page_title: Hombrechtikon
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Hombrechtikon / Geography
caption_attribution_description: English: Lützelsee with view to BachtelEsperanto: Lageto Lützelsee kun rigardo al monto BachtelDeutsch: Lützelsee mit Blick auf den Bachtel
context_page_description: Hombrechtikon is a municipality in the district of Meilen in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland.
context_section_description: Hombrechtikon has an area of 12.2 km² (4.7 sq mi).  Of this area, 60.6% is used for agricultural purposes, while 14.9% is forested.  Of the rest of the land, 18.7% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (5.8%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains).  In 1996 housing and buildings made up 13.9% of the total area, while transportation infrastructure made up the rest (4.8%).  Of the total unproductive area, water (streams and lakes) made up 1.2% of the area.  As of 2007 15.8% of the total municipal area was undergoing some type of construction.
  The municipality is located between Lake Zurich and the Zürcher Oberland.  The land is very hilly, which prevented a large, single village from forming.  There at least 97 different hamlets and individual farm houses scattered throughout the municipality.  Some of the largest are Lützelsee (first mentioned in 745 as Lucikinse) and Feldbach (first mentioned in 873 as Velepach).
caption: Lützelsee with view to Bachtel hill
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