Wülflingen

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Coat of arms of Wülflingen (District 6)
Winterthur coat of arms
Wülflingen (District 6)
City district of Winterthur
Map of Wülflingen
Coordinates 693 743  /  262 913 coordinates: 47 ° 30 '37 "  N , 8 ° 40' 59"  O ; CH1903:  693,743  /  two hundred and sixty-two thousand nine hundred thirteen
surface 13.24 km²
Residents 16,456 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density 1243 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation Jan. 1, 1922
BFS no. 230-600
Post Code 8408
structure
Quarters
Parish before the merger on January 1, 1922
Wülflingen, seen from Wolfensberg

Wülflingen is an urban district of the city of Winterthur in Switzerland . The formerly independent municipality of Wülflingen was incorporated in 1922 and forms today's District 6 .

coat of arms

Blazon

In gold on a green ground, a sitting red wolf with a stolen silver, red-armored goose

geography

Wülflingen is the northwesternmost part of the city of Winterthur. It borders on the districts of Winterthur , Veltheim in the northeast and Töss in the southeast. In the south, Wülflingen borders on the municipality of Brütten and in the west on Oberembrach , Pfungen and Neftenbach . On a small strip in the north, Wülflingen still shares a border with Hettlingen .

The urban district is nestled between the wooded hills of Wolfensberg , Taggenberg and Brüelberg . The Neuburg outside guard in the south also belongs to the district . The center of the city district is traversed by the Eulach, which flows into the Töss in Wülflingen . The lowest point in Winterthur is in Wülflingen on the border with Pfungen below the Hard sewage treatment plant at 393  m. ü. M.

education

In Wülflingen there are eight kindergartens (Erlenstrasse, Härti, Rappstrasse, Siedlung Wässerwiesen, Talhofweg, Wässerwiesen, Wieshof and the Sprachheilkindergarten Rappstrasse), five primary schools (Ausserdorf, Erlenstrasse, Langwiesen, Wyden and Talhofweg) and the secondary school Hohfurri. The outside watch in Neuburg had its own school until 2004.

history

Early days and Alemannic settlement establishment

Isolated finds in the area of ​​Wülflingen date back to the Stone Age, but there are still no traces of permanent settlement at this time. In the Bronze Age , the finds were already increasing ; when the Beugger spinning mill was built in 1822 , a depot find from this period was excavated, which could have belonged to a bronze foundry. A warrior's grave was found in the gravel pit north of the Wülflingen cemetery from the Latène period . In prehistoric times, there was a fortified hilltop settlement on the Beerenberg plateau , but only a pile of ramparts can be seen today.

The Roman times in Wülflingen is proven by scattered finds of Roman coins and by traces of settlement on the southern slope of the Taggenberg. A Roman aqueduct was found there when building terraced houses above Haldenstrasse. This pipeline made of bricks and limestone could belong to a water pipeline also proven in Neftenbach, which served to supply a Roman estate in Steinmöri southeast of the Neftenbach church. Likewise, a Roman road leading from Vitudurum to Tenedo (Zurzach) should have led through Wülflingen.

The name Wülflingen itself is derived from the Alemannic clan leader Wulfilo. Due to the name ending -ingen, it can be assumed that the village of Wülflingen was built between 550 and 600. During excavations at the Wülflingen church in the summer of 1972, a wooden predecessor building was found that can be dated to around the year 650, and the first early Carolingian stone church at the same location is likely to have been built around 700. The place was first mentioned as Wulvilinga on July 27th, 897 as a meeting place for an exchange of goods.

Middle Ages and the rule of Wülflingen

In the 10th century, the village was home to a noble family of lakes with their seat at Alt-Wülflingen Castle . The castle was the seat of the rule of Wülflingen , which existed until the dissolution by Zurich in 1760 and which had high jurisdiction. A Willebirg von Ebersberg is known as the first representative by name of the von Seen family, who inherited the property around Wülflingen after the death of Count Ulrich von Eberberg in the spring of 1029 and was henceforth called Willebirg von Wülflingen. She was married to Lütold von Mömpelgard, her son Werner became Bishop of Strasbourg in 1065 , Kuno assumed her inheritance on Alt-Wülflingen as Kuno von Wülflingen.

