Höri is a municipality in the district of Bülach in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland , and belongs to the Glatt Valley (German: Glattal ).
16-462: Höri is first mentioned in 1149 (875 years ago) ( 1149 ) as Hoerein . Höri has an area of 4.8 km (1.9 sq mi). Of this area, 59.3% is used for agricultural purposes, while 12.7% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 18% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (10%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains). The municipality straddles the Glatt river with
32-610: A large talent pool and the ETH Zurich as one of the best universities in Europe. Companies such as Google , Microsoft , IBM , Disney , ABB , Biogen , Johnson & Johnson and Roche operate important research and development (R&D) sites in the Zürich Metropolitan Area. Important Industries: The association Zurich Airport Region (Flughafenregion Zürich) is responsible for the business network and location promotion in
48-577: The Glatt Valley , discharging into the Rhine by Glattfelden . Whereas the upper reaches are only gently inclined, the stream gets steeper beneath, forming banks of bed load . The earliest mention of the Glatt (fluvii, qui dicitur glat ) dates to 1034. The hydronym reflects the (feminine) OHG adjective glat , meaning either "bright, clear" or "plane, smooth". Since the 15th century, the Glatt had been subject to
64-479: The metropolitan area surrounding Zurich , is one of Europe ’s economically strongest areas and Switzerland ’s economic centre. It comprises the area that can be reached within a roughly 80-minute drive from Zurich Airport . Home to many international companies, it includes most of the canton of Zurich , and stretches as far as the Aargau and Solothurn in the west, Thurgau , St. Gallen and parts of Grisons in
80-556: The tertiary sector , with 80 businesses in this sector. The historical population is given in the following table: Glatt (Rhine) Glatt ( German pronunciation: [ˈɡlat] ) is the name of a lesser affluent to the High Rhine in the Unterland of the canton of Zurich , Switzerland . It is 35.7 kilometres (22.2 mi) long and flows out from the Greifensee through
96-612: The 2007 election the most popular party was the SVP which received 57.8% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SPS (14.5%), the CSP (9.9%) and the FDP (6.4%). The age distribution of the population (as of 2000) is children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 25.8% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 64.4% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 9.8%. In Höri about 62.6% of
112-517: The Swiss economic metropolis "Zurich Airport Region": Bassersdorf , Bülach , Dietlikon , Dübendorf , Kloten , Nürensdorf , Oberglatt , Opfikon , Rümlang , Wallisellen and Wangen-Brüttisellen . In the broader sense, many other communities and cities belong to the airport region of Zürich. The office of the association with over 500 members is located in Opfikon-Glattbrugg. Christoph Lang heads
128-564: The area, profiting from benefits such as The Greater Zurich Area AG, a nonprofit organization, is the marketing association for the Greater Zurich Area business region. It recruits international companies abroad and assists them with setting up companies and making investments in the Greater Zurich Area. Its sponsor is the Stiftung Greater Zurich Area Standortmarketing, a public-private partnership that
144-456: The communities of Ober- and Niederhöri on the western side and Endhöri (earlier known as Ennethöri) on the east. Höri has a population (as of 31 December 2020) of 2,951. As of 2007, 30.1% of the population was made up of foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years the population has grown at a rate of 16.4%. Most of the population (as of 2000) speaks German (76.6%), with Italian being second most common (9.4%) and Albanian being third ( 5.1%). In
160-807: The east, Schaffhausen in the north and Zug and parts of Schwyz and Glarus in the south. The Swiss federal office for statistics defines an unofficial metropolitan area as including all areas where more than 1/12th of the workforce commutes to the core area. According to the 2000 Swiss census , this includes a total of 220 municipalities in seven cantons: 127 in the canton of Zürich , 58 in Aargau , 11 in Schwyz , 10 in Zug , 9 in Schaffhausen , 3 in Thurgau and 2 in St. Gallen . Numerous Swiss and international corporations are based in
176-886: The immediate vicinity of Zurich Airport . Large companies are headquartered in the Zurich Airport Region: Swissport International (Glattbrugg), Gategroup (Kloten), Dormakaba (Rümlang), SV Group (Dübendorf), SR Technics (Kloten), Hotelplan (Glattbrugg), Hewlett-Packard Switzerland (Dübendorf), Flughafen Zürich AG (Kloten), Jumbo (Dietlikon), UPC Switzerland (Wallisellen), Coca-Cola HBC Switzerland (Brüttisellen), Edelweiss Air (Kloten), CSC Switzerland (Dübendorf), Canon Switzerland (Wallisellen), Qualipet (Dietlikon), Gamma Renax (Dübendorf), Infosys Consulting (Kloten), Microsoft Switzerland (Wallisellen), Ricoh Switzerland (Wallisellen), Tchibo Switzerland (Wallisellen), Vifor Pharma (Glattbrugg) . The following eleven municipalities belong to
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#1732852614652192-470: The largest reshapings took place during the time from 1878 to 1895. In 1936, another straightening was carried out as a preliminary work to the construction of the Zurich Airport as well as to land improvement and future overbuilding. Due to the last regulation works in 1975 between Niederglatt and the Glatt's confluence to the Rhine, the hydroelectric power stations built in the late 19th century at
208-776: The lower course of the stream disappeared. The Glatt was formerly abounding with fish. Owing to the accelerated growth of Zurich's agglomeration during the 20th century and the insufficiency of the purification plants built in the 1960s, it has been strongly polluted; from 1994 to 2002, the sewage system was restructured by driving a tunnel between the Glatt Valley and the Limmat Valley . [REDACTED] Media related to Glatt (Rhine) at Wikimedia Commons Zurich metropolitan area The European Metropolitan Region of Zurich ( EMRZ ), also Greater Zurich Area ( GZA , German Zürcher Wirtschaftsraum, Metropolregion Zürich ),
224-464: The population (between age 25-64) have completed either non-mandatory upper secondary education or additional higher education (either university or a Fachhochschule ). Höri has an unemployment rate of 3.29%. As of 2005, there were 46 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 16 businesses involved in this sector. 502 people are employed in the secondary sector and there are 51 businesses in this sector. 397 people are employed in
240-417: The sovereignty of the city of Zurich , the council of which assigned the custody over the river to two reeves (Glatt vögte ) in the 16th century. Several toponyms have the name 'Glatt' in it, such as Glattbrugg , Glattfelden, Glattpark , Glattalbahn , Glattzentrum , Niederglatt and Oberglatt . After a first attempt to regulate the stream in 1593 and a rudimentary project in the early 19th century,
256-465: Was established in November 1998. Since that time, its membership has grown to include the cantons of Glarus , Grisons , Schaffhausen , Schwyz , Solothurn , Ticino , Uri , Zug and Zürich , the cities of Zürich and Winterthur , several businesses and universities. Switzerland and the Greater Zurich Area have the prerequisites for innovation and sustainable growth. This is due to political stability,
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