Illnau-Effretikon

Illnau-Effretikon is a municipality in the district of Pfaffikon in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland. It includes the villages of Illnau, Effretikon, Ottikon and Bisikon, and on 1 January 2016 Kyburg and Illnau-Effretikon merged to form the present municipality. It is first mentioned in 745 as Illenavvia and Erpfratinchova. At first the municipality was called simply Illnau, since that village was the political and economic centre, but when the railway between Zurich and Winterthur was built in 1855 only the much smaller Effretikon was in a position to receive a station, and the balance of growth gradually shifted towards it. Before the 2016 merger Illnau-Effretikon had an area of 25.3 square kilometres. Effretikon station sits on that Zurich to Winterthur line.