Dietikon is the fifth biggest city of the

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, after

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Uster Uster (; , ) is a town and the capital of the Uster District in the Swiss canton of Zürich. The importance of the town of Uster has grown considerably with the construction of the S-Bahn network of the Zürich Transport Network. With over 36,0 ...

and

Dübendorf Dübendorf is a Municipalities of Switzerland, municipality in the district of Uster (district), Uster in the Cantons of Switzerland, canton of Zürich (canton), Zürich in Switzerland. It is a suburb of Zürich in Switzerland with a population o ...

. It is the capital of the same-named district of

Dietikon Dietikon is the fifth biggest city of the canton of Zürich in Switzerland, after Zürich, Winterthur, Uster and Dübendorf. It is the capital of the same-named district of Dietikon and part of the Zürich metropolitan area. Geography The ...

and part of the Zürich metropolitan area.

Geography

The industrial city Dietikon is situated at an elevation of at the confluence of the

Reppisch The Reppisch is a river in Switzerland. It rises in the Türlersee and joins the Limmat as its tributary, near the town of Dietikon. The Reppisch flows in the Säuliamt (Affoltern district), canton of Zürich, an area featuring still partially u ...

and the

Limmat The Limmat is a river in Switzerland. The river commences at the outfall of Lake Zurich, in the southern part of the city of Zurich. From Zurich it flows in a northwesterly direction, continuing a further 35 km until it reaches the river A ...

, located in the

Limmat Valley The Limmat Valley (German: ''Limmattal'') is a river valley and a region in the Canton (Switzerland), cantons of Canton of Zürich, Zürich and Canton of Aargau, Aargau in Switzerland. Geography The Limmat () is a long river located in ...

(German: ''Limmattal''), along the railway line from Zürich to Baden. Here and in the neighboring region, Spreitenbach, is also the large Limmattal rail freight marshalling yard. Dietikon has an area of . Of this area, 17.2% is used for agricultural purposes, while 27% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 49.1% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (6.7%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains). housing and buildings made up 33.8% of the total area, while transportation infrastructure made up the rest (15.3%). Of the total unproductive area, water (streams and lakes) made up 4.9% of the area. 40.7% of the total municipal area was undergoing some type of construction. The largest and best known forests of the municipality include the Honeret, Guggenbüehl and Röhrenmoos. The Honeret forest lies on a side moraine of the Linth glacier ("Linthgletscher"). There are over 200 prominent stones through the woods, up to erratic boulders as big as . The Honeret and the Guggenbüehl-Wald are separated by only one main street. In the forest, there are a few springs from which the brooks Tobelbach and Stoffelbach rise and then flow down into the Reppisch. Also in the forest lies the forest cottage "Lorenzhütte." The Guggenbüehl forest lies wholly within Dietikon. Within the forest lies the "Giigelibode" pond. It has neither inflow nor outflow. A Vita course is in the forest.

Transportation

The municipality is located on the A3 motorway.

Dietikon railway station Dietikon railway station () is a railway station in Switzerland, situated in the canton of Zürich and the city of Dietikon (Limmat Valley). The station is located on the Swiss Federal Railway's Zürich to Olten main line and is also the term ...

and

Glanzenberg railway station Glanzenberg railway station () is a railway station in Switzerland, situated in the city of Dietikon. The station is located on the Zürich–Baden railway, Zurich to Olten main line and is a stop of the Zürich S-Bahn served by line S11 (ZVV), S ...

are stops of the

S-Bahn Zürich The Zurich S-Bahn () system is a network of rail lines that has been incrementally expanded to cover the ZVV area, which comprises the entire canton of Zurich and portions of neighbouring cantons (Canton of Aargau, Aargau, Canton of Gla ...

on the lines S3 and S12. Dietikon railway station is also the terminus of the line S17 provided by the Bremgarten-Dietikon-Bahn. Between 1900 and 1928, Dietikon was the terminus of the Limmattal tramway from Zürich. The

Limmattal light rail line The Limmattal light rail line () is a metre gauge tram line in the Limmat Valley between Altstetten (Zürich), Zürich Altstetten and Killwangen which started service in 2022. The line is 13.4 kilometres (8.3 mi) long and serves 27 stops. It is ...

follows a similar alignment, albeit extended through Dietikon to

Killwangen Killwangen is a municipalities of Switzerland, municipality in the district of Baden (district, Aargau), Baden in the Cantons of Switzerland, canton of Aargau in Switzerland. History The town was first known as ''Chullewangen'' as early as 1227 ...

