Lakes (Winterthur)

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Coat of arms of lakes (District 3)
Winterthur coat of arms
Lakes (District 3)
City district of Winterthur
Map of lakes
Coordinates 700 335  /  259 253 coordinates: 47 ° 28 '35 "  N , 8 ° 46' 11"  O ; CH1903:  700,335  /  259253
surface 11.01 km²
Residents 19,952 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density 1812 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation Jan. 1, 1922
BFS no. 230-300
Post Code 8405, 8482
structure
Quarters
Parish before the merger on January 1, 1922

Seen is a district of the city of Winterthur in Switzerland . The formerly independent municipality of Seen was incorporated into the municipality in 1922 and forms today's District 3 .

coat of arms

Blazon

Divided diagonally by black and gold, above a gold star, below a striding black, red-tongued lion

The coat of arms is based on the coat of arms of the family "Von Seen", which has been known since 1274, whereby the inserted lion is derived from the coat of arms of the County of Kyburg . The version of the coat of arms without a lion and with a silver star has often appeared in the past. In the 18th century the coat of arms was used with the wrong colors.

geography

Seen forms the southeast of the city of Winterthur, nestled between the Eschenberg in the southwest and the Etzberg in the northeast. In addition to the core town, there are also some outside guards in the south of the quarter. The district is the only urban district separated from the rest of the city by a green belt, which was deliberately kept free when the area was built over. To the east of the Aussenwacht Eidberg is the Hulmen, the highest point in Winterthur (685 m).

The place is traversed by the Mattenbach, which, however, is canalized at the center. The Sennhof outside guard in the south is on the Töss .

history

Lakes in the Middle Ages (founded until 1424)

The Franconian-Merovingian settlement of Seen as Sehaim was first mentioned on August 12, 774 in a deed of donation to the St. Gallen monastery . Several notarized donations to the monastery followed up to 829, in Gotzenwil a last donation is notarized in 869. A Habsburg land register at the beginning of the 14th century shows that a large part of the goods in lakes were probably transferred to the monastery during this period.

In the 11th century, Seen comes under the rule of the Counts of Kyburg , who are replaced by the Habsburgs in 1264 . From 1207 to 1428, a niederadliges sex "lakes" lets ( Lords of Sehaim prove), but focus moderately in later than 1300 Höngg were active and while over half a century on the castle Alt-Wülflingen the rule Wülflingen had among themselves.

Under the rule of Zurich (1424–1798)

In 1424, Seen was pledged to the city of Zurich for the first time together with the Kyburg lordship , and from 1433 the ban on blood was passed to the people of Zurich. As part of the Old Zurich War , the area was transferred to Habsburg Austria again for ten years in 1442, but it was definitely taken over by her in 1452 and assigned to the Enneramt (since it was for the Zurich “ennet” of the Töss ) of the Kyburg bailiff. The subordinate elected by the Zurich council at the suggestion of the population of the Enneramt was occupied five times by a Seemer representative.

The tax books of the 1460s show that the core village of Seen at that time had 11 households, which means that a population of around 85 can be derived, including the Hofmann family, who were very wealthy then and in later centuries, who lived in the 16th and 17th centuries. In the 19th century he also held the subordinate bailiff four times. In the other districts and farms of Oberseen, Stocken, Gotzenwil, Iberg and Eidberg, there were only one to four households at that time - other districts were either uninhabited at that time or, as in the case of Sennhof, probably not taxable. Overall, one could therefore assume a population of around 125 including outside guards. Seen was one of the smaller villages in County Kyburg. A good 170 years later, in 1634, the parish of Seen already had almost 500 inhabitants, so the number of inhabitants had quadrupled during this time. This number doubled again by 1690, before falling by almost 200 inhabitants within five years in the context of the greatest famine of modern times in Zurich, only to exceed the 1,000 mark again 15 years later. The population of lakes was then between 1100 and 1280 inhabitants until the end of the Ancien Régimes and was influenced by hunger and epidemics.

