Herrliberg is a municipality in the district of Meilen in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland. History There are findings dating back to the Bronze Age. In the 8th century, a village called Tächliswil was established. A hamlet called Wezzo (today Wetzwil) was donated to the St. Gallen Abbey in 797. There are also a number of other hamlets, including Breitwil, Kittenmühle and Intwil. Herrliberg is first mentioned in 1153–1155 as Hardiperc. In 1273 it was mentioned as Herdiperch and in the mid-15th Century as Härliberg. Wine growing was important for centuries. In the Middle Ages, most of the land belonged to the churches of Zürich (Grossmünster and Fraumünster), but in 1412 Herrliberg was established as the place of a reeve. This made Herrliberg associated with Zürich. Since 1815, the municipality is part of the district of Meilen. The chapel in Wetzwil predates 1370. The first school was opened in 1639. Thereafter, in 1687, the local parish church was built. In 1886, the peak of wine growing, Herrliberg counted 174 wine growers, tending of vineyards. With the opening of the railway link to Zürich in 1896, Herrliberg started to develop as part of the suburbs of Zürich. Geography Herrliberg has an area of . Of this area, 56.5% is used for agricultural purposes, while 24.2% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 19.2% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (0.1%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains). housing and buildings made up 15.1% of the total area, while transportation infrastructure made up the rest (4.2%). Of the total unproductive area, water (streams and lakes) made up 0.1% of the area. 18.2% of the total municipal area was undergoing some type of construction. It is located on the north bank of the Lake Zürich in the Pfannenstiel region. In the local dialect it is called Herrlibärg. The distance from the main square to Zürich Hauptbahnhof is . The locality is placed on five tiers. The municipality is composed of three separate settlements along Lake Zurich, a settlement along the shore, the double village on the terraced slopes and the settlement on the top of the hill. It also includes the hamlets of Wetzwil, Breitwil (today known as Kittenmühle) and scattered farm houses. Demographics Herrliberg has a population (as of ) of . , 14.6% of the population was made up of foreign nationals. the gender distribution of the population