Illnau

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Illnau

Total population

16,117

Coordinates47.41°, 8.73°

Demographic figures from Swiss Federal Statistical Office. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

Overview

Illnau-Effretikon is a municipality in the district of Pfäffikon in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland. It includes the villages of Illnau, Effretikon, Ottikon and Bisikon. On 1 January 2016 Kyburg and Illnau-Effretikon merged to form the municipality of Illnau-Effretikon.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Notable people from here

Albert Meyer

Swiss politician, editor of Neue Zürcher Zeitung and member of the Swiss Federal Council (1870-1953)

Johann Jakob Bodmer

Swiss-German author, academic, critic and poet (1698–1783)

Rudolf Wolf

Swiss astronomer (1816-1893)

Johannes Frisius

Swiss theologian

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Frederick Bodmer

Swiss linguist (1894-1960)

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Adrian Weyermann

Swiss songwriter

F

Fabienne Reuteler

snowboarder

S

Stefan Kobel

volleyball player

Salomon Corrodi

Swiss painter (1810-1892)

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Johann Hürlimann

Swiss artist (1793-1850)

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Emanuel Plattner

Swiss bicycle racer

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Ernst Meier

Swiss politician (1897-1979)

Werner Kuhn

Swiss chemist (1899–1963)

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Stephan Wenk

Lukas Meili

Swiss ice hockey player

M

Muriel Grässli

Swiss volleyball and beach volleyball player

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Nearby places in Zurich

• Bisikon
  1.5 mi away
• Ottikon
  1.9 mi away · pop. 497
• Kindhausen
  2 mi away
• Volketswil
  2.1 mi away · pop. 18,437
• Effretikon
  2.3 mi away · pop. 16,693
• Weisslingen
  2.4 mi away · pop. 3,255
• Russikon
  2.6 mi away · pop. 3,952
• Hegnau
  2.7 mi away
• Tagelswangen
  3 mi away
• Nänikon
  3.1 mi away · pop. 2,250
• Kemptthal
  3.1 mi away
• Neschwil
  3.3 mi away

Browse all places in Zurich →

Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Books about Illnau

Search results from Open Library.

Recently spotted species

Seven-spotted Lady Beetle

Coccinella septempunctata

Seen 2026-10-15

Variegated Lady Beetle

Hippodamia variegata

Seen 2026-10-15

European Harvestman

Phalangium opilio

Seen 2026-10-15

Common Tansy

Tanacetum vulgare

Seen 2026-10-15

Mediterranean Spiny False Wolf Spider

Zoropsis spinimana

Seen 2026-10-15

Eurasian Magpie

Pica pica

Seen 2026-10-14

Common Buzzard

Buteo buteo

Seen 2026-10-14

Box Tree Moth

Cydalima perspectalis

Seen 2026-10-14

Common Carder Bumble Bee

Bombus pascuorum

Seen 2026-10-14

Research-grade observations from iNaturalist (within ~15 mi).