The rule had many changing owners. In the 13th century it was under the control of the Habsburgs , from 1239 the Counts of Habsburg-Kyburg . Other owners were around 1300 the lords of Hettlingen , followers of Habsburg-Kyburg, 1315-1386 the lords of lakes , Ulrich von Landenberg-Greifensee , from 1455 the lords of Rümlang . As a result of the indebtedness of Hans Konrad von Rümlang , who was beheaded by the Zurich residents in 1529, the castle came into the possession of Wülflingen himself in 1525, who sold the castle to the Steiner family four years later. They sold the castle to the Escher family - after the city of Zurich had stopped the sale of the castle and the associated rule to the city of Winterthur - mind you, the city of Zurich showed no interest in buying the castle. The Escher family left the castle in 1644 and moved to the newly built Wülflingen Castle , whereupon the castle quickly fell into disrepair. The rule of Wülflingen then came to the Meiss and Hirzel families and was dissolved by Zurich in 1760 and assigned to the Landvogtei Andelfingen .

The Beerenberg Canons' Monastery also existed around Wülflingen . This emerged from a hermitage established in 1318, which was expanded into a monastery for the Augustinian canons in 1355 and existed until the Reformation. Also, not far from Hoch-Wülflingen Castle, the Neuburg was a high medieval castle, of which only the castle stables can be seen today.

The medieval village of Wülflingen

For a long time, Wülflingen itself was a vine-growing village that planted vines on the southern slopes of Wolfensberg and Brühlberg, on the dump below Taggensberg and in Rumstal. Some vineyards have been preserved to this day. The village itself was divided into an upper and a lower village, in the middle of which were the church, rectory and Kelnhof. Both parts of the village had their own tent system. The two parts of the village grew together by the 17th century. From 1428 the existence of today's Wespi mill is documented, which is under national monument protection. Wülflingen was obliged to pay tithes to the Winterthur Hospital from 1515.

The tax rogue from 1467 mentions 87 taxable residents in 33 households, which suggests a village size of around 165 residents. In addition to the actual village, Wülflingen was also surrounded by many farms and hamlets, of which there were 20 in the middle of the 17th century, with Neuburg being the largest hamlet with 35 inhabitants in 1934. Other larger settlements were Rumstal (25 inhabitants) and the Furt and Oberreich farms with 20 inhabitants each. Wülflingen itself comprised 689 inhabitants at that time.

A schoolmaster was first mentioned in Wülflingen in 1627, and another school was established in Neuburg by 1655 at the latest. From 1692 a parish hall is mentioned that also served as a school house. In 1798 the Ancien Régime ended in Zurich and Wülflingen became an independent municipality. In 1799 the community of Wülflingen had 987 inhabitants.

After the end of the Ancien Régime

In 1802, the first large mechanical spinning mill in Europe was built in Wülflingen, which was still independent at the time, with the Hard spinning mill . In 1812 the community bought its tithe, the total of 77,340 guilders was paid off in annual installments until 1820. The ransom from the basic interest followed at the end of the restoration period in 1830. The Beugger spinning mill existed from 1820 to 1870, and today the Winterthur Integrated Psychiatry is located there. From 1834 to 1883 there was a paper mill in Wülflingen. From 1864 the "Democratic Wine Countries" was published by Wülflingen. In the years to come, Wülflingen increasingly developed into a workers' village and Winterthur suburb. From 1870 there was a consumer association in the village. In 1880 the village was connected to the newly built railway line Winterthur – Bülach – Koblenz with the Wülflingen train station . In the 1890s, a workers' association became active in the village. In 1891 a central drinking water supply was set up for the entire village after initial planning was stopped by a flood in the summer of 1876.

