Herrliberg
Encyclopedia
Herrliberg is a municipality
in the district of Meilen
in the canton
of Zürich in Switzerland
.
.
In the 8th century, a village called Tächliswil was established. A hamlet called Wezzo (today Wetzwil) was donated to the St. Gallen Abbey in 797. There are also a number of other hamlets, including Breitwil, Kittenmühle and Intwil.
Herrliberg is first mentioned in 1153-55 as Hardiperc. In 1273 it was mentioned as Herdiperch and in the mid-15th Century as Härliberg.
Wine growing was important for centuries. In the Middle Ages
, most of the land belonged to the churches of Zürich (Grossmünster
and Fraumünster
), but in 1412 Herrliberg was established as the place of a reeve. This made Herrliberg associated with Zürich
. Since 1815, the municipality is part of the district of Meilen.
The chapel in Wetzwil predates 1370. The first school was opened in 1639. Thereafter, in 1687, the local parish church was built.
In 1886, the peak of wine growing, Herrliberg counted 174 wine growers, tending 1.3 km² (0.501932806170296 sq mi) of vineyard
s.
With the opening of the railway link to Zürich in 1896, Herrliberg started to develop as part of the suburbs of Zürich.
It is located on the north bank of the Lake Zürich
in the Pfannenstiel
region. In the local dialect
it is called Herrlibärg.
The distance from the main square to Zürich Hauptbahnhof is 22 kilometres (13.7 mi). The locality is placed on five tiers.
The municipality is composed of three separate settlements along Lake Zurich, a settlement along the shore, the double village on the terraced slopes and the settlement on the top of the hill. It also includes the hamlets
of Wetzwil, Breitwil (today known as Kittenmühle) and scattered farm houses.
In the 2007 election the most popular party was the SVP
which received 41% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the FDP
(26.5%), the SPS
(10%) and the CSP
(8.8%).
The age distribution of the population is children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 21.4% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 62.6% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 16%. The entire Swiss population is generally well educated. In Herrliberg about 88.5% of the population (between age 25-64) have completed either non-mandatory upper secondary education or additional higher education (either university or a Fachhochschule
). There are 2422 households in Herrliberg.
Herrliberg has an unemployment rate of 1.48%. , there were 94 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 25 businesses involved in this sector. 122 people are employed in the secondary sector and there are 29 businesses in this sector. 785 people are employed in the tertiary sector, with 194 businesses in this sector. 55.6% of the working population were employed full-time, and 44.4% were employed part-time.
there were 1571 Catholics
and 2564 Protestants
in Herrliberg. In the 2000 census, religion was broken down into several smaller categories. From the , 52.3% were some type of Protestant, with 50.8% belonging to the Swiss Reformed Church
and 1.5% belonging to other Protestant churches. 26.6% of the population were Catholic. Of the rest of the population, 0% were Muslim, 3.7% belonged to another religion (not listed), 2.6% did not give a religion, and 14.5% were atheist or agnostic.
The historical population is given in the following table:
. Herrliberg-Feldmeilen
is a terminal station of the S-Bahn Zürich on the line S16
.
In the summer there are regular boats to Zurich as well as along the lake to Rapperswil
, run by the Zürichsee-Schifffahrtsgesellschaft
(ZSG).
. He was ousted from the Swiss Federal Council
on December 12, 2007 by a majority vote of the joint chambers of the Swiss parliament. It is also the home of Jürg Marquard, a Swiss publisher.
Famous organist, harpsichordist, conductor and Bach interpreter Karl Richter resided in Wetzwil, when not working in Munich with his Münchener Bachchor und Bachorchester.
Willem Sandberg
, the Dutch
typograher
served an apprenticeship to a printer here.
