Dietikon

Dietikon is the fifth largest metropolis of the canton of Zurich in Switzerland, after Zurich, Winterthur, Uster and Dubendorf. It is the capital of the equal-named district of Dietikon and a part of the Zurich metropolitan area. The industrial metropolis Dietikon is situated at an elevation of 388 m on the confluence of the Reppisch and the Limmat, located inside the Limmat Valley, alongside the railway line from Zurich to Baden. Here and inside the neighboring place, Spreitenbach, is likewise the big Limmattal rail freight marshalling backyard.

Dietikon is first stated in 1100 as Dietinchovin. In Dietikon there are numerous Roman ruins and additionally the Fahr Benedictine Convent, given by way of the House of Regensberg around 1130 AD, with a cloister church courting from the years 1743 to 1746. The Second Battle of Zurich become fought in Dietikon and the metropolis name is now inscribed at the pillar of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, France.

There's the Bruno Weber Park in Dietikon respectively Spreitenbach, one of the few sculpture gardens and Gesamtkunstwerks in Switzerland. Glanzenberg once became a agreement on the river Limmat, but its fortification appear in no way been absolutely constructed, so it may be destroyed in 1267/68, a legend tells. Its remain are in a little wooded area on the Limmat, contrary of the railway station of the equal name, as well as the walls of the previous Glanzenberg fortress, built within the past due 12th century AD with the aid of the Counts of Regensberg.