Wallisellen

Wallisellen is a municipality in the district of Bülach in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland, and belongs to the Glatt Valley. The name is explained as coming from two parts, Walchen, the word the Germanic peoples used for their Celtic and Romance neighbours, and Seller, meaning farmers who had moved in, which suggests that Franks or Alemanni named a small farming settlement inhabited or founded by Celts or Romans. The article dates the first settlement to 58 BC. The place changed greatly after the Zurich to Winterthur railway line of the Nordostbahn, which was inaugurated on 25 June 1856 and ran through Wallisellen. The municipality covers 6.5 square kilometres, of which a little over half is built up, and it had 17,299 residents in 2022.