Glattbrugg
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Location of Opfikon
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| Coordinates: 47°26′N 8°34′E / 47.433°N 8.567°ECoordinates: 47°26′N 8°34′E / 47.433°N 8.567°E | ||
| Country | Switzerland | |
| Canton | Zürich | |
| District | Bülach | |
| Government | ||
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Stadtrat with 7 members |
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| • Mayor |
Stadtpräsident Paul Remund (as of March 2014) |
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| • Parliament |
Gemeinderat with 36 members |
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| Area | ||
| • Total | 5.59 km2 (2.16 sq mi) | |
| Elevation | 459 m (1,506 ft) | |
| Population (Dec 2015) | ||
| • Total | 18,482 | |
| • Density | 3,300/km2 (8,600/sq mi) | |
| Postal code | 8152 | |
| SFOS number | 0066 | |
| Localities | Opfikon, Glattbrugg, Oberhausen | |
| Surrounded by | Kloten, Wallisellen, Zürich, Rümlang | |
| Website |
www SFSO statistics |
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Opfikon (German pronunciation: [ˈɔpfikoːn]; in the local Swiss German dialect: [ˈopfikxə]) is the name of a municipality in the Swiss canton of Zürich, located in the district of Bülach.
Blazon: Party per fess gules and argent, in chief a half length portrait of a man wearing a coat sable with a white collar, in base cross pattee sable.
Opfikon is situated right to the northeast of the city of Zürich in the Glatt Valley, near Zürich Airport, and thus lies within the greater Zürich area. As it belongs to the region known as the Zurichois Lowlands (Zürcher Unterland), the landscape is rather flat. The lowest point lies 420.4 m above sea level at the border to the neighboring commune of Rümlang, the highest one in the Hard forest, 481 m above sea level. 37% of the municipal territory is covered by settlement area, 17% by wood, 27% by farming ground, 17.6% by transport infrastructures and 1.2% by waters.
The present municipality traces back to two settlements, one of which is Opfikon itself, situated right from the river Glatt, whereas on the other side of it lies Oberhusen. Glattbrugg, as its name (‚bridge over the Glatt’) suggests, originally was not a settlement, but a passage of some importance. However, the name was later also used for a smithy and a mill that were built near the bridge at the left-hand riverbank, and round which eventually developed another settlement.
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