Kilchberg (High Alemannic: Chilchbèèrg) is a municipality in the district of Horgen in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland. Kilchberg is the site of a regional cemetery.

History

thumb|Aerial view by [[Walter Mittelholzer (1920)]]

Kilchberg is first mentioned in 1248 as Hilchberch. In 1250 it was mentioned as Kilchperch.

Geography

Kilchberg has an area of . Of this area, 26.5% is used for agricultural purposes, while 1.9% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 71.2% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (0.4%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains).

{| class="wikitable"

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! Year

! Population

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| 1467

| 43 households

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| 1634

| 286

|-

| 1671

| 515

|-

| 1722

| 617

|-

| 1836

| 958

|-

| 1850

| 1,141

|-

| 1900

| 1,951

|-

| 1950

| 5,474

|-

| 1970

| 7,546

|-

| 1990

| 7,081

|-

| 2000

| 7,197

|-

|2010

|7,454

|-

|2020

|9,189

|}

Industry

thumb|upright|[[Lindt & Sprüngli Kilchberg]]

Kilchberg is home to the corporate headquarters of the confectioner Lindt & Sprüngli with next to it the Lindt Museum.

Kilchberg has an unemployment rate of 1.64%. , there were 118 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 11 businesses involved in this sector. 1479 people are employed in the secondary sector and there are 48 businesses in this sector. 1983 people are employed in the tertiary sector, with 306 businesses in this sector. 65% of the working population were employed full-time, and 35% were employed part-time. Kilchberg is also the location of the private hospital Krankenhaus Sanitas.

Transport

Kilchberg railway station is located on the Lake Zurich left bank railway and a stop on Zurich S-Bahn lines S8 and S24 (4 trains per hour).

Kilchberg is connected to Zurich with VBZ bus line 161. Bus line 162 connects Kilchberg See Spital with Kilchberg railway station and bus line 163 runs between Kilchberg, Obere Hornhalde and Kilchberg railway station.

Tourist boat trips, run by the Zürichsee-Schifffahrtsgesellschaft, also sail from here to (Bendlikon) Zurich and Rapperswil.

Education

Public schools

The public schools (primary and lower secondary school) are supervised by the commune's school board. The board consists of nine elected members.

Public school buildings:

  • Brunnenmoos A-C
  • Alte Landstrasse
  • Gemeindehaus
  • Dorfstrasse

Private, publicly subsidised schools

Other private schools

The Zürich International School (ZIS), an American curriculum private international school, has two campuses in Kilchberg: Early Childhood Center and Middle School Kilchberg. The American International School of Zurich was previously located in Kilchberg. The bureau for elementary school (Volksschulamt) of the canton of Zürich does not approve ZIS for its lower and upper secondary education (Sekundarstufe I aka Sekundarschule, and Sekundarstufe II aka Mittelschule). Therefore, its upper secondary school is not approved by the Swiss Federation, neither.

International relations

Kilchberg, Zürich is twinned with:

  • Kilchberg district of Tübingen, Germany (since 1956)

Notable people

thumb|right|upright|Thomas Mann's grave in Kilchberg

  • German author Thomas Mann made his home in Kilchberg when he returned to Europe after World War II, and is buried there.
  • Swiss author Conrad Ferdinand Meyer was born in Zürich (October 11, 1825) and died in Kilchberg (November 28, 1898). In his honour, there is a C. F. Meyer museum in Kilchberg.
  • Swiss-German chocolatier David Sprüngli-Schwartz and his son were born in Zürich but owned factories and died in Kilchberg. Their chocolate company, Lindt & Sprüngli, is more commonly known as Lindt.

References

  • Official website
  • Statistics