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Wadenswil
Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked Alpine country in Central Europe. The country, which borders Germany to the north, France to the west, Italy to the south, and Austria and Liechtenstein to the east, was historically a confederation, and has been a federation since 1848. Switzerland is a federation of relatively autonomous cantons, some of which have a history of confederacy that goes back more than 700 years, arguably putting them among the world's oldest surviving republics. With an area of 41,285 square kilometres, Switzerland is a relatively small country. Switzerland comprises three basic topographical areas namely the Swiss Alps, the Swiss plateau, and the Jura mountains. Switzerland has four official languages namely German, French, Italian and Romansh.
Wadenswil is a municipality in the district of Horgen, in the canton of Zurich, Switzerland. Wadenswil, in the vernacular Wadi mentioned, is a political municipality and town in the district Horgen of the canton Zurich in Switzerland. Wadenswil is because of the upper left Zurich lakeshore at the room mountain at the motorway A3 Zurich Chur. To the city Wadenswil belong also the local parts outer ZH and mountain. In the canton Zurich is Wadenswil with 1736.34 hectars those surface-moderately five-tenth size municipality and about 1 ' 030 hectar of it are agriculturally used.
The industrialization has Wadenswil in the course 19. Century made a center of the textile industry. The textile home working brought 19 in the first years. Century a first per ton proto-industriellen upswing. Numerous factories developed, from which the 1833 created Seidenweberei Gessner AG exists this very day. In the years around 1900 Wadenswil experienced a second strong upswing, when the factory work replaced the home working. Apart from the textile industry the strength factory sheet man and the brewery Wadenswil was important employers.
Wadenswil had with that 2003 reconditioned theatres Ticino and the lock Cinema regionally important institutions for culture. Besides numerous culture organizers are active like the 1790 created read company, the chamber orchestra Wadenswil, the folk theatre Wadenswil, the concert organizer kind arena and two jazz clubs Tradition has the Chilbi in each case at the end of of August, which ranks among the largest Kirchweihfesten of the region. As it is often regarded as among the most beautiful parts of Switzerland, it is one of the most visited places amongst the most die-hard travelers the world over.
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