Urdorf
Sign in to saveUrdorf is a municipality in the district of Dietikon in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland, located in the Limmat Valley (German: Limmattal).
Key facts
- Swiss town.subject_name
- Urdorf
- Swiss town.municipality_type
- municipality
- Swiss town.image_photo
- Schäfliwiese von Osten 2008.JPG
- Swiss town.imagepath_coa
- CHE Urdorf COA.svg
- Swiss town.imagepath_flag
- CHE Urdorf Flag.svg
- Swiss town.canton
- Zurich
- Swiss town.iso code region
- CH-ZH
- Swiss town.district
- Dietikon
- Swiss town.postal_code
- 8902
- Swiss town.municipality_code
- 0250
- Swiss town.area
- 7.62
- Swiss town.elevation
- 416
- Swiss town.website
- www.urdorf.ch
- Swiss town.neighboring_municipalities
- Bergdietikon (AG), Birmensdorf, Dietikon, Rudolfstetten-Friedlisberg (AG), Schlieren, Uitikon, Zurich
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Urdorf is a municipality in the district of Dietikon in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland, located in the Limmat Valley (German: Limmattal).
==Geography== thumb|left|Protestant church Urdorf thumb|left|Aerial view (1965) Urdorf has an area of . Of this area, 32.2% is used for agricultural purposes, while 32.6% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 34.5% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (0.7%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains). housing and buildings made up 25.9% of the total area, while transportation infrastructure made up the rest (8.8%). Of the total unproductive area, water (streams and lakes) made up 0.4% of the area. 26.2% of the total municipal area was undergoing some type of construction. In 1931 Niederurdorf and Oberurdorf were excluded from the Zürich District to form the municipality of Urdorf.