Together with the then also independent municipality of Töss, Wülflingen was one of the first municipalities in the Canton of Zurich with a social democratic majority around 1900 . In 1903 a post office was opened in Wülflingen. The opening of line 2 of the Winterthur tramway in 1915 made Dort Wülflingen even closer to the city of Winterthur. Jakob Erb , elected in 1909 as the last mayor of Wülflingen, was the driving force behind the union of the Winterthur agglomeration communities with the city of Winterthur, a commitment that led to success with the approval of the Winterthur city association on May 4, 1919 by the Zurich sovereign. The superiority of the Social Democrats in the last few years of the independent municipality of Wülflingen was also well demonstrated in the National Council elections in 1919, in which the SP won 10,740 votes, three times as many as the next-best list of Democrats, which had 3,237 votes came. In 1920, shortly before the incorporation, Wülflingen had 3,845 inhabitants.

Wülflingen as a district of Winterthur

Aerial photo from 400 m by Walter Mittelholzer (1923)

In 1922, Wülflingen was incorporated into the city of Winterthur with the other suburbs, after having struggled with major financial problems in recent years. Wülflingen had clearly approved the corresponding bill on May 4, 1919 with 776 votes in favor to 44 against. As part of a border adjustment, the former municipality of Wülflingen ceded the farm area to the municipality of Brütten when it transferred.

After the incorporation, the population grew rapidly, within 30 years of incorporation, the population almost doubled to 6934 in 1950 and tripled to 10,191 by 1960. The development between Neuwiesen and the Wülflinger town center was regulated by a development plan drawn up in 1925. Nevertheless, after the incorporation, Wülflingen was able to retain its village character and, in particular in the center around Lindenplatz, the town center has largely been preserved to this day.

In 1938, the tram line was the first urban tram line to be replaced by trolleybus line 2, which still operates today. In 1939, construction of the Hard sewage treatment plant began at the extreme end of Wülflingen . In 1943 the course of the Eulach between the village center and the Töss was corrected. In 1964, Winterthur approved the development plan for the Winterthur-West area, which further changed the image of Wülflingen together with the A1 motorway, which was built until 1968. The Wülflingen swimming pool was opened in the summer of 1967.

traffic

Reception building from the early days of the railway

Wülflingen is crossed by a large main street, Wülflingerstrasse, which leads east from the city center to Neftenbach or Tössallmend. The motorway connection Winterthur-Wülflingen of the A1 flows into the bypass road Salomon-Hirzel-Strasse , which runs at both ends to Wülflingerstrasse. Other connecting roads lead in the east across the Schlosstal to Töss, in the south via Neuburg into Dättnau, which also belongs to Töss, and in the north to Riet bei Neftenbach .

Trolleybus line 2 of the Winterthur city bus to Wülflingen also runs on Wülflingerstrasse. Bus line 7 runs through the castle valley to Winterthur-Wülflingen train station . This is located on the railway line Winterthur-Bülach-Koblenz and from the line S41 ( Winterthur station - Bülach - Zurzach - Koblenz ) of the S-Bahn Zurich served. At the weekend, the Winterthur – Bülach night train stops in Wülflingen. The historic Wülflingen station is part of the inventory of cultural assets of regional importance.

Culture and sights

Events

The Wülflinger village festival, the Wülflinger Dorfet , takes place annually in the village center north of Lindenplatz. Every two years since 2009, the "Biennale Sculpture Symposium" has been held in the park, which is part of the Weiertal cultural center , and each summer shows sculptures by national and international contemporary artists. The "Bambole Openair Festival", which took place for the first time in 1996 and is held in mid-August, is even more irregular in the hamlet of Oberer Radhof.

