Pfungen

Pfungen is a municipality in the district of Winterthur in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland. Pfungen is first mentioned in 993 as Funginga. Pfungen has an area of 5 km (1.9 sq mi). Of this area, 32.3% is used for agricultural purposes, while 41.6% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 24% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (2%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains). In 1996 housing and buildings made up 16.2% of the total area, while transportation infrastructure made up the rest (7.6%). Of the total unproductive area, water (streams and lakes) made up 1.6% of the area. As of 2007 22.3% of the total municipal area was undergoing some type of construction. The municipality is located in the lower Töss Valley, with the village sitting on a spur of the Multberg and additional settlements in the Rums river valley. It consists of the village of Pfungen and settlements in the Rums river valley as well as the industrial development in Bruni.