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Horgen is situated about 15 km south of Zurich on the southwestern shore of Lake Zurich. The municipality has a population of about 22,500 (2017).

The oldest traces of human settlements in the area date from about 3900 to 3500 BC. The oldes known written document mentioning Horga dates from 952 AD. In 1487 it became a upper-lever bailiwick. During the Helvetic Republic (1798&ndasj;1802) and the times after the Act of Mediation establishing the Swiss Confederation (1803) it remained the district capital. The constitution of 1831 then laid the foundation for todays district. In a plebiscite of 2016, the merger of the commune of Hirzel with that of Horgen was approved; the merger became effective in 2018.

Bocken manor [left] goes back to a farmhouse of 1644. The Baroque manor house was created in 1681–1688. The local area was the main venue of the Bocken War of 1804, a civil war between the insurgent rural population and the Swiss federal troops led by the city of Zurich. Already since 1771 the manor was used as a spa facility. In 1805 it was enlarged by the addition of a restaurant in Classicist style; a further wing was added in 1913. Since 1994 it is used as a meeting venue. The historic complex was placed under monument protection.

[https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horgen; https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landgut_Bocken, https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bockenkrieg]