Schipfe

The Schipfe is a historic district of the Swiss city of Zurich.

Location and name origin

(. 405 m asl ) is located between the Schipfe Wine Place / Town Hall Bridge ( Strehlgasse ) and the Oetenbachgasse and runs - below the Lindenhof - along the left bank of the Limmat towards the railway station to Rudolf Brun Bridge. Today the Schipfe is not a separate district anymore, but part of the Lindenhof district (District 1). The collection of statistical data is carried out in Zurich in 216 so-called statistical zones which ( 01301 for the Schipfe ) composed of the Stadtquartier-/Kreisnummer and a running number.

The name Schipfe goes back to the first mentioned in 1292 name " Schüpfi " in the original sense of riverbank construction and country festivals. She served as a dock for the Limmat ships where the sailors their Weidlinge pushed with a capacity of about 1.5 tons to the shore. The word origin can also still used by the Swiss Germans " Schupfen » ( push ) can be derived.

History

The district is part of the oldest continuously populated region of today's Zurich. Latest in the Middle Bronze Age (around 1500 BC), the environment is likely to have been inhabited by the Lindenhof, how can Finds Tools of the Limmat suspect. A Celtic settlement has been demonstrated for the 1st century BC. The cast of the Lindenhof by Roman military dates the modern research to the year 15 BC, when the small, unpaved Vicus Turicum was built around the customs station within the city hall bridge. In late Roman times a fort was built during the reign of Emperor Valentinian I on the hill, which was to secure the customs station against the course of the migration of peoples advancing from the North Alemanni.

The fishing rights were managed by the city, and fishermen should probably built in the early Middle Ages to the Schipfe their homes, as probably here residing Gerber. 1357/58, the " bathhouse at Schüpfen " ( Pelican House ) is mentioned, with lifeguards, Cupp and tooth breaker. Ever since the first quarter of the 15th century, the Schipfe served as a dock for the Limmat shipping.

Is downstream, at the western end of the Schipfe were five mills on the river island Papierwerd, as on the Murerplan ( 1576 ) by Jos Murer be seen. The mills in the Limmat and Sihl belonged in the Middle Ages to the extensive estate of the woman Münster Abbey. By Hans Georg Werdmüller 1666 the urban water wheel was built on the Schipfe: The first pumping station of the city was pumping river water to the Lindenhof, where the water was distributed in the Old Town. Some years later the construction of a second, emanating from the Town Hall Bridge water line.

Already in the 16th century, the silk industry had settled in the neighborhood and founded the history of the " Wollenhofs " (now home to work building), the employed in 1830 up to 500 silk weavers and 1835 for the distribution operated a branch in New York. The oldest weekly newspaper of the city of Zurich, the " Zürcherische Friday newspaper », 1674 was edited by David Bürkli in the house Schipfe 33.

Hans Caspar Escher founded in 1805 with the banker Salomon von Wyss, with headquarters in the " House for Felsenhof " in Neumühlestrasse the company Escher Wyss & Co. formative for the Schipfe was during a few decades, the company built steam ships to fill after their completion temporarily lay at anchor.

In the presence of Councillor Robert Neukomm took place on 7 July 2004 on the occasion of the meeting day of the Reformed churches, and Anabaptists, the inauguration of a black basalt slab of the seawall (opposite house No. 43), " were here in the middle of the Limmat from a fishing platform Felix Manz and five other Anabaptists drowned in the Reformation period 1527-1532. The last Baptist was executed in Zurich Hans Landis in 1614. "

The Schipfe today

Its present appearance with the feingliederigen row of houses received the Limmat district largely in the 17th and 18th centuries. The adjacent houses have big names like Big lynx, Large bay window, Hohe Tanne, Steinböckli, herringbone, Fortuna, salmon, small bath room, under the Schöpfli, Pelican, Yellow Leu, ocean wonders, shell or web. Most of them were in stages, 1911-1913 and 1936-1938 renovated by the city's building department. The ground floors are let to the arts and small businesses, while the upper floors apartments have been created, in which 461 people living in 388 households. Virtually all Schipfehäuser are owned by the city.

Although the historical district enjoys great popularity among tourists and is one of the popular photo opportunities in Zurich - despite its idyllic and prominent location opposite the Limmat Quay, the district is likely to be with locals but one of the lesser known of Zurich. The residents and traders have been trying for several years, the attention to actions and presence, among others, the Zürifäscht and with the " longest box geraniums in the world" ( in the Guinness Book of Records) to bring to the attention of the urban population.