Oberglatt

Oberglatt is a municipality in the district of Dielsdorf in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland, and belongs to the Glatt Valley (German: Glatttal).

In recent decades, the municipality has seen a great deal of building activity.

The municipality is also home to a considerable number of commercial and service businesses.

Of the rest of the land, 30.7% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (7.3%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains).

Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks German (78.6%), with Italian being second most common ( 5.3%) and Albanian being third ( 3.8%).

[5] The historical population is given in the following table:[4] It is the home of the Swiss office of the New Life Network.

The Primarschule Oberglatt system serves students at the kindergarten and primary levels.

Aerial view (1959)
Oberglatt landscape