Municipalities of Switzerland
Communes , also known as municipalities, are the smallest government division in Switzerland, numbering 2,596 . While many have a population of a few hundred citizens, the largest cities such as Zürich or Geneva also have the legal status of municipalities...
in the district of Meilen
Meilen (district)
Meilen District is one of the twelve districts of the German-speaking canton of Zurich, Switzerland. It lies to the south of the canton in the Pfannenstiel region, forming much of the northern shore of Lake Zurich. The district capital is the town of Meilen....
in the canton
Cantons of Switzerland
The 26 cantons of Switzerland are the member states of the federal state of Switzerland. Each canton was a fully sovereign state with its own borders, army and currency from the Treaty of Westphalia until the establishment of the Swiss federal state in 1848...
of Zürich in Switzerland
Switzerland
Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....
.
History
There are findings dating back to the Bronze ageBronze Age
The Bronze Age is a period characterized by the use of copper and its alloy bronze as the chief hard materials in the manufacture of some implements and weapons. Chronologically, it stands between the Stone Age and Iron Age...
.
In the 8th century, a village called Tächliswil was established. A hamlet called Wezzo (today Wetzwil) was donated to the St. Gallen Abbey in 797. There are also a number of other hamlets, including Breitwil, Kittenmühle and Intwil.
Herrliberg is first mentioned in 1153-55 as Hardiperc. In 1273 it was mentioned as Herdiperch and in the mid-15th Century as Härliberg.
Wine growing was important for centuries. In the Middle Ages
Middle Ages
The Middle Ages is a periodization of European history from the 5th century to the 15th century. The Middle Ages follows the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 and precedes the Early Modern Era. It is the middle period of a three-period division of Western history: Classic, Medieval and Modern...
, most of the land belonged to the churches of Zürich (Grossmünster
Grossmünster
The Grossmünster is a Romanesque-style church in Zurich, Switzerland. It is one of the three major churches in the city . The core of the present building near the banks of the Limmat River was constructed on the site of a Carolingian church, which was, according to legend, originally commissioned...
and Fraumünster
Fraumünster
The Fraumünster abbey in Zurich was founded in 853 by Louis the German for his daughter Hildegard. He endowed the Benedictine convent with the lands of Zurich, Uri, and the Albis forest, and granted the convent immunity, placing it under his direct authority.- History :In 1045, King Henry III...
), but in 1412 Herrliberg was established as the place of a reeve. This made Herrliberg associated with Zürich
Zürich
Zurich is the largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zurich. It is located in central Switzerland at the northwestern tip of Lake Zurich...
. Since 1815, the municipality is part of the district of Meilen.
The chapel in Wetzwil predates 1370. The first school was opened in 1639. Thereafter, in 1687, the local parish church was built.
In 1886, the peak of wine growing, Herrliberg counted 174 wine growers, tending 1.3 km² (0.501932806170296 sq mi) of vineyard
Vineyard
A vineyard is a plantation of grape-bearing vines, grown mainly for winemaking, but also raisins, table grapes and non-alcoholic grape juice...
s.
With the opening of the railway link to Zürich in 1896, Herrliberg started to develop as part of the suburbs of Zürich.
Geography
Herrliberg has an area of 9 km² (3.5 sq mi). Of this area, 56.5% is used for agricultural purposes, while 24.2% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 19.2% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (0.1%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains). housing and buildings made up 15.1% of the total area, while transportation infrastructure made up the rest (4.2%). Of the total unproductive area, water (streams and lakes) made up 0.1% of the area. 18.2% of the total municipal area was undergoing some type of construction.It is located on the north bank of the Lake Zürich
Lake Zurich
Lake Zurich is a lake in Switzerland, extending southeast of the city of Zurich. It is also known as Lake Zürich and Lake of Zürich. It lies approximately at co-ordinates ....
in the Pfannenstiel
Pfannenstiel (Zürich)
Pfannenstiel is a wooded mountain respectively a region overlooking the Lake Zürich and Zürcher Oberland in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland.- Geography :...
region. In the local dialect
Dialect
The term dialect is used in two distinct ways, even by linguists. One usage refers to a variety of a language that is a characteristic of a particular group of the language's speakers. The term is applied most often to regional speech patterns, but a dialect may also be defined by other factors,...
it is called Herrlibärg.
