Rümlang

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Rümlang
Coat of arms of Rümlang
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Canton ZurichCanton Zurich Zurich (ZH)
District : Dielsdorfw
BFS no. : 0097i1 f3 f4
Postal code : 8153
UN / LOCODE : CH RMA
Coordinates : 682 553  /  256445 coordinates: 47 ° 27 '13 "  N , 8 ° 32' 0"  O ; CH1903:  682 553  /  256445
Height : 443  m above sea level M.
Height range : 415–504 m above sea level M.
Area : 12.41  km²
Residents: 8172 (December 31, 2018)
Population density : 487 inhabitants per km²
Proportion of foreigners :
(residents without
citizenship ) 		29.8% (December 31, 2018)
Mayor : Peter Meier-Neves ( SVP )
Website: www.ruemlang.ch
Reformed Church, mentioned in 952

Reformed Church, mentioned in 952
Location of the municipality
Katzensee Deutschland Kanton Aargau Bezirk Andelfingen Bezirk Bülach Bezirk Dietikon Bezirk Pfäffikon Bezirk Uster Bezirk Zürich Bachs Boppelsen Buchs ZH Dällikon Dänikon Dielsdorf ZH Hüttikon Neerach Niederglatt ZH Niederhasli Niederweningen Oberglatt ZH Oberweningen Otelfingen Regensberg Regensdorf Rümlang Schleinikon Schöfflisdorf Stadel bei Niederglatt Steinmaur WeiachMap of Rümlang
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Coat of arms of the Lords of Rümlang in Scheibler's book of arms

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

coat of arms

Blazon

Half a silver unicorn in red

The municipality's coat of arms shows the upper half of a white unicorn rearing up for the attack on a red background. It is intended to commemorate the Knights of Rümlang , who painted their shields and helmets with this emblem. In 1424 this unicorn appeared in the coat of arms of the Obervogtei Rümlang, which essentially consisted of the village. That is why the coat of arms was transferred to the village of Rümlang as early as 1508, as evidenced by a nearly 500 year old coat of arms of the community in the choir window of the Reformed Church.

population

For a long time, the former farming village of Rümlang only had around 1,100 inhabitants. However, under the pressure of the agglomeration of Zurich and the airport , the population rose rapidly after 1948. Today Rümlang has around five times as many inhabitants as in 1940. Due to the strong increase in population, many new residential buildings and commercial facilities have been built around the old village center over the past few decades. Nevertheless, the people of Rümlang perceive their community as a village.

Public transport

Since the timetable change on December 13, 2015, the S9 (Schaffhausen – Uster) and S15 (Rapperswil – Niederweningen) have been used instead of the S5. Both every half hour, thus connections to Zurich and Oberglatt are guaranteed every quarter of an hour. Line 742 (Rümlang Bahnhof - Zürich Seebach) will remain in the bus service. There is also the new local line 795, which transports people from the village to the train station and vice versa every 15 minutes in the morning and in the evening at rush hour.

history

Remnants of Roman settlement can be found on the "Bölli", which is not surprising, because the current municipal area was crossed by a Roman road from east to west.

The name Rümlang is derived from the Alemanni settlement that emerged in the 7th century. "Rumilinswanc", the oldest place name that has come down to us in written sources, dates from the year 924, a later one is "Rumelanc". It is believed that a leader named «Rumilo» and his clan settled in what is now the municipality. The second part of the name is derived from "wang", which means meadow slope or grass slope. Rümlang is located on a slope gently sloping to the east.

Kleinjogg, agricultural reformer in the 18th century

One of the most famous Rümlangers is the small jog . He lived in the hamlet of Katzenrüti , where a plaque commemorates him: In this house, the model builder Jakob Gujer, known as Kleinjogg, worked from 1769 to 1785 for an exemplary renewal of Zurich's agriculture. Johann Wolfgang Goethe visited the prototype builder on June 12, 1775 and on June 26/27. November 1779: I have not met an ideal sunk out of the clouds, thank God, but one of the most glorious creatures that the earth produces. (Goethe to Sophie von La Roche , Zurich, June 12, 1775).

The legend of the knitted church tower (Zurich German: Vom glismete Chileturm ) is closely associated with small jogging . In the 18th century, the people of Rümlang turned away from agriculture and turned to home work in the textile industry. They specialized in the manufacture of stockings. Not only women and children, but men too, knitted coarse woolen stockings. The Rümlangers dyed the wool and had their products sold by peddlers throughout the Zurich area and beyond. However, because of all this professional activity, agriculture fell short. Where everyone knitted as much as they could, there were no hands to cultivate the soil, so that many fields were wasted. That was a thorn in the side of little jogging. He leased around 1775 three Jucharten neglected arable land and built Esparsetten on, to its neighbors to give an example of how they could make their goods to sources true wealth if they would exchange their wretched idlers employment (knitting) with field work . Just from these words you can see why the whole of the Zürcher Unterland was mocked about the Rümlangers - in fact, it was claimed that they even “glismet” their church tower!

Attractions

gallery

politics

Local councilors are Michaela Oberli, Thomas Huber, Corinne Lee, Nadja Giuliani, Rosita Buchli, Roland Niesper.

Peter Meier-Neves has been mayor since 2018 (as of January 2019)

Churches

Roman Catholic Church of St. Peter

There are two churches in Rümlang:

  • The Evangelical Reformed regional church owns the Reformed church in the center of the village , which has been occupied since 952. In 1302 or 1316, this was replaced by a taller choir tower and rebuilt in 1471 after the village and church were destroyed in the Old Zurich War in 1444 by the Confederates .
  • The Roman Catholic Church of St. Peter is located on Rümelbachstrasse and was built between 1969 and 1970 by the architect Bernhard Weis. Based on the pilgrimage church Notre-Dame-du-Haut de Ronchamp by the architect Le Corbusier , the church was built slightly higher. The interior of the church of St. Peter is also clearly based on the pilgrimage church of Ronchamp. In the 1960s it was also planned to build a new Reformed church and a cemetery on the same site next to the Rümelbach schoolhouse and the Catholic church. Of this planned facility, however, only the school house and the Catholic church were realized.

economy

The headquarters of the global Dormakaba group is in Rümlang . In the industrial area Riedmatt the company is TicketCorner resident. With 85 employees, this service company is one of the largest taxpayers in the municipality. There is a branch of the Gilgen Logistics company in Rümlang .

Son of the place

literature

  • Hans Peter Treichler : Rümlang - a village with history , 1996 (reference to the municipal administration)
  • 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 .
  • Walter Gujer: 1050 years of the Reformed Church in Rümlang - building history from 952 to the renovation in 2002 (reference at the Protestant church in Rümlang)
  • Walter Gujer: 60 years of the Rümlang Flurgenossenschaft - retrospective 1946–2006 - (purchase from the Rümlang Flurgenossenschaft)

Web links

Commons : Rümlang  - 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. ^ Website of the Reformed parish. About us, history section. Retrieved October 4, 2013.