Wasterkingen

Wasterkingen
State :	Switzerland
Canton :	Zurich (ZH)
District :	Bulach
BFS no. :	0070
Postal code :	8195
Coordinates :	677 889  /  271 764 coordinates: 47 ° 35 '31 "  N , 8 ° 28' 27"  O ; CH1903:  six hundred seventy-seven thousand eight hundred eighty-nine  /  two hundred and seventy-one thousand seven hundred and sixty-four
Height :	393  m above sea level M.
Height range :	361–589 m above sea level M.
Area :	3.96  km²
Residents:	560 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	141 inhabitants per km²
Proportion of foreigners : (residents without citizenship )	9.2% (December 31, 2018)
Website:	www.wasterkingen.ch
Location of the municipality

Wasterkingen (in the native Zurich German dialect Waschterchinge ) is a municipality in the district of Bülach in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland .

coat of arms

Blazon

In silver three shortened red tips, raised by two red roses

geography

The municipality of Wasterkingen is located in the northwesternmost end of the Rafzerfeld on the road to Hohentengen . The settlement lies on the slope of the Kaltwang. Originally it consisted of two clustered villages that have grown together. Of the municipal area, 46.3% is used for agricultural purposes, 43.5% is forest, 8.1% is settlement area and 2.0% is used for transport. To the west is the border between Germany and Switzerland .

history

Aerial photo (1964)

The village was first mentioned in 1102 as Wastachingin , at that time as part of the Landgraviate of Klettgau . The high jurisdiction was acquired in 1408 by the Counts of Sulz , the lower jurisdiction lay with the barons of Tengen , from 1496 with the city of Zurich. From 1560 the majority of the property was owned by the Rordorf family from Zurich. Count Johann Ludwig II of Sulz sold the Rafzerfeld with all rights to the city of Zurich in 1651 .

The Waterking witch trial of 1701 was the last witch trial in the Zurich area. On April 19, 1701, the Eglisau Landvogt Johann Jakob Hirzel wrote to the Zurich authorities that the villagers of Wasterkingen had asked him to inform the gentlemen about the witchcraft in their community. A total of 12 people were charged. After a lengthy process, seven women and one man, all from Wasterkingen, were sentenced to death for alliances with the devil. The main defendant Elsbetha Rutschmann was sentenced to death by burning, a punishment that was already very unusual at the time, and another seven were sentenced to death by beheading. At a commemorative event in 2001 in Rafz on the 300th anniversary of the trial, District President Markus Notter and Church Council President Ruedi Reich condemned these executions as judicial murders .

As a farming village, Wasterkingen was mainly dependent on agriculture and viticulture; since the 17th century, straw weaving also played a role in home work . From 1798 Wasterkingen was a municipality (municipality) in the district of Bülach, from 1814 in the Oberamt Embrach, and since 1831 again in the district of Bülach. Industrialization did not take place, in 2005 55% of the jobs in the municipality were in agriculture. The population steadily decreased between 1870 and 1960, and it was only since 1970 that the population grew again, now mainly due to the influx of commuters .

population

Population development of Wasterkingen
year	1634	1640	1709	1836	1850	1900	1950	2000	2015	July 31 2016
Residents	245	109	281	386	437	353	275	560	577	572

• Population density: 141.9 inh / km²
• Number of private households: 212 (as of 2000)
• Denomination: 59.9% Protestant Reformed , 17.5% Roman Catholic , 22.6% other or no denominational affiliation (status: 2010)

politics

The 2015 elections of the National Council gave the following result: The SVP has 51.2%, the SP 17.8%, the FDP 8.1%, the BDP 4.4%, the glp 3.9% and the Greens 3, 5% of the vote.

Mayor is Peter Zuberbühler (since 2014).

societies

In Wasterkingen and the surrounding Rafzerfeld there are over 11 sports clubs that you can actively participate in.

Attractions

See also : List of cultural assets in Wasterkingen

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 .
• David Meili: Witches in Wasterkingen: Magic and way of life in a village in the early 18th century . Basel 1980.
• On the Wasterkingen witch trials: Eduard Osenbrüggen, Studies on German and Swiss Legal History (1868), Publisher: Fr. Hurter, 1868, pp. 414–418 ( online )
• On the Wasterkingen witch trials: Johann Moritz Schwager, Contribution to the history of superstition of the present century, or the story of a strange witch trial that was carried out at the beginning of the same in D. im **scher Kreis. In: Contributions to the advancement of reasonable thinking in religion 4 (1783), pp. 31–92 ( Online ; PDF; 13.7 MB)
• Otto Sigg : witch trials with death sentence: judicial murders in the guild city of Zurich . 2nd Edition. Self-published, Zurich 2013.

Web links

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

• Official website of the municipality of Wasterkingen
• Ueli Müller: Wasterkingen. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . 2012 .
• Statistical data on the municipality of Wasterkingen

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. ↑ Lexicon of Swiss municipality names . Edited by the Center de Dialectologie at the University of Neuchâtel. Verlag Huber, Frauenfeld / Stuttgart / Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-7193-1308-5 and Éditions Payot, Lausanne 2005, ISBN 2-601-03336-3 , p. 202.
4. ↑ ^{a b c} Ueli Müller: Waserkingen. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . December 21, 2012 , accessed December 18, 2015 .
5. ^ Otto Sigg , witch trials with death sentence: judicial murders of the guild city of Zurich; of the evil spirit in the city and country of Zurich and in the basement office in Aargau 1. Edition (2012), 199–204, 227f.
6. ↑ Sigg (2012), p. 11.
7. ↑ National Council election results 2015 ( Memento from April 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) - website of the statistical office of the Canton of Zurich. Retrieved December 16, 2015.