Hinwil

Hinwil is a municipality inside the district of Hinwil in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland. The village Hinwil from which the later municipality took its name is first mentioned in 745 as Hunichinwilari, in a donation made via Beata and Landolt to the Abbey of Saint Gall. Hinwil become part of an Alamannic colony comprising additionally adjoining villages and settlements that have been donated in the course of the following century via descendants of Beata and Landolt or through other individuals in their extended family to the identical abbey, inclusive of Hadaleihinchova, Pozinhova, Rimolteswilare and Werinholveshusa.

The Alamanni were honestly preceded via Roman population, as attested via the inspiration partitions of a Roman Villa relationship from the first century CE and detected below the medieval church of Hinwil that's first cited in the second half of the 8th century. During the High Middle Ages, the village Hinwil turned into part of the Landvogtei of Grüningen and turned into then, after 1280, subordinated to the commandry of the Knights of St. John at Bubikon. In the manner of the Reformation, the governance of Hinwil and other villages of the area became divided between Zurich and the Order of the Knights of St. John, with the affect of the latter being constrained by using an agreement to use best contributors of the Reformed Church of Zurich as their nearby governors.