Zell (Zurich)

Geschichte

Zell is a municipality in the district of Winterthur in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland.GeographyZell has an area of 13km2. Of this area, 43.1% is used for agricultural purposes, while 42.1% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 12.5% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (2.3%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains). housing and buildings made up 9.1% of the total area, while transportation infrastructure made up the rest (3.8%). Of the total unproductive area, water (streams and lakes) made up 1.7% of the area., 12.2% of the total municipal area was undergoing some type of construction.Zell is situated in the upper Töss Valley. In Zell-Rikon is a Tibetan monastery, the Tibet Institute Rikon. The municipality also includes the hamlet of Kollbrunn.DemographicsZell has a population of., 17.6% of the population was made up of foreign nationals. the gender distribution of the population was 50.3% male and 49.7% female. Over the last 10 years the population has grown at a rate of 14.5%. Most of the population speaks German (87.6%), with Italian being second most common ( 2.8%) and Albanian being third ( 1.8%).In the 2007 election the most popular party was the SVP which received 40.5% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SPS (17%), the CSP (14.1%) and the Green Party (8.3%).