Opfikon

CH GTG (Glattbrugg )

Opfikon ( in the local dialect: [ opfikχə ] ) is a municipality and town in the district of Bülach in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland.

On the political community is one of the equally famous town Glattbrugg, which is why the community is unofficially often referred to as Opfikon -Glattbrugg.

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Geography

The Zurich Unterländer municipality is located in the Glatt valley, between Zurich and the airport community Kloten. The landscape is rather flat, the lowest point with 420.4 m above sea level. M. is located on the municipal boundary to Zürich. The highest point of the municipality is located in Hardwald to 481 m above sea level. M.. The community area of ​​Opfikon is populated to 37 % to 17% is forest, 1.2% water, 27% ​​continue to serve agriculture and 17.6 % of the traffic.

Population

History

The church today has its origins in two settlements: Opfikon situated right smoothness, and located in Oberhausen, left the Glatt. As the name implies, the Glattbrugg was not a settlement, but the bridge over the Glatt. The name Glattbrugg used later the left bank of the forge and mill.

After the extinction of the Counts of Kyburg in 1264 the blood jurisdiction came to Habsburg Austria. Your spacious property annexed the Habsburgs for the administration and the respect of the charges in " offices ", said Opfikon and Oberhausen were assigned to the Office Schwamendingenstrasse. From King Albrecht's land register ( 1305 ) can be inferred: " Ze Opphinkon lit a guot that the gotzhus ( Monastery of St. Martin) Zurich mountain is peculiar; the giltet ze vogt right 2/4 2/4 cores and stakeholders. There git a vasnachthuon everyone ... "The court in Oberhausen was committed to the Grossmünsterplatz over the tithe. The jurisdiction was probably partly with the Hapsburgs and the Lords of Zürich; probably late 14th century, they went to the city of Zurich councilman family Biberli. Already around 1370 pledged the Habsburg Kyburg offices at their former Vogt and orderly at the Kyburg. 1384 was the whole mortgage shaft on to the Counts of Toggenburg, then the rule Kyburg came through heritage and as a pledge to the Countess of Montfort- Cunegonde Toggenburg. After the outlawing Duke Frederick IV was the rule Kyburg into one kingdom mortgage. On February 9, 1424 Zurich city acquired through the payment of 8,750 florins to Countess Cunegonde the pledge, which they could double their territory with one blow.

1390 and 1411 officiated Heinrich Biberli as Vogt in Opfikon, and the Bailiwick then passed to the family of his son. Biberlis daughter Anna was married to Peter Kilchmatter, the son of Rudolf II Kilchmatter ( " the Younger "); at that time the richest citizens of the City of Zurich, owner of the iron mines in Flums and 1393-1413 as Biberli councilor of Constaffel.

In the Helvetic canton of Zurich was divided into 15 districts and the villages were assigned to municipalities, which are oriented to the parishes and from which emerged later political communities. Opfikon was thus part of the municipality in the district of Kloten Bassersdorf; because the smoothness formed the district boundary, Oberhausen of the municipality Seebach has been allocated in the district of rain village.

In mediation, the Canton of Zurich again received a new structure and was divided into five districts. Opfikon and Oberhausen were solved in 1803 by Kloten and jointly merged into the municipality of Opfikon, which was assigned to the District Bülach. This division continued until the restoration in which Opfikon the Oberamt Embrach was assigned and replaced the civil parishes the old village communities dating from before the Helvetic Republic. The municipality Opfikon ( also referred to as Opfikon and Oberhausen ) consisted in 1815 of the two civil parishes Opfikon and Oberhausen, which corresponded to the ancient villages; which now formed the left of the smooth settlement Glattbrugg was - as previously forge and mill - part of the civil parish of Oberhausen.

The new cantonal constitution was voted on in 1831, was clearly adopted in the parish Kloten. At the parish belonged to the two communities Opfikon and Kloten, with a total of four civil parishes Opfikon, Oberhausen, Kloten and Geerlisberg - Egetswil. The cantonal constitution marked the end of the Oberamts Embrach, was declared the new capital of Bülach and whose name was accordingly changed to District Bülach.

In May 1918, the end of both Opfiker civil parishes was heralded by speaking out in both the civil community in Oberhausen, as well as in the civil parish Opfikon each for a merger with the political community Opfikon. The two mergers were carried out on 31 December 1918 due to the it officially is only the municipality Opfikon since January 1, 1919. The strong development of the settlement Glattbrugg supplanted in the 20th century the name Oberhausen largely and is now as common as the name Opfikon. To distinguish between the political community Opfikon from the village Opfikon, the name Opfikon -Glattbrugg is often used for the former.

Policy

Parish council

The municipal elections of 7 March 2010 for the legislative period 2010-2014 resulted in the following distribution of seats:

For the Office year 2013/2014, Daniel Peter (FDP) President of the Community.

City ​​council

Mayor Paul Remund (FDP).

Coat of arms

Blazon

The face changes color from silver, gold or natural. In some representations of the neck is black tinged.

Coat Explanation: The man torso reminiscent of a long extinct family of a Burkhard de Opphinkon, who resided in the 13th century at the place, and from whose coat of arms (in blue a golden -dressed man torso) he - was removed - new tinged. The black paws Silver Cross is taken from the coat of arms of Canons on Grossmünsterplatz, which existed from the 9th century to 1832, and the neighboring settlement of Oberhausen was the tenth of charge.

Name

The name Opfikon is a formation with the frequent in today's Canton Zurich as well as in Aargau and the Canton of Lucerne Ortsnamensuffix - ( i) kon / - ( i) banks, which on the compositions of a with the suffix - ing ( as in people of Mentioned ' ) provided people with the name locativisch used Dat. pl. of the word yard, yard, property ' as hindlimb back ( is this more apparent origin still at the widespread particularly in the Thurgau and in the western German name on Switzerland - ( i) kofen ); names formed according to this pattern are the 7/8 Century dates. The antecedent of this settlement name is likely a person's name * Opfo underlying, which is, however, nowhere is in this form, and ( it has been suggested Otfried ) as shorthand to a different name or as an education for for West Germanic recognized personal names stem * upp, extending to Old High German * opf / * would upf developed, is considered.

The oldest confirmed specimen of the name comes from the mid-12th century. ( Obtinchofa ); A document from the year 744 ( Ubinchova ) can not be clearly assigned.

Churches

The Evangelical Reformed Church of Opfikon located on the Oberhauserstrasse 71

The Roman Catholic Church is represented in Opfikon with the St. Anne's Church, which was built in 1955-1956 on the Wallisellerstrasse 20 and rebuilt from 1981 to 1982 after plans by the Zurich architects Rudolf Mathys.

Is the local church of the United Methodist Church at the Giebeleichstrasse 72.

Economy

In Glattbrugg is the editorial office of the journal Motosport Switzerland.

Traffic

The community Opfikon is linked by S-Bahn Zurich with the following lines:

• S 5 Niederweningen / Rafz - Upper Smooth - Zurich HB - Uster - Pfäffikon ( station " Glattbrugg » )
• S 7 Winterthur HB - Kloten - Zurich HB - Miles - Rapperswil ( station " Opfikon » )

The community is also connected to the Glattalbahn.

Pictures

Local Museum

Old farmhouse

First schoolhouse from 1779

Schoolhouse from 1897

Village wells and livestock scales

The smoothness in Opfikon -Glattbrugg

UBS ( investment banking ) in Glattbrugg

Flughofstrasse with the tracks Glattalbahn

Reformed Church

Reformed presbytery

Belfry