Rikon im Tösstal
Rikon im Tösstal | ||
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Postal code 8486 | ||
| Website | www.zell.ch (in German) | |
S-Bahn Zürich
train station
Rikon im Tösstal is a village within the
Zurich in Switzerland
.
Geography
Rikon is located in
Schlatt, Wildberg and Winterthur
.
Education
Education covers Kindergarten, Primarschule and Sekundarschule levels. Higher school levels are located in Winterthur.
Transportation
The Tösstalstrasse motorway was built in 1837, the S26.
History
Near the church of Zell, the remains of a
St. Gallen Abbey, and as a fief to the House of Habsburg, including a watermill in Rikon. As part of the Grafschaft Kyburg the area was sold to the city of Zürich around 1450. In 1817/18 a textile manufacture was established in Rikon, and in 1925 the best known Metallwarenfabrik AG Heinrich Kuhn, now Kuhn Rikon AG. Since 1934 Hinter-Rikon is part of the municipality Zell.[1]
In 1961, Switzerland was one of the first countries in the Western hemisphere, that gave new homes on a large scale to
National Geographic
in an article by Laura Pilarski: "Little Tibet in Switzerland."
References
External links
Media related to Rikon im Tösstal at Wikimedia Commons
- Official website of the municipality of Zell (in German)
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