Wiesendangen is a
municipality
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The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...
in the district of
Winterthur
, neighboring_municipalities = Brütten, Dinhard, Elsau, Hettlingen, Illnau-Effretikon, Kyburg, Lindau, Neftenbach, Oberembrach, Pfungen, Rickenbach, Schlatt, Seuzach, Wiesendangen, Zell
, twintowns = Hall in Tirol (Austria), La ...
in the
canton of
Zürich
Zürich () is the list of cities in Switzerland, largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zürich. It is located in north-central Switzerland, at the northwestern tip of Lake Zürich. As of January 2020, the municipality has 43 ...
in Switzerland. On 1 January 2014 the former municipality of
Bertschikon merged into the municipality of Wiesendangen. At the same time the
Community Identification Number
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changed from 0229 to 0298.
[Nomenklaturen – Amtliches Gemeindeverzeichnis der Schweiz]
accessed 13 December 2014
History
Wiesendangen municipality (as of 2014) includes the former villages, hamlets or municipalities of:
Wiesendangen, Attikon, Wallikon, Menzengrüt, Buch, Bertschikon, Gundetswil, Kefikon, Liebensberg, Stegen, Gündlikon and Zünikon.
It is located on the site of Roman estates built in the 2nd and 3rd centuries along the road between Oberwinterthur and
Pfyn
Pfyn is a municipality in Frauenfeld District in the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland.
Pfyn gives its name to the ancient Pfyn culture, one of several Neolithic cultures in Switzerland which centered on intensive pig farming and trading, datin ...
.
The area was acquired by
St. Gallen Abbey
The Abbey of Saint Gall (german: Abtei St. Gallen) is a dissolved abbey (747–1805) in a Catholic religious complex in the city of St. Gallen in Switzerland. The Carolingian-era monastery existed from 719, founded by Saint Othmar on the spot ...
in 804.
Wiesendangen is first mentioned in this context, as ''Wisuntwangas'' ("
wisent
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pasture").
Bertschikon is first mentioned in 1255 as ''Bersinkon''. The village of Gündlikon may be mentioned in 774 as ''Cundilinchova'' though the identification is doubtful; it is mentioned in 1162 as ''Gundilinchova''.
A
tower house
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built in the early 12th century was inhabited by ministeriales of the
House of Kyburg
The Kyburg family (; ; also Kiburg) was a noble family of ''grafen'' (counts) in the Duchy of Swabia, a cadet line of the counts of Dillingen, who in the late 12th and early 13th centuries ruled the County of Kyburg, corresponding to much of wha ...
who called themselves ''von Wiesendangen'' or ''von Frauenfeld'', as the acted as reeves in
Frauenfeld
Frauenfeld (Alemannic: ''Frauefäld'') is the capital of the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland.
The official language of Frauenfeld is (the Swiss variety of Standard) German, but the main spoken language is the local variant of the Alemannic Sw ...
. The manor was a fief of the bishop of Constance, given to the
Hohenlandenberg family in 1472.
High justice
High, middle and low justices are notions dating from Western feudalism to indicate descending degrees of judicial power to administer justice by the maximal punishment the holders could inflict upon their subjects and other dependents.
Low just ...
had already passed to Zürich along with the Kyburg possessions in 1452,
low justice
High, middle and low justices are notions dating from Western feudalism to indicate descending degrees of judicial power to administer justice by the maximal punishment the holders could inflict upon their subjects and other dependents.
Low just ...
eventually passed to Zürich as well, in 1587.
The municipality of Wiesendangen was established in 1798 along older parish boundaries. The municipality of Bertschikon was also established in 1798, and merged with Gundetswil, Kefikon (Canton of Zürich portion only), Liebensberg, Stegen, Gündlikon and Zünikon in 1881.
In 1928, the former municipalities of Attikon, Wallikon, Menzengrüt and Buch were incorporated into Wiesendangen.
A train station was built outside of Attikon in 1855, moved to Attikon in 1907. After 1945, the municipality gradually lost its character of rural villages and developed into part of the urban agglomeration of
Winterthur
, neighboring_municipalities = Brütten, Dinhard, Elsau, Hettlingen, Illnau-Effretikon, Kyburg, Lindau, Neftenbach, Oberembrach, Pfungen, Rickenbach, Schlatt, Seuzach, Wiesendangen, Zell
, twintowns = Hall in Tirol (Austria), La ...
. The
A1 motorway
A1, A-1, A01 or A.1. may refer to:
Education
* A1, the Basic Language Certificate of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages
* Language A1, the former name for "Language A: literature", one of the IB Group 1 subjects
* A1, a ...
