Herrliberg

Herrliberg is a municipality inside the district of Meilen inside the canton of Zurich in Switzerland. There are findings relationship lower back to the Bronze age. In the eighth century, a village referred to as Tachliswil changed into installed. A hamlet known as Wezzo changed into donated to the St. Gallen Abbey in 797. There also are some of different hamlets, consisting of Breitwil, Kittenmühle and Intwil. Herrliberg is first referred to in 1153-55 as Hardiperc. In 1273 it changed into cited as Herdiperch and inside the mid-fifteenth Century as Härliberg. Wine growing was essential for centuries.

In the Middle Ages, maximum of the land belonged to the church buildings of Zurich, but in 1412 Herrliberg changed into installed because the vicinity of a reeve. This made Herrliberg associated with Zurich. Since 1815, the municipality is a part of the district of Meilen. The chapel in Wetzwil predates 1370. The first college changed into opened in 1639. Thereafter, in 1687, the local parish church turned into constructed. In 1886, the height of wine developing, Herrliberg counted 174 wine growers, tending 1.3km2 of vineyards. With the outlet of the railway link to Zurich in 1896, Herrliberg began to increase as a part of the suburbs of Zurich.