Laufen-Uhwiesen

Laufen-Uhwiesen

State :	Switzerland Switzerland
Canton :	Canton Zurich Zurich (ZH)
District :	Andelfingenw
BFS no. :	0034i1 f3 f4
Postal code :	OT Uhwiesen: 8248 Uhwiesen OT Nohl: 8212 Nohl OT Laufen: 8447 Dachsen
Coordinates :	689 997 / 280740 coordinates: 47 ° 40 '16 " N , 8 ° 38' 13" O ; CH1903: six hundred and eighty-nine thousand nine hundred ninety-seven / 28074047.67111 8.636943 457
Height :	457 m above sea level M.
Height range :	359-580 m above sea level M.
Area :	6.28 km²
Residents:	1709 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	272 inhabitants per km²
Proportion of foreigners : (residents without citizenship )	13.5% (December 31, 2018)
Mayor :	Serge Rohrbach
Website:	www.lauf-uhwiesen.ch
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Laufen-Uhwiesen is a municipality in the Andelfingen district of the canton of Zurich .

coat of arms

Blazon : In blue a silver pruning knife with a golden handle, raised by a silver paw cross

geography

The municipality borders both Germany (in the west) and the cantons of Schaffhausen and Thurgau. The cantons of Schaffhausen and Zurich only cleared the border in the Rhine Falls in 1984/85. Since then, the middle, accessible rock has mostly been in Zurich area.

The municipality of Laufen-Uhwiesen consists of three localities:

Uhwiesen

Aerial photo from a height of 400 m by Werner Friedli (1958)

The village of Uhwiesen was first mentioned in a document in 1290. It is located at 450 meters on the southern slope of the Cholfirst in the Zürcher Weinland . The oldest preserved chapel in the Canton of Zurich is located in the village, which is characterized by half-timbered houses . The village itself is called a wine and fruit growing village, as many vines grow on the steep southern slope of the Cholfirst.

To run

The district of Laufen comprises half a dozen houses, including the church, the rectory and the castle , once the seat of junkers and governors. The Schloss Laufen is now Restaurationsbetrieb for Rheinfall visitors and was until 2019 a hostel . The Rhine Falls , the largest waterfall in Central Europe is half the district running and the other half in the neighboring village Neuhausen am Rheinfall . The postal address of the houses in Laufen is curious: although the district belongs to the municipality of Laufen-Uhwiesen, Laufen has the postcode of the neighboring municipality of Dachsen and, by post, the name of the place. A letter is addressed as follows: Max Mustermann, Laufen, 8447 Dachsen

Laufen Castle above the Rhine Falls

Nohl

The hamlet of Nohl, originally called Urfar, lies on a narrow terrace above the northern bank of the Rhine . It was a fishing settlement in the Middle Ages. Even today, some businesses are connected to the water, namely with Rhine shipping and boat building. Most of the farmers cultivate their land in the German neighborhood. The hamlet is considered a special case, as it occupies an exclave constellation. It was acquired by the city-state of Zurich in 1651 from the Count Sulz family. Since 1956, after the ferry service ceased , the village has been connected by the Nohl Rhine footbridge with the other parts of the community. Before that there was only one ferry. So it has no road connection with the rest of the community and is only accessible for motorized traffic via the German or Schaffhausen area. Due to its isolation, the supply of the hamlet is quite complicated. The spring water comes from Neuhausen, as does the garbage disposal. In the event of a fire, the Neuhausen fire brigade and the Cholfirst regional fire brigade are responsible.

population

Population development
year	Residents
1643	388
1850	794
1900	824
1950	795
1970	1,048
2000	1,369
2010	1,511

history

“The Laufen-Uhwiesen area was sparsely populated in the early Middle Ages. The development started from the manorial center of Laufen, which existed no later than the 9th century, which recently consisted of a castle and a church, but in the 14th century still included a large Kelnhof and a mill. The Mörlen farm is also mentioned in the 9th century. The village of Uhwiesen was a high medieval settlement which, however, developed into the main settlement in the 15th century due to viticulture. From the 12th century onwards, the bishops of Constance held the manorial power, and from around 1440 the lower courts were in the hands of the von Fulach family from Schaffhausen. Laufen-Uhwiesen belonged to the county of Kyburg and became part of Zurich in 1424 and 1452 respectively. In 1544 Zurich also acquired the lower jurisdiction and combined all of its rulership rights in the Obervogtei Laufen, which existed until 1798. " In 1155 the Kelnhof and the church in Laufen are mentioned as the property of the Bishop of Constance . The war year 1799 brought the occupation by French, Austrian and Russian troops.

Under the regeneration constitution of the Canton of Zurich of 1831, the political communities came into being. The areas of Uhwiesen, Laufen, Nohl, Mörlen and Flurlingen together formed a corresponding unit, from which Flurlingen left as early as 1840 and was defined as an independent political municipality.

