page_title: Bäretswil
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Bäretswil / Geography
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Spinnerei in Neuthal, Gemeinde Bäretswil
context_page_description: Bäretswil is a municipality in the district of Hinwil in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland.
context_section_description: Bäretswil has an area of 22.2 km² (8.6 sq mi).  Of this area, 51.5% is used for agricultural purposes, while 39.1% is forested.  Of the rest of the land, 8.2% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (1.2%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains).  In 1996 housing and buildings made up 5.4% of the total area, while transportation infrastructure made up the rest (2.8%).  Of the total unproductive area, water (streams and lakes) made up 0.2% of the area.  As of 2007 4.7% of the total municipal area was undergoing some type of construction.
  The municipality is located in the hills between the Glatt and Töss Valleys.  It includes the villages of Bäretswil and Adetswil as well as the hamlets of Bettswil, Wappenswil, Hof-Neuthal, Tanne and Klein Bäretswil and scattered individual homes.
  The old cotton mill, pictured, now houses museums of spinning and weaving machinery.
caption: Cotton mill in the Neuthal section of Bäretswil
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