The distance from the main square to Zürich Hauptbahnhof is 22 kilometres (13.7 mi). The locality is placed on five tiers.
The municipality is composed of three separate settlements along Lake Zurich, a settlement along the shore, the double village on the terraced slopes and the settlement on the top of the hill. It also includes the hamlets
Hamlet (place)
A hamlet is usually a rural settlement which is too small to be considered a village, though sometimes the word is used for a different sort of community. Historically, when a hamlet became large enough to justify building a church, it was then classified as a village...
of Wetzwil, Breitwil (today known as Kittenmühle) and scattered farm houses.
Demographics
Herrliberg has a population (as of ) of . , 14.6% of the population was made up of foreign nationals. the gender distribution of the population was 48.5% male and 51.5% female. Over the last 10 years the population has grown at a rate of 13.8%. Most of the population speaks German (89.2%), with English being second most common ( 2.9%) and French being third ( 2.2%).In the 2007 election the most popular party was the SVP
Swiss People's Party
The Swiss People's Party , also known as the Democratic Union of the Centre , is a conservative political party in Switzerland. Chaired by Toni Brunner, but spearheaded by Christoph Blocher, the party is the largest party in the Federal Assembly, with 58 members of the National Council and 6 of...
which received 41% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the FDP
Free Democratic Party of Switzerland
The Free Democratic Party was a classical liberal political party in Switzerland. It was one of the major parties in Switzerland until its merger with the smaller classical liberal Liberal Party, to form FDP.The Liberals on 1 January 2009....
(26.5%), the SPS
Social Democratic Party of Switzerland
The Social Democratic Party of Switzerland is the largest centre-left political party in Switzerland....
(10%) and the CSP
Christian Social Party (Switzerland)
The Christian Social Party is a political party in Switzerland. The CSP is more social democratic than the CVP. With the moderate Christian left as its background, the CSP commits itself to social democratic and environmentalist political solutions...
(8.8%).
The age distribution of the population is children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 21.4% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 62.6% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 16%. The entire Swiss population is generally well educated. In Herrliberg about 88.5% of the population (between age 25-64) have completed either non-mandatory upper secondary education or additional higher education (either university or a Fachhochschule
Fachhochschule
A Fachhochschule or University of Applied Sciences is a German type of tertiary education institution, sometimes specialized in certain topical areas . Fachhochschulen were founded in Germany and later adopted by Austria, Liechtenstein, Switzerland and Greece...
). There are 2422 households in Herrliberg.
Herrliberg has an unemployment rate of 1.48%. , there were 94 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 25 businesses involved in this sector. 122 people are employed in the secondary sector and there are 29 businesses in this sector. 785 people are employed in the tertiary sector, with 194 businesses in this sector. 55.6% of the working population were employed full-time, and 44.4% were employed part-time.
there were 1571 Catholics
Roman Catholic Church
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the world's largest Christian church, with over a billion members. Led by the Pope, it defines its mission as spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ, administering the sacraments and exercising charity...
and 2564 Protestants
Protestant Reformation
The Protestant Reformation was a 16th-century split within Western Christianity initiated by Martin Luther, John Calvin and other early Protestants. The efforts of the self-described "reformers", who objected to the doctrines, rituals and ecclesiastical structure of the Roman Catholic Church, led...
in Herrliberg. In the 2000 census, religion was broken down into several smaller categories. From the , 52.3% were some type of Protestant, with 50.8% belonging to the Swiss Reformed Church
Swiss Reformed Church
The Reformed branch of Protestantism in Switzerland was started in Zürich by Huldrych Zwingli and spread within a few years to Basel , Bern , St...
and 1.5% belonging to other Protestant churches. 26.6% of the population were Catholic. Of the rest of the population, 0% were Muslim, 3.7% belonged to another religion (not listed), 2.6% did not give a religion, and 14.5% were atheist or agnostic.
