Tann, Switzerland

Tann (German pronunciation: [tan] ^ⓘ) is a village in the municipality of Dürnten in the district of Hinwil in the canton of Zurich, Switzerland.

Tann
Municipality
Tann as seen from Haltberg in Rüti, Pfannenstiel in the far background (October 2009)
Location of Tann
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Coordinates: 47°15.78′N 8°51.05′E
Country	Switzerland
Canton	Zurich
District	Hinwil
Municipality	Dürnten
Elevation	494 m (1,621 ft)
Population  (December 2007)
• Total	3,009
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (Central European Time)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (Central European Summer Time)
Postal code(s)	8632
SFOS number	0113
ISO 3166 code	CH-ZH
Surrounded by	Bubikon, Rüti, Wald
Website	www.duernten.ch SFSO statistics

Catholic church in Tann and Bachtel hill, as seen from Rüti Schanz

Catholic and Methodist church in Tann

Joweid and Jona river in the foreground, Bachtel to the right

Tannertobel

Geography

Aerial view from 800 m by Walter Mittelholzer (1925)

Tann is located in the Zürcher Oberland, in the south of Dürnten, and is geographically part of the southern municipality of Rüti. Jona river is flowing through the eastern Joweid and Tannertobel, a small river valley.

Demographics

Tann belongs politically to the municipality of Dürnten and is its biggest village: 47% of 6,402 inhabitants are living in Tann (as of 2007).^[1] Four of a total of five school houses are located in Tann: Blatt, Tannenbühl, Bogenacker, and Nauen (high school level). With the neighbouring municipality of Rüti, Tann shares a wide variety of administrative structures among them the Roman Catholic Church community and electric power administration. In Tann is also the Reformed Methodist Church of Rüti-Wald-Hombrechtikon located.

Transportation

Tann-Dürnten railway station, in the village, is a stop on the Zurich S-Bahn service S26 (Tösstalbahn) between Winterthur and Rüti respectively Rapperswil. The train station had been built in 1930. The bus line operator Verkehrsbetriebe Zürichsee und Oberland (VZO) provides its services for the regions of the Oberland and the upper northeastern Lake Zurich shore.