Wädenswil

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Wädenswil

Total population

24,341

Elevation408 m

Land area35.64 km²

Coordinates47.23°, 8.67°

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

City facts

Facts from Wikidata (CC0).

Overview

Wädenswil is a municipality located in the district of Horgen in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland. The population, as of 2013, was about 21,000. On 1 January 2019 the former municipalities of Hütten and Schönenberg were merged into the municipality of Wädenswil. Located on the Zürichsee lakeshore, it includes Wädenswil–Vorder Au, part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site Prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps.

History & geography

Excerpted from the corresponding Wikipedia article (CC BY-SA).

Geography

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

Notable people from here

Friedrich Freiherr von Hotze

Field Marshal, French Revolutionary Wars

Alex Kuprecht

Swiss politician

André Blattmann

Swiss Army General

R

Robert Hegglin

Swiss physician (1907-1969)

W

Walter Bosshard

Swiss photographer, teacher, explorer, botanist, botanical collector (1892-1975)

A

Ancillo Canepa

Swiss manager

C

Cäsar Bachmann

Swiss politician (1892-1956)

J

Jakob Brändlin

Swiss entrepreneur (1775-1845)

E

Elias Schmäh

Swiss bicycle racer

Fredy Staub

Swiss opinion journalist

Ruedi Wild

Swiss triathlete

V

Vic Eugster

Swiss Tonmeister (1940–2022)

H

Heinrich Landis

Swiss entrepreneur and politician (1833-1915)

H

Heiri Leuthold

Swiss geographer (1967-2009)

J

Johann Jakob Staub

(1783-1852)

Johann Jakob Treichler

Swiss journalist and politician (1822-1906)

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

Nearby places in Zurich

• Au
  1.7 mi away
• Richterswil
  2 mi away · pop. 13,022
• Männedorf
  2 mi away · pop. 10,588
• Samstagern
  2.5 mi away · pop. 2,384
• Spitzen
  2.6 mi away
• Schönenberg
  2.7 mi away · pop. 1,917
• Hirzel
  2.9 mi away · pop. 2,185
• Meilen
  3.2 mi away · pop. 13,515
• Stäfa
  3.2 mi away · pop. 11,567
• Hütten
  3.6 mi away · pop. 860
• Oetwil am See
  3.8 mi away · pop. 4,375
• Ürikon
  4.1 mi away

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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 Wädenswil

Die Ofenkeramik der Burg Wädenswil

Ziegler, Peter · 1968

Das Wehrwesen der Herrschaft Wädenswil

Peter Ziegler · 1959

Die Blattmann

Diethelm Fretz · 1934

Recycling the resource

International Conference on Ecological Engineering for Wastewater Treatment (2nd 1995 Zürich). · 1996

Zürich

Steffi Memmert-Lunau · 2017

Wädenswil-Vorder Au

Anne-Catherine Conscience · 2005

Ausstand im Parlament

Peter Reinert · 1991

A Lake Beneath the Crescent Moon

J. Ross Baughman · 2000

Search results from Open Library.

Recently spotted species

Large Yellow Underwing

Noctua pronuba

Seen 2026-10-09

Marbled Carpet Moth

Dysstroma truncata

Seen 2026-10-09

Mediterranean Spiny False Wolf Spider

Zoropsis spinimana

Seen 2026-10-08

Western Common Buzzard

Buteo buteo buteo

Seen 2026-10-08

Clouded Yellow

Colias crocea

Seen 2026-10-07

Red Admiral

Vanessa atalanta

Seen 2026-10-07

Ivy Cellophane Bee

Colletes hederae

Seen 2026-10-07

Southern Hawker

Aeshna cyanea

Seen 2026-10-06

European Toad

Bufo bufo

Seen 2026-10-05

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

Official Identifiers