, built in the 1970s, passes between Attikon and Bertschikon.
Geography
Before the merger Wiesendangen has an area of . Of this area, 54.7% is used for agricultural purposes, while 25.4% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 19.8% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (0.1%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains).
[ housing and buildings made up 11% of the total area, while transportation infrastructure made up the rest (8.7%).][ Of the total unproductive area, water (streams and lakes) made up 0.1% of the area. , 13.1% of the total municipal area was undergoing some type of construction.][ After the merger the total area was .
]
Demographics
Before the merger, the 2012 population was 4,927. After the merger the new population was (as of ) of . , 6.9% of the population was made up of foreign nationals. the gender distribution of the population was 49.1% male and 50.9% female. Over the last 10 years the population has grown at a rate of 19%. Most of the population () speaks German (95.3%), with French being second most common ( 1.1%) and Italian being third ( 1.0%).
In the 2007 election the most popular party was the SVP which received 37.4% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the FDP (15.1%), the SPS
SPS may refer to:
Law and government
* Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures of the WTO
* NATO Science for Peace and Security
* Single Payment Scheme, an EU agricultural subsidy
* The Standard Procurement System, fo ...
(13.6%) and the CSP (12.7%).
The age distribution of the population () is children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 24.8% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 59.9% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 15.3%. In Wiesendangen about 86.6% of the population (between age 25–64) have completed either non-mandatory upper secondary education or additional higher education (either university or a ''Fachhochschule
A ''Fachhochschule'' (; plural ''Fachhochschulen''), abbreviated FH, is a university of applied sciences (UAS), in other words a German tertiary education institution that provides professional education in many applied sciences and applied arts ...
''). There are 1634 households in Wiesendangen.[
Wiesendangen has an unemployment rate of 1.25%. , there were 114 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 40 businesses involved in this sector. 159 people are employed in the ]secondary sector
In macroeconomics, the secondary sector of the economy is an economic sector in the three-sector theory that describes the role of manufacturing. It encompasses industries that produce a finished, usable product or are involved in construction. ...
and there are 25 businesses in this sector. 419 people are employed in the tertiary sector
The tertiary sector of the economy, generally known as the service sector, is the third of the three economic sectors in the three-sector model (also known as the economic cycle). The others are the primary sector (raw materials) and the second ...
, with 96 businesses in this sector.[Swiss Federal Statistical Office]
accessed 14-Aug-2009 32.2% of the working population were employed full-time, and 67.8% were employed part-time.
accessed 4 August 2009
there were 1,117 Catholics
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.3 billion baptized Catholics worldwide . It is among the world's oldest and largest international institutions, and has played a ...
and 2,563 Protestants
Protestantism is a branch of Christianity that follows the theological tenets of the Protestant Reformation, a movement that began seeking to reform the Catholic Church from within in the 16th century against what its followers perceived to b ...
in Wiesendangen. In the 2000 census, religion was broken down into several smaller categories. From the , 65.3% were some type of Protestant, with 62% belonging to the Swiss Reformed Church
The Protestant Church in Switzerland (PCS), (EKS); french: Église évangélique réformée de Suisse (EERS); it, Chiesa evangelica riformata in Svizzera (CERiS); rm, Baselgia evangelica refurmada da la Svizra (BRRS) formerly named Federation o ...
and 3.3% belonging to other Protestant churches. 23.4% of the population were Catholic. Of the rest of the population, 1.9% belonged to another religion (not listed), 1.2% did not give a religion, and 8% were atheist or agnostic.[
The historical population is given in the following chart:Federal Statistical Office STAT-TAB Bevölkerungsentwicklung nach Region, 1850-2000]
accessed 29 January 2011
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Transport
Wiesendangen railway station
Wiesendangen is a railway station in the Swiss canton of Zurich and municipality of Wiesendangen. The station is located on the Winterthur–Romanshorn railway line. It is an intermediate stop on Zurich S-Bahn services S24 and S30.
Referen ...
is a stop of the Zurich S-Bahn on the lines S24 and S30 S30 may refer to:
Automobiles
* Aeolus S30, a Chinese sedan
* Jinbei S30, a Chinese SUV
* Nissan S30, a Japanese sport car
* Toyota Crown (S30), a Japanese sedan
Aviation
* Blériot-SPAD S.30, a French sport aircraft
* Lebanon State Air ...
.
References
External links
Official website
{{Authority control
Municipalities of the canton of Zürich