Niederhasli

Niederhasli is a municipality in the district of Dielsdorf in the canton of Zürich, Switzerland, lying in the lower Glatttal near the entrance to the Wehntal. It includes the villages of Niederhasli, Oberhasli, Mettmenhasli and Nassenwil, and before 1840 it also contained Niederglatt, which then became a municipality of its own. The place is first mentioned in the year 931 as Hasila. About 58 percent of its 11.3 square kilometres is farmland and about 21 percent is forest. The population was 9,449 at the end of 2020. A stop of the Zürich S-Bahn on line S15 links it to Zürich main station in about twenty minutes, and the municipality lies close to Zürich Airport; in January 2000 a Crossair passenger flight crashed here shortly after taking off from that airport.