Cham, Switzerland
View over Ennetsee (front Rotkreuz, then belonging to Hünenberg Commercial Zone " Boesch " in the background on the lakeshore: Cham)
Cham is a municipality in the canton train in central Switzerland and is located on the northern shore of Lake Zug. The neighboring municipalities are Chams Hünenberg ZG, train, Steinhausen ZG, Knonau and Maschwanden. The sister city since 1981 is the same Cham in the Bavarian Forest. Cham is part of the economic region ZugWest.
Name
In the Helvetii the village was given the name kama, which means roughly " village ". The Romans took this name. With the advent of the Alemanni, the village was called chama. Chom was occupied in 1491 in a document.
History
The Cham area was already inhabited 6000 years ago. This settlement was continued in the Roman Empire. 858 Louis the German gave the court the woman Chama Minster Abbey Zurich. 1360 Cham got city rights. Since 1608, the bear is the heraldic animal of Cham. In the 18th century, industrialization began and at the same time the number of inhabitants of 1321 increased in 1850 to approximately 10,000 inhabitants in 1986. Late 19th century established itself in Cham with the Anglo - Swiss Condensed Milk Company, founded in 1866, the dairy industry which were processed in the " Milchsüüdi » milk condensed milk. 1991 Cham got the Wakker Prize for the sensible use of the building fabric, the free and the traffic areas. 2001 Cham received the Energy City label. Followed in 2004 by the extraordinary efforts in the affected areas, the presentation of the European Energy Award for gold, but the gold energy labels. Cham, making it the fourth community of Switzerland, which holds such an award.
Policy
In the national elections in the fall of 2007, the following results were obtained:
SP / Alternative: 28%, CVP: 22 %, FDP: 18%, SVP: 32%
Sports
Founded in 1910, the local football club SC Cham played in the 2007/ 08 season in the National League B, the second- highest Swiss league, but increased at the end of the season again.
Attractions
The 1488 built instead of a previous building chapel of St. Andrew contains remnants of late Gothic frescoes.
Castle of St. Andrew: Do findings from the castle rock suggests that here around 400 AD, if not earlier, the Romans, who at that time dominated Switzerland, settled. At the site of the present chapel was a place of worship since Roman times. In the 8th century, this church is said to have served as the house of God "holy bishop without a name ." Today we castle and church of St. Andrew to appear with her over 67,000 square meters surrounding the border as a natural unit. The castle is privately owned. The magnificent park is opened twice a year for the population. On 11 October 1992 the St. Andrew Castle hosted a distinguished visitor. The former Vietnamese President Lê Đức Anh resided for one night along with his family on Lake Zug.
Villette Park: It was 1865 artfully applied in the English style of Theodor Froebel of Zurich. With its 46,000 square meters of quiet Villette is the most popular recreational area of the population. The romantic Inseli was filled during construction of the railway with the excavated material of the partially ablated church hill. Every three years, the end of August, " Villettefest " in this area at the lake instead. For the 1866 built villa of the famous Zürich villas architect Leonhard Zeugheer was in 1985 with the Canton train a use for the population to be found: The villa serves as a cultural and community center with restaurants, cafes, banquet, concert and exhibition halls.