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The Schipfe is a historic quarter in the Swiss city ​​of Zurich .

View from the Limmatquai to the Limmat , Schipfe and the Lindenhof
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Memorial for the members of the Anabaptist movement who were drowned in the Limmat
The Schipfe at the end of the 15th century, depiction on the altarpieces by Hans Leu the Elder
The town hall bridge (center) and on the left the first houses of the Schipfe on the Murerplan (1576)

Location and origin of name

The Schipfe ( 405  m above sea level ) lies between Weinplatz / Rathausbrücke ( Strehlgasse ) and Oetenbachgasse and runs - below the Lindenhof - along the left bank of the Limmat in the direction of the main station to the Rudolf-Brun-Brücke . Today the Schipfe is no longer an independent district, but belongs to the Lindenhof district ( District 1 ). The collection of statistical data takes place in Zurich in 216 so-called statistical zones, which are made up of the city quarter / district number and a serial number (01301 for the ships).

The name Schipfe goes back to the name "Schüpfi", which was first mentioned in 1292, in the original sense of bank construction and country festivals . It served as a landing stage for the Limmat ships, where the boatmen pushed their willowlings with a load capacity of around 1.5 tons onto the bank . The origin of the word can also be derived from the Swiss German "schupfen" (push) , which is still in use today .

history

The district belongs to the oldest, permanently settled area of ​​today's city of Zurich. At the latest in the Middle Bronze Age (around 1500 BC) the area around the Lindenhof was likely to have been inhabited, as finds of tools from the Limmat lead one to believe. A Celtic settlement is for the 1st century BC. Proven. Modern research dates the occupation of the Lindenhof by the Roman military to the year 15 BC. When the small, unpaved Vicus Turicum was built around the customs station around the town hall bridge. In late Roman times, during the reign of Emperor Valentinian I, a fort was built on the hilltop to protect the customs station against the Alamanni advancing from the north during the migration of peoples .

The fishing rights were administered by the city, and fishermen are likely to have built their houses on the Schipfe in the early Middle Ages , as are tanners who probably lived here . In 1357/58 the " Badstube an Schüpfen" (Pelikan house) is mentioned, with a lifeguard , cupping machine and tooth breaker . Since the first quarter of the 15th century at the latest, the Schipfe served as a landing stage for shipping on the Limmat.

Down the river, at the western end of the Schipfe, there were five mills on the Untere Mühlesteg and the Papierwerdinsel , as can be seen on the Murer map (1576) by Jos Murer . The mills in Limmat and Sihl belonged to the extensive property of the Fraumünster Abbey in the Middle Ages . By Hans Georg Werdmüller urban water wheel was built on the Schipfe 1666: The first pumping station of the city was pumping river water to the Lindenhof, where the water in the old city have been distributed. A few years later, a second aqueduct was built from the town hall bridge.

The silk industry had settled in the quarter as early as the 16th century and established the history of the "Wollenhof" (today the Heimatwerk building), which in 1830 employed up to 500 silk weavers and in 1835 ran a sales office in New York. The oldest weekly newspaper in Limmatstadt, the “Zürcherische Freitagzeitung”, was published by David Bürkli in 1674 at Schipfe 33.

Hans Caspar Escher founded in 1805 with the banker Salomon von Wyss, headquartered in "House for Felsenhof" in Neumühle the company Escher Wyss & Co. Characteristic of the Schipfe was for several decades, built by the company steamships that here after their Completion were temporarily at anchor.

In the presence of City Councilor Robert Neukomm, the inauguration took place on July 7, 2004 on the occasion of the meeting day of the Reformed churches and Baptist a black basalt slab at the seawall (opposite house no. 43): " This was the middle of the Limmat from a fishing platform of Felix Manz and five other Anabaptists drowned during the Reformation between 1527 and 1532. Hans Landis was the last Baptist to be executed in Zurich in 1614. »

The Schipfe today

The Limmat district largely got its current appearance with the delicate row of houses in the 17th and 18th centuries. The adjoining houses have illustrious names such as Grosser Luchs , Grosser Erker , Hohe Tanne , Steinböckli , Fischgrat , Fortuna , Salmon , Kleine Badestube , Unter dem Schöpfli , Pelikan , Gelber Leu , Meerwunder , Muschel or Steg . Most of them were renovated in stages in 1911–1913 and 1936–1938 by the municipal building department. The ground floors are rented to the arts and small businesses, while apartments have been built on the upper floors in which 461 people in 388 households live. Virtually all of the boat houses are owned by the city.

Although the historic district is very popular with tourists and one of the popular photo opportunities in Zurich - despite its idyllic and exposed location opposite the Limmatquai , the area is probably one of the lesser-known Zurich's with locals. For several years now, residents and traders have been trying to raise awareness among the city's population with campaigns and a presence at the Zürifäscht and the “longest geranium box in the world” (in the Guinness Book of Records ).

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Lindenhof district mirror . City of Zurich Presidential Department, Statistics City of Zurich (Ed.), Zurich October 3, 2011 ( PDF, 14 MB ).
  2. ↑ Geographical Institute of the University of Bern: Yesterday's Transport Policy, Today's Transport Problems? by Dominik Bucheli.
  3. ↑ a b c Gang dur Alt-Züri: Die Schipfe , accessed on January 12, 2009
  4. ^ Website civil engineering office of the city of Zurich: Züri z'Fuess ( Memento from May 27, 2011 in the Internet Archive ): Lindenhof terrace
  5. ↑ a b c d e Schipfe: Geschichte ( Memento from February 9, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on January 12, 2009
  6. ↑ a b Tages-Anzeiger (January 12, 2009): The Schipfe - right in the center and yet often overlooked , accessed on January 12, 2009
  7. ↑ Gang dur alt-Züri: The lower Mühlesteg with wooden bridge , accessed on November 12, 2008
  8. ↑ kath.ch: plaque commemorating Baptist opened , accessed January 12, 2009

Coordinates: 47 ° 22 '22.8 "  N , 8 ° 32' 30.5"  E ; CH1903:  683,318  /  247,491