Weinegg

Weinegg ; district of Zurich
Coordinates	685 089 / 245848 coordinates: 47 ° 21 '29 " N , 8 ° 33' 54" O ; CH1903: 685089 / 245848
height	Ø 457 m
surface	1.7239 km²
Residents	5036 (Dec. 31, 2014)
Population density	2921 inhabitants / km²
BFS no.	261-083
Post Code	8008
Urban district	District 8

Weinegg is a district in the city of Zurich in District 8 (Riesbach) , on the right bank of Lake Zurich .

location

Balgrist, view from the Uetliberg

The Weingg district, named after the hill to the northwest of the "Burghölzli", is bordered by Zollikerstrasse, Forchstrasse and the Wildbach and Wehrenbach, and to the southeast by the city limits towards Zollikon . This triangular area stretches from Kreuzplatz to the Flühgasse area up to Rehalp, from there to Zollikerstrasse and borders on the districts of Hottingen , Hirslanden , Witikon and Mühlebach as well as the municipality of Zollikon in the southeast.

history

Half-timbered house on Weineggstrasse

Neumünster Church, view from the north

The name of the municipality of Riesbach , which was independent until 1893, goes back to the «Riedisbach» - today's Nebelbach. Archaeological finds show that the former Riesbach municipality was already settled in the Stone Age. "Riedisbach" is mentioned for the first time around 930 in the lists of the Grossmünster possessions; the area north of the Hornbach originally belonged to the court association of the Stadelhofen Abbey. With the Vogtei Stadelhofen-Zollikon , Riesbach came to the City of Zurich in 1358 from the possession of Götfrid Mülner and remained part of the Vogtei until 1798. In 1408 the Wachten Riesbach and Seefeld are mentioned, and until the 19th century these so-called Ausgemeinden remained farming villages with arable farming, cattle breeding and viticulture. In 1834 the three parishes of Hottingen, Hirslanden and Riesbach merged to form the Neumünster parish , and in 1839 the Neumünster Church was inaugurated on the Zelglihügel. After the medieval city fortifications were demolished , the suburbs received well-developed roads, Riesbachstrasse and Seefeldstrasse.

Incorporation

On May 11, 1891, the Unification Act was passed in the Cantonal Council with 169 votes to 11 and the so-called Allocation Act with a cantonal referendum with 37,843 to 24,904, in Riesbach with 1,059 votes in favor to 547 against. It was incorporated into the city of Zurich on January 1, 1893.

Riesbach, together with Fluntern, Hottingen and Hirslanden, formed the city district V. With the municipal code of 1913, Riesbach and the section south of the Wehrenbach belonging to the old Hirslanden became district 8. The Roman numerals that had been used up to that point were used to organize the city districts after the revision Arabic replaced. The remaining quarters of District V - Fluntern, Hottingen and Hirslanden - became the new City District 7.

Today's District 8 is in the area of the former municipality of Riesbach, whose name is still in use today. With the second incorporation in 1934, Riesbach was divided into so-called "statistical districts" for statistical purposes, which were designated as the lower, middle and upper part. It was not until 1953 and 1971, respectively, that these names were changed using the new district names Seefeld , Weinegg and Mühlebach , based on the geographical names of earlier districts.

population

When it was incorporated, Riesbach, with 14,194 inhabitants, was the third-largest district in the city, after Aussersihl and Zurich, what is now District 1. Currently, District 8, measured by residents, is third to last with 15,343 people.

The rapid population growth that Riesbach experienced in the early 19th century thanks to its proximity to the city center has turned into a constant decline since the post-war period. In 1960, the population in the Weinegg district increased again and reached its maximum in 1961 with 6,933 people, only to decrease by the end of the 1980s and since then have leveled off between 4,700 and 5,000, currently 4,951 people.