The historical population is given in the following table:
| year | population |
|---|---|
| 1467 | 42 Households |
| 1634 | 516 |
| 1760 | 979 |
| 1850 | 1,144 |
| 1888 | 964 |
| 1900 | 985 |
| 1950 | 2,298 |
| 2000 | 5,499 |
Sights
There are three churches in Herrliberg. The Protestant churches can be found in Wetzwil and Tal. The Catholic Church St. Marien is remarkable as it was built recently. The architecture is distinctive.Transportation
Herrliberg is a stop of the S-Bahn Zürich on the line S6S6 (ZVV)
The S6 is a regional railway line of the S-Bahn Zürich on the Zürcher Verkehrsverbund , Zürich transportation network, and is one of the network's lines connecting the cantons of Zürich and Aargau.- Route :...
. Herrliberg-Feldmeilen
Feldmeilen
Feldmeilen is a village within the municipality of Meilen in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland.-Geography:Feldmeilen is located in the district of Meilen in the Pfannenstiel region on the northwestern shore of the Zürichsee between Zürich and Rapperswil.-Demographics, Education and...
is a terminal station of the S-Bahn Zürich on the line S16
S16 (ZVV)
The S16 is a regional railway line of the S-Bahn Zürich on the Zürcher Verkehrsverbund , Zürich transportation network, and is one of the network's lines connecting the cantons of Zürich and Schaffhausen.- Route :...
.
In the summer there are regular boats to Zurich as well as along the lake to Rapperswil
Rapperswil
Rapperswil-Jona is a municipality in the Wahlkreis of See-Gaster in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland.Besides Rapperswil and Jona, which were separate municipalities until 2006, the municipality includes Bollingen, Busskirch, Curtiberg, Kempraten-Lenggis, Wagen, and Wurmsbach.-Today:On...
, run by the Zürichsee-Schifffahrtsgesellschaft
Zürichsee-Schifffahrtsgesellschaft
The Lake Zurich Shipping Company or Zürichsee-Schifffahrtsgesellschaft is a public Swiss company operating passenger ships and boats on Lake Zürich....
(ZSG).
Famous people
Herrliberg is the home of Christoph BlocherChristoph Blocher
Christoph Blocher is a Swiss politician, industrialist, and former member of the Swiss Federal Council heading the Federal Department of Justice and Police . Currently he is serving as Vice President of the Swiss People's Party...
. He was ousted from the Swiss Federal Council
Swiss Federal Council
The Federal Council is the seven-member executive council which constitutes the federal government of Switzerland and serves as the Swiss collective head of state....
on December 12, 2007 by a majority vote of the joint chambers of the Swiss parliament. It is also the home of Jürg Marquard, a Swiss publisher.
Famous organist, harpsichordist, conductor and Bach interpreter Karl Richter resided in Wetzwil, when not working in Munich with his Münchener Bachchor und Bachorchester.
Willem Sandberg
Willem Sandberg
Jonkheer Willem Jacob Henri Berend Sandberg known as Willem Sandberg was a Dutch typographer and museum curator.He was born in Amersfoort, Holland in 1897 and studied art in Amsterdam. He became a follower of the Mazdaznan movement. As a young man he travelled, serving as an apprentice to a...
, the Dutch
Dutch people
The Dutch people are an ethnic group native to the Netherlands. They share a common culture and speak the Dutch language. Dutch people and their descendants are found in migrant communities worldwide, notably in Suriname, Chile, Brazil, Canada, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, and the United...
typograher
Typography
Typography is the art and technique of arranging type in order to make language visible. The arrangement of type involves the selection of typefaces, point size, line length, leading , adjusting the spaces between groups of letters and adjusting the space between pairs of letters...
served an apprenticeship to a printer here.
External links
- Official Page (German)
- Catholic Church (German)
- Protestant Churches (German)