Bassersdorf

Infobox Swiss town
subject_name = Bassersdorf
municipality_name = Bassersdorf
municipality_type = municipality
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languages = German
canton = Zurich
iso-code-region = CH-ZH
district = Bülach
lat_d=47|lat_m=27|lat_NS=N|long_d=8|long_m=38|long_EW=E
postal_code = 8303
municipality_code = 0052
area = 9.02
elevation = 460|elevation_description=
population = 8824|populationof = December 2003 | popofyear = 2003
website = www.bassersdorf.ch
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neighboring_municipalities= Dietlikon, Kloten, Lindau, Nürensdorf, Wangen-Brüttisellen
twintowns = Aigle (Switzerland)|

Bassersdorf is a municipality in the Swiss canton of Zurich, located in the district of Bülach.

The name, mentionend in 1155 as "Bazzelstorf" and maybe yet in the early 11th century as "Basselstorff", is a compound consisting of "dorf", a wide-spread 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).Andres Kristol, "Bassersdorf ZH (Bülach)" in: "Dictionnaire toponymique des communes suisses – Lexikon der schweizerischen Gemeindenamen – Dizionario toponomastico dei comuni svizzeri (DTS|LSG)", Centre de dialectologie, Université de Neuchâtel, Verlag Huber, Frauenfeld/Stuttgart/Wien 2005, ISBN 3-7193-1308-5 and Éditions Payot, Lausanne 2005, ISBN 2-601-03336-3, p. 126.] The Alemannic settlement dates to the 8th or 9th century. Due to its position halfway between the towns of Zurich and Winterthur, the village gained some importance as a relay during the 18th and 19th centuries.

Economy

Compaq at one point operated its Switzerland offices in Bassersdorf. [http://web.archive.org/web/19961225072801/www.compaq.com/corporate/overview/world_offices.html]

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External links

*http://www.bassersdorf.ch/
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*http://www.zuol.ch/gemeinden/details.asp?Gemeinde=Bassersdorf