Dielsdorf

View of rain mountain on Dielsdorf

Dielsdorf is a municipality and the capital of the district of the canton of Zurich in Switzerland.

Coat of arms

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Geography

Dielsdorf located in the north -west of Canton Zurich. It lies at the eastern end of the warehouses, the easternmost Jura foothills, at the foot of the town Regenberg.

The municipality has an area of ​​586 ha (which in comparison with other municipalities is rather small ), of which 206 ha agricultural land, 158 ha is forest, 122 ha are populated area, 50 ha are considered industrialized country and the remaining 50 ha as recreation areas. The deepest point of the community is an offshoot of the Neeracher Ried at 410 m above sea level. Level, the highest point on 653 meters. M., at about the height of rainy mountain.

The municipality is bordered to the north by Dielsdorf Sünikon, to the east by Niederhaslistrasse, to the south by Buchs ZH, and in the west to the historic town of mountain rain.

Population

December 31, 2001 4679 people were registered as residents in the community Dielsdorf, of which 50 % are women and men. 3587 Of all the inhabitants possessed Swiss citizenship.

The community Dielsdorf offers jobs for about 2000 end of the work from the near and far, have especially since some large companies Dielsdorf selected as the location of its headquarters.

In 2010, 34.6 % belonged to the Protestant denomination, 27.9% Roman Catholic and 37.5 % other or none at all.

Policy

The executive branch of the municipality is the existing seven-person council, which is elected every four years by the Dielsdorfer voters.

History

Around 500 AD, the Alemanni leader Theodolf for his entourage, the settlement Theodolfsdorf. 861 Dielsdorf is first mentioned in a document of the Abbot of St. Gallen under the name Theolvesthoruf. This deed is still preserved today in the monastery archives of St. Gallen. The monastery was in the High Middle Ages, the most important landowners. 1276-1306 it pledged the Dielsdorfer Kehlhof and the bailiwick of the Barons of rain mountain. Until around 1100 around the present-day spelling of the name had naturalized.

1842, the road was built to Zurich, and opens up the post office and a direct stagecoach connection to Zurich, 23 years later Dielsdorf was also connected to the railway network. 1864, the medieval Reformed church was demolished and created a neo-gothic building. The year 1871 was the most important year of Dielsdorfer story: After long political disputes Dielsdorf was appointed district capital due to its more central and traffic-technically better position at the point of rain mountain. In 1962, the Catholic church was built, which was known far and wide in the time because of her daring building. Around 1973, finally, the Pferdesportanlage of Zurich Racing Association was created in Ried. Through this system Dielsdorf Switzerland is a term widely.

Churches

In Dielsdorf there are two churches:

• The Evangelical Reformed Church has in the town center, built in 1866, the church, whose bell tower is visible with the golden cock from far away. The predecessors of this church date back to the Middle Ages. The charter of the monastery of St. Gall, which was first mentioned by name Dielsdorf, also testified that must already have a first church in Dielsdorf exists in the year 861.
• The Roman Catholic Church of St. Paul is at the Buchserstrasse and was built in 1960 to 1962 by Zurich architect Justus Dahinden. The Church recalls in its architectural design to a tent and recalled that the patron saint of the church, St. Paul, according to the Bible was a tent maker. The futuristic for its time it was built church was extended by a parish center of the architects Ladner and Meier in 2012.

Economy

Dielsdorf is the seat of the wholesale firm Chromos.

Traffic

Dielsdorf is located on the Wehntal (upper Glatt Niederweningen ), the lines of the S5 ( Pfäffikon SZ- Zurich HB- Niederweningen ) and S55 (upper Glatt Niederweningen ) of the S -Bahn Zurich is busy. The trains run every hour of the S5, the S55 provides to 21:00 clock one second compound per hours ago.

On Dielsdorf station every four bus lines run together, which operate in the municipality. The CRVO bus lines 456 ( Rain Village Dielsdorf ) and 593 ( Dielsdorf- Regenberg ) are operated by the transport companies Glattal (VBG ), and operate the stops village center and Altmoos, the line 593 also Bezirksgebäude and hospital. Only operate irregularly operated by postal bus lines 525 ( Dielsdorf- Bülach ) and 535 ( Dielsdorf- Stadel bei Niederglatt ). The stops alder (525) and Wehntalerstrasse ( 535) are therefore operated only sporadically.

The main road 17 from Zurich to Doettingen performs Dielsdorf. There are important regional road connections to Bülach and Niederhaslistrasse.

Others

Dielsdorf has a sports complex with indoor swimming pools and hockey fields and a racecourse. In the municipality there are several large and small companies, two shopping centers and two major grocery stores with butchers, two bakeries, two banks and a post office.