Wetzikon
Sign in to saveWetzikon (High Alemannic: Wetzike) is a small town in the Zurich Highlands (Zürcher Oberland) area of Switzerland, in the district of Hinwil in the canton of Zürich.
Key facts
- Swiss town.subject_name
- Wetzikon
- Swiss town.municipality_type
- municipality, town
- Swiss town.image_photo
- Wetzikon - Oberwetzikon - Bahnhofstrasse 2010-07-01 12-51-36 ShiftN.jpg
- Swiss town.imagepath_coa
- CHE Wetzikon COA.svg
- Swiss town.imagepath_flag
- CHE Wetzikon Flag.svg
- Swiss town.canton
- Zurich
- Swiss town.iso code region
- CH-ZH
- Swiss town.district
- Hinwil
- Swiss town.postal_code
- 8620, 8623
- Swiss town.municipality_code
- 0121
- Swiss town.area
- 16.73
- Swiss town.elevation
- 535
- Swiss town.website
- www.wetzikon.ch
- Swiss town.mayor
- Pascal Bassu
- Swiss town.mayor_asof
- July 2022
- Swiss town.mayor_party
- SP
- Swiss town.mayor_title
- Stadtpräsident
- Swiss town.parliament_name
- Parlament
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Wetzikon (High Alemannic: Wetzike) is a small town in the Zurich Highlands (Zürcher Oberland) area of Switzerland, in the district of Hinwil in the canton of Zürich.
==Geography== Reformed Church|thumb thumb|Wetzikon as seen from Bachtel Tower. [[Pfäffikersee in the middle, Greifensee to the left.]] The municipality Wetzikon has an area of . Of this area, 42.4% is used for agricultural purposes, while 17.6% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 27.9% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (12.1%) is non-productive (streams, lakes and non-productive vegetation). housing and buildings made up 20% of the total area, while transportation infrastructure made up the rest (7.9%). Of the total unproductive area, water (streams and lakes) made up 3.3% of the area. 30.5% of the total municipal area was undergoing some type of construction.