Bäretswil

Bäretswil from south

Bäretswil is a municipality in the district of Hinwil the canton of Zurich in Switzerland.

• 3.1 Religion

• 5.1 traffic
• 5.2 Working

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Geography

The Zürcher Oberland municipality is located in Alpine foothills area at the transition between the upper Glatt valley and the Tösstal to 696 m above sea level. M.. Entail the former civil parishes Bäretswil and Adetswil and the hamlet Bettswil, Wappenswil, yard, Neuthal, fir and small Bäretswil. The lowest point is located below the sewage plant to 616 m above sea level. M., the highest at 1,074 m above sea level with Allmann. M.. The municipal area is wooded to 39% and in total covers an area of ​​2223 ha

The municipality borders the municipalities Bäretswil fish Thal, Hinwil and Wetzikon District Hinwil. In addition to the municipalities Bauma, Hittnau and Pfäffikon District Pfäffikon.

Districts

• The hamlet court Neuthal has 58 residents and is composed of the hamlets Neuthal and yard.

Population

On 31 December 2012 4'921 people lived in Bäretswil, at a foreigner / inside- share of 10.3 %.

From the first tax collection in Zurich, which they financed the 1467 acquired Winterthur, a number of 45 households has been handed down for 1470. 1629, the community lost over 60 % of its population by a Pestzug. Less than 500 inhabitants survived this disaster. One hundred years later, the population loss was balanced again. From 1723 to 1771 the population grew to more than double. This was due to the new income opportunities through Home Textile processing ( professionals ). Around 1810 the community numbered proud 3'549 inhabitants, a number which was not reached until the end of the 20th century.

Religion

December 31, 2011 consisted of 51% of the population of the Evangelical Reformed Church, 20 % of the Roman Catholic Church and 0.04% of the Christian Catholic Church.

At the local branch of the Evangelical Alliance include the Evangelical Reformed Church and the Methodist Church.

Policy

Mayor since 1986 Hans -Peter Hulliger (FDP, Booth 2009).

Economy

Traffic

1901 Bäretswil was connected to the rail network ( Uerikon - Bauma -Bahn ), In 1969, the railway, however, ceased operation and was replaced by a bus service Wetzikon - Bauma. The former railway line Hinwil - Bäretswil - Bauma is now maintained and operated by the Zurich Oberland Steam Train Society.

There are the following bus routes that are served by the transport company and Zurich Oberland ( VZO ):

• 850 Station Wetzikon - Kempten - Bäretswil - Adetswil - Station Bauma
• 851 Station Wetzikon - Kempten - Bäretswil - Adetswil

Work

Since 1960 Bäretswil was a desirable residential community thanks to the fog-free setting again. Especially in Adetswil was strongly built. 1990 were counted 63% of commuters in the labor force, especially after Wetzikon, Uster and in the city of Zurich.

History

In Bäretswil Notverstecke were found of Roman silver coins from the 1st to 3rd century twice. From this and due to field names research can open up a voralemannische colonization.

First documented in 741 Bäretswil was as Berofovilare and 745 as Perolfeswilari. The frequent name on wil this area indicate a Alemannic colonization from the 7th to the 9th century under the direction of the Franks. For this thesis, the basic property of the monastery of St. Gallen fits since the 8th century.

The Pommern Castle and the low judicial rights over Bäretswil were first awarded by the Abbot of St. Gallen Count of Rapperswil. From 1321-1507, the rights went as the Habsburg mortgage possession of the Lords of Hinwil. The boundary between the later administrative territories Grüningen and Kyburg went right through the municipality.

In connection with the collection of tax crusade of 1275 Bäretswiler church was first mentioned. 1827, a new building in neoclassical style was created. The Kollatur was a fief of the monastery of St. Gall, and was one of the Lords of 1279-1541 Hohenlandenberg. In the late Middle Ages, the parish extended far beyond the Töss addition to the slopes of the macaroni.

During the Reformation, the church closed against the will of the parish priest of the movement. Also Anabaptists were present long: Their influence was effective from 1525 until the 17th century, all state persecution notwithstanding. At times, the Baptist lived in caves such as the Baptist cave. 1651 Bauma separated church from Bäretswil.

Since the hamlet on the hills were no village communities and knew no Zelgenwirtschaft, they stood the onslaught of arms openly exposed. In 1771 Wappenswil therefore lived almost 500 residents, many of them lived their life with home textile industry and inhabited the typical for Flarzbauten.

The large and heavily dependent on the textile economy population made ​​the territory of the present municipality Bäretswil crisis-prone. The mechanization of yarn left the homeworkers 1814-1816 only the choice of spinning switch to hand weaving. The recent threat of the weaving factories might have been a reason for the high number of insurgents from Bäretswil, in 1832 a textile factory in Uster burned ( Fire of Uster ). Later Webfabriken brought on Aabach merit but also an industrial proletariat in the community - 55 % of the population lived in 1880 by the textile industry. Between 1850 and 1940, the community felt depopulated due to the economic situation and its location away from the main thoroughfares. The last mill in the municipality ceased production in 1982.

Attractions

• Industry trail with the factory buildings of the former spinning mill of Adolf Guyer-Zeller in Neuthal
• Stockrüti on industry Trail
• The Steam Train Society Zürcher Oberland ( DVZO ) out runs by on the former route of the Uerikon - Bauma -Bahn between Bauma - Bäretswil - Hinwil.
• Vehicle Museum Bäretswil the Junod family

Personalities

• Johann Heinrich Heidegger (1633-1698), Reformed theologian