Kempten is a locality of the

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Wetzikon Wetzikon is a small town in the Zürcher Oberland, Zurich Highlands (Zürcher Oberland) area of Switzerland, in the district of Hinwil (district), Hinwil in the Cantons of Switzerland, canton of Zurich (canton), Zürich. Geography The Municipal ...

in the

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Geography

Kempten is located in the district of Hinwil in the

Zürcher Oberland The Zürcher Oberland ("Zürich highlands") in Switzerland, is the hilly south-eastern part of the canton of Zürich, bordering on the Toggenburg, including the districts of Uster, Hinwil, Pfäffikon as well as the Töss Valley as far as the di ...

nearby the southeastern shore of the

Pfäffikersee Pfäffikersee (or ''Lake Pfäffikon'') is a lake in the canton of Zürich, Switzerland, near the town of Pfäffikon, Zurich, Pfäffikon. It is 2.5 km long and 1.3 km wide at the middle. The lake was created in the last ice age when a mor ...

(Lake Pfäffikon).

Demographics

Kempten belongs politically to the municipality of Wetzikon.

Transportation

Kempten railway station is a stop 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 line S3. The train station was built in 1903. The bus line operator

Verkehrsbetriebe Zürichsee und Oberland Verkehrsbetriebe Zürichsee und Oberland (VZO) is a public transport operator in the region between Lake Zürich and the Zürcher Oberland to the south-east of the city of Zürich in the canton of Zürich. It operates bus services between the vari ...

(VZO) provides its services for the regions of the ''Oberland'' and the upper northeastern

Lake Zurich Lake Zurich (, ; ) is a lake in Switzerland, extending southeast of the city of Zurich. Depending on the context, Lake Zurich or can be used to describe the lake as a whole, or just that part of the lake downstream of the Hurden peninsula and ...

shore.

Points of interest

In Kempten (lat. ''Cambodunum''), the remains of a

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villa rustica Villa rustica () was the term used by the ancient Romans to denote a farmhouse or villa set in the countryside and with an agricultural section, which applies to the vast majority of Roman villas. In some cases they were at the centre of a large ...

were found, which was located close to the

Irgenhausen Castrum Irgenhausen Castrum is a Switzerland in the Roman era, Roman Castra, fort at Irgenhausen, situated on Pfäffikersee lake shore in Switzerland. It was a square fort, measuring in square, with four corner towers and three additional towers. The r ...

. In addition, the so-called Malermuseum Wetzikon
() is situated in Kempten.

References

External links

Official website of the municipality of Wetzikon
* Villages in the canton of Zürich Wetzikon Pfäffikersee {{Zurich-geo-stub