Rüti, Zürich
View from Batzberg to Ruti
Ruti is a municipality in the district of Hinwil the canton of Zurich in Switzerland.
- 5.1 municipal
- 5.2 Cantonal
- 6.1 traffic
- 6.2 industry
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Geography
The community is on average 465 meters above sea level. The highest point is 771 meters above sea level on the Batzberg between Ruti and Wald ZH. By Ruti flows the river Jonah.
History
The area was probably inhabited in the 8th and 9th centuries. The district Fägswil 807 was mentioned in a St. Gallen certificate for the first time. In a document of Emperor Otto II ( 955-983 ) from the year 972 Ruti was called Riutun. The name goes back to the Swiss German word Ruti. It means " clearing, purified wood growth and shrubland, arable -made piece of land ".
1206 the monastery Ruti by Lütold IV was founded by mountain rain. Around the monastery a small farming town whose inhabitants agriculture, animal husbandry, agricultural wage work and textile processing was operated. Built on the Batzberg a branch of Meyer Durnten, ministry officials of the Counts of Toggenburg and the monastery in Einsiedeln, east of Fägswil a castle that seems to have been abandoned in the 14th century and the only remnants of the neck trench can be seen today. 1238 acquired the monastery Ruti, the free people of present-day hamlet Ferrach by the Counts of Toggenburg for 80 marks of silver currency Zurich and took over the rights and obligations of the Toggenburg bailiwick. The monastery first echoing public functions, the deed was for the next 300 years to the opening (local government ) for the residents of the hamlet, which was read to each court and Schwörtagen.
1408 Ruti came as part of the bailiwick Grüningen under Zurich authorities. The monastery went on after dissolution of the monastery during the Reformation in the possession of the city of Zurich, the left summarized in the Official Ruti manage it by a bailiff. The office building, the interior of the church tower and part of the nave, and several of the remaining monastery buildings fell on December 3, 1706 a major fire largely to the victim and made 1710 the construction of the office building space. Already in 1833 the Office Ruti has been lifted, the remaining monastery and farm buildings were sold and terminated by a majority.
Ruti already had from the mid 16th century a private elementary school in the rectory - based on Heinrich Bullinger initiative of the remaining in Ruti Premonstratensian Canons - and was a district in Zurich's military organization. As a border defense called Schanz written shortly before the First Villmerger war mid-17th century fortifications, north of the office building. In Pilgersteg the first Catholic Mass in the Zürcher Oberland in 1866 was celebrated after the Reformation. Add Tann, in the municipality Durnten, since 1879 is the Catholic parish church of 1963-1964 created Catholic parish Ruti.
The village took only with the industrialization in the 19th century an economic boom. 1847 was the weaving machine factory Caspar Honegger in the Joweid, later Maschinenfabrik AG Ruti with global relationships, later part of G F Group, Sulzer Textil and since 2001 owned by the Italian Promatech. 1833 Ruti connection was to the cantonal road network and in 1859 the railway line Zurich -Uster -Rapperswil. The latter was electrified in 1932 and is traversed by the S -Bahn Zurich since 1990. 1873 opened the nail factory Hess Pilgersteg, 1886 Federnfabrik Baumann & Cie (Today: Baumann Federn AG ) and 1895, the central heating Johann Müller AG. The community works began its activities in 1897, the post office in 1911.
The regional shopping center Bandwiesstrasse existed since the 1970s. Opened in 1875 the hospital later Kreisspital, was closed in 2000 due to financial and political reasons. Today the buildings house the recruitment center of the army and civil defense for the cantons of Zurich, Schaffhausen and Thurgau. The municipality has a Reformed Church. Catholics attend church in Tann. In 2007, the 1200 years anniversary with various occasions and festivals celebrated.
Population
Ruti has about 10,000 inhabitants, making it a city, even if life in Ruti is rather rural and the city, was never purchased. The proportion of foreigners is above 20 percent. The population exceeded 1971/72 for the first time, the limit of 10,000 inhabitants, but fell in the next few years due to the recession significantly to significantly increase again in the late 1990s.
Religion
December 31, 2011 consisted of 33.2 % of the population of the Evangelical Reformed Church, and 31.8% to the Roman Catholic Church.
In the regional section of the Evangelical Alliance are from the Ruti in the gathering churches, the Evangelical Reformed Church, Chrischona community, the Evangelical Baptist church ETG and the Pentecostal church with us.
Of the other Free Churches, the Free Evangelical church and the Apostolic Church are represented in Ruti.
Policy
Parish council
The council is composed of the following persons (as of 2014):
- Peter Luginbuhl, FDP
- Markus Hengartner, FDP
- Carmen Müller Fehlmann, SP
- Peter Weidinger, CVP
- Esther Kaufeld, EVP
- Christoph Baggenstos, CVP
- Marie -Therese penitents, GLP
The mayor is elected in a second round of voting on 18 May 2014. It candidate Peter Luginbuhl and Carmen Müller Fehlmann.
