Männedorf

Männedorf is a municipality in the district of Meilen in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland. Archaeological finds show that, like the other villages along Lake Zürich, it was settled in the Stone Age, and the original settlement dates from the seventh or eighth century. The name Mannidorf, village of Manno, is mentioned in 933. The upright otter on a golden background in its coat of arms comes from the medieval provost Eberhard Ottikon. The village was home to fishermen, farmers and winegrowers, was once owned by the monastery of Pfäfers, and was the seat of a bailiwick of Zürich from 1405 until 1798. After the Lake Zürich right bank railway opened in 1894 it flourished, and a tannery, organ building and precision mechanics were established. It now forms part of the Zürich agglomeration and covers about 4.8 square kilometres.