Regensdorf

Regensdorf is the biggest political network within the district of Dielsdorf inside the canton of Zurich in Switzerland. Since the late 1950s, the former farming village on the japanese edge of the Furttal valley has developed into a town within the agglomeration of Zurich. The origins of current settlements date lower back to the 6th century, throughout the time of the conquest of the Alemanni. The oldest surviving document citing Regensdorf as Reganesdorf dates from the year 870.

Ruin Alt-Regensberg on a watercolor with the aid of Ludwig Schulthess In the High Middle Ages, the barons of Regensberg, who built a fortress on a small moraine hill at the existing hamlet of Altburg in the eleventh century, played a sizable function. Their remains, the ruins Alt-Regensberg can nonetheless be visited these days. Since the twelfth century there are two close by church buildings in Regensdorf, that is why components of the village have emerged, the Vorderdorf and the Hinterdorf.