Hütten, Switzerland

Hütten is a former municipality in the district of Horgen in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland.

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).

As of 2007[update] 1.8% of the total municipal area was undergoing some type of construction.

It is a linear village (Strassendorf) made up of hamlets and farm houses along both sides of the Sihl.

Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks German (93.1%), with English being second most common ( 1.5%) and Albanian being third ( 1.3%).

[5] The historical population is given in the following table:[3] The Zimmerberg bus line (Zimmerbergbus), provided by the Sihltal Zürich Uetliberg Bahn (SZU), connects the Zimmerberg region and parts of the Sihl valley.

Hüttnersee (Hütten lake) on the Zimmerberg plateau