Hütten

Geschichte

Hütten is a municipality in the district of Horgen in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland.HistoryHütten is first mentioned in 1270 as ze dien Hütten.GeographyHütten has an area of 7.2km2. Of this area, 52.9% is used for agricultural purposes, while 36.7% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 5.5% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (4.8%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains). housing and buildings made up 2.8% of the total area, while transportation infrastructure made up the rest (2.8%). Of the total unproductive area, water (streams and lakes) made up 2.8% of the area. 1.8% of the total municipal area was undergoing some type of construction.The municipality is near the Hüttnersee, a small lake shared with Richterswil. It is a linear village (Strassendorf) made up of hamlets and farm houses along both sides of the Sihl.DemographicsHütten has a population of., 6.5% of the population was made up of foreign nationals. the gender distribution of the population was 52.9% male and 47.1% female. Over the last 10 years the population has grown at a rate of 7.4%. Most of the population speaks German (93.1%), with English being second most common ( 1.5%) and Albanian being third ( 1.3%).In the 2007 election the most popular party was the SVP which received 55.7% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the CSP (11%), the SPS (9.6%) and the CVP (7.3%).