Bassersdorf
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Bassersdorf (, High Alemannic: Baserschtoorff) is a municipality in the Swiss canton of Zürich, located in the district of Bülach, and belongs to the Glatt Valley (German: Glattal).
Key facts
- Swiss town.subject_name
- Bassersdorf
- Swiss town.municipality_type
- municipality
- Swiss town.image_photo
- BassersdorfII.png
- Swiss town.imagepath_flag
- CHE Bassersdorf Flag.svg
- Swiss town.imagepath_coa
- CHE Bassersdorf COA.svg
- Swiss town.canton
- Zürich
- Swiss town.iso code region
- CH-ZH
- Swiss town.district
- Bülach
- Swiss town.postal_code
- 8303
- Swiss town.municipality_code
- 0052
- Swiss town.area
- 9.02
- Swiss town.elevation
- 460
- Swiss town.website
- www.bassersdorf.ch
- Swiss town.neighboring_municipalities
- Dietlikon, Kloten, Lindau, Nürensdorf, Wangen-Brüttisellen
- Swiss town.twintowns
- Aigle (Switzerland)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- Municipality of Switzerland
- Official name
- Bassersdorf
- Country
- Switzerland
- Located in
- Bülach District
- Official language
- Swiss High German
- Population
- 11685
- Area
- 9.03
- Elevation
- 460
- Official website
- www.bassersdorf.ch
- Image
- BassersdorfII.png
- Dialing code
- 044
- Licence plate code
- ZH
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- Commons category
- Bassersdorf
- postal code
- 8303
- twinned administrative body
- Aigle
- P8168
- Lauterborn
- external data available at URL
- geo.ld.admin.ch/boundaries/municipality/52
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Encyclopedic overview
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Bassersdorf (, High Alemannic: Baserschtoorff) is a municipality in the Swiss canton of Zürich, located in the district of Bülach, and belongs to the Glatt Valley (German: Glattal).
== History == The name, mentioned in 1155 as Bazzelstorf and maybe yet in the early 11th century as Basselstorff, is a compound consisting of dorf, a widespread constituent in alemannic placenames meaning ‚hamlet, farm, village, estate‘, and the genitive form of an anthroponym, probably OHG *Bazzilo (or its feminine Bacila, documented in the Abbey of St. Gall). The Alemannic settlement dates to the 8th or 9th century. Due to its position halfway between the towns of Zürich and Winterthur, the village gained some importance as a relay during the 18th and 19th centuries.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bassersdorf” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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