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Wettswil
Zurichvillage
Wettswil
Total population
5,105
Demographic figures from Swiss Federal Statistical Office. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.
City facts
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Overview
Wettswil am Albis is a municipality in the district of Affoltern in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland.
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History
The earliest written mentions of Wettswil am Albis date back to 1184 where it is referred to as Wettesweilare. The village is believed to have been settled during the period of Alemannic immigration into Switzerland (somewhere between 500 and 700 CE). A chieftain, likely named 'Wetto' or 'Wettin' who might have settled in the region with his clan, might have given the village its name.
Geography
Wettswil am Albis (sometimes written Wettswill a.A.) has an area of . Of this area, 42.3% is used for agricultural purposes, while 23.7% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 30.9% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (3.2%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains). The term am Albis in the name refers to the chain of hills in the area.
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Geography
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Nearby places in Zurich
- Stallikon1.1 mi away · pop. 3,438
- Aesch ZH1.6 mi away · pop. 1,198
- Bonstetten1.7 mi away · pop. 5,260
- Birmensdorf1.9 mi away · pop. 6,235
- Uitikon2.4 mi away · pop. 4,107
- Hedingen3 mi away · pop. 3,655
- Adliswil3.1 mi away · pop. 15,822
- Kilchberg3.6 mi away · pop. 8,077
- Urdorf3.9 mi away · pop. 9,673
- Zwillikon4 mi away · pop. 1,081
- Zurich4 mi away · pop. 443,037
- Affoltern am Albis4.3 mi away · pop. 11,363
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Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.
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Sources
- • Wikipedia
- • Wikidata
- • iNaturalist
- • Open-Meteo / sunrise-sunset.org
- • Wikipedia Pageviews API
- • Wikidata SPARQL (CC0) — population, area, elevation, inception, head of government, Commons image