Uetikon am See
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 Switzerland
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| Canton : |
 Zurich (ZH)
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| District : | miles |
| BFS no. : | 0159 |
| Postal code : | 8707 |
| UN / LOCODE : | CH UKS |
| Coordinates : | 693 751 / 235886 |
| Height : | 450 m above sea level M. |
| Height range : | 406–721 m above sea level M. |
| Area : | 3.46 km² |
| Residents: | 6176 (December 31, 2018) |
| Population density : | 1607 inhabitants per km² |
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Proportion of foreigners : (residents without citizenship ) |
20.4% (December 31, 2018) |
| Mayor : | Urs Mettler (independent) |
| Website: | www.uetikonamsee.ch |
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Uetikon am See (officially called Uetikon until 1977 ) is a political municipality in Switzerland . It is located on the upper right bank of Lake Zurich in the Meilen district in the canton of Zurich .
geography
Uetikon am See is located southeast of the district capital Meilen on Lake Zurich on the so-called Gold Coast . The area is 349 ha, of which 47% agriculture, 29% settlement, 17% forest and 7% traffic facilities.
history
The first written mention of Uetikon dates from 1150 ( Uetinchova ). In the Middle Ages, Uetikon belonged to the Wädenswil rulership . The barons of Wädenswil ceded rule and jurisdiction over the village on the right bank of the lake to the Order of St. John in 1287 . In 1408 Uetikon succeeded in buying itself out of the servitude of the Johanniter and in 1549 the rule of Wädenswil was acquired by the city of Zurich . From then until 1798 Uetikon was part of the Landvogtei Wädenswil. The main landowner has always been the Grossmünsterstift in Zurich. The Helvetic Republic lifted the centuries-old connection between Uetikon and Wädenswil. The parish was assigned to the Miles district. During the mediation it belonged to the district of Horgen, since 1814 to the Oberamt (today district) Meilen.
In order to cope with the increasing population and, accordingly, the growing number of schoolchildren, five school buildings were built: The school buildings in Kirchbühl, Weissenrain, Rossweid, Riedwies (since 2002), Mitte (since 2006).
coat of arms
- In silver, a torn fir tree with a green top and a raised red trunk, overlaid with a black ring and two black Latin Vs pushed into one another .
The fir tree is supposed to symbolize the district of Langenbaum, the double V to indicate the districts of Kleindorf and Grossdorf, and the district connects these two districts into one.
The oldest source for the coat of arms of Uetikon am See dates from a bell that was cast in 1684 and melted down again in 1860, but depictions and sketches have been preserved in a coat of arms book from 1743 and in the municipality's baptismal register from 1777. The current version was established on May 24, 1935.
population
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| year | 1634 | 1850 | 1900 | 1950 | 1990 | 2004 | 2015 |
| population | 382 | 1121 | 1365 | 2521 | 4026 | 5440 | 5981 |
The proportion of foreigners is 18.4%.
schools
Primary school
Secondary school
In September 1833, the then Grand Council ( Cantonal Council ) passed the law on higher elementary schools . This provided for a secondary school district for Uetikon, Oetwil and Männedorf . The 13-member secondary school administration elected on November 18, 1833 named Männedorf as the school location on April 11, 1834. The first annual course began on June 15, 1835 with teacher Johann Jakob Bär in the Männedörfler Zentralschulhaus. Around 70% of the number of students was split between Männedorf, 20% Uetikon and 10% Oetwil. School fees were abolished by the law of December 22, 1872. At the beginning of September 1875 the (old) secondary school in Männedorf east of the central school building could be moved into. A second class was opened in 1876 and a third class in 1898, after the number of students, which had long been 40, had risen to 90. After a community center with classrooms had been built in Uetikon, in 1905 the Uetikon school administration applied for Uetikon to be separated from the Männedorf-Uetikon-Oetwil secondary school, which happened on April 30, 1908. Since then the secondary school has been in the village.
Canton school
In order to reduce the one-way commuter flows into the city, locations for a canton school in the upper district of Meilen were sought. Beugen ( Meilen ), the Uetikon chemical factory and the Seidenhof in Stäfa were shortlisted . On September 19, 2016, the Cantonal Council approved the Uetikon am See Cantonal School. Since the location on the site of the previous chemical factory will only be available from around 2030, a temporary solution consisting of two modular buildings was built on the Riedstegwiese in the village center in 2017. The Uetikon Cantonal School started operations on August 20, 2018.
Attractions
Church of St. Francis
The Catholic parish built the new St. Franziskus Church in 2007/2008 , which experts consider to be an exemplary and real jewel of church building in the 21st century. After many years of makeshift work in the hall of the Baumgarten restaurant and an old consumer barracks, the construction of a church was launched in 2004 with a project competition won by Daniele Marques , Judit Làszlò and Daniel Ciccardini from Lucerne. The building takes on the classic forms of a monastery with a church, living and working rooms, which are grouped around inner courtyards modeled on cloisters. The design language and color scheme, however, are those of the 21st century.
The entry from the colored courtyard into the snow-white church is a tough cut. The nave opens up boldly and steeply. From there, light floods the entire width of the room to the symbolic places of Christ's presence: cross, tabernacle, altar, ambo and baptismal font. What can appear cool and unwelcoming at first glance leads the viewer's gaze to the essential elements in the room. The church was awarded the "Architecture Prize Color - Structure - Surface 2010" and "best architects 11 gold".