Demographic data

The city of Zurich is divided into 12 districts, which in turn are made up of the 34 city quarters. Statistical data are collected in Zurich in 216 so-called statistical zones. These are marked with a number, which is made up of the city quarter number and a serial number, the city quarter number in turn from the district number and a serial number. The city district of Weinegg has the number 083, its statistical zones the numbers 08301 to 08304:

Neumünster 08301
Botanical Garden 08302
Burghölzli 08303
Rehalp 08304

Forchbahn in the Burgwies

Measured by the resident population, Weinegg is one of the smaller, least densely populated city quarters. It shows no significant deviations from urban averages for most of the demographic data . Notable exceptions are:

The proportion of Protestant Reformed people is above average compared to other urban districts.
Most of the 591 buildings in the Weinegg district are utility buildings. The proportion of new buildings built after 1991 is the second highest in the city after the Escher Wyss quarter, but at the same time the proportion of old buildings that were built before 1893 is higher than in most other city quarters.
A quarter of the total area of Zurich is forested, in Weinegg only 9% (Burghölzliwald). Nonetheless, the proportion of green space is slightly above the urban mean: 63.48% of the total area are buildings and gardens, to which the green areas of the botanical garden and the commercial area of the district courtyard make a significant contribution.
The number of jobs in the district exceeds that of the resident population, while the number of workplaces (hospitals, services, trade) is statistically above average compared to most other urban districts.

Sights and leisure

Burghölzli

«Burghölzli» (center of the picture) with Lake Zurich and Albis in the background seen from the Sonnenberg

In terms of landscape, the Weinegg district is dominated by the Burghölzlihügel, which has a decisive influence on the formation of settlements and forms a central green zone with the agricultural area of the district courtyard to the northwest. In the midst of the quarter enthroned, this striking range of hills is a recreational area and Zurich is a valuable natural area : the molasses -Hügel from the Würm is habitat for a rich fauna .

The south-western slope of the "Burghölzli", the "Burghalde", is a vineyard with an impressive size of four hectares for Zurich, which corresponds to around 30 percent of the city's vineyards. It is managed by a private winery , until 2006 in collaboration with the Psychiatric University Clinic Zurich - still better known today as "the Burghölzli" - whose patients have partly worked in viticulture for therapeutic reasons. Just as striking as the vineyard at the “Burghölzli” is the “Stephansburg” from 1843, which can be seen from afar. The building, named after the builder, has been part of the Psychiatric University Clinic in Zurich since 1879.

In the complex there are several villas of different architectural eras, such as the 1879 to 1882 built Villa Brandt and the baroque country house Brunnenhof from the year 1644. An example of more recent design is the Villa Meyer, in the style of a Renaissance - palace (1984/86) .

Botanical Garden

Dome greenhouses in the botanical garden

The Botanical Garden of the University of Zurich is located at the confluence of Südstrasse with Zollikerstrasse. The garden, which was laid out from 1972 to 1977, replaced the botanical garden "zur Katz" on Schanzengraben and became the location of the Institute for Systematic Botany. Around 8,000 plant species are grouped together in themed biotopes , including Mediterranean flora and a spring garden. The garden includes a spacious outdoor area and three dome greenhouses with different climatic zones . The largest greenhouse houses plants from the tropical climate zone. The other two are home to subtropical and savannah plants . In addition to the use as a recreation area, the tasks include the provision of plants for teaching and research, the preservation and reproduction of threatened plants as well as the information service and exhibitions.

Quartierhof Wynegg

Quartierhof Weinegg, view from the southeast

The last farm in district 8 is located in the upper Weinegg area, the "Quartierhof Wynegg", built for the Swiss National Exhibition in 1939 by the canton of Zurich and managed by a tenant family until 1995. With woolly pigs , chickens, rabbits, small horses, mules and the annual cider festival , the quarter farm has become a trademark of the family-friendly city quarter in recent years.

The residents of the neighborhood were therefore vehemently opposed to the planned sale of the approximately one hectare area in order to preserve the last memories of the country life that once ruled here in urban Weinegg. The popular initiative «Save the Obere Weinegg» of the sponsoring association «Quartierhof Wynegg», formed in 1997, came about on March 21, 2001 with 4,245 valid votes. The canton had made the sponsoring association an offer to buy, but it was unable to raise the required CHF 10 to 20 million. The city of Zurich and the canton would like to build a settlement with 40 to 50 apartments on the site and also integrate the farm into the project (status April 2, 2008).

Burgwies tram depot

To the north of Quartierhof Weinegg, the torrent forms the border to Hirslanden, with the Burgwies tram depot built in 1893 , the oldest in Switzerland and, since May 26, 2007, the new location of the Zurich Tram Museum .

