Wädenswil
Sign in to saveWädenswil (locally often called Wättischwiil, Wädischwiil or Wädi) is a municipality located in the district of Horgen in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland. The population, , was about 21,000. On 1 January 2019 the former municipalities of Hütten and Schönenberg were merged into the municipality of Wädenswil.
Key facts
- Swiss town.subject_name
- Wädenswil
- Swiss town.municipality_type
- municipality
- Swiss town.image_photo
- Ref. Kirche Wädenswil.jpg
- Swiss town.imagepath_coa
- CHE Wädenswil COA.svg
- Swiss town.imagepath_flag
- CHE Wädenswil Flag.svg
- Swiss town.canton
- Zürich
- Swiss town.iso code region
- CH-ZH
- Swiss town.district
- Horgen
- Swiss town.postal_code
- 8820
- Swiss town.municipality_code
- 0293
- Swiss town.area
- 17.37
- Swiss town.elevation
- 407
- Swiss town.website
- www.waedenswil.ch
- Swiss town.mayor
- Philipp Kutter
- Swiss town.mayor_asof
- October 2014
- Swiss town.mayor_title
- Stadtpräsident
- Swiss town.list_of_mayors
- List of mayors of Wädenswil
- Swiss town.parliament_name
- Gemeinderat
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- Education
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- Private, publicly subsidized schools
- Other private schools
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Wädenswil (locally often called Wättischwiil, Wädischwiil or Wädi) is a municipality located in the district of Horgen in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland. The population, , was about 21,000. On 1 January 2019 the former municipalities of Hütten and Schönenberg were merged into the municipality of Wädenswil.
==Geography== thumb|Aerial view from 200 m by Walter Mittelholzer (1919) thumb|upright|Wädenswil as seen from Lake Zürich (June 2009) thumb|upright|Wädenswil and Lake Zürich (1794) Before the 2019 merger, Wädenswil had an area of . Of this area, 59.3% is used for agricultural purposes, 9.6% is forested, 29.8% is settled (buildings or roads), and the remainder (1.3%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains). housing and buildings made up 20.8% of the total area, while transportation infrastructure made up the rest (9%). Of the total unproductive area, water (streams and lakes) made up 0.4% of the area. 24.5% of the total municipal area was undergoing some type of construction.