Fällanden

Church of Fällanden

Fällanden is a municipality in the district of Uster in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland. The parish includes the village of Fällanden Fällanden and former Hofsiedlungen Benglen, Pfaffenhausen and Neuhausen.

Coat of arms

Blazon

The community runs the coat of arms of Zurich citizens family Aeppli. Decorated with the lion seal of Heinrich Aeppli, who was in 1421 Vogt to Greifensee and 1424 the castle stables and the courts acquired to Maur, is found to documents of 1422 and in 1439. The coat of arms of Aeppli of Fällanden the red lion appears with peacock fronds, the like to point to relations with Austria, in the book of heraldry Edlibach Gerold ( 1493 ), in an anonymous 1531, in the Chronicle of John Stumpf ( 1547/48 ) and in the gender book by Johann Friedrich Meiss ( 1740). As one of the first used Hans Conrad Gyger in his Zurich map of 1667, the Aeppli coat of arms as a heraldic sign of the village Fällanden. In the 19th century flipped to the right lion was set to seal the Gemeinderatskanzlei, and since 1884, it is decorated with a slice of the Church. On 18 December 1926, the council approved the Aeppli Arms as an official coat of arms of Fällanden.

Geography

The suburban community is located between the north-eastern slope of the Pfannenstiel chain and the western shore of Lake Greifensee.

History

Archaeological excavations prove Mesolithic dwelling places and Neolithic and Bronze Age settlement sites in the area of ​​the Greifensee to below the present village. Fällanden is first recorded in 820 as Fenichlanda. In 9-10. Century possessed the woman Münster larger possessions during the Grossmünsterplatz large parts of the tithes approached. The possession of the woman Minster was administered at least since 1250 by a local Kehlhof by the Mülner as a fief. The advocacies were to 1300 when the Count of Rapperswil and came to the domination Greifensee 1402 in Zurich.

Economy

Important economic activities are the agriculture, hospitality and small businesses. At the Dübendorfstrasse the Nordostschweizerischen power plants and the electricity plant in the city of Zurich maintain a substation for electricity. There ends the 380 - kV line Sils- Fällanden that happens the hamlet Benglen.

Population

Lived end of 2003, 6'707 people in the community, it was on 31 December 2004 already 6'928 inhabitants ( 3'525 3'403 women and men). The population has increased by 3.3 % within a year. Overall, the end of 2004 5'723 Swiss citizens ( 82.8 %) and 1,196 foreigners ( 17.2 %) were reported in the community. In the village lived part Fällanden end of 2004, 3,156 ( 10 %), in Benglen 1'946 ( 0.75 %) and in Pfaffhausen 1,826 ( 3 % ) persons. At 31 December 2007 7'177 people had their legal residence in the community. This represents an increase over the previous year by 4%. The strongest growth is Fällanden yet to come. In the three parts of the community Fällanden 3'305, Benglen 1,893 and Pfaffhausen has 525 inhabitants.

Policy

Strongest party in the village is the SVP, which has a 30.79 % share of the vote since the last parliamentary elections. This is followed with 18.35%, the SP, with 17.05%, the FDP, with 11.15% of GLP, the CVP 8.9% and the Greens 8.5%.

Mayor Richard Hirt (CVP 2009).

Structures

• St. Catherine of Siena ( Fällanden ) ( 1992)

Personalities

• Albert Meyer (1870-1953), Federal
• Alex Eugster, singer, entrepreneur and music producer
• Kurt Baebi, musician, composer
• Heidi Brugg man, a professional musician
• Marc Sway, musician