Black Madonna
An African Madonna stands in a niche near the entrance to the Roman Catholic Church. It is a gift from the Evangelical Reformed parish of Uetikon and comes from the carving school in Dreifontain in Zimbabwe. In addition to believers from the village, it also attracts pilgrims from the wider area.
Uetiker Museum
There is a local museum in Uetikon, which deals with the history of the community.
economy
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The lakeshore is strongly influenced by the Uetikon Chemistry University . They wanted to build a large part of their area with a housing estate with a lake and a lake route. The project was opposed by various political groups. On March 26, voters opposed the local council that supported the project.
On March 22nd, 2016, CPH Chemie + Papier Holding AG (formerly CU Chemie Uetikon), the municipality of Uetikon and the Zurich Government Council informed that the Canton of Zurich would buy the grounds of CPH Chemie + Papier Holding AG in order to To build part of the property a cantonal secondary school to cover the need for additional training places on the right bank of Lake Zurich. Chemical production is expected to be discontinued by 2018 or to be relocated to other locations. However, just under half of the previous industrial area is required for the cantonal school. The canton has therefore sold a 50% co-ownership to the municipality of Uetikon. The development of the property is worked out jointly, with mixed development or mixed use (industry, trade, services, to a lesser extent also living and recreation) being implemented on the communal area in accordance with the cantonal structure plan. A central component of the planning is to create direct access to the lake for the community and to realize the lake shore path over a length of almost one kilometer.
traffic
Rail transport
From 1903 Uetikon was on the Wetzikon-Meilen-Bahn . In 1950 operations were stopped. Today in Uetikon the tramway and the station building are reminiscent of the former railway.
The right bank of the Zürichseebahn (Zürich – Meilen – Rapperswil) is considered to be the forerunner of the Zürich S-Bahn . In the 1960s, it received RABDe 12/12 multiple units ( “Mirage” ), financed by the Canton of Zurich, and the so-called rigid timetable , now a regular timetable . As a forerunner of the S-Bahn, the half-hourly service and self-control were tested on the line from 1968 onwards , and around 25 years later it was expanded to include regional services throughout Switzerland. The municipality boundary to Männedorf runs right through the area of the Uetikon train station. The main building and the telephone booth are in the Uetiker area, the kiosk and the vending machines in Männedorf. A curiosity: the address of the Bahnhof restaurant in Uetikon is Alte Landstr. 1 in Männedorf.
The following lines of the S-Bahn Zurich run from Uetikon station :
- S 6 Baden - Regensdorf-Watt - Zurich HB - Uetikon
- S 7 Winterthur - Kloten - Zurich HB - Stadelhofen - Meilen - Rapperswil
Bus transport
The following bus lines exist, which are operated by the Zurich Lake and Oberland Transport Authority (VZO):
- 925 Stäfa station - Männedorf station - Uetikon - Meilen station
- 931 Uetikon station - Bergheim
- 932 Uetikon station - Stötzli
Shipping
The ships of the Zürichsee-Schiffahrtsgesellschaft on the Zürich Bürkliplatz - Rapperswil line stop at the Uetikon berth .
literature
- Hermann Fietz: The art monuments of the canton of Zurich, Volume II: The districts of Bülach, Dielsdorf, Hinwil, Horgen and Meilen. (= Art Monuments of Switzerland. Volume 15). Edited by the Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Bern 1943. DNB 365803049 .
Web links
- Official website of the municipality of Uetikon am See
- Statistical data from the canton on the municipality of Uetikon am See
- Peter Ziegler: Uetikon am See. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Permanent and non-permanent resident population by year, canton, district, municipality, population type and gender (permanent resident population). In: bfs. admin.ch . Federal Statistical Office (FSO), August 31, 2019, accessed on December 22, 2019 .
- ↑ Data on the resident population by home, gender and age (community profile). Statistical Office of the Canton of Zurich, accessed on December 22, 2019 .
- ↑ Peter Ziegler: Männedorf: From the beginnings to the present. Männedorf, 1975: Männedorf municipality.
- ^ A b Kantonsschule Uetikon> History
- ^ Walter Bernet: The high school in Uetikon is . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . March 10, 2018, ISSN 0376-6829 ( nzz.ch [accessed July 19, 2019]).
- ↑ a b Werner Huber, in: «Hochparterre»
- ↑ a b Peter Spichtig op, Liturgical Institute, in: “Pfarrblatt der Zürcher Katholiken” N ° 21/2008
- ↑ Architecture Prize Color - Structure - Surface ( Memento of the original from February 24, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Best Architects
- ↑ 'Maria von Uetikon' website
- ↑ Zürichsee-Zeitung, May 14, 2011.
- ↑ uetikermuseum.ch: Uetiker Museum , accessed on 12 October 2010
- ↑ Uetikon am See Online: News: Media releases Location decision of the Uetikon am See Cantonal School. Retrieved February 1, 2017 .
- ↑ Uetikon am See Online: Media releases: Media release - Execution of the purchase agreement with the Canton of Zurich. Retrieved February 1, 2017 .
- ↑ Orientation Chance Uetikon. Chance Uetikon, September 26, 2016, accessed February 1, 2017 .
