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district 4 District 4 can refer to:
* District 4, Düsseldorf, in Germany
* District 4, Grand Bassa County, in Liberia
* District 4 (Ho Chi Minh City), in Vietnam
* District 4 (New York City Council), in the United States
*IV District, Turku
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Zürich
Zürich () is the list of cities in Switzerland, largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zürich. It is located in north-central Switzerland, at the northwestern tip of Lake Zürich. As of January 2020, the municipality has 43 ...
. It was formerly a part of
Aussersihl
Aussersihl is a district in the Swiss city of Zürich. Known officially as District number 4, the district is known as colloquially ''Chreis Cheib'', ''cheib'' being the Zürich German word for an animal cadaver. It earned the name as the area h ...
municipality, which was incorporated into Zürich in 1893. The quarter has a population of 12,715 distributed on an area of 1.46 km² (as of 2009).
Points of interest
Swissmill
The Swissmill Tower, also known as Kornhaus, is the tallest operating grain elevator in the world. Standing at , it is the second tallest building in the Swiss city of Zürich.
History and description
The Swissmill Tower is a grain elevator ...
is the largest mill in Switzerland that operates 800 tons of grain. Although the silo's exterior and height is disputed, the municipal authorities claim that ''the silo is intentionally designed in its aesthetically conscious way. Its external appearance is intended to express its interior – an industrial plant''.
References
External links
District 4 of Zürich
Former municipalities of the canton of Zürich
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