Rheinau ZH

ZH is the abbreviation for the canton of Zurich in Switzerland and is used to avoid confusion with other entries in the name Rheinau .

Rheinau
State :	Switzerland
Canton :	Zurich (ZH)
District :	Andelfingen
BFS no. :	0038
Postal code :	8462
Coordinates :	687 566  /  277706 coordinates: 47 ° 38 '39 "  N , 8 ° 36' 14"  O ; CH1903:  six hundred eighty-seven thousand five hundred and sixty-six  /  277706
Height :	400  m above sea level M.
Height range :	346–444 m above sea level M.
Area :	8.95  km²
Residents:	1333 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	149 inhabitants per km²
Proportion of foreigners : (residents without citizenship )	20.5% (December 31, 2018)
Mayor :	Andreas Jenni ( SP )
Website:	www.rheinau.ch
Rheinau seen from the west
Location of the municipality

Rheinau is a municipality in the Andelfingen district of the Swiss canton of Zurich .

geography

The Rhine forms a double loop near Rheinau . The village is located in the western loop opposite the Rhine island with the former Rheinau monastery . The Rhine was dammed for the Rheinau power plant . The village borders on the Federal Republic of Germany in three directions . Of the community area, 26.7% are used for agriculture, 54.8% are covered with forest, 4.2% are traffic areas and 7.1% are settlement areas, 7.0% are bodies of water.

Rhine loop with Rheinau island

Rheinau, historical aerial photo from 1929, taken from a height of 500 meters by Walter Mittelholzer

population

• Population density: 150.7 inh / km ²
• Number of households: 591 (as of: 2000)
• Denomination: 34% Evangelical Reformed , 31% Roman Catholic , 35% other or no denomination (as of 2017)

politics

The SVP has 33.01%, the SP 21.15%, the Greens 12.84%, the glp 10.72%, the CVP 8.21%, the FDP 6.01%, the BDP 2.18%, the EDU 1.55%, the AL 1.51 and the EPP 1.39% of the vote ( National Council election 2019 ).

Mayor is Andreas Jenni (as of 2020).

The community attracted attention at the beginning of June 2018 when the SP community councilor Karin Eigenheer announced that the community council wanted to test the unconditional basic income (UBI) on the local population . The project was initiated by the aargau filmmaker Rebecca Panian. She tried to raise funds for it through crowdfunding . In June 2018, volunteers were sought for the project who would like to support the project and participate as beneficiaries. Starting in 2019, every Rheinauer over 25 years of age should have the opportunity to receive a basic amount of CHF 2500 per month for one year . However, if a recipient earns more than CHF 2500, he can no longer receive a UBI. So it is a supplementation of the income to CHF 2500 and accordingly the advertised unconditionality has already been criticized. In December 2018, it was announced that the funding did not materialize.

history

Early history and the Middle Ages

The oldest traces of settlement in the municipality go back to the Bronze Age (cf. Altenburg-Rheinau ).

The Rheinau Monastery was founded in the early Middle Ages (before 858, traditional year of foundation in 778) . The first mention (858, as monasterium Rinauva ) takes place with the elevation to the imperial monastery under Ludwig the German . In 1126, Count Rudolf von Lenzburg fortified the Rheinau settlement that was built near the monastery. The place name is first documented in 1241, as Rinowe . The place name was Latinized Renovia ( Rinovia ) or oppidum Rinovium . The monastery had had a salm (salmon) in its coat of arms since the 14th century , and a city seal with the same heraldic animal was in use from 1374 to 1602. The place was under the rule of the monastery until 1798.

Against the increasing claims of the Counts of Sulz , a protection treaty was concluded with the Swiss Confederation in 1455 , which initially protected the monastery from further attacks by the neighboring noble families from Klettgau. Josias Simmler reports on a special Rheinau banner.

Early modern

From Zurich in 1529 the Reformation spread to Rheinau. In 1532 the monastery was restored and developed into a center of the Counter Reformation .

Around 1611, 200 of the 500 inhabitants of the small town of Rheinau died of the plague .

In 1618 and 1619 seven women were burned as witches in Rheinau : in 1618 Magdalena Muntelin and the widows Verena Binder and Anna Schildknecht, in March 1619 Regula Kempf and Ursula Rapold, also widows, and on October 3, the married Regula Manz became together beheaded with Margaretha Manser on the Galgenbuck and then burned. The count by Otto Sigg (2012, 2019), who lists a total of 84 "Zurich witch murders", does not include the Rheinau witch trials, as Rheinau was not part of the territory of the city of Zurich at the time.

Modern history

During the turmoil after the French invasion of Switzerland in 1798, the monastery was temporarily closed, but restored in 1803 as part of mediation . The foundation of the modern community of Rheinau and its incorporation into the canton of Zurich dates back to the mediation constitution of 1803. After the abbey was closed from 1862 to 2000, a psychiatric clinic was housed in the abbey buildings on the island. Since the beginning of 2000, 5000 m² of former monastery rooms have been vacant and are to be given a new use. The Pro Insel Rheinau association coordinates the communal interests and accompanies the new use of the cantonal premises on the monastery island.