From 1634, a schoolmaster is on record in Seen, before that the children went to school in Oberwinterthur. Only after the Reformation in 1649 was a separate church built in Seen, before that the community belonged to the Oberwinterthur Church and in Seen there was the wooden St. Urban Chapel, about which little is known. Around 1670 a school house was built in Seen. Other schools are documented from 1680 in Eidberg and from 1708 in Iberg. There were also schoolmasters in Oberseen who taught the children on a private basis.

Lakes as an independent municipality (1798 to 1921)

The community of Seen around 1850 on the game map
Lakes in 1920, aerial photography by Walter Mittelholzer
Bus on Tösstalstrasse (1905)

Seen saw the next upheaval in the balance of power with the end of the old rule in 1798. As a result, Lakes became a separate municipality, which was assigned to the district and from 1803 to the district of Winterthur . The first Tösstalstrasse was built in 1810, after which parts of the still slowly growing village were oriented. The road was completely rebuilt and widened again from 1839 to 1841. In 1847 a poor house was opened near Sennhof, but it was not rebuilt after a fire in 1883 - in the meantime a poor association initiated by women was active in the village. When HJ Bühler's Sons took over and expanded the spinning mill in 1860 , the civil parish of Sennhof was established in 1875 . In 1875 the village was connected to the railway with the Tösstalbahn , which met resistance in the community before the construction phase, despite the relatively low cost sharing. The poor house burned down in 1893 and was not rebuilt, but at that time a poor association initiated by women was already active, which was re-established by the pastor as a voluntary poor association in 1886 and was also subsidized by the canton from 1897. Also in 1897, on a motion by the then cantonal councilor and pastor Jakob Winkler, an electricity plant was built that lasted until shortly after the incorporation - Lakes thus had its own electricity plant before Winterthur.

When the incorporation of the Winterthur suburbs became an issue at the beginning of the 20th century, the community of Seen was initially not a main driver - in contrast to the communities of Töss and Veltheim, which were already much more tied to Winterthur through industrialization. But in 1911 Seen's first serious contact with the city came about. She asked the City of Winterthur to contribute to the school system and, together with the other suburbs, asked the Zurich government council for support. Already at the turn of the century there were more workers than farmers, and the working class families employed in Winterthur put more and more pressure on the school finances of Seen. The municipal authorities sought the solution to these problems in the incorporation of Seens into the newly emerging «Gross-Winterthur». The corresponding bill was adopted in a referendum in all suburbs of Winterthur in 1919. Shortly before the incorporation, in 1920, 3,498 inhabitants lived in the municipality of Seen.

District of Winterthur (from 1922)

On January 1, 1922, the municipality was incorporated into Winterthur after prior approval and has since formed a district of Winterthur. In the aftermath of this incorporation, there was a border correction requested by the residents there, but enforced against the will of the city council by the cantonal council, in which the Winterthur parts of the village of Kollbrunn (the former municipality border previously crossed the Kollbrunn train station) and its 262 inhabitants 1920) were added to the municipality of Zell . Soon after the incorporation, the extension of line 2 of the Winterthur tram from Deutweg to Seen was opened on November 29, 1922 . In 1941 the line was replaced by today's trolleybus line. A first bus line from Seemer Aussenwachten (at that time also with a connection from Gotzenwil) via lakes to Oberwinterthur train station was opened in 1949.

With its individual settlements Unterseen, Oberseen , Gotzenwil and Eidberg and many courtyards , Seen retained its village character until the 1970s, when the Wingertli quarter (in what is now Quartier Waser ) the first urban-looking apartment block development was built. During this building boom, the Mattenbach district was created in 1973, into which part of the Seem area was incorporated. As a result of the building boom, the formerly agricultural village was completely built over within a few decades. Since little consideration was given to the existing village due to the lack of urban planning, the current part of the town unfortunately lacks a real town center or village square, and the two churches are also located rather apart from the town center. Only the green belt around lakes that exists today emerged from the intervention of the responsible authorities, who wanted to preserve “lakes as an independent social unit”. In any case, the population of Seen exploded in a period of 50 years from 3,500 to over 18,000, and the formerly independent village definitely became part of the city of Winterthur.

