Adliswil is a town and a municipality in the district of Horgen in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland.
36-580: The official language of Adliswil is (the Swiss variety of Standard) German , but the main spoken language is the local variant of the Alemannic Swiss German dialect. Adliswil is first mentioned in 1050 as Adelenswile . In the second half of the 12th Century it was mentioned as Adololdiswile and in 1248 as Adeloswile . Under the Helvetic Republic , the hamlet of Buchenegg was transferred to
72-467: A medial diglossia instead. Most German Swiss can speak fluent Swiss Standard German, but may or may not like doing so, as it feels stilted and unnatural to many. When they compare their Swiss Standard German to the way people from Germany speak, they think their own proficiency is inferior because it is studied and slower. Most German Swiss think that the majority speak rather poor Swiss Standard German; however, when asked about their personal proficiency,
108-403: A backup drive of 64 kilowatts (86 hp) is also available. The two cars each have a capacity of 30 passengers, and travel at a maximum speed of 6 metres per second (19.7 ft/s), giving a journey time of 5 to 6 minutes and a maximum hourly capacity of 345 passengers in each direction. The car runs every 15 minutes, or more often if traffic requires it. Depending on the time of the year and
144-578: A complete renewal was planned according to the conditions for the license given by the Swiss government. The renewal cost 3.5 million Swiss francs, which was financed by the municipality of Adliswil, the city of Zürich (300,000 each), the ZVV (2 million), and by public fundraising and sponsorship. The renewal included the control and monitoring system, whilst the cabins were replaced by more comfortable, spacious and "sleek" cabins constructed by CWA Constructions SA . The masts and carrying ropes were strengthened, and both
180-599: A foreign language (English), ZIS is approved up to compulsory school age by the canton. The whole ZIS program, for students aged 3 to 18, is accredited by the Commission on International Education and the International Baccalaureate Organisation accredits the IB Diploma at ZIS. Adliswil is the only town in the canton of Zürich to pride itself on having a cable car ( Felseneggbahn ), which connects
216-672: A majority will answer that they speak quite well. Luftseilbahn Adliswil-Felsenegg The Adliswil-Felsenegg cable car ( LAF ; German : Luftseilbahn Adliswil-Felsenegg or Felseneggbahn ) is a cable car in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland . The lower station is located in Adliswil in the Sihl Valley , whilst the upper station is located on the Felsenegg hill on the Albis ridge near
252-474: A typical case of diglossia , although this term is often reserved to language pairs where the vernacular has lower prestige than the other, while Swiss German dialects do not meet this criterion as they permeate every socio-economic class of society. Since Swiss Standard German is the usual written language and the Swiss German dialects are the usual spoken language, their interrelation has sometimes been called
288-480: Is also found in volumes of Standard German language dictionaries; however, Germans from northern Germany prefer to use Krankenhaus , whereas Spital is also used in areas of southern Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein, and South Tyrol . Some nouns have different gender: Some expressions are borrowed from French and thus differ from usage in Germany, such as The Swiss keyboard layout has no ß key, nor does it have
324-485: Is also important. In informal situations, Swiss Standard German is only used whenever a German Swiss is communicating with a non-Swiss and it is assumed that this person does not understand the respective dialect. Amongst themselves, the German-speaking Swiss use their respective Swiss German dialect, irrespective of social class, education or topic. Unlike other regions where German varieties are spoken, there
360-402: Is located at an altitude of 497 metres (1,631 ft), whilst the upper station is at an altitude of 804 metres (2,638 ft), giving a rise of 307 metres (1,007 ft). The line is 1,048 metres (3,438 ft) long, and passes over a single intermediate tower with a height of 44 metres (144 ft), with a maximum height above ground level of 60 metres (197 ft). The span lengths between
396-470: Is no continuum between Swiss Standard German and the Swiss German dialects. The speakers speak either Swiss Standard German, or a Swiss German dialect, and they are conscious about this choice. Nevertheless, about 10%, or 828,200, of Swiss residents speak High German (also called Standard German) at home, but mainly due to the presence of German or Austrian immigrants. The concurrent usage of Swiss Standard German and Swiss German dialects has been called
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#1732854560071432-489: Is only spoken in very few specific formal situations, such as in news broadcasts and reputable programmes of the public media channels; in the parliaments of German-speaking cantons ; in the federal parliament in Berne (unless another official language of Switzerland is used), although dialect is certainly encroaching on this domain; in loudspeaker announcements in public places such as railway stations, etc. Church services, including
