Stocken (Oberseen)

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Faltering on the Gyger map from 1664
A farmhouse built in 1812 in a hamlet that was still isolated at the time

Stocken is a former hamlet that is now part of the Oberseen district in Winterthur . The hamlet had its own judicial history in the Middle Ages and for a time in the 18th century was the smallest judicial authority on Zurich soil. Today Stocken has completely grown into the urban settlement area.

history

The hamlet of Stocken was founded as a vineyard hamlet. In the 13th century, owners of the von Liebenberg taverns lived there , who at that time had the area as a fief; around 1330 the place is mentioned as Stogkhein and Stockach . Around 1400 it is already recorded that many farmers from Liebenberger Güter had to do forced labor in Stocken. Around 1370, Liebenberg Castle and its possessions, including Stocken, passed to the Lords of Breitenlandenberg . When in 1531 Ytelhans von Breitenlandenberg sold the Bailiwick of Hegi and its lower jurisdictions, as an exclave he only retained the lower jurisdiction over his own people from Stocken and in Oberseen. Stocken thus had an unusual legal status compared to the localities in the area, where the lower jurisdiction was exercised from the Kyburg. Jurisdiction was restricted in 1605 as part of a compromise by the Zurich authorities, so that the von Breitenlandenberg only had the lower jurisdiction of Stocken, as they owned a number of goods there.

With the extinction of the sexes, Stocken and the other possessions of the Breitenlandenberger came to various Zurich city lords: first by marriage in 1733 to Heinrich Werdmüller, 1746 to Hans Heinrich Waser, then to Hans Conrad Wolff. In financial distress, he sold the former exclave of the remaining jurisdiction of Turbenthal-Breitenlandenberg in 1751 to Hans Heinrich Egg, subordinate of the Upper Office of the County of Kyburg zu Rikon , making Stocken the smallest independent jurisdiction in Zurich. Hans Rudolf Egg took over his inheritance in 1757, who also inherited his father in the office of the Untervogts. In 1783, the latter handed over the lower jurisdiction to Zurich in exchange for freedom of tithing , thereby ending the existence of the jurisdiction of Stocken.

With the end of the Ancien Régime , Stocken became part of the municipality of Seen and belonged to the civil municipality of Oberseen. With the incorporation of the political community Seen in 1922, Stocken became part of the city of Winterthur. Today the formerly independent hamlet can hardly be recognized as such and is part of the Oberseen district. Stocken is the name of a bus station on the trolleybus route 3 to Oberseen, which opened in 1982 .

Residents

The population of the hamlet of Stocken, which has only a few houses, has fluctuated greatly over the years. In the tax books of the 1460s, two households are noted in Stocken, whereby Hans Kläui estimated a population of 14 people. In 1650 there were 16 inhabitants, this number sank in the following years to 13 inhabitants in 1682. After a further increase to 17 inhabitants in 1690, only ten inhabitants were counted in 1695, probably as a result of the Little Ice Age. In the 18th century there were 20 inhabitants in 1738 and 23 in 1765, but six years later there were only six inhabitants in four households in three houses, around thirty years later at the end of the Ancien Régime there were again 24 inhabitants in five households four different houses in the hamlet of Stocken.

literature

  • Hans Kläui: The Breitenlandenberg court in Stocken-Oberseen . In: Zürcher Chronik . No. 16 , 1947, pp. 12-17 .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans Kläui: Lakes in the Middle Ages . In: New Year's Gazette of the Winterthur City Library . tape 324 . Winterthur 1993, ISBN 3-908050-12-X , p. 117 .
  2. ^ A b Alfred Bütikofer: Lakes 1500–1800 . In: New Year's Gazette of the Winterthur City Library . tape 337 . Winterthur 2006, ISBN 3-908050-25-1 , p. 98-102 .
  3. ^ Hans Kläui: Lakes in the Middle Ages . In: New Year's Gazette of the Winterthur City Library . tape 324 . Winterthur 1993, ISBN 3-908050-12-X , p. 130 .
  4. ^ Alfred Bütikofer: Lakes 1500–1800 . In: New Year's Gazette of the Winterthur City Library . tape 337 . Winterthur 2006, ISBN 3-908050-25-1 , p. 234 .