Adliswil

Adliswil is a town of about 19,000 inhabitants in the district of Horgen in the canton of Zürich, Switzerland. It lies in the Zimmerberg region, in the valley of the Sihl just south of the city of Zürich, next to Kilchberg, Rüschlikon and Langnau am Albis, with the Affoltern district beyond Stallikon. The name is first recorded in 1050 as Adelenswile, and it appears in other spellings in the 12th and 13th centuries. Under the Helvetic Republic the hamlet of Buchenegg was transferred to the neighbouring municipality of Stallikon, and in 1893 the town sections of Oberleimbach and Sood were added to Adliswil. The municipality covers about 7.8 square kilometres, of which a little over 40 percent is built up and about a third is forest. German is spoken by most residents, and in 2021 more than a third of the population were foreign nationals.