468-451: Is situated in the Sihl Valley . The public schools (primary and lower secondary school) are supervised by the commune's school board. The board consists of nine elected members. The Zurich International School (ZIS), an international school with an international curriculum, has its upper school (senior high school) campus in Adliswil. As a private school which has instruction primarily in
504-535: Is the respective local dialect. Due to a rather large inter-cantonal migration rate (about 5% p.a.) within modern Switzerland for decades, many different Swiss German dialects are spoken in any one place, especially in urban areas; for example, in the city of Zürich (end of 2013): of the 272,700 Swiss (total: 400,000) living in Zürich, only 40% (28%) are from Zürich itself with 51% (36%) from the entire canton of Zürich. Outside of any educational setting, Swiss Standard German
540-586: Is the written form of one ( German ) of four national languages in Switzerland , besides French , Italian , and Romansh . It is a variety of Standard German , used in the German-speaking part of Switzerland and in Liechtenstein . It is mainly written and rather less often spoken. Swiss Standard German is the official written language in German-speaking Switzerland and Liechtenstein. It
576-511: Is used in books, all official publications (including all laws and regulations), in newspapers, printed notices, most advertising, and other printed matter. Authors write literature mainly using Swiss Standard German; some dialect literature exists. SSG is similar in most respects to the Standard German in Germany and Austria ; there are a few differences in spelling, most notably the replacing of
612-508: The ¨ dead key . The names of municipalities, towns, stations, and streets are often not written with a starting capital umlaut, but instead with Ae , Oe , or Ue , such as the Zürich suburb Oerlikon , the hamlet Aetzikofen , and the Bernese municipality Uebeschi . However, field names, such as Äbenegg, Ötikon (near Stäfa), or Überthal, and any other word, such as Ärzte (English: physicians), usually start with capital umlauts. As for
648-669: The Felsenegg-Girstel TV-tower . The upper station at Felsenegg forms one end of a panoramic walk to the Uetliberg mountain, whilst the lower station is some 400 metres (1,300 ft) from Adliswil railway station . The cable car is owned by the Luftseilbahn Adliswil-Felsenegg AG and is operated by the Sihltal Zürich Uetliberg Bahn (SZU), the railway company which links both Adliswil and
684-506: The Sihl valley. The ZVV bus lines 184 and 185 provide a connection to Zurich (Wollishofen), and the ZVV night bus services provide a connection to Zürich city centre. Swiss Standard German Swiss Standard German (SSG; German : Schweizer Standarddeutsch ), or Swiss High German ( German : Schweizer Hochdeutsch or Schweizerhochdeutsch ), referred to by the Swiss as Schriftdeutsch , or German : Hochdeutsch ,
720-401: The secondary sector and there are 118 businesses in this sector. 4,049 people are employed in the tertiary sector , with 543 businesses in this sector. As of 2007 55.6% of the working population were employed full-time, and 44.4% were employed part-time. The historical population is given in the following table: As of 2008 there were 5,275 Catholics and 4,999 Protestants in Adliswil. In
756-528: The 2000 census, religion was broken down into several smaller categories. From the 2000 census, 38.6% were some type of Protestant, with 36.2% belonging to the Swiss Reformed Church and 2.4% belonging to other Protestant churches. 35.5% of the population were Catholic. Of the rest of the population, 5% were Muslim, 7.8% belonged to another religion (not listed), 3.8% did not give a religion, and 13.2% were atheist or agnostic. The Sri Sivasubramaniar Temple
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#1732854560071792-617: The 2007 election the most popular party was the SVP which received 36.2% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SPS (21.4%), the FDP (13.4%) and the CVP (9.9%). The age distribution of the population (as of 2000) is children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 20.2% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 64.5% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 15.4%. In Adliswil about 75.5% of
828-466: The German ß with ss (since the 20th century). For example: There are some differences in vocabulary, including, for instance, using a loanword from another language. For example: In addition, SSG uses different orthography in letter writing, and the salutations used for the same also differ from Non-Swiss Standard German. The Swiss use the Standard German word Spital (hospital). Spital
864-529: The Uetliberg to the city of Zürich . The cable car was built by the Swiss company Von Roll , opening on 30 December 1954. The line reused the former two cabins of the "Landi-Schwebebahn", built to connect the two sites of the Swiss National Exhibition of 1939 [ de ] . In 1960, these cabins were replaced by new cabins with a capacity of 30 passengers, constructed by SIG Neuhausen , and
