Schottikon

State :

Switzerland

Canton :

Zurich (ZH)

District :

Winterthur

Political community :

Elsau

Postal code :

8352

Coordinates :

703 571 / 262068 coordinates: 47 ° 30 '4 " N , 8 ° 48' 48" O ; CH1903: seven hundred and three thousand five hundred and seventy-one / 262068

Height :

487 m above sea level M.

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Parish before the merger on January 1, 1922

Schottikon is a village in the municipality of Elsau in the Winterthur district of the canton of Zurich in Switzerland . Until December 31, 1921, it formed an independent political municipality .

history

Schottikon is first mentioned in 829 as Scottinchova , at that time the St. Gallen monastery owned goods in Oberschottikon. In 1467 Ober- and Unterschottikon had about 20 inhabitants, 1638 88 inhabitants, 1850 235 and 1900 253 inhabitants. After the end of the Ancien Régime in the canton of Zurich in 1798, Ober- and Unterschottikon were constituted as sections that later became civil parishes . After the mediation , these two civil parishes formed the political municipality of Schottikon.

The formerly independent municipality Schottikon became a municipality on 1 January 1922 Elsau merged , then the congregation consisted of about 230 inhabitants. On the same date, in neighboring Winterthur , the suburbs of Winterthur merged with the city itself. A few years earlier, in 1913, the two civil parishes were dissolved.

In 1930 Schottikon was given a stop on the St. Gallen – Winterthur railway line .

traffic

Schottikon has a train station on the St. Gallen – Winterthur railway line and is served every half hour by the S35 (Winterthur – Wil) and S12 (Brugg AG – Wil SG) trains of the Zurich S-Bahn . The Winterthur – Wil – St. Night train stops at the weekend. Gallen to get off in Schottikon.

In addition, Hauptstrasse 7 crosses the village.

Attractions

Web links

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

Ueli Müller: Schottikon. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .