Ossingen

Ossingen
State :	Switzerland
Canton :	Zurich (ZH)
District :	Andelfingen
BFS no. :	0037
Postal code :	8475
Coordinates :	696 882  /  274393 coordinates: 47 ° 36 '47 "  N , 8 ° 43' 38"  O ; CH1903:  696882  /  274393
Height :	416  m above sea level M.
Height range :	357–486 m above sea level M.
Area :	13.09  km²
Residents:	1641 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	125 inhabitants per km²
Proportion of foreigners : (residents without citizenship )	11.1% (December 31, 2018)
Mayor :	Martin Günthardt ( SVP )
Website:	www.ossingen.ch
Ossingen from the west
Location of the municipality

Ossingen is a municipality in the Andelfingen district of the canton of Zurich in Switzerland .

coat of arms

Blazon

In silver a hanging red willow leaf

geography

Historical aerial photo by Walter Mittelholzer (1923)

location

The community is four kilometers east-northeast of Kleinandelfingen, in the direction of Unterstammheim.

Courtyard

The Burghof is a small hamlet, which is partially under heritage protection, 3 km east of Ossingen, (between Ossingen and Gütighausen). The hamlet consists of eight inhabited houses.

The first entry of a Jucker house comes from the year 1741: "It was there the two brothers, Hans and Peter Jucker, who bought the Grenzland Burghof for 211.50 monetary units on May 4, 1741."

Today wine / fruit growing ( Burghofer ) and veal fattening are carried out here. Some buildings are listed.

Gisenhard

The Gisenhard settlement was first mentioned in a document in 831 as "Gisinhard" (pasture forest of Giso). The original families are Graf (Lehnsbauer around 1380), Sigg and Kübler (property owners around 1550).

Politically, Gisenhard now belongs to the municipality of Ossingen - historically it belongs to the St. Gallen monastery (from 831) and the St. Peter monastery in Constance (from 1359). The geographical location of the hamlet makes it the intersection of the Frauenfeld – Schaffhausen and Winterthur – Stein am Rhein routes.

Langenmoos

The Langenmoos is a hamlet northwest of Ossingen with around 20 inhabitants.

Husemersee

The Husemersee belongs to the so-called Andelfinger Seenplatte. The natural lakes that form the Husemersee lie between Trüllikon and Ossingen and are fed by the Wattbach. The Kleinsee, located in a nature reserve, was added to the list of flat moors of national importance in 1994 . Husemersee can be reached on foot in half an hour from Ossingen train station.

history

Ossingen Church

Neolithic settlements on the edge of the swamp on the Husemersee and Hallstatt- era burial mounds in Speck and Hattlebuck indicate early settlement. From the Roman period there were finds in Goldbuck (lime kiln) and near Burghof (fire grave). In Goldbuck an early medieval burial ground was found. Ossingen was first mentioned in a document in 1230 as de Ozzingin . In the High Middle Ages , a Kelnhof formed the administrative center of the Reichenau monastery, under the lordship of the court . It later went to the Kyburgs as a Reichenau fief and, after they died out in 1264, to the Habsburgs. In 1377 it was pledged to the Hohenlandenbergers as part of the former Habsburg office of Andelfingen, until it came to Zurich with them in 1434.

Wyden Castle is at the exit of the Lattenbachtobel .

population

Population development
year	Residents
1682	974
1850	1,198
1900	930
1950	805
1990	1,143
2007	1.314

politics

The mayor is Martin Günthardt (as of 2020).

Attractions

See also : List of cultural assets in Ossingen

gallery

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  Husemersee

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  Village church

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  Half-timbered buildings

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  Restaurant Sonne, Gisenhard

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 .

Web links

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

• Official website of the municipality of Ossingen
• Statistical data for the municipality of Ossingen
• Otto Sigg : Ossingen. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Archive guide of the Zurich communities: Three plague trains in Ossingen 1611/1629/1636 , PDF, 128 kB

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. ^ The Husemersee in Ossingen (ZH) - schweizersee.ch . In: schweizersee.ch . ( schweizersee.ch [accessed on June 2, 2017]).