Zollikon is a municipality Communes , also known as municipalities, are the smallest government division in Switzerland, numbering 2,636 as of 2009. While many have a population of a few hundred citizens, the largest cities such as Zürich or Geneva also have the legal status of municipalities. The area of the municipalities varies between 0.28 km² (Ponte Tresa, Ticino) in the district of Meilen in the canton The 26 cantons of Switzerland are the member states of the federal state of Switzerland. Each canton was a fully sovereign state with its own borders, army and currency from the Treaty of Westphalia until the establishment of the Swiss federal state in 1848. The most recently created canton is the Canton of Jura, which separated from the Canton of of Zürich in Switzerland Switzerland , officially the Swiss Confederation (Confœderatio Helvetica in Latin, hence its ISO country codes CH and CHE), is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe[note 4] where it is bordered by Germany to the north, France to the west, Italy to.
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Geography
Protestant church in ZollikonZollikon has an area of 7.9 square kilometers (3.1 sq mi). Of this area, 21.2% is used for agricultural purposes, while 37.7% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 40.8% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (0.3%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains).[1] In 1996[update] housing and buildings made up 33.3% of the total area, while transportation infrastructure made up the rest (7.5%).[2] Of the total unproductive area, water (streams and lakes) made up 0.1% of the area. As of 2007[update] 36.5% of the total municipal area was undergoing some type of construction.[2]
It is located in the Pfannenstiel region.[3]
Demographics
Zollikon has a population (as of 2007[update]) of 12,025, of which 17.9% are foreign nationals. As of 2008[update] the gender distribution of the population was 47.3% male and 52.7% female. Over the last 10 years the population has grown at a rate of 5.9%. Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks German (85.9%), with English being second most common ( 3.0%) and Italian being third ( 2.4%).
In the 2007 election the most popular party was the FDP The Free Democratic Party of Switzerland, with official name FDP.The Liberals , is a political party in Switzerland that was formed on February 28, 2009, after two parties, the Free Democratic Party of Switzerland (founded 1894), and the Liberal Party of Switzerland (founded 1913) united. Its youth organisation is Young Liberals. The FDP has more which received 30.8% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SVP (29.4%), the SPS The Social Democratic Party of Switzerland is a political party in Switzerland (14.1%) and the CSP (10.1%).
The age distribution of the population (as of 2000[update]) is children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 16.6% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 59.1% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 24.3%. The entire Swiss population is generally well educated. In Zollikon about 85.3% of the population (between age 25-64) have completed either non-mandatory upper secondary education or additional higher education (either University or a Fachhochschule A Fachhochschule (plural: Fachhochschulen) or University of Applied Sciences (UAS) is a German type of tertiary education institution, sometimes specialized in certain topical areas (e.g. technology or business). Fachhochschulen were founded in Germany and later adopted by Austria, Liechtenstein, Switzerland and Greece. An increasing number of). There are 5675 households in Zollikon.[2]
Zollikon has an unemployment rate of 1.34%. As of 2005[update], there were 44 people employed in the primary economic sector The primary sector of the economy involves changing natural resources into primary products. Most products from this sector are considered raw materials for other industries. Major businesses in this sector include agriculture, agribusiness, fishing, forestry and all mining and quarrying industries and about 14 businesses involved in this sector. 418 people are employed in the secondary sector The secondary sector of the economy includes those economic sectors that create a finished, usable product: manufacturing and construction. This was the primary economic sector in America from the 1820s-1940's and there are 61 businesses in this sector. 3969 people are employed in the tertiary sector The tertiary sector of the economy is one of the three economic sectors, the others being the secondary sector (approximately manufacturing) and the primary sector (extraction such as mining, agriculture and fishing). The general definition of the tertiary sector is producing a service instead of just an end product, in the case of the secondary, with 642 businesses in this sector.[1] As of 2007[update] 66.7% of the working population were employed full-time, and 33.3% were employed part-time.[2]
As of 2008[update] there were 3171 Catholics The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the world's largest Christian church, with more than a billion members. The Church's leader is the Pope who holds supreme authority in concert with the College of Bishops of which he is the head. A communion of the Western church and 22 autonomous Eastern Catholic churches (called and 4759 Protestants The Protestant Reformation was the European Christian reform movement that established Protestantism as a constituent branch of contemporary Christianity. It began in 1517 when Martin Luther published The Ninety-Five Theses, and concluded in 1648 with the Treaty of Westphalia that ended one hundred and thirty-one years of consecutive European in Zollikon. In the 2000 census, religion was broken down into several smaller categories. From the census[update], 46.9% were some type of Protestant, with 45.4% belonging to the Swiss Reformed Church The Reformed branch of Protestantism in Switzerland was started in Zürich by Huldrych Zwingli and spread within a few years to Basel , Berne (Berchtold Haller and Niklaus Manuel), St. Gall (Joachim Vadian), to cities in southern Germany and via Alsace (Martin Bucer) to France and 1.6% belonging to other Protestant churches. 27.1% of the population were Catholic. Of the rest of the population, 1.8% were Muslim, 5.2% belonged to another religion (not listed), 3.5% did not give a religion, and 16.5% were atheist or agnostic.[2]
Transportation
Zollikon SAR boat One of the world's earliest well documented SAR efforts ensued following the 1656 wreck of the Dutch merchant ship Vergulde Draeck off the coast of Australia. Survivors sent for help, and in response three separate SAR missions were conducted, without success (Seerettungsdienst) on Lake Zürich Lake Zurich is a lake in Switzerland, extending southeast of the town of Zürich. It is also known as Lake Zürich and Lake of Zürich. It lies approximately at co-ordinates 47°15′N 8°41′E / 47.25°N 8.683°E (June 2009)Zollikon is a stop of the S-Bahn Zürich on the lines S6 and S16.
In the summer there are regular boats to Zurich as well as along the lake to Rapperswil, run by the Zürichsee-Schifffahrtsgesellschaft (ZSG).
References
- ^ a b Swiss Federal Statistical Office accessed 10-Aug-2009
- ^ a b c d e Statistics Zurich (German) accessed 4 August 2009
- ^ Kanton Zürich, Statistisches Amt: Region Pfannenstiel (German)
External links
| Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Zollikon |
- Official website (German)
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