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Postbrücke
Postbrücke, , is a bridge in Zurich, Switzerland, constructed between 1927 and 1930. Its name derives from the (), located nearby and built in 1930. Located west of Bahnhofplatz, one of the city's main squares, and east of Europaallee, the bridge spans the Sihl river before it continues under the surface platforms of Zurich Main Station on its northern side. spans the river on the station's northern side, while Gessnerbrücke crosses it south of Postbrücke. The bridge, which is about long and has five spans, connects Bahnhofplatz and Gessnerallee to Kasernenstrasse. It is made of slab, with clad concrete pillars. Its superstructure was replaced in 1989 and it was reinforced in 2021. The surface of the brige contains a road ( one way), a taxi stand and bicycle parkings. In 2018, the section of the Sihl south of the bridge, up to the confluence with the Schanzengraben, was renaturalised to promote populations of fish, such as the common nase, and other aquatic organism ...
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Eurogate Zürich
Eurogate Zurich – originally (), later (), and today known as () – is one of the urban developments on the southwest side of Zurich's Zürich Hauptbahnhof, Central Station (, or Zürich HB) in Switzerland. Located in the city's Langstrasse, District 4, near the city centre, was completed in 2020 and includes shops, restaurants, offices (e.g. Google), appartments, the college of education () and a hotel. is mostly pedestrianized and features two rows of Ginkgo biloba, Ginkgo trees. It also includes a fountain nicknamed 'Europuddle'. The site is connected to the urban developments north of the railway tracks via a pedestrian bridge () and the western underpass of Central Station. It is linked with Bahnhofplatz, Zurich, Bahnhofplatz, the square in front of Central Station, via Postbrücke over the river Sihl. Before constructions began in 2009, the site was the railway yard of the (, built in 1930). For decades, various commercial uses were discussed for above and next ...
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Zürich Hauptbahnhof
Zürich Hauptbahnhof, often shortened to Zürich HB or just HB, and known in English as Zurich Main Station, is the largest railway station in Switzerland and one of the busiest in Europe. It is a major railway hub, with services to and from across Switzerland and neighbouring countries such as Germany, Italy, Austria and France. The station was originally constructed as the terminus of the Swiss Northern Railway, Spanisch Brötli Bahn, the first railway built completely within Switzerland. Serving up to 2,915 trains per day, Zürich HB is one of the List of busiest railway stations in Europe, busiest railway stations in the world. It was ranked as the best European railway station in 2023 and 2024. Zürich HB is one of List of railway stations in Zurich, 29 stations in Zurich. It is located at the northern end of the Altstadt (Zurich), Altstadt () and east of the Eurogate Zurich, Europaallee in central Zurich, near the confluence of the rivers Limmat and Sihl (the Sihl actuall ...
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Bahnhofplatz, Zürich
Bahnhofplatz (, ) is a square in the city centre of Zurich, Switzerland. It is located in front of the southern entrance of the main building of Main Station ( or ''HB'', completed in 1871) and at the northern end of Bahnhofstrasse, the city's shopping avenue. The focal point of the square is a fountain surmounted by a statue of Alfred Escher, a Swiss railway pioneer among others, which was inaugurated in 1889. Its water forms an additional fountain in the underground level below the square. Besides Bahnhofstrasse, other roads leading to Bahnhofplatz are Löwenstrasse, Lintheschergasse and Waisenhausstrasse. Two bridges flank the square: Postbrücke to the west (across the river Sihl) and Bahnhofbrücke to the east (across the river Limmat). The square features a central tram stop with two through tracks, ''Bahnhofplatz/HB'', and is flanked by two trolleybus stops with the same name. The lines form part of the extensive Zurich public-transport system. The square is also fla ...
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Stream Bed
A streambed or stream bed is the bottom of a stream or river and is confined within a Stream channel, channel or the Bank (geography), banks of the waterway. Usually, the bed does not contain terrestrial (land) vegetation and instead supports different types of aquatic vegetation (aquatic plant), depending on the type of streambed material and water velocity. Streambeds are what would be left once a stream is no longer in existence. The beds are usually well preserved even if they get buried because the banks and canyons made by the stream are typically hard, although soft sand and debris often fill the bed. Dry, buried streambeds can actually be underground water pockets. During times of rain, sandy streambeds can soak up and retain water, even during dry seasons, keeping the water table close enough to the surface to be obtainable by local people. The nature of any streambed is always a function of the flow dynamics and the local geologic materials. The climate of an area wil ...
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Schanzengraben
Schanzengraben is a moat and a section of the northwestern extension of the '' Seeuferanlage'' promenades that were built between 1881 and 1887 in Zurich, Switzerland. Schanzengraben is, among the adjoint ''Katz'' bastion at the Old Botanical Garden and the so-called ''Bauschänzli'' bulwark, one of the last remains of the Baroque fortifications of Zürich. The area of the moat is also an inner-city recreation area and a public park. Geography Schanzengraben is one of the two present effluences of the Lake Zurich, located around south of the Limmat, and situated at the historical '' Alpenquai'' lake shore area, between Bürkliplatz and General-Guisan-Quai. It marks the border of the inner-city districts of ''Enge'' and ''City'', and flows after about into the Sihl, at the western side of Zürich Hauptbahnhof where ''Gessnerallee'' and ''Usteristrasse'' cross the ''Gessner'' bridge. In fact, the moat was built outside of the historical core of the medieval town of Zürich, ...
