Hottingen (Zürich)

Hottingen is a district of the city of Zurich. The formerly independent municipality Hottingen was incorporated in 1893 and today, together with Fluntern, Hirslanden and Witikon the circle 7

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History

First documented Hottingen is mentioned in the year 946 as Hott Inga. End of the Middle Ages the settlement consisted of about two dozen homes. Later formed to today's Kreuzplatz to today's Hottingerplatz two population centers. The slopes of the Adlisbergs were almost fully utilized by vines. In the 18th century lived next farmers and small craftsmen and workers in the textile industry.

With the development of the nearby city of Zurich In the 19th century a large construction activity. 1902-1905, the Evangelical Protestant Cross Church was built in the style of Neo-Baroque, as a counterpart to the opposite Church Close. 1906-1908 was followed by the Roman Catholic Church of St. Anton, which was built as a neo-Romanesque church with Art Nouveau elements and was the first public commission of the later ETH Professor Karl Moser in Zurich.

Religion

In Hottingen there are eight Christian churches and groups, distributed in seven houses of worship:

• Roman Catholic Church - Parish of Saint Anthony ( church built in 1906-1908 by the architect Karl Moser )
• Mission Catholique de langue française - Catholic Mission (built in 1964-1966 by the architect Walter Pfammatter and Walter Rieger Church Sainte Famille ) for French speakers from the Greater Region Zurich
• Evangelical Reformed congregation in the Holy Cross Church ( church built in 1902-1905 by the architect Otto Community Pfleghard and Max Haefeli )
• New Apostolic Church - City Zurich -Hottingen ( church built in 1977-1979 by architects Hans and Ernst Kuster Weideli )
• Evangelical free church of St. Chrischona and youth group " Destiny Church " in the Bethel Chapel
• Baptist Church - Salem Chapel
• Evangelical Baptist church - Protestant Community House Hottingen

When Kreuzplatz is the building of the First Church of Christ Scientists ( church built in 1937-1938 by architects Hans Hofmann and Adolf Kellermüller ).

Between Klusplatz and Fluntern on the mountain road to Zurich Hare Krishna temple is located.

Education and Culture

In Hottingen six public schools are located. The neighborhood is part of the urban school district of Zurich mountain, in the neighborhood itself are the primary schools " Bungertwies " - organized as a day school - and Ilgen. The Bungertwies includes its own school swimming facility, housed in the school, the kindergarten level, the lower level (1st - 3rd class) and Intermediate (4th - 6th grade). The Ilgen houses in Ilgen A step kindergarten and the lower grades, in Ilgen B the intermediate level.

The upper (7th - 9th grade) will be visited in the adjacent districts, the school district of Zurich Mount includes the three upper school houses Hirschgraben, Hirslanden Hofacker and Ries Bach Münchhaldenstrasse, as well as the arts and sports school Neumünster.

Of the organized at the cantonal level schools the Canton Rämibühl and the district school Hottingen are located in Hottingen. The KS Hottingen is a school with socio- legal profile and a computer science middle school.

Lesezirkel Hottingen

The reading circle Hottingen was founded on November 4, 1882 by Hottinger Turnverein colleagues Wilfired Treichler and Hans Bodmer at the inn for Sonnegg. He wanted to " instructive conversation ", " knowledge of the literature of the day " and " the study of the political, social, scientific and artistic life of the present," make " available free to wide circles of the population " for. Starting in 1886, the legendary evenings for literature and art began. Among others, Hugo von Hofmannsthal read, Rainer Maria Rilke, Gerhart Hauptmann, Hermann Hesse, Rudolf Alexander Schröder, Karl Kraus and Thomas Mann.

During about 50 years of organized as an association Lesezirkel Hottingen was a defining element in the cultural life of the city of Zurich. Beginning of the Second World War, he was liquidated because of financial difficulties.

Personalities

• Carl Abegg (1860-1943), a textile manufacturer; born on October 20, 1860 in Hottingen
• Bertha von Petersenn (1862-1910), educational reformer; born October 4, 1862 in Hottingen
• Fritz Baltzer (1884-1974), zoologist, physiologist and geneticist development; Born on March 12, 1884 in Hottingen
• William Wolfensberger (1889-1918), poet, priest, born on June 17, 1889 in Hottingen
• Franz tank (1890-1981), physicist, was born on March 6, 1890 in Hottingen

Attractions

The Schauspielhaus on Heimplatz ( peacock ) is the main theater of the city.

The 1902 to 1905, Protestant Cross Church with its imposing dome is an interesting combination of architectural styles from classicism to art nouveau. The distinctive cross as the outline is located in the residential and school district Hottingens. The Evangelical Reformed church, which belongs to the Holy Cross Church, extends from the Kunsthaus up to Grand Hotel Dolder up to the forest edge. The community consists of more than 3000 members. The parish leadership of the community consists of the pastors Herbert Kohler, Heidrun Suter and Roland Diethelm and the Vicar Marcel Egli.

The Kulturama at the Englischviertelstrasse is a museum dedicated to the evolution and cultural history. It has exhibits of paleontology, to document the evolutionary biology of humans and animals, but also dedicated to the early civilizations.

The Coninx Museum at the Heuelstrasse houses the collection of the painter and art collector Werner Coninx ( 1911-1980 ).

The Dolder Grand is one of the most exclusive hotels in the city of Zurich and has been the comprehensive renovation by the architect Norman Foster and architecturally combines an interesting complex of buildings, the historic and modern hotel architecture.

The former sanatorium of Maximilian Oskar Bircher muesli - inventor -Benner is now one of Zurich Financial Services and serves other purposes. However, the building of the Celts or Köllikerstrasse are still preserved.

Both the old and the new FIFA headquarters are located in Hottingen: first on the Sonnenberg, now near the zoo.

Traffic

Hottingen is accessed from the city center again by the tram lines 3, 8 and 15 of the Zurich transport services, and also by the trolleybus line 31 The higher areas of the district are accessible by the tangential bus line 33 and the Dolderbahn. The Kreuzplatz on the southern border district is also served by the tram lines 11 and by the Forchbahn (S18 ) to public transport.

Main traffic arteries are the Hottingerstrasse (which starts at the Schauspielhaus and the Römerhof place in the asylum road narrows ) and the mountain road (which the Klusplatz with the Church Fluntern connects ). Another important transport corridor - but already forms the district boundary to Riesbachstrasse - is the Kreuzbühl-/Forchstrasse ( connection from Bahnhof Stadelhofen Hegibachplatz ).