traffic

Winterthur-Seen train station

With the Winterthur-Seen train station , the district has its own train station on the Tösstalbahn , where the S26 from Winterthur to Tösstal stops and the hourly terminus of the S12 , which connects the train station directly with Zurich . The district is mainly served by the two trolleybus lines 2 (Wülflingen - HB - Bahnhof Seen) and 3 (Rosenberg - HB - Oberseen) by Stadtbus Winterthur in the public transport sector . The outside guards in the south are served by line 9 (station Seen - Klösterli Iberg - Eidberg). The outside guard Sennhof , which also belongs to the city district, has its own train station, Sennhof-Kyburg , on the Tösstallinie. Furthermore, a further train station Winterthur-Oberseen is entered on the same railway line in the cantonal structure plan.

Lakes are mainly opened up for car traffic via the Tösstalstrasse ( Hauptstrasse 15 ) leading into the Tösstal . There is a connecting road towards Oberwinterthur . The urban district does not have its own motorway junction, the motorway bypasses the city in the northeast.

education

Seen forms its own school district within Winterthur. There are twelve kindergartens , seven primary schools (four of which are in the outer guard) and two secondary schools (Oberseen and Büelwiesen) in lakes. Secondary schools and the canton schools are located in the city center.

In addition, two of the three Winterthur special schools are located in the city district: the special education Michaelsschule and the small group school kgs.

Sports

Old, traditional clubs and associations in Seen include the Turnverein Seen (founded in 1883) and the FC Phönix Seen football club (founded in 1918), as well as the 1st league handball club Seen Tigers (created from the merger of HC Letten Tigers and the handball section of TV Seen).

The floorball club Red Ants Rychenberg plays its home games in the Oberseen sports hall.

Arts and Culture

The Reformed Church Lakes

There are no museums or the like in the city district, most of them can be found further in the city center. The closest swimming pool is the Geiselweid indoor and outdoor pool in the Mattenbach district . The parish hall of the evangelical-reformed parish is used regularly for cultural events.

Next to the Reformed Church of Seen, which was built in 1649 and has since been rebuilt several times, there is a memorial to Heinrich Bosshard , the inventor of the Sempacherlied , who was born in Seen and went to school in Iberg .

The Roman Catholic Church of St. Urban was built in 1974 and is considered an exemplary church building from the 1970s because of its deliberate renunciation of monumentality.

The Seemer Dorfet, the Seens village festival, takes place at the beginning of September. In summer there are two smaller open airs on the program: the Grienen and the Eidberger Openair. For 4 years now, the Sternen Openair has been taking place at the youth club of the same name, a third open air.

