Unterstammheim

In Unterstammheim

Unterstammheim is a municipality in the district of Andelfingen in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland. It is grown together with its neighboring community Oberstammheim.

Coat of arms

Blazon

Already the crest of the upper bailiwick master home led the early 16th century in one half of a tree with root stock ( sub-tribe ). The design also retired by the following centuries. Beginning of 1928 the municipal council of Unterstammheim confirmed the well-known motif as an official coat of arms of the municipality.

Geography

The community Unterstammheim located in the northeastern corner of the Canton of Zurich in Zurich's wine country near the border Thurgau. Together with the Zurich neighboring communities Oberstammheim and Waltalingen it forms part of the scenic uniform Stammertals.

53% of the municipality is used for agriculture, 36 % is covered by forest. The settlement area increases 6% to complete. (As of 1996)

History

Master home is mentioned in the year 761 in a deed for the first time in writing. The free Alemanne Isanhart over left the monastery of St. Gallen his court. During the following thousand years, the history subphylum home was linked to the monastery.

1212 was first distinction between upper and lower master home, but were the two villages to 1538 a unit. 1652 was the separation in Unterstammheim and Oberstammheim. 1464 came the village by making a purchase on the Canton Zurich. During the Thirty Years War, the Zurich two high Wachten on the Stammer Berg, who served the early warning of the Confederation at an incidence of belligerents in southern Germany had. From the front huts were seen up to the Uetliberg Zurich and the mountains.

Reformation

1524 took the bailiff of the Thurgau, the Schwyz Josef Amberg, in Stein am Rhein Reformed pastor John Oechsli fixed. This enraged many Reformed congregations all around, so also Unterstammheim. Many residents subphylum home preferred the Charterhouse, which was almost completely destroyed during the Ittingersturms on 18 and 19 July 1524.

Was held responsible for the bailiff of ordinary home, Hans Wirth. He along with his sons and the bailiff of Nussbaumen, Burkhart Rüttimann, tried in vain to dissuade the farmers applied the monastery tower. Against the protest of reformed Zurich city they were arrested and tried in the court hearing in Baden. On September 28, 1524 were Hans Wirth, his son John and Burkhart Rüttimann beheaded in Baden. The second son of Hans ', Adrian Wirth was sent back home.

Carnival fire

Among the municipalities of Stammertals earlier there was a big rivalry. The hostilities culminated in the construction of the annual carnival fire. Actually there to symbolically expel the winter, they represent more of a showdown between the villages; they reached up to 17 m high and were built by the high school students in the various villages during the winter months.

On the eve of Carnival day on which the fires are burned, the young people organize a guard evening. Previously it was the aim of attacking the other pile of wood and burn if possible. Nowadays, it is more likely down to who has the more pompous fireworks available. The focus is a celebration.

Policy

The council consists of five members. The mayor 's brother Martin (EPP, Booth 2010).

Culture

The community house built in 1530 is well preserved, and is still used today. On the second floor of the Municipal House Hall, hanging in the nearly 30 coats of arms. The oldest is from 1531 and was given to the sub Stammern of the city Diessenhofen.

These master home is considered one of the best preserved Riegelbaudörfer in Switzerland. Few will To get this done to no new construction or alterations to the village center. Some of the buildings are under Homeland Security.

In Stammertal around 50 clubs are registered, which cover a wide range of leisure entertainment.

Pictures

Meeting house

Yard Girsperger

Economy

In the area around Unterstammheim wine production and cultivated hops. In addition to the Frick Valley and Wolfwil Unterstammheim applies to the largest hop-growing areas in Switzerland. Large employers are also the sawmill Keller AG and the Agricultural Cooperative.

Sports

The Village Club BC master home in June 2006 was Swiss school sports champion.

View locations

Situated on the Stammer Mountain lookout tower front cabins opened a view over the whole Stammertal. From the tower you can overlook on a clear day all the snow-capped Alps from the Säntis to the Bernese Oberland. The tower is one of the church Unterstammheim in about 45 minutes away.

The viewpoint Hinterhütten opens the view to southern Germany Hegau with its volcanic landscapes and the Swabian Alb on the horizon. Both viewpoints were formerly part of the canton of Zurich Network of monitored persons with whom the canton was monitored.