The municipal coat of arms with the blazon in blue, an elongated left-handed silver salmon , was introduced on December 21, 1918. It is based on the city seal from 1374.

Forensic Clinic

In August 2007, after two years of construction, the PUKZH forensic clinic was completed in Rheinau . A prison is attached to the clinic. Mentally ill offenders from all over German-speaking Switzerland are accepted.

Possible repository location

Since the 1990s, the Zürcher Weinland has been considered a possible location for a repository for radioactive waste due to its Opalinus Clay rock layers in the geological subsurface . In January 2015, Nagra restricted its open-ended search with three locations for high-level radioactive waste (HAA) and six locations for low and medium-level radioactive waste (SMA) to two locations: the Bözberg region in Aargau and the Zürcher Weinland. Both locations are therefore also suitable for a combined HAA and SMA warehouse and are classified by Nagra as the most geologically and technically suitable locations. Which location (possibly both, one for HAA and one for SMA) will ultimately be selected will be decided in the further course of the procedure by Nagra and ENSI as well as at the political level by the Federal Parliament and possibly a referendum.

The surface systems for the warehouse are located in the area of ​​the communities Rheinau ZH and Marthalen .

Attractions

See also : List of cultural assets in Rheinau ZH

• Rheinau Monastery
• St. Nicholas Mountain Church
• Pointed Church of St. Magdalena
• Rhine bridge

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  High Rhine near Rheinau

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  Rheinau - former Benedictine abbey

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  16 male and female dragons as gargoyles

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  Rheinau: Poststrasse with the mountain church in the background and the parish center on the right

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  Parish center in Rheinau, former castle of the Counts of Waldkirch - Muntprat , later owned by the Schneller family in Lottstetten

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  Bergkirche Rheinau St. Nikolaus with apses from the 16th century

Personalities

Honorary citizen

• 1870 Johann Wipf (Father Pirmin), (1802–1874)
• 1923 Friedrich Ris , (1867–1931)
• 1943 Rupert Nieberl, (1872–1949)

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 : Rheinau  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikisource: Rhynow in the Topographia Helvetiae, Rhaetiae et Valesiae (Matthäus Merian)  - sources and full texts

• Official website of the municipality of Rheinau ZH
• Statistical data for the municipality of Rheinau
• Gisela Nagy-Braun, Martin Illi: Rheinau (municipality). In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

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. ↑ Statistical Office of the Canton of Zurich - database (community portraits) , accessed on June 24, 2018.
4. ↑ Elections 2019. Accessed May 26, 2020 . 
5. ↑ Raffaela Angstmann: Rheinau wants to test the basic income | NZZ . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . June 6, 2018, ISSN  0376-6829 ( nzz.ch [accessed June 6, 2018]).
6. ↑ ^{a b} Charlotte Theile : A village tests the basic income. In: sueddeutsche.de . June 6, 2018, accessed June 10, 2018 . 
7. ↑ Zurich municipality Rheinau wants to test basic income . In: Tages-Anzeiger, Tages-Anzeiger . ISSN  1422-9994 ( https://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/zuerich/region/zuer cher-gemeinde-rheinau-will-basic income-test / story / 29596646 [accessed on June 6, 2018]).
8. ↑ www.20minuten.ch, 20 minutes, 20 minutes, www.20min.ch: Zurich community wants to test basic income . In: 20 minutes . ( 20min.ch [accessed on June 6, 2018]).
9. ↑ "For Rheinau, the basic income has paid off". In: tagesanzeiger.ch . December 4, 2018, accessed December 5, 2018 . 
10. ^ ^{A b} Peter Ziegler (Ed.): The municipal coat of arms of the Canton of Zurich. Antiquarian Society in Zurich, Zurich 1977, p. 85.
11. ↑ Habent Rinoviani peculiare signum sive vexillum sub quo Helvetiis militant. Josias Simmler (1577) [1734], p. 310
12. ↑ Based on research by city archivist Stephan Aregger, the local media reported on the Rheinau witch trials in September 2019. Seven witches per 500 inhabitants In: Schaffhauser Nachrichten of September 10, 2019 (only available via Paywall). Dagmar Appelt, Why 7 witches were burned in Rheinau In: Landbote from September 2, 2019 (only available via Paywall).
13. ↑ Otto Sigg, witch trials with death sentence (2013); Witch murders in Zurich and on the Zurich area. Supplements and additions to the documentation 2012 (2019).
14. ↑ Compare Birgit Schoop-Russbindest: Psychiatric everyday life in the autobiography of Karl Gehry (1881–1962). Medical dissertation, Zurich 1989 (= Zurich medical-historical treatises, 204)
15. ↑ The seal of 1374 shows a "Salm swimming to the left in a river bordered by the river". An article in the Landbote referred to the Rheinau coat of arms as the "third oldest [communal] coat of arms of the canton of Zurich" after the coats of arms of Winterthur and Grüningen . How the community got its coat of arms. In: The Landbote . June 22, 2017. Retrieved September 21, 2018 . 
16. ↑ Siting areas for deep geological repositories, safety-related comparison: Suggestions for stage 3 ( Memento of the original dated February 11, 2015 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. (PDF, 7.5 MB) of Nagra from January 2015, accessed on February 11, 2015.