Spreitenbach

Spreitenbach is a municipality in the district of Baden in the canton of Aargau, Switzerland, in the Limmat Valley directly on the border with the canton of Zürich and between Baden and Zürich. It covers 8.6 square kilometres between the Limmat, at 385 metres, and a highest point of 672 metres on the Heitersberg. Once a quiet farming village, it grew rapidly from the 1950s as housing demand spilled over from the Zürich area, and about 12,000 people now live there, around half of them foreign nationals. The town is known for its large shopping centres Shoppi and Tivoli and for the IKEA store opened there in 1973, the first outside Scandinavia, and about 6,900 people work in more than 700 businesses. The nearest rail stations are Killwangen-Spreitenbach and Dietikon.