People

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People
State :	Switzerland
Canton :	Zurich (ZH)
District :	Andelfingen
BFS no. :	0043
Postal code :	8459
Coordinates :	689 365  /  270 073 coordinates: 47 ° 34 '31 "  N , 8 ° 37' 35"  O ; CH1903:  six hundred and eighty-nine thousand three hundred sixty-five  /  two hundred seventy thousand and seventy-three
Height :	406  m above sea level M.
Height range :	354–489 m above sea level M.
Area :	3.20  km²
Residents:	362 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	91 inhabitants per km²
Proportion of foreigners : (residents without citizenship )	10.2% (December 31, 2018)
Mayor :	Walter Schürch
Website:	www.volken.ch
Location of the municipality

Well in the village center of Volken

Garden sculpture in the center of Volken

Volken is a municipality in the Andelfingen district of the canton of Zurich in Switzerland .

coat of arms

Blazon

In red an overturned silver ploughshare, flanked by two turned silver vine knives with gold handles

In the 17th century the coat of arms showed a fir tree, two squirrels and two plowshares; around 1700 the coat of arms then showed a lily and two plowshares. Since the 18th century the pictures show a ploughshare and two pruning knives, whereby the colors change frequently - the motif represents agriculture and viticulture that were once important for the people. The motif, which was then partially changed, was adjusted to the status "ploughshare and two pruning knives" and introduced in early 1935 by the Volken municipal council as the municipality's official coat of arms.

geography

Aerial photo (1948)

The community of Volken is located in the Zürcher Weinland between Henggart and Flaach . The settlement is located in a very flat hollow in the Flaach Valley. On the southern slope of the Worbig, the terrain rises a little steeper.

Two thirds of the community area is used for agriculture, 28% is forest, 4.4% is used for traffic and 2.5% is settlement area. Volken is the municipality with the smallest population in the canton of Zurich.

politics

The SVP has 49.96%, the FDP 11.88%, the glp 11.16%, the Greens 8.52%, the EPP 7.54%, the SP 5.78%, and the EDU 2.59% of the votes ( National Council election 2019 ).

The mayor is Walter Schürch (as of 2020).

economy

Agriculture and viticulture on the Worrenberg are the most important branches of the economy.

history

Volken was first mentioned in a document as Volchinchoven in 1044 .

Numerous noblemen and monasteries from landowners have been documented since the 13th century, for example the Lords of Eschlikon, the monasteries Rheinau , St. Katharinental , Rüti , Töss and Allerheiligen in Schaffhausen , as well as the Canons 'Monastery of Embrach and the Canons' Monastery of Heiligenberg near Winterthur.

Since 1610, the Volkemer in Flaach have been part of the church.

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 .

Web links

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

• Official website of the community of Volken
• Statistical data for the municipality of Volken
• Martin Illi: People. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

Individual evidence

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. ↑ Elections 2019. Accessed May 26, 2020 .