Waters

Important running waters that flow through Dietikon are the Limmat and its tributary Reppisch. Wide brooks are the approximately long Schäflibach and the Teischlibach. The Schäflibach is created with the flows together from Allmendbach and Stockacherbach and leads into the Limmat. The Teischlibach originates from Röhrenmoos in the forest above Dietikon and also leads into the Limmat. The Marmoriweiher lies in the Grunschen a place used for gaming and grilling. The Marmoriweiher is an artificial pond, that was positioned for the water supply of the fire brigade. For this, a distraction canal was built with the Grunschen. Later, the pond of a marble factory served. This gave it its name.

History

Dietikon is first mentioned in 1100 as ''Dietinchovin''. Dietikon features several

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ruins and also the Fahr Benedictine Convent, given by the

House of Regensberg The Regensberg family was a family of counts from the Canton of Zürich in Switzerland. They had possessions in the medieval Zürichgau from the probably mid-11th century and became extinct in 1331 AD. With the extinction of the male line, the ci ...

around 1130 AD, with a

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church dating from the years 1743 to 1746. The

Second Battle of Zürich The Second Battle of Zurich (25–26 September 1799) was a key victory by the Republican French army in Switzerland led by André Masséna over a Russian force commanded by Alexander Korsakov near Zürich. It broke the stalemate that had ...

was fought in Dietikon (September 1799) and the town name is among those inscribed at the pillar of the

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in Paris, France.

Politics

Demographics

Dietikon has a population (as of ) of . , 39.8% of the population was made up of foreign nationals. the gender distribution of the population was 50% male and 50% female. Over the last 10 years the population has grown at a rate of 10.5%. Most of the population () speaks German (73.9%), with Italian being second most common (8.9%) and Albanian being third (3.8%). In the 2007 election the most popular party was the SVP which received 40.1% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SPS (19.9%), the CVP (13.7%) and the FDP (8%). The age distribution of the population () is children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 21.3% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 64.7% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 14%. In Dietikon about 60.1% of the population (between age 25-64) have completed either non-mandatory

upper secondary education Secondary education is the education level following primary education and preceding tertiary education. Level 2 or ''lower secondary education'' (less commonly ''junior secondary education'') is considered the second and final phase of basic e ...

or additional higher education (either university or a ''

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''). There are 9,892 households in Dietikon. Dietikon has an unemployment rate of 4.2%. , there were 179 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 13 businesses involved in this sector. 2,613 people are employed in the

secondary sector In macroeconomics, the secondary sector of the economy is an economic sector in the three-sector theory that describes the role of manufacturing. It encompasses industries that produce a finished, usable product or are involved in constructi ...

and there are 213 businesses in this sector. 10,632 people are employed in the

tertiary sector The tertiary sector of the economy, generally known as the service sector, is the third of the three economic sectors in the three-sector model (also known as the economic cycle). The others are the primary sector (raw materials) and the ...

, with 957 businesses in this sector.Swiss Federal Statistical Office
accessed 05-Aug-2009 60.6% of the working population were employed full-time, and 39.4% were employed part-time.
accessed 4 August 2009 there were 8,655

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and 4,599

Protestants Protestantism is a branch of Christianity that emphasizes Justification (theology), justification of sinners Sola fide, through faith alone, the teaching that Salvation in Christianity, salvation comes by unmerited Grace in Christianity, divin ...

in Dietikon. In the , religion was broken down into several smaller categories. From the 2000 census, 26.5% were some type of Protestant, with 24.6% belonging to the

Swiss Reformed Church The Protestant Church in Switzerland (PCS), formerly named Federation of Swiss Protestant Churches until 31 December 2019, is a federation of 25 member churches – 24 cantonal churches and the Evangelical-Methodist Church of Switzerland. The P ...

and 1.9% belonging to other Protestant churches. 41.8% of the population were Catholic. Of the rest of the population, 12.2% were Muslim, 16.1% belonged to another religion (not listed), 4.6% did not give a religion, and 9.4% were atheist or agnostic. The historical population is given in the following table:

Economics and education

Among other companies, the ''

Limmattaler Zeitung ''Limmattaler Zeitung'', commonly shortened to ''Limmattaler'', is a Swiss German-language daily newspaper, published in Dietikon in the Limmat Valley. History and profile The newspaper was first published in 1972 as ''Limmattaler Tagblatt'' by ...

'' newspaper and '' Ex Libris'' are situated in Dietikon.

Weather

Dietikon has an average of 132.2 days of rain per year and on average receives of precipitation. The wettest month is August during which time Dietikon receives an average of of precipitation. During the wettest month, there is precipitation for an average of 12.7 days., the weather station elevation is 385 meters

above sea level Height above mean sea level is a measure of a location's vertical distance (height, elevation or altitude) in reference to a vertical datum based on a historic mean sea level. In geodesy, it is formalized as orthometric height. The zero level ...

