Wädenswil

Wädenswil, locally often called Wättischwiil, Wädischwiil or Wädi, is a municipality of about 24,800 inhabitants in the district of Horgen in the canton of Zürich, Switzerland. On 1 January 2019 the former municipalities of Hütten and Schönenberg were merged into it. It is located on the shore of the Zürichsee and includes Wädenswil-Vorder Au, part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site Prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps. Before the 2019 merger Wädenswil had an area of 17.4 square kilometres, of which 59.3 percent was used for agricultural purposes, 9.6 percent was forested and 29.8 percent was settled. In 1996 housing and buildings made up 20.8 percent of the total area and transportation infrastructure 9 percent, and in 2007 about 20.5 percent of the population were foreign nationals.