Schipfe is a residential district in

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 ...

, Switzerland, located on the eastern slope of the

Lindenhof The Lindenhof, in the old town of Zürich, Switzerland, is the historical site of the Roman castle, and the later Carolingian Kaiserpfalz. It is situated on Lindenhof hill, on the left side of the Limmat at the Schipfe. In 1747, a second-century ...

, one of the oldest parts of the

Helvetii The Helvetii ( , Gaulish: *''Heluētī''), anglicized as Helvetians, were a Celts, Celtic tribe or tribal confederation occupying most of the Swiss plateau at the time of their Switzerland in the Roman era, contact with the Roman Republic in the ...

Oppidum Zürich-Lindenhof Lindenhof is the present name of the large fortified settlement, or oppidum, likely founded by the Helvetii on the Lindenhof hill on the western shore of the Limmat in Zürich, Switzerland. Geography The Lindenhof is a moraine hill that sin ...

, by the river

Limmat The Limmat is a river in Switzerland. The river commences at the outfall of Lake Zurich, in the southern part of the city of Zurich. From Zurich it flows in a northwesterly direction, after 35 km reaching the river Aare. The confluenc ...

. Historians and the '' Weinplatz'' suggest that the district was part of the former civilian harbour of the Celtic-Roman ''Turicum''. The

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studio of famous international artist,

Conor Mccreedy Conor Matthew Mccreedy (born 11 February 1987 in Johannesburg, South Africa) is a contemporary artist, conservationist and collector based in Switzerland. Fascinated by Chaos Theory. In his work, his depiction of abstraction is linked to Chaos T ...

is based here in a former

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townhouse. Lindenhof - Schipfe - Limmat - ZSG Regula - Limmatquai 2015-07-16 12-18-52

Location

Schipfe belongs to the historic area on the left hand shore of the

, located on the west side of the

Lindenhof-Sihlbühl The Lindenhof (lit.: ''courtyard of the lime'') is a moraine hill and a public square in the historic center of Zürich, Switzerland. It is the site of the Roman and Carolingian era Kaiserpfalz around which the city has historically grown. The ...

hill downstream from the ancient bridges Münsterbrücke and

Rathausbrücke Zürich Rathaus (German for "town hall bridge", may refer to the following structure: * Rathausbrücke, Berlin, a bridge crossing the river Spree in Berlin, Germany * Rathausbrücke, Erfurt, a bridge crossing a branch of the river Gera in Erfurt, Germany ...

between the present

Limmatquai ''Limmatquai'' is a street in the Swiss city of Zürich. It is named after the Limmat, and it follows the right-hand (eastern) bank of that river for about through the '' Altstadt'', or historical core, of the city. The street was once important ...

and the prehistoric

Lindenhof hill The Lindenhof (lit.: ''courtyard of the lime'') is a moraine hill and a public square in the historic center of Zürich, Switzerland. It is the site of the Roman and Carolingian era Kaiserpfalz around which the city has historically grown. The ...

History

The Lindenhof was the site of the Helvetii ''

Oppidum An ''oppidum'' (plural ''oppida'') is a large fortified Iron Age settlement or town. ''Oppida'' are primarily associated with the Celtic late La Tène culture, emerging during the 2nd and 1st centuries BC, spread across Europe, stretchi ...

'' and the first century BC Roman settlement (15 BC), with traces of a

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excavated between Weinplatz and

Münsterhof Münsterhof (literally: Fraumünster abbey courtyard) is a town square situated in the Lindenhof quarter in the historical center of Zürich, Switzerland. Münsterhof is the largest town square within the ''Altstadt'' (old town) of Zürich, and is ...

. It was then the historical core of modern Zürich. This is the oldest area of the city, with settlements dating to the pre-Roman

La Tène culture The La Tène culture (; ) was a European Iron Age culture. It developed and flourished during the late Iron Age (from about 450 BC to the Roman conquest in the 1st century BC), succeeding the early Iron Age Hallstatt culture without any defini ...

, and fortified as ''

oppidum An ''oppidum'' (plural ''oppida'') is a large fortified Iron Age settlement or town. ''Oppida'' are primarily associated with the Celtic late La Tène culture, emerging during the 2nd and 1st centuries BC, spread across Europe, stretchi ...

'' with a surrounding Vicus ''Turicum'' in the final decades of the 1st century BC. In medieval times, the

Oetenbach nunnery Oetenbach was a Dominican nunnery in the medieval municipality of Zürich in Switzerland. Oetenbach was named after the small stream of the same name at its first location at Zürichhorn, situated outside of the European Middle Ages town walls, bu ...

was located in the district, but was abolished in 1525 and finally demolished in 1901/02. The ''Uraniastrasse'' road and the

Urania Sternwarte Urania Sternwarte is a public observatory in the Lindenhof quarter of Zürich, Switzerland. Its name ''Urania'' refers to the muse of astronomy in Greek mythology. History Its origins base on a first observatory on the roof of the Zunfthaus ...

were later built, and the so-called

Waisenhaus Zürich Waisenhaus (also Amthaus I) is the last remaining building of the Oetenbach nunnery, and houses today the police department of the city of Zürich in Switzerland. Location The ''Waisenhaus'' building is situated at ''Bahnhofquai 3'' towards Ba ...

asylum became the headquarters of the Zürich City Police.Today the Schipfe is well known for its romantic houses at the Limmat and several almost hidden shops opposite the

. First mentioned in 1292 as «Schüpfi» (German for ''where the boats land''), the quarter has a population of 431 distributed on an area less of 0.5 km².

References

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