Sternenberg ZH

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Coat of arms of Sternenberg
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Canton ZurichCanton Zurich Zurich (ZH)
District : Pfaffikonw
Political community : Baumai2
Postal code : 8499
former BFS no. : 0179
Coordinates : 711 226  /  249 535 coordinates: 47 ° 23 '14 "  N , 8 ° 54' 42"  O ; CH1903:  seven hundred and eleven thousand two hundred twenty-six  /  249535
Height : 875  m above sea level M.
Area : 8.75  km²
Residents: 359 (December 31, 2014)
Population density : 41 inhabitants per km²
Proportion of foreigners :
(residents without
citizenship ) 		no information
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Parish before the merger on January 1, 2015

Sternenberg is a village in the municipality of Bauma in the Zurich Oberland . Until December 31, 2014, it formed its own political municipality .

geography

The village of Sternenberg is located in the upper Töss Valley and was therefore the highest municipality in the canton. It is 28 kilometers east of Zurich as the crow flies .

The reformed church is 875  m above sea level. M. , the highest point is the Chlihörnli at 1073  m above sea level. M. , a secondary peak of the Hörnli . The lowest point is in the Steinenbachtal at 658  m above sea level. M.

The former municipality area comprised 875 hectares, of which 425 hectares were forest.

Place name

The distinct scattered settlement had no common name for centuries. On the occasion of the establishment of its own parish in 1706/1707, the Zurich Council named it “Sternenberg” - after the neighboring hill of the same name. The location of the church, the hamlet of Oschwald, is first attested in 1364 as Oswaldes hus .

history

Aerial photo (1953)

Sternenberg belonged to the county of Kyburg until 1798 . During the Helvetic era it belonged to the Fehraltorf district and during the mediation period to the Uster district .

The church in Sternenberg was built in 1705 and 1706 from the stones of the Sternenberg castle and inaugurated on September 12, 1706 in the presence of the mayor Escher and his two sons, the governor of Kyburg and several members of the Landenberg family .

The former community has lost a large part of its inhabitants through emigration since the 19th century. While 1432 people lived in Sternenberg at that time, the 2006 statistics show only 356 inhabitants. Not least because of this, the merger of the communities of Bauma and Sternenberg was decided on January 1, 2015.

Infrastructure, transport and economy

Sternenberg has the Wies primary school , which also has an integrated kindergarten . The reformed village church stands in the center of the former small community. There has been no post office of its own since 2002, this has been converted into a home delivery service by Swiss Post .

The bus line is operated by Postauto AG : 809 Sternenberg, Gfell - Bauma , Bahnhof.

The two cheese dairies Käserei Preisig, which is located in the village itself, and the cheese dairy Stillhart are located in the former municipality . There are two restaurants, the Sternen and the Alten Steinshof .

There has been a ski lift in Sternenberg since 1971 . This was initially installed at Schatzböl and was relocated to the current location in Rossweid a year later . The operating company was transformed in 1987 into the cooperative Skilift Sternenberg . At the beginning of the 21st century, the old ski lift was completely demolished and replaced by a new lift system.

1965/66 was the private observatory on the lookout Schatzböl . Karl Küenzi as a planner and builder, together with his wife Edeltraud and his half-brother Heinz Wagner, created the work with further help from work colleagues from the construction company Alfredo Piatti, friends and acquaintances. All building material including the dome was pulled up the steep hill with a motorized winch . The excavation was done by hand. The dome is made of fiberglass-polyester. A Maksutov telescope with a mirror diameter of 30 cm and a focal length of 4.80 m enables a view into space . The Sternenberg location has the advantage of clearer air and less ambient light than other observatories . In the first few years, Karl Küenzi and Heinz Wagner made the tours for families and groups. From 1989 to 2010 Andreas Buchmann jun. This task. He now has a sound knowledge of astronomy and can guide visitors to the most distant areas of space. Since 2010 A. Buchmann sen. at the operation of the observatory. Guided tours are often possible spontaneously.

politics

The last mayor from 2002 to 2014 was Sabine Sieber Hirschi ( SP ), who also sat on the Zurich Cantonal Council for the Pfäffikon district from 2010 to 2017 .

coat of arms

The municipality of Sternenberg had a talking coat of arms with a star and a mountain, for the first time around 1850 in a seal of the municipal council. The star is six-pointed here, the mountain corresponds to the heraldic three-mountain . Around 1860 the coat of arms of Krauer tings the coat of arms as In blue a gold star over a green three mountain . In 1930 a coat of arms was adopted by the local council, which replaced the green three mountain with a silver six mountain:

In blue a silver six-mountain with a gold star on top.

Film Sternenberg

The community of Sternenberg at the time gained fame throughout Switzerland through the film comedy of the same name from 2004. Franz Engi (played by Mathias Gnädinger ) returns to the village of his childhood. In order to save the village school from closing, he becomes a student again.

Attractions

Personalities

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of March 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed April 15, 2016)
  2. ↑ Lexicon of Swiss municipality names . Edited by the Center de Dialectologie at the University of Neuchâtel under the direction of Andres Kristol. Frauenfeld / Lausanne 2005, p. 855 f.
  3. ↑ Friedrich Vogel: The old chronicles or memorabilia of the city and landscape of Zurich from the oldest times to 1820. Zurich 1845, p. 752 f.
  4. ↑ http://online.fahrplaninfo.zvv.ch/frame_linie3.php?lang=de&sel_linie=%7C61809%7C809&sel_gk=1 , information from the Zürcher Verkehrsverbund on line 809 (accessed on April 15, 2016)
  5. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of March 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed April 15, 2016)
  6. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of March 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed April 15, 2016)
  7. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of March 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed April 15, 2016)
  8. ↑ Sabine Sieber on vimentis.ch accessed on April 15, 2016
  9. ↑ Sabine Sieber Hirschi on kantonsrat.zh.ch accessed on December 9, 2019
  10. ↑ http://www.bernerzeitung.ch/kultur/buecher/Solschenizyns-verlorene-Jahre-in-der-Schweiz/story/20536828