Rorbas

Rorbas
State :	Switzerland
Canton :	Zurich (ZH)
District :	Bulach
BFS no. :	0068
Postal code :	8427
Coordinates :	685 946  /  265173 coordinates: 47 ° 31 '54 "  N , 8 ° 34' 48"  O ; CH1903:  685946  /  265173
Height :	395  m above sea level M.
Height range :	343-560 m above sea level M.
Area :	4.44  km²
Residents:	2830 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	495 inhabitants per km²
Proportion of foreigners : (residents without citizenship )	27.4% (December 31, 2018)
Mayor :	Hans Ulrich Büchi ( independent )
Website:	www.rorbas.ch
Location of the municipality

Rorbas is a municipality in the Bülach district in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland .

coat of arms

Blazon

In blue a lower half golden mill wheel

geography

Historical aerial photo of Werner Friedli (1953)

Rorbas is the lowest municipality in the Töss valley and is located directly in front of the confluence of the Töss into the Rhine (Tössegg), embedded between the Dattenberg and the Irchel .

Surname

Rorbas was called Rorboz or Rorboss in earlier times .

The part Ror is derived from reed (" reed "), while boz (biuzu) means "to beat" or "to push". In its composition, Rorbas indicates an area where reeds were previously cut.

Rorbas who have not moved here call their village Rorbis in their dialect .

history

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On Carnival Sunday in 1538, 30 houses were destroyed in a conflagration.

population

At the end of 2012, 2503 people lived in Rorbas, many of whom work away from home.

Churches

On December 31, 2011, 41.6% of the population belonged to the Evangelical Reformed Church and 24.5% to the Roman Catholic Church .

The Evangelical Reformed Church and the Chrischona congregation are linked in the Rorbas-Freienstein section of the Evangelical Alliance .

Old Töss Bridge

Parish hall

Church built in 1586

Attractions

See also : List of cultural assets in Rorbas

Administration and politics

In many areas, Rorbas organizes itself with the neighboring community of Freienstein-Teufen , for example with the school and church community, and the post office only operates a single post office for the closely-knit villages of Rorbas and Freienstein.

Hans Ulrich Büchi has been mayor (independent) since 2006 (as of December 2017).

literature

• 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 : Rorbas  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of the municipality of Rorbas
• Ueli Müller: Rorbas. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Statistical data on the municipality of Rorbas

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. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from October 19, 2013 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. (accessed October 18, 2013). 
4. ↑ http://www.statistik.zh.ch/internet/justiz_inneres/statistik/de/aktuell/mitteilungen/2012/bev_2011.html (accessed on February 27, 2012).
5. ↑ http://www.each.ch/ea-rorbas-freienstein.html (accessed on February 27, 2012).