Visitor attractions

There's the

Bruno Weber Park Bruno Weber Park is a sculpture park in the Swiss Municipalities of the canton of Zürich, municipalities Spreitenbach and Dietikon, and besides the Fahr Abbey one of the visitor attractions in the Limmat Valley. The sculpture garden is des ...

in Dietikon respectively Spreitenbach, one of the few sculpture gardens and ''Gesamtkunstwerk''s in Switzerland. ''

Glanzenberg Dietikon is the fifth biggest city of the canton of Zürich in Switzerland, after Zürich, Winterthur, Uster and Dübendorf. It is the capital of the same-named district of dietikon district, Dietikon and part of the Zürich metropolitan area. ...

'' was once a settlement along the river

, but its fortifications seem to never have been completed, and it might have been destroyed in 1267/68, a legend tells. Its remains are to be found in a little forest along the Limmat, opposite the railway station of the same name. Also situated there are the walls of the former ''Glanzenberg'' castle, built in the late 12th century AD by the '' Counts of Regensberg''.

Notable people

Bruno Weber Bruno Weber (10 April 1931 – 24 October 2011) was a Swiss artist and architect, specializing in fantastic realism. Biography Early life Bruno Weber was born in 1931 in Dietikon, Switzerland. In 1947, he completed college in Zürich under ...

(1931-2011) an artist and architect, specializing in

fantastic realism The Vienna School of Fantastic Realism () is a group of artists founded in Vienna in 1946. The group's name was coined in the 1950s by Johann Muskik, and the first exhibition was in 1959 at the Vienna Belvedere. This Austrian movement has similari ...

Peter Schweri Peter Schweri (20 June 1939, Dietikon – 25 November 2016) was a Swiss artist, painter, illustrator, photographer, and, from 2008 onward, a music composer. He was a representative of "Zürich Constructivism." Life and work Peter Schweri was ...

(1939-2016) artist, painter, illustrator, photographer and music composer *

Peter Vetsch Peter Vetsch (born 14 March 1943) is a Swiss people, Swiss architect, known for building earth houses. Life Vetsch was born 1943 in Sax, Switzerland. He attended public school in Sax from 1950 to 1956. He then attended an agricultural scho ...

(born 1943) an architect, known for building

earth house An earth shelter, also called an earth house, earth-bermed house, earth-sheltered house, earth-covered house, or underground house, is a structure (usually a house) with earth (soil) against the walls and/or on the roof, or that is entirely burie ...

s *

Urs Fischbacher Urs Fischbacher (born 17 September 1959 in Dietikon, Zürich) is a Swiss economist and professor of applied economic research at the University of Konstanz. He is director of the Thurgau Economic Institute, an affiliated institute of the Universit ...

(born 1959) an economist and professor of applied economic research at the

University of Konstanz The University of Konstanz () is a university in the city of Konstanz in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Its main campus was opened on the Gießberg in 1972 after being founded in 1966. The university is Germany's southernmost university and is ...

* Markus Notter (born 1960) politician and former city president * Josef Wiederkehr (born 1970) a businessman and politician *

Diamá Diamá (aka Claudia D'Addio) (born April 8, 1980) is a Swiss singer. She was born in Schlieren, a suburb of Zürich. Her both parents are Italian immigrants. She grew up in Dietikon, which is close to her place of birth. At the age of seven, she ...

(born 1980) also known as Claudia D'Addio, a singer, grew up in Dietikon

Twin towns

Dietikon is twinned with the towns of

Gallery

File:Dietikon - Zentralschulhaus IMG 6138 ShiftN.jpg, ''Zentralschulhaus'' building File:Dietikon - Zürcherstrasse IMG 6139 ShiftN.jpg, ''Zürcherstrasse'' towards

Schlieren Schlieren ( ; , ) are optical inhomogeneities in transparent media that are not necessarily visible to the human eye. Schlieren physics developed out of the need to produce high-quality lenses devoid of such inhomogeneities. These inhomogeneit ...

File:Dietiker und Geroldswiler Auen - Geroldswil IMG 6016.jpg, Protected area ''Dietiker & Geroldswiler Auen'' on the Limmat's shore File:Limmat - Dietikon IMG 5929.jpg, Hiking path at ''Glanzenberg'' train station File:RuineSchönenwerd02.JPG, Ruins of the ''Schönenwerd'' water castle File:arc-de-triomphe-dietikon.jpg, Dietikon as part of the inscription at the

in Paris referring to the

in 1799 File:2014 Bruno Weber Park ... hoffen wir auf Wiedereröffnung nach dem 20. Oktober 2014-10-17 15-11-26.JPG,

File:Earth house estate.JPG,

Earth house An earth shelter, also called an earth house, earth-bermed house, earth-sheltered house, earth-covered house, or underground house, is a structure (usually a house) with earth (soil) against the walls and/or on the roof, or that is entirely burie ...

estate Lättenstrasse by

References

External links

Official website
* {{Authority control Cities in Switzerland Municipalities of the canton of Zürich