900-527: The cables were replaced. In 1977, a majority shareholding was acquired by the Swiss company Denner AG . In 1986, the line was converted to automatic operation. In 1990, the line became part of the zonal tariff structure of the Zürcher Verkehrsverbund (ZVV), and in 1994 self-service ticketing was introduced, with ticket machines at both stations. In 1997, the drive and brake systems were replaced. The line celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2004, when
936-470: The capital umlaut keys Ä , Ö and Ü . This dates back to mechanical typewriters that had the French diacritical marks letters on these keys to allow the Swiss to write French on a Swiss German QWERTZ keyboard (and vice versa). Thus a Swiss German VSM keyboard has an ä key that prints an à (a-grave) when shifted. However, it is possible to write uppercase umlauts by use of caps lock or by using
972-431: The municipality of Stallikon . In 1893 the town sections of Oberleimbach and Sood were added to Adliswil. Adliswil has an area of 7.8 km (3.0 sq mi). Of this area, 23.4% is used for agricultural purposes, while 32.1% is forested. The rest of the land, 42.9% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (1.7%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains). In 1996 housing and buildings made up 32.6% of
1008-468: The other hand Stallikon pertaining this to the district of Affoltern . Adliswil has a population (as of December 2020) of 19,049. As of 2021 a total of 38.5% were foreign nationals; the gender distribution of the population was 50.0% male and 50.0% female. Over the last 10 years the population has grown at a rate of 4%. Most of the population (as of 2000) speaks German (80.9%), with Italian being second most common ( 4.9%) and English being third ( 2.5%). In
1044-410: The population (between age 25-64) have completed either non-mandatory upper secondary education or additional higher education (either university or a Fachhochschule ). There are 7,573 households in Adliswil. Adliswil has an unemployment rate of 2.72%. As of 2005, there were 57 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 9 businesses involved in this sector. 832 people are employed in
1080-506: The sermon and prayers, are usually in Swiss Standard German. Generally in any educational setting Swiss Standard German is used (during lessons, lectures or tutorials). However, outside of lessons Swiss-German dialects are used, even when, for example, talking to a teacher about the class. The situations in which Swiss Standard German is spoken are characteristically formal and public, and there are situations where written communication
1116-416: The stations and towers are 492 metres (1,614 ft) and 552 metres (1,811 ft) long and the average gradient is 34.1%. The suspension cable has a diameter of 62 millimetres (2.4 in), and the propulsion cable of 39 millimetres (1.5 in). The propulsion cable is driven by an electric motor with a continuous power rating of 100 kilowatts (130 hp) and a peak rating of 185 kilowatts (248 hp);
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1152-450: The total area, while transportation infrastructure made up the rest (10.4%). Of the total unproductive area, water (streams and lakes) made up 1.7% of the area. As of 2007 38.3% of the total municipal area was undergoing some type of construction. It is located in the region of Zimmerberg , within the valley of the river Sihl to the south of the city of Zürich , next to the localities of Kilchberg , Rüschlikon , Langnau am Albis and on
1188-539: The town to Felsenegg on the edge of the town. Adliswil railway station is a stop on the S-Bahn Zürich 's S4 line, which is a 15-minute ride from Zürich Hauptbahnhof . There is an intermediate station at Sood-Oberleimbach which is also located in the municipality of Adliswil. The Zimmerberg bus line ( Zimmerbergbus ), provided by the Sihltal Zürich Uetliberg Bahn (SZU), connects the Zimmerberg region and parts of
1224-469: The two cabins are suspended from a single support cable whilst being permanently attached to a second propulsion cable. The two cars shuttle between upper and lower stations, and must operate together so that when one car is at the lower station, the other will be at the upper station. The line is operated automatically, under the supervision of a single employee located at the lower station. The cabins and upper station are normally unmanned. The lower station
1260-422: The valley and mountain stations renewed. The renewal took place between 4 February and 30 April, with the line re-opening on 1 May 2008. On 31 March 2010, the 10th million passenger used the cableway. In 2014, the regular 6-yearly revision of the line was undertaken. In 2016, the upper station was renovated. The Adliswil-Felsenegg cable car is technically an aerial tramway ( German : pendelbahn ), where
1296-472: The various dialects of Swiss German, they are occasionally written, but their written usage is mostly restricted to informal situations such as private text messages , e-mails , letters , notes, or within social media such as Facebook . The ability of German Swiss to transliterate their language into writing is an integral and important part of the identity and culture of German-speaking Switzerland. The default spoken language in German-speaking Switzerland
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