Buildings

Wülflingen Castle

There are some remarkable buildings in the Winterthur district, most of which date back to the Middle Ages. Right in the center is the Reformed Church of Wülflingen , whose predecessor buildings date back to the 7th century. Much younger and located on the outskirts of the Wülflingen district, Wülflingen Castle , built in the 17th century, is now a restaurant. There are also some of the Winterthur tiled stoves from that time in the castle . Like the Wülflingen Castle, the Wespi mill , whose predecessor buildings were first documented in 1428, and the Hard spinning mill, which was built in 1802 as the first mechanical spinning mill on the European mainland, are cultural monuments of national importance.

In the hills around Winterthur there are also the ruins of other buildings from the Middle Ages. On the eastern slope of the Beerenberg hill are the remains of the wall of the former Augustinian Canons Abbey of Beerenberg from the 14th century. An 18-meter-high tower is reminiscent of the Alt-Wülflingen castle ruins on the Schlossberg. Alt-Wülflingen was the former seat of the Counts of Wülflingen until they moved to the more comfortable Wülflingen Castle in 1644. On the other side of the Totentäli and thus opposite Alt-Wülflingen is the Hoh-Wülflingen castle site , which was formerly called Neuburg. The name has meanwhile been transferred to the nearby Wülflingen outdoor watch.

The Catholic Church of St. Laurentius was built in the 1950s and has glass windows and enamel pictures by the artist Ferdinand Gehr and works by the stonemason Albert Schilling .

music

The music society Edelweiss Wülflingen was founded on May 1st, 1896 and is now a firmly anchored music association in Wülflingen, with around 30 active members. The punk band Hukedicht , which dissolved in 2006 , originally comes from Wülflingen, and the band itself referred to the district as "Winterthur-West".

Recreation area

The forests around Wülflingen are ideal for local recreation. In the northeast lies the Wolfensberg with its vineyards and the Chöpfi sandstone formation , in the southeast the Brüelberg with the forest inn, which belongs to the Winterthur Workers' Union . In the forests in the south and on the Beerenberg in the west there are ruins of medieval buildings. The Neuburg outdoor watch with the excursion restaurant is also a popular excursion area.

In addition, the rivers Eulach and Töss are ideal for walks. Also popular is the so-called "Affenschlucht" (Affenschlucht) gorge, which belongs to Neftenbach. The city limits cross the Töss along the uppermost Töss waterfall.

Personalities

Sports

The TV Wülflingen was founded on August 7th, 1875 and is therefore the third oldest gymnastics club in Winterthur after the STV Winterthur and the TV Töss . In the 1970s, the most famous member of the gymnastics club, Robert Bretscher , took part in several Olympic Games and gymnastics world championships and won 25 championship titles in Swiss championships. The second oldest sports club in the district, namely ATB Wülflingen , founded in 1919 , which has several Swiss championship titles in artificial cycling and also operates unicycle hockey , can also boast Swiss championship titles .

Football found its way into Wülflingen with the founding of FC Wülflingen in 1924. In its most successful time, the club, which played its games a bit off the beaten track on the Sporrer sports field, played in the third-class first division in the 1999/2000 season.

The youngest club to have its home ground in Wülflingen is ultimately the Eulach Squash Club Winterthur , which plays its game in the Wülflingen squash center. The cavalry club Winterthur and the surrounding area (founded in 1896) is much older than the squash club, but has only had its equestrian hall in Wülflingen right next to the Sporrer football field since 2010.

literature

  • Peter Ziegler: Wülflingen - From the beginning to the present (305th New Year's sheet of the Winterthur City Library).

Web links

Commons : Wülflingen (Winterthur)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Peter Ziegler: Wülflingen . From the beginnings to the present (=  New Year's Gazette of the Winterthur City Library . No. 305 ). Winterthur 1975, p. 3-6 .
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  8. ^ Peter Ziegler: Wülflingen (community). In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
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  17. Felicia Schmaedecke, Ueli Rüegsegger: The Reformed Church Winterthur-Wülflingen. (Swiss Art Guide, No. 848, Series 85). Ed.  Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Bern 2009, ISBN 978-3-85782-848-5 .