Embrach

Embrach is a municipality in the district of Bulach in the canton of Zurich, Switzerland. It lies in the Embrach Valley, a wide U-shaped side valley of the river Toss about six kilometres northeast of Zurich airport, shaped by the Linth glacier in the ice age. Of its 12.72 square kilometres, 45 percent is forest, 35 percent arable land and 18 percent settlement and roads. The village is a street village about three kilometres long, with its centre at 428 metres above sea level, and vines have been grown on its eastern slopes since the Middle Ages. The highest point is the Tisch on the hill Blauen at 609 metres. The earliest traces of settlement are Bronze Age grave finds, the name is of Gallo-Roman origin and was first written down in 1044, and the silk factory opened in 1871 is regarded as its first industrial enterprise. The population was 9,610 in December 2020.