Rorbas

Rorbas is a municipality in the district of Bülach in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland.

Coat of arms

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Geography

Rorbas is the bottom of the municipality Tösstal and lies immediately upstream of the mouth of the River Toess in the Rhine ( Tössegg ), nestled between the Dättenberg and Irchel.

Name

Rorbas was called in earlier times Rorboz or Rorboss.

The part Ror derived from cane ( reeds ), meant during boz knock or push ( biuzu ). In its composition Rorbas points to an area where earlier reed was cut.

Which had not been covered Rorbaser call their village in their dialect Rorbis.

History

On Carnival Sunday of the year 1538, 30 houses were burned in a conflagration.

Population

In the end Rorbas lived 2012 2503 people, many of whom are working abroad, so Rorbas is more of a quieter community.

Churches

December 31, 2011 were 41.6 % of the population of the Evangelical Reformed Church, and 24.5% to the Roman Catholic Church.

In the section Rorbas - free stone of the Evangelical Alliance are connected the Evangelical Reformed Church and the Chrischona community.

Administration and policy

In many areas, Rorbas organized with the neighboring community of free - stone depths, as for example in the school and parish, and even the Post has only one post office for the closely built villages Rorbas and free stone.

Mayor Hans Ulrich Buchi (independent in 2009).