Hegi

Hegi is a district of the city of Winterthur. Together with the neighborhoods Guggenbühl, Groat, Hegmatten, Talacker, Zinzikon, Reutlingen, Stadel and Ricketwil it forms the circle 2 (Upper Winterthur).

History

The historic village Hegi lay south of Schloss Hegi. Hegi Castle was probably built in 1200 and is first mentioned in 1225. Owner of the castle was the ministerial family " of Hegi " from Constance, whose representatives of Hugo Hegi was 1342/43 Schultheiss the city of Winterthur. During the Middle Ages was the villagers Hegi, not like to assume, under the influence of the rulers of Hegi Castle, but was from 1400, a large part of the economy Hegi to St. Peter and Paul- pin from Embrach, for which they had to pay also taxes. However, the influence of the monastery was also by the spatial distance and other landowners (including the monastery Peter Hausen, their managers had its headquarters in Hohlandhaus in Upper Winterthur) restricted in the village, also canonically the village belonged to upper Winterthur, the high court was the rulers of the Kyburg, the bailiwick belonged to the lords of Breitenlandenberg and the tithes delivered it first to the Bishop of Constance, and later the monastery Töss from. Significant for the development Hegi was also the Eulach whose water power was used to power numerous mills - the eldest was already documented by 1379.

The last representative of the family of Hegi, Hugo von Hegi (around 1410-1493 ), the Hegi Castle bequeathed his daughter Barbara, wife of Jacob of Hohenlandenberg. This went around the year 1460 the castle and its dominions to the Hohenlandenberg family over - born in 1457 at the castle of Hugo Hohenlandenberg was in 1496 Bishop of Constance. The owner of the castle managed at this time fief in Wiesendangen, Gundetswil, Zünikon, Hegi and upper Winterthur. The castle was originally a moated castle with a tower, residential tower and moat. Repeated conversions gave it its present form. For more influence on the village came the obvious Hegi Castle until 1531, when the Castle Lord Kaspar von Hallwil could acquire the Bailiwick Hegi and ensure that these two areas for the first time united, the village Hegi at that time consisted of about nine farms that operated agricultural and viticulture. Since the monasteries and thus also the St. Peter and Paul- pin from Embrach lost at the same time by the Reformation their influence and their ownership and rights in the city of Zurich landed, Hegi was now until the end of the Old Regime in the sphere of Schlosshern to Hegi and the bailiff of Kyburg, whose claims were themselves often contradictory nature. Until the end of the old rule, an increase in population of the village is recorded: 1670 160 inhabitants noted and 1771 are already the 239 which were distributed among 47 households at that time.

After the end of the ancien regime Hegi was a separate civil parish which belonged to the political community Oberwinterthur. 1875 Upper Winterthur station was opened on the nearby railway line Winterthur - Etzwilen, who was also for Hegi through the establishment of industries in the vicinity of the station of importance. Further steps of the technical and infrastructural development were moderate in 1897 a telephone station in the bakery Furrer, 1899 a sewer, electric current 1907 and from 1911 its own water supply.

In 1922 the municipality of Upper Winterthur is incorporated along with the other former suburbs to Winterthur and dissolved the civil parish, at which time Hegi has its rural character still retained. In 1947 the town bought the Winterthur Hegi Castle from private collections. In the 1970s, the Eulach received a discharge channel which put the regular flooding by the river Hegi an end. Remember Holt of the city Hegi was only in modern times, the former major redevelopment was created in 1990 and 1992 the " Sagi Hegi " of the housing cooperative Gesewo. After that, Hegi has quickly developed into one of the city's main development areas and the latest with the implementation of the planning specially designated urban development area Neuhegi is the former village completely connected to the city.

Neighborhood structure

The district Hegi consists of two very different quarters parts which are separated by the Rümikerstrasse in east-west direction. In the north of the core of the former village Hegi with historic houses and a block of flats and residential area and from the eighties is. In the south, commercial businesses, a shopping center and a large modern block of flats quarters are located. Hegi is due to the large residential construction is one of the fastest growing neighborhoods in Winterthur. Between 1980 and 2000, the population doubled from 800 to 1'612 people. In 2010, the number of local residents had increased to 3'279 people.

Currently Hegi has, despite a large increase in population still below average neighborhood infrastructure. Two major distributor outlets provide basic daily needs. A school house and two kindergartens are in the neighborhood. A new larger school building is planned. The district will continue to undergo dramatic change and terms of population growth. A part of Hegi belongs to the urban development area Neuhegi and is located in a planning area of cantonal importance. With the changing step by step expands the problem of accommodation infrastructure.

Traffic

From public transportation, the lodging is accessible by city bus line 14 of Winterthur and the post bus line 680. In 2006, the S -Bahn station Winterthur Hegi was opened on the line Winterthur -Wil.

Historical sights

The Hegi Castle is a former water castle ( building) and former residence of noble families. The castle now houses a public museum. The castle park is freely accessible.

In historical times were in Hegi several mills in operation. Among other things, the Upper Mill in Gern, the village mill and rice mill. The street names " in the Upper -be " and " rice mill ", the water wheel of the mill village and restored in 1975, Sagi rice mill still bear witness to this past.

On Reismühleweg 75 is a former farmhouse dating from the 16th century. The house was part of a triple - croft, was rebuilt in 2007 and carefully restored. Another historic farmhouse (18th century ) is located at Reismühleweg 36 opposite the old sawmill on the rice mill canal.

Coat of arms

Hegi has its own neighborhood crest, which the family coat of arms of the noble family " of Hegi " is derived. The blazon of the family crest reads: In Gold erect red bezungter black lion. The lion in the current quarter coat of arms features in deviation from the family coat of arms on a white tongue. The local sports club Hegi uses a modification of the district coat of arms with lion head.