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Zürich ( zürichdeutsch Züri [ˈt͡sʏ̞rɪ, ˈt͡sʏrɪ, ˈt͡sy̞rɪ], [6] französisch Zurich [zyʁik], italienisch Zurigo [tsuˈriːɡo, dzu-], Rumantsch Grischun Turitg ⓘ /?) ist eine schweizerische Stadt, politische Gemeinde sowie Hauptort des gleichnamigen Kantons . Die Stadt Zürich ist mit 427'721 Einwohnern (Stand 31.
- Regierungsrat (Zürich)
Vorsitz. Mario Fehr (parteilos), Präsident des...
- Regierungsrat (Zürich)
Zürich Museum of Art – The Museum of Art, also known as Kunsthaus Zürich, is one of the significant art museums of Europe. It holds one of the largest collections in Classic Modern art in the world (Munch, Picasso, Braque, Giacometti, etc.). The museum also features a large library collection of photographs.
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Early history
The prehistoric pile dwellings around Zürichsee, which are located around Lake Zürich in the cantons of Schwyz, St. Gallen and Zürich, make up a considerable portion of the 56 sites in Switzerland that are included in the UNESCO World Heritage Prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps. Nine of these UNESCO World Heritage sites are located on the shore of Lake Zürich: Freienbach–Hurden Rosshorn, Freienbach–Hurden Seefeld, Rapperswil-Jona/Hombrechtikon–Feldbach, Rapperswil-Jona–Technikum, Erle...
City state
The territory of the canton of Zürich corresponds to the lands acquired by the city of Zürich after it became reichsfrei in 1218. Zürich pursued a policy of aggressive territorial expansion especially during the century following the revolution of the guilds in 1336. Zürich joined the Swiss Confederacyin 1351. Zürich claimed and lost the Toggenburg in the Old Zürich War of the 1440s. The northern parts up to the river Rhine came to the canton after the city of Zürich purchased Winterthur from...
Modern canton
A cantonal constitution was drawn up in 1814 and replaced in 1831 by a radical-liberal constitution.The Züriputsch, an armed uprising of the conservative rural population against the radical-liberal order, led to the dissolution of the cantonal government, and a provisional conservative government was installed by colonel Paul Carl Eduard Ziegler.Under the threat of intervention of the other radical-liberal cantons of the Confederacy, the provisional government declared that the 1831 constitu...
The canton of Zürich is situated in the eastern part of the Swiss plateau. It is entirely within the drainage basin of the High Rhine.It is characterized by Glacial landform and traversed by a series of rivers generally flowing south-east to north-west, listed west to east: Reuss, Reppisch, Sihl, Linth-Limmat (forming Lake Zürich), Glatt, Töss and ...
Legislative power
The Cantonal Council (Kantonsrat) has 180 members elected every four years.
Executive power
The canton is governed by a seven-member council (Regierungsrat). On 24 March 2019, the following were elected for four years: 1. Jacqueline Fehr (SP) 2. Mario Fehr(Independent) 3. Martin Neukom (Greens) 4. Natalie Rickli (SVP) 5. Silvia Steiner (CVP) 6. Ernst Stocker (SVP) 7. Carmen Walker Späh (FDP)
Districts
The canton is divided into 12 districts (German: Bezirke): 1. Zürich comprises the city of Zürich 2. Affoltern with capital Affoltern am Albis 3. Andelfingen with capital Andelfingen 4. Bülach with capital Bülach 5. Dielsdorf with capital Dielsdorf 6. Dietikon with capital Dietikon 7. Hinwil with capital Hinwil 8. Horgen with capital Horgen 9. Meilen with capital Meilen 10. Pfäffikon with capital Pfäffikon 11. Uster with capital Uster 12. Winterthur with capital Winterthur
Municipalities
There are, as of December 2015[update], 169 municipalities in the canton (Politische Gemeinden).
Merger of municipalities
There were no changes between 1934 and 2013, but the following occurred after 2013. 1. 2014: Bertschikon bei Attikon and Wiesendangen → Wiesendangen 2. 2015: Bauma and Sternenberg → Bauma 3. 2016: Kyburg → Illnau-Effretikon.
In the 2011 federal election the most popular party was the SVP which received 29.8% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SP (19.3%), the FDP (11.6%) and the glp(11.5%). The SVP received about the same percentage of the vote as they did in the 2007 Federal election(33.9% in 2007 vs 29.8% in 2011). The SPS retained about the sam...
Zürich has a population (as of December 2020[update]) of 1,553,423. As of 2010[update], 23.7% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (2000–2010) the population has changed at a rate of 12.7%. Migration accounted for 10.3%, while births and deaths accounted for 2.6%. Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speak...
In 1519, Huldrych Zwingli became the pastor of the Grossmünster in Zürich, and soon thereafter Zürich became a reformed or Protestant canton. Even though Zwingli died in battle in 1531, the canton remained a stronghold of the Swiss Reformed Church over the following centuries. While a plurality of the population is Protestant (43%), 31% of the popu...
Most of the land is cultivated, but the canton of Zürich is not considered as an agricultural area. The lands to the north and east are more agricultural, but in every part of the canton manufacturing predominates. The canton of Zürich is noted for machinery. Silk and cotton weaving were important in the past, but have now ceased to be of importanc...
Railways in standard gauge run through all major valleys in the canton. The centre for transport is Zürich, where a great number of local railways connect to national and international rail links. The railway station of the city of Zürich, Zürich Hauptbahnhof, is one of the busiest in Europe, counting the number of arriving and departing trains. Zü...
In Zürich about 493,209 or (39.5%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 212,154 or (17.0%) have completed additional higher education (either university or a Fachhochschule). Of the 212,154 who completed tertiary schooling, 55.8% were Swiss men, 25.5% were Swiss women, 11.6% were non-Swiss men and 7.1% were ...
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The Government Council is the supreme executive authority in the canton. It upholds the constitution and enforces the laws, ordinances, and decisions of the Cantonal Parliament. Its seven full-time members are elected by popular majority vote every four years.
The old system of government perished in Zürich, as elsewhere in Switzerland, with the French invasion in the spring of 1798, and under the Helvetic constitution the country districts obtained political liberty. Modern history
Ansicht von Zürich um 1863 auf einem Kupferstich von Charles Fichot Hauptgebäude der ETH von Gottfried Semper 1880, vor dem Umbau durch Gustav Gull 1915 Der erste Bahnhof von Zürich 1847 Alfred Escher (1819–1882), führender Zürcher Politiker und Unternehmer, der «Zar von Zürich» Zürich von der Waid um 1884
