page_title: Embrach
section_title: Up to the present
hierarchical_section_title: Embrach / History / Up to the present
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Wasserkraftwerk Freienstein
context_page_description: Embrach is a municipality in the district of Bülach in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland.
context_section_description: For a long time the industry in the Embrach valley produced electric energy from local hydropower using various small ponds. These water reservoirs are today still found on both sides of the Embrach Valley slopes. That changed in 1904 when the power plant was established. A year later the streets were electrically illuminated. 
  In 1934 a swimming pool, the Chlostergumpen, with diving tower was built. 
  Total land amelioration was made 1963–65; not everyone was satisfied with the result.
         
  Due to its favourable geographical location near Winterthur Bülach Zurich and in particular the Zurich Airport Embrach was in 1960–1965 a fast-growing community. The Swissair built an entire residential district on Dreispitz for its employees. East of the village, family homes at a prime location on the Sonnenberg emerged. In "Im Feld" modest apartment buildings were built. 
    
  Since 1965 a controversial shooting range for hunters has existed at the Au, very close to the Töss River.  
  In 1972 an indoor and outdoor swimming pool was built, the present "Badi Talegg", which was renewed and expanded 2004-2005. 
  A big change took place in 1972 when a huge construction site wss started on the northern edge of Embrach. The duty-free Embraport site opened its doors in 1973. 
   
  After long planning starting 1918 (from 1945 on the location Embrach was in conversation), the third Psychiatric Clinic of the Canton of Zurich on the Hard in Embrach was opened in 1974. In the area too, a transit centre for asylum seekers has been running since 1989. The Psychiatrie-Zentrum Hard (PZH) and the Integrierte Psychiatrie Winterthur (ipw) merged in January 2010.  Maybe this Embrach intuition will come to an end in the near future.  The municipalities of Embrach Valley operate a retirement home for up to 100 elderly people since 1982 (after enlargement in 2010). 
    
  Hurricane Lothar (gusts to 270 kilometres per hour)in 1999 devastated large areas of municipal and private forest. 
   
  In 2004 the hydroelectric power station at the Töss River was modernized. The output is 2,000,000 kWh per year, which covers the electricity needs of about 1000 people in the Canton of Zurich. The EW Embrach is responsible for the operation.
caption: Hydroelectric power station
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