Affoltern is a quarter in

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Zürich Zurich (; ) is the list of cities in Switzerland, largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zurich. It is in north-central Switzerland, at the northwestern tip of Lake Zurich. , the municipality had 448,664 inhabitants. The ...

, located in the

Glatt Valley The Glatt Valley (German: ''Glattal'' or ''Glatttal'') is a region and a river valley in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland. Geography The Glatt (Rhine), Glatt is a tributary to the Rhine in the Zürcher Unterland area of the canton of Zuric ...

(German: ''Glattal'').

History and demographics

Affoltern was first mentioned in 870 as ''Affaltrahe'', and in the 9th century it was reigned by the

St. Gallen Abbey The Abbey of Saint Gall () is a dissolved abbey (747–1805) in a Catholic religious complex in the city of St. Gallen in Switzerland. The Carolingian-era monastery existed from 719, founded by Saint Othmar on the spot where Saint Gall had er ...

, in the 12th/13th century 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 ...

who built their ancestral seat '' Altburg'' nearby, followed in 1468 by the city of Zürich as part of the ''Obervogtei Regensberg'' ending in 1798. Affoltern was then after a municipality of its own, having been incorporated into the city Zürich in 1934. As today, Affoltern consists of the former settlements (''Fraktionen'') Ober- und Unter-Affoltern. The quarter has a population of 22'972 (2010) distributed on an area of 6.04 km², and is separated by the

Käferberg Käferberg (el. ) and Waidberg (el. ) are the summits of a wooded range of hills overlooking the inner city of Zürich, Zürichsee, Albis chain and Uetliberg, as well as the Limmat Valley and the Zürcher Unterland in Switzerland. Geo ...

from the inner city.

Culture

The bath/lido

Strandbad Katzensee Seebad Katzensee (''Strandbad'' is commonly used, while ''Seebad'' is the "official" name) is a public bath in the Swiss municipalities of Zürich- Affoltern and Regensdorf. Geography The bath is situated at the Katzensee lake respectively prot ...

is very popular.

Transportation

Zürich Affoltern railway station Zurich Affoltern railway station () is a railway station in the Affoltern quarter of the Swiss city of Zürich. The station is located on the Wettingen–Effretikon railway line (Furttal line). The station is not to be confused with Affolter ...

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 S6.

Climate

References

* Präsidialdepartement der Stadt Zürich, Statistik Stadt Zürich: ''Quartierspiegel Affoltern''. Zürich 2011
PDF; 9 MB

External links

Quartierverein Affoltern
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Affoltern (Zurich) District 11 of Zurich Former municipalities of the canton of Zürich