Angle ZH

ZH is the abbreviation for the canton of Zurich in Switzerland and is used to avoid confusion with other entries in the name Winkel .

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State :	Switzerland
Canton :	Zurich (ZH)
District :	Bulach
BFS no. :	0072
Postal code :	8185
Coordinates :	684 042  /  260790 coordinates: 47 ° 29 '33 "  N , 8 ° 33' 14"  O ; CH1903:  six hundred eighty-four thousand and forty-two  /  260790
Height :	450  m above sea level M.
Height range :	416-584 m above sea level M.
Area :	8.11  km²
Residents:	4518 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	465 inhabitants per km²
Proportion of foreigners : (residents without citizenship )	14.4% (December 31, 2018)
Website:	www.winkel.ch
Location of the municipality

Winkel , formerly also Winkel bei Bülach, is a municipality in the district of Bülach in the Swiss canton of Zurich .

coat of arms

Blazon

Split of red and silver with two black chevrons

geography

The municipality of Winkel is located in the Zurich Unterland . It consists of the three villages Winkel, Rüti and Seeb. Geographically, it is located on the Dattenberg between the cities of Kloten and Bülach . Today the population is over 4,000, of which a little less than half live in Rüti. The settlement area of ​​Winkel and Seeb has meanwhile grown together. Winkel and Rüti are separated by a hill on the Dettenberg; Rüti itself consists of the two districts of Ober- and Niederrüti, which have now also grown together. Part of a runway for Zurich Airport is located in the Winkler municipality .

population

The community's population growth is closely linked to the history of the development of Zurich Airport. Before the airport opened, the population of Winkel was only a few hundred souls. At the end of the 1990s, the community experienced an additional population surge when around 500 apartments were built within one year, which also changed the “single-family house image” of the community.

At the end of 2012, 39.7% of the population belonged to the Evangelical Reformed denomination , 24.5% to the Roman Catholic, 35.8% were members of another religious community or were non-denominational.

economy

Apart from the Eymann vegetable nursery and some small businesses, there is no industry worth mentioning in the municipality. The municipality has one of the lowest tax rates in the Canton of Zurich.

history

Winkel, in the background Seeb (1962)

Parish hall (former school house)

The community was first mentioned in a document in 1044. In the Seebner area, however, there was already a large Roman manor in the 1st and 2nd centuries , remains of which can still be seen today. In addition to the Roman estate can be found in Rütner (or Rütemer) Forest Alemannic burial mounds , some of which have been excavated several years ago.

The names of the villages all have a geographical origin and come from Alemannic . In the case of Winkel, they designate the incision in the hill in which the central town of the municipality is located, at Rüti the clearing of the forest and at Seeb the now silted lake on which this village was located.

In 1917 the village of Eschenmosen, which had previously belonged to the Winkel municipality, was ceded to the Bülach municipality.

The village image, which used to be dominated by the three rural village centers, has changed significantly, not least as a result of the opening of Zurich Airport . Today, large parts of the municipality are built over with single and multi-family houses, and massive structural interventions have taken place even in the old village centers. In Rüti there is a terraced housing estate that was built by Swissair around 1970 for personnel looking for living space in the area.

politics

The mayor is Marcel Nötzli ( SVP , as of 2018). The SVP, FDP and the EPP are present as local parties. As one of the few municipalities in the canton of Zurich, there are no representatives of the SP or a free list in the municipal council.

School and culture

The community has two primary schools (one in Rüti, the other in Winkel), three kindergartens and a community center.

Attractions

See also : List of cultural assets in Winkel ZH

Personalities

• Reto Hug (* 1975), triathlete, husband of Nicola Spirig, lived in Winkel
• Johannes Meyer-Rusca (1851–1936), silk merchant, Zurich cantonal councilor, bank counsel and commercial judge as well as Winkler civil parish president, school principal, justice of the peace and forestry director
• Walter Meyer (1882–1969), son of the previous one; Civil engineer and promoter of the Chilean region of Los Lagos
• Benedikt Schmidt , world champion in rowing 1997, two-man without lightweights
• Nicola Spirig (* 1982), Olympic champion in triathlon 2012, wife of Reto Hug, lived in Winkel

literature

• Hermann Fietz: The art monuments of the canton of Zurich. Volume II: The districts of Bülach, Dielsdorf, Hinwil, Horgen and Meilen (= Swiss art monuments. Volume 15). Edited by the Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Bern 1943. DNB 365803049 .
• Ueli Müller: Winkel ZH. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Hans Peter Treichler: Angle. Three villages - one story. Edited by the municipality of Winkel. bm druck ag, Winkel 2013, ISBN 978-3-033-04298-8 .
• Andreas Zürcher: Seeb. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

Web links

Commons : Winkel ZH  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of the Winkel municipality
• Statistical data on the municipality of Winkel

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. ^ Statistical Office of the Canton of Zurich - database (community portraits) . accessed on January 16, 2014