Cantonal
In the canton of Zurich Cantonal sit three individuals residing in Ruti people:
- Stefan Meier Doll ( EDU)
- Karin Maeder - Zuber Buhler ( SP)
- Ruedi Menzi (SVP )
Economy and infrastructure
Ruti is home to shops such as Coop, Migros, Denner and cans Bach. All the big stores except Denner can be found at the Bandwiesstrasse, which forms the center of Ruti. The two largest shopping centers, as in almost every major city in Switzerland, Coop and Migros. The Coop has moved in 2001 to a larger building. Migros was rebuilt in 2004 and extended the range.
Traffic
The community has two connections to the Oberland motorway ( A53 ). Ruti is located on the railway line Rapperswil- Uster Zurich ( Glatthalbahn ) and is also the starting point of the former Tösstal web. Of Ruti station of the lines S 5, S 15 is operated (since December 2006) and S 26 ( Tösstal line) of the S -Bahn Zurich:
- S 5 Niederweningen / Rafz - Upper Smooth - Zurich HB - Uster - Pfäffikon
- S 15 Affoltern am Albis - Zurich HB - Uster - Rapperswil
- S 26 Winterthur HB - Bauma - Ruti ZH
The transport department Zürcher Oberland ( VZO ) operated since 1946, a comprehensive bus network in the Zurich Oberland, including since 1988 a part of a well-developed local bus network in Ruti.
There are the following bus routes that are served by the transport company and Zurich Oberland ( VZO ):
- 854 Station Ruti - Forest - Gibswil - Fischenthal - Bridge - Station Bauma
- 870 Station Ruti - Tann - Oberdürnten - Hadlikon - Station Hinwil
- 880 Station Ruti - Bad Kämmoos - Bubikon - Wolfenhausen - Hombrechtikon - Stafa Frohnberg
- 884 Station Ruti - Bandwiesstrasse - Three Oaks - Ruti Station ( round trip )
- 885 station Rapperswil - Kempraten - Ruti - Forest - Laupen - gold rings - Atzmännig
In addition, the following bus route, which is operated by the Schneider AG exists:
Industry
The most important industry in Ruti was long the textile and Webmaschinenindustrie.
In Ruti a transition from an industrial village to village services took place.
The Ruti station and the so-called Joweid Center, the former administrative building of Sulzer respectively Georg Fischer AG
The to the schoolhouse Widacher belonging sports complex with an indoor swimming pool, in the background of Chlaus
Education
Ruti has ten school houses. The vocational school on a sunny place for Technical Education, the school houses Widacher, Lindenberg, Castle Hill, Matt Esch, Alpine views, and Ferrach Fägswil for primary school and the school Schanz and Egg for the secondary school. By completing the 2004 general election to the previously two separate building complexes were summarized.
Culture
The community has a rich associational life with around 120 clubs of all kinds, a local museum ( "Church Chronicle " ) and, since 2013, expanded library for Ruti and its neighboring community Durnten. The Reformed Church Ruti and the crematorium building in the cemetery on the hill - Chlaus are included as Class A in KGS federal inventory objects since November 2009.
Recreation
Near the stables are the two recreation areas Grossweier and New York, a clearing near Fägswil. A destination is the Zurich Oberland mountain, the Bachtel. On the hiking trails through forests, conservation areas and hamlets along streams, ponds and waterfalls to the viewpoints, can be based on the Bachtel with its striking radio tower and the area between forest and Ruti Batzberg ( 777 m asl ). Other local recreation areas include the Rütiwald with branched walking paths and fitness trails between Bubikon and Ruti and the vast area of Jonah forest along the river of the same name on the municipal boundary to Rapperswil -Jona. The river has also formed a distinct Tobel area between forest and Ruti respectively Tann, the Tanner Tobel, the Southwest goes further into the wide valley of the Joweid, the former industrial site of the Georg Fischer AG or Sulzer, which has evolved into a service center. The Schwarztöbeli formed by the same influx of Jona between Bubikon and Ruti also is popular with local recreation seekers great popularity; it is home to, among others, on the municipal boundary to Bubikon around a 12m high waterfall, swimming pool ( Badi on the Black ) of the community and a bike park in the civil defense center. Ruti is also a staging post on the Santiago Way and part of the long-distance hiking network.
The Schwarztöbeli the same Jona inflow between Bubikon and Ruti, in the background Badi on the Black, the Joweid Center and the Batzberg
Batzberg Nordwestcouloir
The Grossweier on the Batzberg between forest and Ruti
View from the castle hill over the quarters Ferrach and Bergacher
The Martinsbrünneli, a natural bridge of conglomerate rock
Others
Today Ruti is known for Foreign mainly for its recruitment center of the Federal Department of Defence, Civil Protection and Sport ( DDPS) for the cantons of Zurich, train, Schaffhausen and Thurgau, which was built in the former hospital building in 2003.
Personalities
- Caspar Honegger ( born December 12, 1804 in Ruti, † January 7, 1883 in Ruti ), developer of the " Honegger loom ", founder of the first factory health insurance in Switzerland
- Rudolf Zender (* June 27, 1901 in Ruti, † 1988), painter, printmaker and draftsman
- Albert Zweifel ( born June 7, 1949 in Ruti ), cyclists, 5x World Champion