Opfikon (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Opfikon is the name of a municipality in the Swiss canton of Zurich, located in the district of B lach. Blazon: Party per fess gules and argent, in chief a half length portrait of a man wearing a coat sable with a white collar, in base cross pattee sable. Opfikon is situated right to the northeast of the city of Zurich in the Glatt Valley, near Zurich Airport, and thus lies within the greater Zurich area. As it belongs to the region known as the Zurichois Lowlands (Z rcher Unterland), the landscape is rather flat. The lowest point lies 420.4 m above sea level at the border to the neighboring commune of R mlang, the highest one in the Hard forest, 481 m above sea level. 37% of the municipal territory is covered by settlement area, 17% by wood, 27% by farming ground, 17.6% by transport infrastructures and 1.2% by waters.