Houses of worship

Balgrist Church and the minaret of the Mahmud Mosque

There are two churches of the Evangelical Reformed Church in Weinegg :

The Neumünster Church , which was inaugurated in 1839 .
The Reformed Church Balgrist was built between 1950 and 1952.

On the other side of Forchstrasse is the Mahmud Mosque , Zurich's only mosque with a minaret . The Ahmadiyya mosque opened in 1963.

education

Primary and upper school pupils are organizationally assigned to the Zürichberg District School Maintenance Department.

traffic

After the Rösslitram ushered in the age of public transport in Zurich, the first electric tram through the Hottingen and Hirslanden districts, initially limited to just a few years, took place twelve years later. The 4.6 kilometer long Bellevue –Kreuzplatz – Burgwies and Bellevue – Pfauen – Römerhof – Kreuzplatz lines began operation with a folk festival in 1894. Despite the modest top speed of 15 km / h, a six-minute cycle has been maintained since the beginning.

Today Weinegg is one of the few districts in Zurich with only an indirect connection to the tram and the Zurich S-Bahn network . The tram lines 2, 4 - both in Seefeld - and 11 (Forchstrasse) to Stadelhofen station and the railway station deep wells but can be easily reached on foot. In spite of this, the Weinegg district is relatively well integrated into the public transport network of the Zurich Transport Authority (VBZ) , with the trolleybus route 33 and the bus route 77.

economy

Psychiatric University Clinic «Burghölzli», entrance area

Probably no other district combines so many medical buildings and hospitals , which is why the Weinegg district is also known as the «district of clinics». In addition to the “Burghölzli” Psychiatric University Clinic in Zurich, which was founded in 1870, the Swiss Epilepsy Center , the Balgrist Orthopedic University Clinic, the private hospitals Clinic Hirslanden and Schulthess Clinic and the municipal nursing home Rehalp are located.

In addition to the Institute for Systematic Botany in the Botanical Garden, some other research facilities of the University of Zurich located in the neighborhood are worth mentioning : The Department for Psychiatric Research, the Department for Experimental Infectious Diseases and Cancer Research in the Children's Clinic and the Institute for Molecular Cancer Research on August Forel-Strasse .

Personalities

Johann Konrad Zeller (1807–1856), painter

literature

Presidential Department of the City of Zurich, Statistics City of Zurich: Quartierspiegel Weinegg . Zurich 2015 ( read online )
Statistical Yearbook of the City of Zurich 2007 , Statistics City of Zurich (Ed.). Zurich 2006. ISBN 978-3-9522932-4-9
Zürcher Quartier Quartett , Statistics City of Zurich (ed.). Zurich 2006. ISBN 978-3-9522932-5-6
Building Construction Department of the City of Zurich, Office for Urban Development: Hirslanden, Riesbach . Verlag Neue Zürcher Zeitung , Zurich 2003 (Baukultur in Zürich, Volume II), ISBN 3-03823-011-1
One hundred years of Greater Zurich: 1st incorporation in 1893 . City Archives Zurich (Ed.). Zurich 1993. ISBN 3-908060-08-7
Zurich's city quarters: Statistical News , Issue No. 3. Dr. U. Zwingli (ed.). Zurich 1954.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g City of Zurich, Quartierspiegel Weinegg (as of December 31, 2006)

↑ Riesbach was already divided into a lower, middle and upper part in the first census carried out by the newly established statistical office of the city of Zurich in 1894.

↑ ^a ^b Website Statistical Office of the City of Zurich, Weinegg ( Memento of the original from May 16, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (As of December 31, 2006) @1@ 2

^ NZZ (April 2, 2008): New prospects on the Weinegg

^ Website Gang dur Alt-Züri : The Burgwies tram depot

^ Website Schulamt der Stadt Zürich, Schulkreis Zürichberg ( Memento of the original dated November 29, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2
↑ Website Tram-Museum Zürich ( Memento from June 10, 2009 in the Internet Archive ): The Zurich Electric Tramway (ESZ)

[quartierspiegel_weinegg-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g City of Zurich, Quartierspiegel Weinegg (as of December 31, 2006)

[2] Riesbach was already divided into a lower, middle and upper part in the first census carried out by the newly established statistical office of the city of Zurich in 1894.