Hombrechtikon

Reformed Church Hombrechtikon

Hombrechtikon is a municipality in Switzerland. It lies at the upper right bank of Lake Zurich in the district of miles in the canton of Zurich. To Hombrechtikon include the location on Lake Zurich village field Bach ZH and the hamlet Uetzikon, Dändlikon, Mr. Gass, Lutikon, Lützelsee and Schirmensee.

Coat of arms

Blazon:

The current coat of arms should probably remember that Hombrechtikon had to pay taxes before the Reformation to the Catholic Church. The oldest known representation of the coat of arms can be seen on the steeple of the Church of Hombrechtikon and dates from 1676.

Geography

The area of ​​the municipality is 1220 ha, of which 61% to agriculture, 15% forest and 14% to settlement. The location field is Bach lake, where the SBB train station is. The actual village perched above the lake on the back of the panhandle. On a high level in a depression of the panhandle is in the municipal area above the village of the protected moorland with the Ütziker Ried and the Lützelsee.

History

A Steinbeilfund in Fromatt from the Neolithic period (about 4500 BC) suggests that the area of the present-day municipality was already then roams of people. The oldest traces of settlement behind left the lake dwellers around 3800 BC in field Bach ( Seegubel ) on Lake Zurich.

Documented the name " hunbrestinchon " was first mentioned in 1194. The name goes back to an Alemannic tribe founder called " Humbracht ". The name Hombrechtikon therefore means together with the suffix " ikon ": The courtyard of the Humbracht.

The individual hamlets and outdoor Wachten changed again and again the owner. Starting with the monastery of St. Gall, the monastery of Einsiedeln, the island parish Ufenau, the Hapsburgs and finally in 1408 the city of Zurich. From 1831 Hombrechtikon belonged to Oberamt miles, now the district miles.

Population

The proportion of foreigners is 19.3 %.

  • Religion: 38.8 % Reformed, 28.0 % Roman Catholic.

Attractions

  • Reformed church, newly built in its present form a 1758-59 by Jakob Grubenmann rococo church. The tower dates from a late-Gothic church predecessor.
  • Country and farm houses in various outdoor hamlets, especially in Schirmensee ( former inn Rössli), in field Bach ( late Gothic Baroque houses group of Fam Bühler), Lützelsee (House Menzi, representative Riegelbau 1680 ), Lutikon ( Egli, beautifully painted timber framed house of 1665-1666) and Langenried (House Dändliker, 1683)
  • Village Museum Stricklerhuus

Policy

Mayor 's Max Baur of the Free Democratic Party (2012 ).

Traffic

The community Hombrechtikon is easy to reach both the individual traffic and public transport. About the junction Ruti / Hombrechtikon the Oberland motorway ( A53 ) it is directly connected to the motorway network. On the field Bahnhof is also connected directly to the network of S -Bahn Zurich. The following line runs with half-hour connections:

  • S 7 Winterthur HB - Kloten - Zurich HB - Miles - Rapperswil

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

  • 880 Station Ruti - Bad Kämmoos - Bubikon - Wolfenhausen - Hombrechtikon - Stafa Frohnberg
  • 955 Station Stafa - Laubisrüti - Hombrechtikon Post
  • 970 Hombrechtikon Post - Eichtal - Station Field Bach

Sports

Hombrechtikon has with the surrounding communities together a comprehensive sports activities.

Handball

Due to the regional boom many young Hombrechtiker visit the handball school sports or regularly attend training at HC GS Stafa, the national plays a significant role in terms of youth department. The first team is represented in the National League ( NL).

Gymnastics

The largest sports club in Hombrechtikon is the Turnverein TV Hombrechtikon with its sections. 200 Of the total 450 active gymnastics in the youth groups.

Art Cycling

The fringe sport is very strong in Hombrechtikon. In addition to many national successes, the Sportsman of the ATB Hombrechtikon celebrate international successes ( 3rd place 2005 World Cup and 2006).

Personalities

  • Heinrich Bosshard of Rümikon (1748-1815), farmer, lay preacher and Geodetic
  • Dorothea Trudel (1813-1862), pietist healer
  • Amalie Holder Zollinger (1892-1985), dialect poet
  • Paul Bacon (1896-1966), sculptor and modeller ( in Karlsruhe and Zurich )
  • Polastri Constantin (1933-2009), painter
  • Romeo Borbach ( born 1938 ), jazz musician
  • Andy Rihs ( born 1942 ), entrepreneur
  • Hans Ledermann ( b. 1957 ), cyclist
  • Cecilia Bartoli (born 1966 ), opera singer
  • Thomas Frischknecht (* 1970), mountain bike world champion
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