page_title: Küsnacht
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Küsnacht / History
caption_attribution_description: Terlinden in Küsnacht (Switzerland) as seen from ZSG motorship Wädenswil
context_page_description: Küsnacht is a municipality in the district of Meilen in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland.
context_section_description: Küsnacht is first mentioned in 1188 as de Cussenacho.
  Earliest findings of settlement date back to the stone age. There are also findings from the Bronze Age. During Roman times, a mansion was located on the commons. It was called fundus Cossiniacus which is probably the origin of the name of Küsnacht. In the 7th century the name was recorded as Chussenacho. The coat of arms shows a golden cushion on a red background. It is probably a derivate of the coat of arms of the aristocrats of Küssnacht am Rigi.
  In the Middle Ages, the land was governed by the House of Regensberg who lived in the castle of Wulp in Küsnacht. After 1531 Küsnacht was governed by Zurich.
  Like most other municipalities along Lake Zürich, Küsnacht started to become a suburb of the city of Zürich with the development of the railway link in 1896.
  The psychiatrist Carl Jung had his clinic in Küsnacht, which attracted patients from all over the world. Thomas Mann lived in Küsnacht between 1933 and 1939, after he was forced to leave Germany by the Nazis. The most famous resident of the town is Tina Turner.
caption: Bank am Bellevue
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