literature

  • Hans Kläui: Lakes in the Middle Ages (=  New Year's sheet of the Winterthur City Library . Volume 324 ). Winterthur City Library, Winterthur 1993, ISBN 3-908050-12-X .
  • Alfred Bütikofer: Lakes 1500–1800. History and Stories (=  New Year's Gazette of the Winterthur City Library . Volume 337 ). Winterthur City Library, Winterthur 2006, ISBN 3-908050-25-1 .
  • Stadtbibliothek Winterthur (Ed.): Lakes in modern times. Village - suburb - residential town (=  New Year's Gazette of the Winterthur City Library . Volume 342 ). Winterthur City Library, Winterthur 2009, ISBN 978-3-908050-30-8 .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.ngw.nl/int/zwi/s/seen.htm
  2. ↑ Hans Kläui: Lakes in the Middle Ages (=  New Year's Gazette of the Winterthur City Library . Volume 324 ). Winterthur City Library, Winterthur 1993, ISBN 3-908050-12-X , p. 25 .
  3. ↑ Hans Kläui: Lakes in the Middle Ages (=  New Year's Gazette of the Winterthur City Library . Volume 324 ). Winterthur City Library, Winterthur 1993, ISBN 3-908050-12-X , p. 66 .
  4. ↑ Dr. Emil Stauber: The castles of the Winterthur district and their families (=  New Year's Gazette of the Winterthur City Library . Volume 285 ). Winterthur City Library, Winterthur 1953, p. 280-291 .
  5. ^ Alfred Bütikofer: Lakes 1500–1800. History and Stories (=  New Year's Gazette of the Winterthur City Library . Volume 337 ). Winterthur City Library, Winterthur 2006, ISBN 3-908050-25-1 , p. 173 .
  6. ↑ Hans Kläui: Lakes in the Middle Ages (=  New Year's Gazette of the Winterthur City Library . Volume 324 ). Winterthur City Library, Winterthur 1993, ISBN 3-908050-12-X , p. 130 .
  7. ^ Alfred Bütikofer: Lakes 1500–1800. History and Stories (=  New Year's Gazette of the Winterthur City Library . Volume 337 ). Winterthur City Library, Winterthur 2006, ISBN 3-908050-25-1 , p. 11-23 .
  8. ^ A b Alfred Bütikofer: Lakes 1500–1800. History and Stories (=  New Year's Gazette of the Winterthur City Library . Volume 337 ). Winterthur City Library, Winterthur 2006, ISBN 3-908050-25-1 , p. 191-199 .
  9. ^ Alfred Bütikofer: Lakes 1500–1800. History and Stories (=  New Year's Gazette of the Winterthur City Library . Volume 337 ). Winterthur City Library, Winterthur 2006, ISBN 3-908050-25-1 , p. 163-168 .
  10. ↑ Peter Niederhäuser: Politize and administer . In: Stadtbibliothek Winterthur (Ed.): Lakes in modern times. Village - suburb - residential town (=  New Year's Gazette of the Winterthur City Library . Volume 342 ). Winterthur City Library, Winterthur 2009, ISBN 978-3-908050-30-8 , p. 128–131 (individual verification applies to electricity company).
  11. ↑ Peter Niederhäuser: Politize and administer . In: Stadtbibliothek Winterthur (Ed.): Lakes in modern times. Village - suburb - residential town (=  New Year's Gazette of the Winterthur City Library . Volume 342 ). Winterthur City Library, Winterthur 2009, ISBN 978-3-908050-30-8 , p. 131–135 (individual verification applies to electricity company).
  12. ↑ a b Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Population development of the municipalities 1850-2000: Canton of Zurich . ( bfs.admin.ch [ MS Excel ; 75 kB ; accessed on July 9, 2017]).
  13. ↑ Peter Niederhäuser: Politize and administer . In: Stadtbibliothek Winterthur (Ed.): Lakes in modern times. Village - suburb - residential town (=  New Year's Gazette of the Winterthur City Library . Volume 342 ). Winterthur City Library, Winterthur 2009, ISBN 978-3-908050-30-8 , p. 132 & 133 .
  14. ↑ Andres Betschart: Walking, driving, transporting . In: Stadtbibliothek Winterthur (Ed.): Lakes in modern times. Village - suburb - residential town (=  New Year's Gazette of the Winterthur City Library . Volume 342 ). Winterthur City Library, Winterthur 2009, ISBN 978-3-908050-30-8 , p. 99-103 .
  15. ^ Adrian Mebold: From farming village to living and sleeping city without a center . In: Stadtbibliothek Winterthur (Ed.): Lakes in modern times. Village - suburb - residential town (=  New Year's Gazette of the Winterthur City Library . Volume 342 ). Winterthur City Library, Winterthur 2009, ISBN 978-3-908050-30-8 , p. 53-58 .
  16. ↑ Schools AZ. School and Sport Department, City of Winterthur, accessed on February 15, 2013 .
  17. ^ Special schools offered by the City of Winterthur. School and Sport Department, City of Winterthur, accessed on February 15, 2013 .