giebeleichstrasse 72 you will find the worship facility of the Evangelical Methodist Church .

economy

Thanks, among other things, to the convenient location between the city center and Zurich Airport , several large companies have their headquarters in Opfikon: Adecco , Swissport , Hotelplan , the Nuance Group and Trivadis .

VBG Verkehrsbetriebe Glattal AG operates local public transport in the Glattal and Furttal regions and in the Effretikon / Volketswil area on behalf of the Zürcher Verkehrsverbund (ZVV) as the company responsible for the market (MVU). This is joined by Mondelez Europe and Cadillac Europe as well as the Swiss airline Zimex .

Sports

The Bruggwiesen outdoor and indoor swimming pool is located in Glattbrugg . The first team of FC Glattbrugg plays in the 3rd regional division.

traffic

The municipality of Opfikon is connected to the Zurich S-Bahn with the following lines:

The community is also connected to the Glattalbahn . In order to promote bicycle traffic , the first PubliBike stations went into operation in 2019 .

Attractions

photos

  • Chappeleturm

  • Local museum

  • Old farmhouse

  • First school building from 1779

  • Schoolhouse from 1897

  • Village well and cattle scale

  • The Glatt in Opfikon-Glattbrugg

  • Flughafenstrasse with the tracks of the Glattalbahn

  • reformed Church

  • Reformed rectory

  • Bell tower

  • Glattbrugg, historical aerial photo from 1925, taken from a height of 300 meters by Walter Mittelholzer

literature

  • Gabriela Barman-Krämer u. a .: Handbook on the outskirts . Design strategies for the suburban area. Ed .: Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani , Matthias Noell. Birkhäuser, Basel / Berlin / Boston 2007, ISBN 978-3-7643-8369-5 (The textbook deals with the urban development problems of the settlements in the immediate vicinity of a large agglomeration using the example of the communities in Zurich's Glatttal .).
  • Opfikon-Glattbrugg - from the traffic landscape to the urban landscape . In: Flora Ruchat-Roncati (Ed.): Diploma theses at the ETH Zurich, Department of Architecture . Department of Architecture at ETH Zurich, Zurich 1998, ISBN 3-9521268-1-0 .
  • Opfikon, Glattbrugg, Oberhausen - then and now . Maag, Glattbrugg 1969.
  • 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 : Opfikon  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Commons : Glattbrugg  - collection of images, videos and audio files

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. ^ Statistics Canton Zurich. Retrieved February 9, 2020 .
  4. ↑ a b c Andres Kristol, Gabrielle Schmid: Opfikon ZH (Bülach) . In: Andres Kristol, Florence Cattin, Barbara Meroni, Center de dialectologie, Université de Neuchâtel (eds.): Dictionnaire toponymique des communes suisses DTS - Lexicon of the Swiss community names LSG - Dizionario toponomastico dei comuni svizzeri DTS . Huber, Frauenfeld / Stuttgart / Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-7193-1308-5 , p. 680 f . (and Éditions Payot, Lausanne 2005, ISBN 2-601-03336-3 ).
  5. ↑ metrics population , on opfikon.ch, accessed on 27 February 2012 found.
  6. ↑ Portrait of the canton of Zurich , at statistik.zh.ch (accessed on February 7, 2020)
  7. ↑ a b story. City of Opfikon; Retrieved January 3, 2009
  8. ^ Opfikon: the development of the city website of the city of Opfikon; accessed on July 9, 2018
  9. ^ Opfikon Online: Municipal Council. Retrieved October 24, 2018 .
  10. ↑ FDP brings Opfiker city council . NZZ Online, International; Retrieved April 27, 2010
  11. ↑ Elections 2019. Accessed August 1, 2020 .
  12. ↑ 1st team - FC Glattbrugg. Retrieved December 20, 2018 .
  13. ^ Stefan Hotz: Canton of Zurich: Publibike bike rental expands into Glatttal. In: nzz.ch . September 5, 2019, accessed September 18, 2019 .