Pfäffikon ZH

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Pfaffikon
Pfäffikon coat of arms
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Canton ZurichCanton Zurich Zurich (ZH)
District : Pfaffikonw
BFS no. : 0177i1 f3 f4
Postal code : 8330 Pfäffikon ZH
8331 Auslikon
UN / LOCODE : CH PFA
Coordinates : 701 486  /  247102 coordinates: 47 ° 22 '1 "  N , 8 ° 46' 56"  O ; CH1903:  701486  /  247102
Height : 547  m above sea level M.
Height range : 536–821 m above sea level M.
Area : 19.52  km²
Residents: i11,935 (December 31, 2018)
Population density : 611 inhabitants per km²
Proportion of foreigners :
(residents without
citizenship ) 		18.9% (December 31, 2018)
Mayor : Marco Hirzel ( SVP )
Website: www.pfaeffikon.ch
Pfäffikersee - Rutschberg - Pfäffikon IMG 3606.jpg
Location of the municipality
Greifensee Pfäffikersee Kanton St. Gallen Kanton Thurgau Bezirk Bülach Bezirk Hinwil Bezirk Meilen Bezirk Uster Bezirk Winterthur Bauma Fehraltorf Hittnau Illnau-Effretikon Lindau ZH Pfäffikon ZH Russikon Weisslingen Wila Wildberg ZHMap of Pfäffikon
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Pfäffikersee, Seegräben in the background
Pfahlbauer at the Pfäffikersee
Roman fort Irgenhausen
Historic aerial photo from 1919, taken by Walter Mittelholzer

Pfäffikon is a municipality in the Pfäffikon district in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland .

coat of arms

Blazon

A silver sloping bar in red, topped with a striding red lion

geography

Pfäffikon is located in the Zurich Oberland on the north and east banks of the Pfäffikersee, which is named after him . Not to be confused with Pfäffikon SZ on Lake Zurich. The neighboring communities of Pfäffikon are the communities of Wetzikon , Bäretswil , Hittnau , Russikon , Fehraltorf , Bauma , Wildberg , Seegräben and Uster .

The Pfäffikon community includes the Aussenwachten Auslikon , Ober Balm , Unter Balm , Bussenhausen , Irgenhausen , Oberwil , Sulzberg , Hermatswil , Schür, Wallikon , Rick, Ravensbühl, Faichrüti and Rutschberg, which are mostly abolished civil communities .

population

Population development
year Residents
1463 385
1634 786
1799 2,271
1850 2,896
1860 3,066
1900 2,986
1950 4,784
1970 7,586
1990 9,182
2000 9,592
2010 10,602
2019 12,135

politics

Municipal council (executive) (as of December 2017)

Members
Surname Department Political party
Marco Hirzel Mayor, authorities & organization, culture, economy & work SVP
Stefan Gubler 1st Vice President, Finance, Health FDP
Lukas Steudler 2nd Vice President, Construction, Planning, Environment, Transport FDP
Vacant Real Estate, Security, Sports & Leisure, Population Services
Hanspeter Hugentobler school EPP
Alex Kündig Works (waste, energy, water, sewage) EPP
Lukas Weiss Social affairs, family & old age, youth & integration GP
Hanspeter Thoma Parish clerk

National elections

In the 2019 National Council elections, the share of the vote in Pfäffikon was: SVP 30.8%, Greens 13.8%, SP 13.8%, glp 12.1%, FDP 11.3%, EPP 9.4%, CVP 2.6 %, EDU 2.5%, BDP 1.8%.

economy

In 1882, the R. + E. Corporation was founded in Pfäffikon. Huber founded. This produced telegraph wires and cables, but also rubber and gutta-percha goods. In 1969 the company merged with Suhner & Co. AG in Herisau to form Huber + Suhner . The factory site in the center of the village on Tumbelenstrasse was sold in 2011 and new residential and commercial buildings were built; Huber + Suhner continues to operate the Witzberg plant in the west of the community.

Churches

reformed Church
Parish center and rectory, the former official residence of Bernhard Hirzel

On December 31, 2011, 44.2 percent of the population belonged to the Evangelical Reformed Church and 23.7 percent to the Roman Catholic Church .

In the Middle Ages, a church in Pfäffikon was first mentioned on August 11, 811. At that time, extensive donations in favor of the St. Gallen monastery were noted in the vestibule of the Benignus Church . On May 16, 960, the Pfäffikon church came to the Disentis monastery through the later Emperor Otto the Great . In the 13th century the church and court were ceded to the St. Gallen monastery. In 1275 Hugo von Breitenlandenberg was the administrator of these goods. In 1488 a parish church with a new choir and nave was built. After the Reformation in Zurich from 1523, the Reformation was also carried out in the Zurich subject areas and the medieval church was henceforth used for Reformed worship. In 1890, today's 52-meter high church tower was built on the medieval church.

