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| Population | 5,227 (Dec 2010)[1] | |||||||||
| - Density | 1,778 /km2 (4,605 /sq mi) | |||||||||
| Area | 2.93 km2 (1.13 sq mi)[2] | |||||||||
| Elevation | 406 m (1,332 ft) | |||||||||
| Postal code | 8803 | |||||||||
| SFOS number | 0139 | |||||||||
| Mayor | Dr. Bernhard Elsener | |||||||||
| Surrounded by | Adliswil, Kilchberg, Küsnacht, Langnau am Albis, Thalwil | |||||||||
| Website | www.rueschlikon.ch SFSO statistics |
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Rüschlikon
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Map of Rüschlikon
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Rüschlikon is a municipality in the district of Horgen in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland. It is located on the west shore of Lake Zurich.
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Its coat of arms features a white shield with a seerose, a red flower with a yellow center.
The name of Rüschlikon is Alemannic and first appears in documents around 1153 as Ruoslinchoven.[3] A row of grave mounds from approximately the same period has been found on the Zimmerberg. In the early 1980s, Rüschlikon blocked off many of the smaller side streets from Thalwil so that traffic between Zurich and Thalwil would be unable to use them.
Rüschlikon has an area of 2.9 km2 (1.1 sq mi). Of this area, 20.5% is used for agricultural purposes, while 23.3% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 55.5% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (0.7%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains).[4] In 1996[update] housing and buildings made up 41.5% of the total area, while transportation infrastructure made up the rest (13.3%).[5] Of the total unproductive area, water (streams and lakes) made up 1% of the area. As of 2007[update] 44.2% of the total municipal area was undergoing some type of construction.[5]
Rüschlikon is bordered on the north by Kilchberg, on the east by lake Zurich, on the south by Thalwil, and on the west by Adliswil and Langnau am Albis. A steep slope rises from lake Zurich towards the Zimmerberg and, at its peak, the hill called Chopf, then slopes down towards the river Sihl. Although mostly a bedroom community for Zurich, Rüschlikon has a very small but characteristic town center, parks by the lake and considerable wooded areas and farms, mostly in the hills. The farms include cattle, horses, sheep, and a few exotic animals, as well as areas under cultivation.
Rüschlikon has a population (as of 31 December 2010) of 5,227.[1] As of 2007[update], 22.5% of the population was made up of foreign nationals. As of 2008[update] the gender distribution of the population was 47.9% male and 52.1% female. Over the last 10 years the population has grown at a rate of 10.4%. Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks German (85.1%), with English being second most common ( 3.9%) and Italian being third ( 2.3%).
In the 2007 election the most popular party was the SVP which received 32.6% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the FDP (26.8%), the SPS (13.5%) and the CSP (9.3%).
The age distribution of the population (as of 2000[update]) is children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 19% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 59.7% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 21.3%. The entire Swiss population is generally well educated. In Rüschlikon about 85.9% of the population (between age 25-64) have completed either non-mandatory upper secondary education or additional higher education (either University or a Fachhochschule). There are 2243 households in Rüschlikon.[5]
Rüschlikon has an unemployment rate of 2.28%. As of 2005[update], there were 27 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 5 businesses involved in this sector. 378 people are employed in the secondary sector and there are 37 businesses in this sector. 1781 people are employed in the tertiary sector, with 207 businesses in this sector.[4] As of 2007[update] 60% of the working population were employed full-time, and 40% were employed part-time.[5]
As of 2008[update] there were 1475 Catholics and 1853 Protestants in Rüschlikon. In the 2000 census, religion was broken down into several smaller categories. From the census[update], 44.7% were some type of Protestant, with 43.3% belonging to the Swiss Reformed Church and 1.4% belonging to other Protestant churches. 28.6% of the population were Catholic. Of the rest of the population, 0% were Muslim, 5.7% belonged to another religion (not listed), 3.7% did not give a religion, and 16.6% were atheist or agnostic.[5]
The historical population is given in the following table:[3]
| year | population |
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| 1467 | 40 households |
| 1671 | 515 |
| 1836 | 825 |
| 1850 | 909 |
| 1900 | 1,567 |
| 1950 | 3,316 |
| 2000 | 4,858 |
Rüschlikon is home to the IBM Zurich Research Lab, part of IBM Research, which has brought to Rüschlikon the Nobel prize in Physics awarded to Heinrich Rohrer and Gerd Binnig in 1986 and to Karl Alexander Müller and Johannes Georg Bednorz in 1987. The park im Grüene was donated by Adele Duttweiler, widow of Gottlieb Duttweiler, the founder of the Migros chain of grocery stores.
The town is served by frequent rail connections (4 an hour to Zurich in 2008) provided by the SBB-CFF-FFS and S-Bahn Zürich, by bus service with the 165 bus to Zurich Bürkliplatz, and (in the summer) boat service to the other lakeside communities. Rüschlikon railway station is a stop of the S-Bahn Zürich on the S8 and S24 lines. Tourist boat trips, run by the Zürichsee-Schifffahrtsgesellschaft, also sail from Zürich and Rapperswil. The town is also well-linked by regular roads and the A3 highway.
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