Wiesendangen

Wiesendangen is a municipality in the district of Winterthur in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland.

[3] 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.

[4] A tower house built in the early 12th century was inhabited by ministeriales of the House of Kyburg who called themselves von Wiesendangen or von Frauenfeld, as the acted as reeves in Frauenfeld.

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.

After 1945, the municipality gradually lost its character of rural villages and developed into part of the urban agglomeration of Winterthur.

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).

[6] The historical population is given in the following chart:[9] Wiesendangen railway station is a stop of the Zurich S-Bahn on the lines S24 and S30.

Aerial view by Walter Mittelholzer (1934)