Seeds

Saatlen district of Zurich
Coordinates	684 941  /  251651 coordinates: 47 ° 24 '37 "  N , 8 ° 33' 51"  O ; CH1903:  684,941  /  251651
height	Ø 431  m
surface	1.13 km²
Residents	7563 (Dec. 31, 2014)
Population density	6693 inhabitants / km²
BFS no.	261-121
Post Code	8050
Urban district	District 12

Saatlen is a district in the Swiss city ​​of Zurich in urban district 12 (Schwamendingen). Saatlen forms urban district 12 with the Schwamendingen Mitte and Hirzenbach quarters .

history

In the early 1940s, the garden city project was planned in the Au / Auzelg area. Due to the great housing shortage in the center of the city, expropriations were made in some cases in order to make simple houses with striking shed extensions and large gardens available to families with many children. This settlement was disparagingly called "Negerdörfli" by the wealthier townspeople.

The A1 motorway , opened in 1981, completely separated the Saatlen district from the other Schwamendingen districts of Hirzenbach and Schwamendingen Mitte . From 2018 ^[obsolete] a roofing of the motorway is to be built, which from 2024 should partially alleviate this problem.

Although the quarter belongs to Schwamendingen, the majority of the population has always been oriented towards Oerlikon. The post office also comes from there and public transport connects Saatlen with Oerlikon train station.

Local division

Saatlen schoolhouse

In the north lies the Auzelg settlement. In addition to the buildings described above, there is a large area with many allotment gardens that form the border with the communities of Opfikon and Wallisellen .

The A1 motorway runs in the southeast and forms the border with the Schwamendingen district of Schwamendingen Mitte. The Aubrugg cogeneration plant supplies Zurich North with district heating. The Dreispitz settlement with many cooperative buildings in the south of the quarter was built in the 1950s. In the northwest is the Hagenholz waste-to-energy plant . Like the Aubrugg thermal power station, it can be seen from afar. The Riedgrabenweg forms the border to the Oerlikon district in the west .

Religious communities

Reformed residents belong to the ev.-ref. Saatlen parish with the Saatlen church of the same name , which was created in 1966 from a division of the Schwamendingen parish. It has almost 1,600 members (as of 2008). The Roman Catholic residents, they live in Saatlen, belong to the parish Herz Jesu Oerlikon . If you live in Auzelg, you belong to the parish of St.Gallus in Schwamendingen. The Salvation Army is also active in the neighborhood. After all, the number of Muslims has increased significantly in recent years.

traffic

Private traffic

The A1 motorway runs in the southeast of the quarter and branches off at this point over bridges to Winterthur and Kloten . The heavily used Überlandstrasse, Wallisellenstrasse, Aubrugg and Hagenholzstrasse also shape the image of the quarter. Saatlen is traffic-calmed through area-wide 30 km / h zones like the other Schwamendinger quarters.

Public transport

Bus lines 781 (Glattbrugg, Giebeleichstrasse - Oerlikon train station), 79 (Auzelg - Schwamendingerplatz), 61 and 62 (Mühlacker / Waidhof (Affoltern) - Schwamendingerplatz) and 94 ( Glatt shopping center - Oerlikon train station) connect Saatlen with the surrounding quarters and communities.

Although the S-Bahn line coming from Winterthur and going to Oerlikon crosses the north of the quarter, it does not have its own stop.

The Glattalbahn , which has been operating since December 2006, connects the district with Zurich North.

literature

• Presidential Department of the City of Zurich, Statistics City of Zurich: Saatlen district mirror . Zurich 2015 ( read online )

Web links

Commons : Saatlen  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Florian Niedermann: In 2024 the traffic should flow under a prairie. In: limmattalerzeitung.ch. April 12, 2016. Retrieved January 22, 2017 .