Adliswil


Adliswil is a town and a municipality in the district of Horgen in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland.
The official language of Adliswil is German, but the main spoken language is the local variant of the Alemannic Swiss German dialect.

History

Adliswil is first mentioned in 1050 as Adelenswile. In the second half of the 12th Century it was mentioned as Adololdiswile and in 1248 as Adeloswile.
Under the Helvetic Republic, the hamlet of Buchenegg was transferred to the municipality of Stallikon. In 1893 the town sections of Oberleimbach and Sood were added to Adliswil.

Geography

Adliswil has an area of. Of this area, 23.4% is used for agricultural purposes, while 32.1% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 42.9% is settled and the remainder is non-productive. housing and buildings made up 32.6% of the total area, while transportation infrastructure made up the rest. Of the total unproductive area, water made up 1.7% of the area. 38.3% of the total municipal area was undergoing some type of construction.
It is located in the region of Zimmerberg, within the valley of the river Sihl to the south of the city of Zürich, next to the localities of Kilchberg, Rüschlikon, Langnau am Albis and on the other hand Stallikon pertaining this to the district of Affoltern.

Demographics

Adliswil has a population of. Of the population in 2008 a total of 26.7% were foreign nationals. the gender distribution of the population was 49.6% male and 50.4% female. Over the last 10 years the population has grown at a rate of 4%. Most of the population speaks German, with Italian being second most common and English being third.
In the 2007 election the most popular party was the SVP which received 36.2% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SPS, the FDP and the CVP.
The age distribution of the population is children and teenagers make up 20.2% of the population, while adults make up 64.5% and seniors make up 15.4%. In Adliswil about 75.5% of the population have completed either non-mandatory upper secondary education or additional higher education. There are 7,573 households in Adliswil.
Adliswil has an unemployment rate of 2.72%., there were 57 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 9 businesses involved in this sector. 832 people are employed in the secondary sector and there are 118 businesses in this sector. 4,049 people are employed in the tertiary sector, with 543 businesses in this sector. 55.6% of the working population were employed full-time, and 44.4% were employed part-time.
The historical population is given in the following table:
yearpopulation
140118 households
1634315
1836941
19004,714
19415,105
19506,240
200015,822

Religion

there were 5,275 Catholics and 4,999 Protestants in Adliswil. In the, religion was broken down into several smaller categories. From the 2000 census, 38.6% were some type of Protestant, with 36.2% belonging to the Swiss Reformed Church and 2.4% belonging to other Protestant churches. 35.5% of the population were Catholic. Of the rest of the population, 5% were Muslim, 7.8% belonged to another religion, 3.8% did not give a religion, and 13.2% were atheist or agnostic. The Sri Sivasubramaniar Temple is situated in the Sihl Valley.

Education

Public schools

The public schools are supervised by the commune's school board. The board consists of nine elected members.
NameTypeCampus No. classesNo. of teachersNo. of pupils
HofernSekundar A
Sekundar B/C		Hofern4
5		9 Klassenl., 13 Fachl., 2 Logopädenca. 170
Zentrum KronenwieseSekundar A
Sekundar B/C
Aufnahmeklasse		Kronenwiese15
1		10 Klassenl., 10 Fachl., 1 Schulsozialarbeiter, 1 Schul. Heilpädagogeca. 170
Sonnenberg / WilackerPrimar 1-6
Primar 1-3
Kindergarten
Kindergarten
Kindergarten		Sonnenberg
Wilacker
Sihlau
Sonnenrain
Wanneten		9
4
2
2		40200
90
50
50
KopfholzUnterstufe
Mittelstufe		Kopfholz10 Mjgkl.
10 Mjgkl.
??
Werd / DietlimoosKindergarten
Kindergarten
Kindergarten
Primar 1-2
Primar 1-6		Hofacker
Isengrund
Dietlimoos
Dietlimoos
Werd		2
2
2
2
11		2
3
2
2
16		?
ZopfPrimar
Kindergarten		Zopf30 Lehrer, 1 Schulsozialarbeiter160
80
Musikschule Adliswil-Langnaumusic school50 music teachers

Private, publicly subsidized schools

Other private schools

The Zurich International School, an international school with an American curriculum, has its upper school campus in Adliswil. The bureau for elementary school of the canton of Zurich does not approve ZIS for its lower and upper secondary education. Therefore, its upper secondary school is not approved by the Swiss Federation, neither.

Transportation

Adliswil is the only town in the canton of Zürich to pride itself on having a cable car, which connects the town to Felsenegg on the edge of the town. Adliswil railway station is a stop on the S-Bahn Zürich's S4 line, which is a 15-minute ride from Zürich Hauptbahnhof. There is an intermediate station at Sood-Oberleimbach which is also located in the municipality of Adliswil. The Zimmerberg bus line, provided by the Sihltal Zürich Uetliberg Bahn, connects the Zimmerberg region and parts of the Sihl valley. The ZVV bus lines 184 and 185 provide a connection to Zurich, and the ZVV night bus services provide a connection to Zürich city centre.

Notable people