Dietikon

Dietikon is a town of about 28,000 inhabitants, the fifth largest in the canton of Zürich after Zürich, Winterthur, Uster and Dübendorf, the capital of the district of Dietikon and part of the Zürich metropolitan area. This industrial city lies at an elevation of 388 metres at the confluence of the Reppisch and the Limmat in the Limmat Valley, along the railway line from Zürich to Baden, and with neighbouring Spreitenbach it shares the large Limmattal rail freight marshalling yard. The municipality covers about 9.3 square kilometres, of which 49.1 percent is built up, 27 percent forest and 17.2 percent farmland. Its largest and best known forests are the Honeret, Guggenbüehl and Röhrenmoos. The Honeret forest lies on a side moraine of the Linth glacier and holds over 200 prominent stones scattered through the woods, among them erratic boulders as big as 25 square metres.