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View of free stone from the ruins of

Free Stone depths ( up to 1958 officially free stone ) is a municipality in the district of Bülach in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland.

Coat of arms

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Geography

Free Stone depths between Irchel and Dättenberg in the lower Tösstal on the right side of the Töss. It consists of the villages of free stone and depths and borders in the Tössegg to the Rhine. On the left side of the river is Rorbas. The two towns are connected by a modern road bridge and an old arch bridge.

The municipality is 8.32 km ² large, of which 50 % forest, 40 % agriculture, 6% and 4% settlements traffic / road.

Name

The name of free stone is derived from the castle free stone.

The community was as Rorbas on free stone or Rorbas ennet the Töss designated before 1800.

Population

• Population density: 274.8 inhabitants per km2
• Number of households: 799 (as of 2000)

Churches

December 31, 2011 were 49.3 % of the population to Protestant Reformed Church and 21.9 % to the Roman Catholic Church.

In the section Rorbas - free stone of the Evangelical Alliance are connected the Evangelical Reformed Church and the Chrischona community.

Policy

Mayor is the non-partisan Werner Lienhard (2010 ).

In many areas, free stone depths organized with the neighboring community Rorbas, as for example in the school and parish. The Post has only one post office for the closely built villages Freistein and Rorbas. By 29 July 2006, the depths village had its own post office with the ZIP 8428th

Economy

One important industry is the wine. Free Stone depths after Stafa the second largest Rebgemeinde the canton.

Pictures

Old Tössbrücke

Ruin Freistein