Wetzikon is a small town in the Zurich Highlands, called Zürcher Oberland in German, in the district of Hinwil in the canton of Zurich, Switzerland. It is located near Lake Pfäffikon, between Uster and Rapperswil-Jona. The oldest surviving document about the name is from the year 1044, where three nobles of Wezzinchova are mentioned, and before that the village and castle were known as Ratpoldskilch. Excavations have found prehistoric pile dwellings in Robenhausen and a Roman villa rustica in Kempten. The municipality covers 16.7 square kilometres and includes part of the Robenhauser Ried, a wetland nature reserve of national importance of about 2 square kilometres. At the end of 2020 it had a population of 25,056.
Facts
Area (sq km) Elevation (m) Elevation Band Sources
1. citypopulation.de: Switzerland: Cantons and Cities
citypopulation.deCities table, population estimate of 2020-12-31
Wetzikon ZH 15,859 16,696 18,129 22,118 25,056 27,311
On Continent: Europe, Page header, Europe, Switzerland
Europe → Switzerland
View the Source 2. Wetzikon (Wikipedia)
Geography
The municipality Wetzikon has an area of 16.7 km2
Part Of: Switzerland, Lead
in the canton of Zürich.
View the Source3. Opentopodata (SRTM): SRTM 90 m elevation at 47.3167,8.8
Opentopodata (SRTM)Elevation of the place coordinates 47.3167,8.8, band assigned from the figure (up to 10 m sea level, under 500 m lowland, under 1500 m highland, otherwise mountain)Quote, Elevation of the place coordinates 47.3167,8.8, band assigned from the figure (up to 10 m sea level, under 500 m lowland, under 1500 m highland, otherwise mountain)
"elevation": 533.0
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