Kappel am Albis

The monastery seen from the south

( Until 1911 officially called Kappel ) Kappel am Albis is a municipality in the district of Affoltern (also Knonauer office or Säuliamt ) of the Canton of Zurich in Switzerland.

Coat of arms

" Em: 1 and 4 in black and a geschachter of red and silver bars, 2 gold a black wall anchor Cross, Blue 3 in the Northern view of a silver church with nave, transept and crossing tower, red roofs and black windows. "

Geography

Kappel is located on the southwestern slope of the Albis south of Hausen in Jonental. Besides Kappel even includes the districts Hauptikon and Uerzlikon to the community. Borders the following municipalities in the canton of Zurich Knonau, Mettmenstetten, Rifferswil and Hausen am Albis, in the Canton train Baar and Steinhausen.

History

Already for the Bronze Age can be found on the territory of modern municipality evidence of colonization. A Roman estate has been detected on the boundaries of the municipality. The first time tangible Kappel but in 1185, as the same monastery where the origin of the church today, was established. The monastery was able to enlarge his possessions in the following centuries and over again and closed in 1344 a castle legal contract with train and 1403 with Zurich. In the wake of the Reformation, whose arguments ( 1529 and 1531) found a peak in the two Kappeler wars, the monastery was dissolved. Kappel the bailiwick Knonau was assumed and the monastic estates of the city of Zurich Office manages people who entered also the tithes into the hamlets of the area.

With the arrival of the French in Kappel was assigned to the district Mettmenstetten, with the end of the Helvetic Republic in 1803 the district of Horgen in order to then come back to the newly formed Oberamt Knonau ( 1830 Knonau district ). Since 1837 the community Kappel belongs to the district Affoltern.

Population

The Kloster Kappel on an engraving by David Herrliberger 1741