Kilchberg (High Alemannic: Chilchbèèrg) is a municipality in the district of Horgen in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland.
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).
[6] As of 2007[update] 74.9% of the total municipal area was undergoing some type of construction.
Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks German (84.0%), with English being second most common (4.1%) and Italian being third (2.8%).
[6] The historical population is given in the following table:[3] Kilchberg is home to the corporate headquarters of the confectioner Lindt & Sprüngli.
Kilchberg railway station is a stop of the S-Bahn Zürich on the lines S8 and S24 (4 per hour).
Tourist boat trips, run by the Zürichsee-Schifffahrtsgesellschaft, also sail from here to Zürich and Rapperswil.
[11] 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).