The Roman Catholic Church of St. Benignus was built between 1962 and 1963 in place of a previous building from 1925. The patronage to St. Benignus takes up the consecration of the medieval church of Pfäffikon.

In Pfäffikon there is also the Neuhof Church of the Evangelical Anabaptist Congregation and the Chrischona Congregation .

traffic

Train traffic

The community has been connected to the Swiss railway network through the Pfäffikon station since May 3, 1876, when the Effretikon – Hinwil railway was opened by the Effretikon – Pfäffikon – Hinwiel (EH) railway company.

The Pfäffikon station is now served by the S 3 ( Bülach -) Hardbrücke - Zurich HB - Stadelhofen - Effretikon - Wetzikon of the Zurich S-Bahn every half hour. Since December 13, 2015, the S 19 ( Koblenz - Baden -) Dietikon - Zurich HB - Wallisellen - Effretikon (- Pfäffikon ZH ) to Pfäffikon has also been running during rush hour .

On September 12, 1982, one of the most serious railway accidents in Switzerland happened on the section between Pfäffikon and Fehraltorf : A coach, in which members of the Schönaich gymnastics and sports club (Germany) were traveling, was hit by someone on the level crossing at Kempttalstrasse on the northern edge of the village Regional train recorded. At that time the barriers were still operated by hand; due to a delay in the train, the barrier attendant had already mistakenly cleared the level crossing. A total of 39 passengers on the bus died.

Bus routes

The following bus routes exist that are operated by Postauto AG :

Attractions

Culture

The Reeds Reggae -Openair has been taking place right on the lake since 2004, attracting many people beyond the region.

In 2007 the Pfäffiker Chamber Orchestra “Amici dell'arte” was founded by the conductor Marcel Blanchard. Since then, the orchestra has given three classical concerts a year.

From 20 to 22 May 2011 the big Pfäffikerwält festival took place in the center of Pfäffikon. The whole school and over 50 clubs celebrated 1200 years of Pfäffikon and the youth festival that takes place every ten years.

Since 2002 has Walti Bräm publisher as a leading sub-levels - teaching publications of Switzerland based in Pfäffikon.

Personalities (selection)

literature

  • Hans Martin Gubler: The art monuments of the Canton of Zurich Volume 3: The districts of Pfäffikon and Uster. (= Art Monuments of Switzerland , Volume 66). Edited by the Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Bern 1978. ISBN 3-7643-0991-1 . Pp. 3-13.

Web links

Commons : Pfäffikon ZH  - 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. ↑ http://www.statistik.zh.ch/internet/justiz_inneres/statistik/de/aktuell/mitteilungen/2012/bev_2011.html (accessed on February 27, 2012).
  4. ↑ https://statistik.zh.ch/internet/justiz_inneres/statistik/de/daten/gemeindeportraet_kanton_zuerich.html#a-content Gemeindeporträt ZH (accessed on February 7, 2020).
  5. ↑ Elections 2019. Accessed August 1, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Site plan on the Huber + Suhner website ( memento of the original from December 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; Media release from Huber + Suhner on the sale of land to Swisscanto ( memento of the original from December 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; Housing development website @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hubersuhner.com @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hubersuhner.com
  7. ↑ http://www.statistik.zh.ch/internet/justiz_inneres/statistik/de/aktuell/mitteilungen/2012/bev_2011.html (accessed on February 27, 2012).
  8. ^ Bernhard A. Gubler: Foreword. In: Peter Jezler: The late Gothic church building in the Zurich countryside. The story of a "building boom" at the end of the Middle Ages. Book publisher of Druckerei Wetzikon AG, Wetzikon 1988, ISBN 3-85981-150-9 , p. 7.
  9. ^ Peter Jezler: The late Gothic church building in the Zurich countryside. The story of a "building boom" at the end of the Middle Ages. Book publisher of Druckerei Wetzikon AG, Wetzikon 1988, ISBN 3-85981-150-9 , p. 129.
  10. ↑ http://www.benignus.ch/ (accessed on December 29, 2014).
  11. ↑ http://www.kirche-neuhof.ch/ (accessed on February 29, 2012).
  12. ↑ http://www.chrischona-pfaeffikon.ch/ (accessed on February 29, 2012).
  13. ↑ The disaster changed Schönaich. ( Memento of August 14, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Stuttgarter Zeitung , September 1, 2007.
  14. ^ Website of the Antiquarian Society Pfäffikon
  15. ↑ adella.ch: Chamber Orchestra "Amici dell'Arte" , accessed on January 26, 2010