Küsnacht

CH FCH ( Forch )

Reformed Church Küsnacht, left the main building of the district school

Küsnacht is a municipality in Switzerland. It lies on the so-called Gold Coast at the lower right bank of Lake Zurich in the district of miles in the Swiss canton of Zurich and is not to be confused with the Schwyzer community Küssnacht at the foot of the Rigi.

2006 Küsnacht was classified as the most livable city in Switzerland a city rating of the magazine balance sheet.

Coat of arms

Blazon

The coat of arms of Küsnacht probably comes from the community Küssnacht, with the Küsnacht used needle relations and also leads a pillow in the coat of arms.

Geography

To Küsnacht belong next to the Küsnachter village center, situated near Lake Zurich districts Goldbach in the north and in the south Heslibach. To the church Zumikon borders the district Itschnach higher ground. At the upper reaches of the creek are the Küsnachter Küsnachter village hamlets and farms: Küsnachter Mountain, Schmalzgrueb, Limberg, Wiserholz, Hohrüti, cheeks, Chaltenstein ( Cold Stone ) and the settlement Forch. Neighboring communities adjacent Zumikon are Zollikon in the north, Erlenbach and Herrliberg the south and Maur in the east.

  • Area: 1236 ha, of which 28 % forest, 35 % arable and grassland, 24% yard and garden.

Population

  • Proportion of foreigners: 19% (2007).
  • Religion: 48% reformed, 27 % Roman Catholic ( 2002).

Economy

Küsnacht is a control force of around CHF 11'780, ie annual tax revenue of around CHF 150 million, one of the richest municipalities in Switzerland, and has to be for financial compensation in the canton of Zurich contribute. During 47 years was Küsnacht location of the Private Hospital St. Raphael, in whose area the villa is rodents.

History

The first traces of settlement submitted by the lakeside settlements from the Neolithic period ( 4500-2300 BC) in Heslibacher " macaroni ". In Küsnachter Tobel the hill the ruins Wulp remains have been found from the later Bronze Age ( 2300-800 BC).

In 1978, met with the Küsnachter Allmendfeld on the sprawling remains of a farmhouse whose Latin name fundus Cossiniacus should be the basis of today's local name. Later, the name cut off in Chussenacho and was held in this form for the first time in 1188 in a papal document in writing.

In the High Middle Ages ( 950-1250 AD). Dominion rights were exercised by the barons of rain Berg, whose servants had their seat at the castle Wulp. In the 14th century the Regensberger sold it Küsnacht to the knights of Mülner, who had ascended as servants of the woman Münster Abbey to the peerage.

Also in the 14th century Order of the Knights of St John built at St. George's Church its administrative district, the Commandery Küsnacht. The last commander Konrad Schmid fell in 1531 as a Fellow of Ulrich Zwingli at the Battle of Kappel.

1384 sold knight Götz III. Mülner the advocacy of Küsnacht and Goldbach for 400 guilders to the city Zürich.Damit Küsnacht was part of the top Bailiwick Küsnacht, which was managed by two the Zurich Council belonging Obervögte. This affiliation lasted until 1798.

Küsnachter Flood 1778: In the evening of July 8, 1778 went down a violent thunderstorm over Küsnacht. From the Küsnachter Tobel is huge masses of water flowed over the place. The flood destroyed many buildings and bridges. 63 people were killed.

1830 was the " Küsnachter Memorial ," a liberal polemic, in which a new cantonal constitution was demanded with equal rights for town and country. Among the authors included the German educator Ludwig Snell and Küsnachter citizens Heinrich Streuli and Rudolf Brunner.

Not least because of this liberal attitude (now CG Jung Institute ) opened in 1832 with the Zurich Lehrerseminar the first state teacher seminar in Switzerland under Ignaz Thomas Scherr Seehof. The first two-year training course was attended by 35 prospective teachers. From the Küsnachter Lehrerseminar Swiss poets like Ernst Kappeler, Jakob Bosshart and Albin Zollinger emerged. Today, the village is home instead of the teacher seminar, the district school Küsnacht. During industrialization, various industrial enterprises settled in Küsnacht, the most important included the Terlinden & Co.

Bailiwick Küsnacht 1779, drawing by Johannes Müller

Küsnacht before 1778, engraving by Heinrich Brupbacher

On 3 and 4 June 1878, the village was again hit by a flood, 100 years after the last.

1909, after the construction of the lake road and the right bank railway line, the construction zone has been extended to almost the entire slope area. This meant that within a few decades almost the entire Rebgelände was built over 1886 was the vineyard as 148 acres, in 1950 there were the 3 ancient settlement Keren village, Heslibach and kusen grew up together and also the borders with neighboring communities Zollikon and Erlenbach have been blurred.

Policy

Mayor Markus Ernst ( FDP) (as of 2013).

Attractions

  • Soldiers' Monument in the village of Forch
  • Höchhus Küsnacht
  • Old and new buildings of the district school Küsnacht
  • Küsnachter Gorge with the Dragon Cave, Alexander's Stone and the ruins Wulp
  • Local museum at the output of the ravine
  • Rumensee and Schübelweiher
  • Seehof House, former residence of Conrad Ferdinand Meyer and seat of the CG Jung Institute
  • Tenth Trotte
  • Reformed Church Küsnacht
  • Catholic Church of St. George ( Küsnacht )

Activities

In addition to various swimming and water sports facilities on and around the Lake Zurich offers from Küsnacht from an extensive network of hiking trails and mountain bike tours through the gorge up to the panhandle to.

Above Küsnacht is the ice rink KEK It includes an ice rink, an open ice rink and a curling rink.

Pictures

Limberg

Rumensee between Itschnach and Zollikon

Schübelweiher between Itschnach and Küsnacht

Ships dock in the district Heslibach Lake Zurich

Kunsteisbahn Küsnacht ( CEC)

View from Lake Zurich

Personalities

Famous residents of Küsnacht were or are, among others, Tina Turner, Thomas Mann, August Bebel, Conrad Ferdinand Meyer, Gustav Knuth, Klaus Knuth, Hermann Haller, Carl Gustav Jung, Walter Haefner, Ursula Gut - winter Berger, Horst Petermann and Klaus Johann Jacobs.

Sons

  • Carl Abegg Arter, Rohseidenhändler and banker
  • Emil Abegg, Indologist
  • Johann Jakob Abegg, politicians and entrepreneurs
  • Bert Campbell, musician
  • Rudolf Meyer, musician
  • Ulrich Saxer, media and communication studies.
Meilen District Nobility Hectare Equalization payments Wulp Castle Knights Hospitaller Free Democratic Party of Switzerland Hermann Haller (composer)
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