Viticulture played an important role in the original farming village; Some full-time winegrowers still tend the vines today. However, the area under vines on the slope has become smaller. In addition, a wreath of agricultural settlements surrounds the village. As the owner of the largest forest area in the municipality, Laufen-Uhwiesen, together with the political communities of Benken, Dachsen and Trüllikon, forms the Cholfirst forest district and thus belongs to forest district 5 of the canton of Zurich. After the Second World War, stormy building activity doubled the population. Since the industry was slow to develop, most of the residents work abroad.

Sights and culture

Hilari , a carnival-like custom , is always celebrated in mid-January .

traffic

With the opening of the Schaffhausen - Winterthur railway in 1857 by the then Nordostbahn-Gesellschaft, Laufen-Uhwiesen did not have its own station, but relied on that of Dachsen. Only with the stop “Schloss Laufen am Rheinfall” was there a rail connection to the municipality. The construction of the stone bridge with nine arches directly above the fall of the Rhine was a technical masterpiece. The railway line leads from the bridge directly into the tunnel under Laufen Castle. A post bus connection from Uhwiesen to Schaffhausen has existed since 1968.

schools

The primary school of the community and the district secondary school for Uhwiesen, Dachsen and Flurlingen are located in Uhwiesen. The children from the hamlet of Nohl use the kindergarten and primary school in Dachsen. Like those in the Zurich communities of Dachsen, Flurlingen and Feuerthalen, middle school students attend the Schaffhausen Cantonal School. The hamlet of Nohl had its own primary school from 1885 to 1974.

politics

The municipal council (executive) consists of five members. The community president is Serge Rohrbach (as of May 2020).

Sons and daughters of the church

Johann Jakob Egli (1825-1896), geographer
Ernst Müller-Reiffer (1885–1957), industrialist
Walter Maria Förderer (1928–2006), sculptor, architect, university professor and politician
Sophie Blocher (1935–2002), pastor and social worker
Beat Mändli (* 1969), show jumper
Lukas Linder (* 1984), playwright and novelist

literature

Hermann Fietz : The art monuments of the canton of Zurich, Volume I: The districts of Affoltern and Andelfingen. (= Swiss art monuments. Volume 7). Edited by the Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Bern 1938. DNB 365803030 .
Walter Ulrich Guyan : Laufen-Uhwiesen in the Zurich wine country . o. V. Neuhausen am Rheinfall 1988.
Klaus Kläui: A walk through the history of the municipality of Laufen-Uhwiesen. Nohl Druck, Schaffhausen 1958.

Web links

Commons : Laufen-Uhwiesen - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Official website of the Laufen-Uhwiesen local authority
Statistical data for the municipality of Laufen-Uhwiesen
Martin Illi: Laufen-Uhwiesen. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Martin Illi: Running (Vogtei). 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 .
^ Guyan, Walter Ulrich: Laufen-Uhwiesen in the Zürcher Weinland . o. V., Neuhausen am Rheinfall, p. 29 .
↑ ^a ^b Hillmar Höber: The district is only connected to the rest of the Laufen-Uhwiesen area by a footbridge: Nohl - a special case in the canton of Zurich . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . December 21, 2010, ISSN 0376-6829 ( nzz.ch [accessed January 2, 2017]).
↑ The missing ferry from the Rhine . In: Tages-Anzeiger from July 24, 2019
↑ Martin Illi: Laufen-Uhwiesen. In: Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz , accessed on April 21, 2017 .
↑ Kläui, Hans: A walk through the history of the community Laufen-Uhwiesen . Nohl Druck, Schaffhausen 1958, p. 137 .
^ Guyan, Walter Ulrich: Laufen-Uhwiesen in the Zürcher Weinland . o. V., Neuhausen am Rheinfall 1988, p. 128 .

[1] 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 .

[2] Data on the resident population by home, gender and age (community profile). Statistical Office of the Canton of Zurich, accessed on December 22, 2019 .

[3] Guyan, Walter Ulrich: Laufen-Uhwiesen in the Zürcher Weinland . o. V., Neuhausen am Rheinfall, p. 29 .

[:0-4] Hillmar Höber: The district is only connected to the rest of the Laufen-Uhwiesen area by a footbridge: Nohl - a special case in the canton of Zurich . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . December 21, 2010, ISSN 0376-6829 ( nzz.ch [accessed January 2, 2017]).

[5] The missing ferry from the Rhine . In: Tages-Anzeiger from July 24, 2019

[6] Martin Illi: Laufen-Uhwiesen. In: Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz , accessed on April 21, 2017 .

[7] Kläui, Hans: A walk through the history of the community Laufen-Uhwiesen . Nohl Druck, Schaffhausen 1958, p. 137 .

[8] Guyan, Walter Ulrich: Laufen-Uhwiesen in the Zürcher Weinland . o. V., Neuhausen am Rheinfall 1988, p. 128 .