Otelfingen

View from Altberg on Otelfingen and the warehouses behind it. At one end of the industrial area of the Golf Park before.

Otelfingen (Swiss German Otelfingä ) is a municipality in the district of Dielsdorf the canton of Zurich in Switzerland.

Coat of arms

Blazon

The current coat of arms was shown for the first time in the emblem book by Gerold Edlibach in 1493. The boar or wild boar was then for the Lord narrowness of Bad Otelfinger. The old village sign, a golden sheaf and a grünbeblätterte bunch of grapes on a silver background has been replaced by the decision of the Municipal Assembly of 23 December 1928 the Hog's Head.

History

Otelfingen is first mentioned in the 11th century in connection with the monastery Wettingen. From 1409 to the fall of the city-state of Zurich in 1798 Otelfingen formed with the twelve communities Boppelsen, Buchs ZH, Dielsdorf, Rain Mountain, Sünikon, Sünikon, Obersteinmaur, Bach, Schöfflisdorf, Oberweningen, Schleinikon and Niederweningen the bailiwick Regenberg. 1409 pledged the Austrian Duke Friedrich IV ( "of the Empty Pockets ") the rule to the city of Zurich. To a lien release, it did not come.

Geography

Otelfingen is the Furttal at the foot of warehouses, near the city of Zurich and the border with the Canton of Aargau. From the community area are 47.0 % agriculture, 37.2% is covered by forest, 5.8% is traffic area and 9.0 % urban area and 0.3 % are waters.

Village image

Otelfingen has, in addition to rain mountain, the only municipality in the district Dielsdorf a village center, which is housed in the cantonal inventory of vulnerability and townscapes. Many early modern timber-framed houses are evidence of a formerly wealthy farmer seed. In addition to the Reformed Church dating back to 1607 with the distinctive bell helmet the lower mill is most striking buildings in the village center. The former grinding chamber serves as a cultural center, the particular classical concerts home.

Policy

The SVP has 44.1 %, the SP 22.5%, FDP 12.1%, Green 9.9 %, the CVP 3.9%, and the EPP 3.7% of the vote.

Mayor Willy Laubach (2010 ).

Special

In the sixties years, there were plans to create a " new city " to build instead of Expo 64 in Otelfingen that would have housed 15,000 people. Initiator of this idea was, among others, the writer Max Frisch. This designed according to the then latest architectural and sociological insights city would be on the one hand been compact, but would also include generous green spaces and good transport links. However, the satellite city was never built, because the resistance was too great. The model of this satellite town is now owned by the University of Applied Sciences Rapperswil.

Pictures

Lower mill and inn respectively former brewery

Shibli Chabis House of 1676

Old Tavern of 1682

" Bien venus Mesieurs »

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