Herrliberg is a municipality in the district of Meilen in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland.
History
thumb|left|Postcard from 1794 showing the vineyards above Herrliberg
thumb|left|Aerial view from 150 m by [[Walter Mittelholzer (1919)]]
There are findings dating back to the Bronze 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 1153–1155 as Hardiperc. In 1273 it was mentioned as Herdiperch and in the mid-15th Century as Härliberg. In the local dialect it is called Herrlibärg.
The distance from the main square to Zürich Hauptbahnhof is . 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.
Demographics
thumb|Herrliberg on 21 May 1786, watercolor by Hans C. Escher of the Linth
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thumb|The "cup marks" of the Nordic Bronze Age
Herrliberg has a population (as of 31 December 2023) of 6'753. and 24.1% 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 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. 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.
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! year
! population
|-
| 1467
| 42 Households
|-
| 1634
| 516
|-
| 1760
| 979
|-
| 1850
| 1,144
|-
| 1888
| 964
|-
| 1900
| 985
|-
| 1950
| 2,298
|-
| 2000
| 5,499
|-
|}
Sights
thumb|upright|Herrliberg church (2009)
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-Feldmeilen railway station is a stop of the S-Bahn Zürich on the line S6 and the terminal station of 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).
Famous people
Herrliberg is the home of Christoph Blocher, a Swiss politician, industrialist, and former member of the Swiss Federal Council. 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 typographer served an apprenticeship to a printer here.
In December 2011, tennis player Roger Federer and his wife Mirka purchased a 1.4 acre (5779 sq meters) development lot in the Laubhölzli area of Herrliberg, leading to speculation that they intend to build a home there.
On 2 November 2014 Nikolaus Senn, the former co-director of Schweizerische Bankgesellschaft, died in Herrliberg.
References
External links
- Official Page (German)
- Catholic Church (German)
- Protestant Churches (German)