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Land Restoration
Land restoration, which may include renaturalisation or rewilding, is the process of restoring land to a different or previous state with an intended purpose. That purpose can be a variety of things such as what follows: being safe for humans, plants, and animals; stabilizing ecological communities; cleaning up pollution; creating novel ecosystems; or restoring the land to a historical condition, for example how indigenous people managed the land. Ecological destruction or degradation, to which land restoration serves as an antidote, is usually the consequence of human influence's intended or unintended consequences. This can include pollution, deforestation, salination, or species endangerment, among many more. Land restoration is not the same as land reclamation, where existing ecosystems are altered or destroyed to give way for cultivation or construction. Land restoration can enhance the supply of valuable ecosystem services that benefit people. Initial steps In order to ...
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Common Nase
The common nase (''Chondrostoma nasus'') is a European potamodromous cyprinid fish. It is often simply called the nase, but that can refer to any species of its genus '' Chondrostoma''. Another name is sneep. Distribution The nase is found naturally in drainages of the Black Sea (Danube, Dniestr, Southern Bug, Dniepr), the southern Baltic Sea ( Nieman, Odra, Vistula) and the southern North Sea (to Meuse in the west). Moreover, it has been introduced to the Rhône, Loire, Hérault, and Soca/Isonzo (Italy, Slovenia) drainages. It is a migratory fish. Appearance The nase has a spindle shaped physique, with a blue-grey metallic-coloured scales and orange tail. It has relatively sharp lower lip. Generally, the fish range from in length, and weigh about . However, specimens have been recorded up to long and in weight. The maximum recorded life span of the fish is 15 years. Biology This gregarious species is found in deep water with a fast current, often in the back wate ...
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Deck (bridge)
A deck is the surface of a bridge. A structural element of its superstructure, it may be constructed of concrete, steel Steel is an alloy of iron and carbon that demonstrates improved mechanical properties compared to the pure form of iron. Due to steel's high Young's modulus, elastic modulus, Yield (engineering), yield strength, Fracture, fracture strength a ..., grating, open grating, or wood. Sometimes the deck is covered by a track ballast, railroad bed and railroad track, track, asphalt concrete, or other form of pavement (material), pavement for ease of vehicle crossing. A concrete deck may be an integral part of the bridge structure (T-beam or double tee structure) or it may be supported with I-beams or steel girders. When a bridge deck is installed in a through truss, it is sometimes called a floor system. A suspended bridge deck will be suspended from the main structural elements on a suspension or arch bridge. On some bridges, such as a Tied-arch bridge, tied- ...
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Sihl
The Sihl is a Switzerland, Swiss river that rises near the Druesberg mountain in the canton of Schwyz, and eventually flows into the Limmat in the centre of the Zürich, city of Zürich, after crossing the Zürich–Winterthur railway at . It has a length of , including the Sihlsee reservoir, through which the river flows. Water is abstracted from the river at the Sihlsee, leading to decreased downstream water flows and a consequent reduction in water quality. The river flows through, or along the border of, the cantons of Canton of Schwyz, Schwyz, Canton of Zürich, Zürich and Canton of Zug, Zug. The main settlements of the Sihl Valley are all in the canton of Zürich, and include the towns of Langnau am Albis and Adliswil, along with a south-western segment of the city of Zürich. Above Langnau am Albis, some from the confluence with the Limmat, there are no major settlements alongside the river, and only a few small villages. Whilst the Einsiedeln, Switzerland, town of Einsied ...
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Flood Management
Flood management or flood control are methods used to reduce or prevent the detrimental effects of flood waters. Flooding can be caused by a mix of both natural processes, such as extreme weather upstream, and human changes to waterbodies and runoff. Flood management methods can be either of the ''structural'' type (i.e. flood control) and of the ''non-structural'' type. Structural methods hold back floodwaters physically, while non-structural methods do not. Building hard infrastructure to prevent flooding, such as flood walls, is effective at managing flooding. However, it is best practice within landscape engineering to rely more on soft infrastructure and natural systems, such as marshes and flood plains, for handling the increase in water. Flood management can include ''flood risk management,'' which focuses on measures to reduce risk, vulnerability and exposure to flood disasters and providing risk analysis through, for example, flood risk assessment. ''Flood mitigation'' ...
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Taxi Stand
A taxicab stand (also called taxi rank, cab stand, taxi stand, cab rank, or hack stand) is a queue area on a street or on private property where taxicabs line up to wait for passengers. Operation Stands are normally located at high-traffic locations such as airports, hotel driveways, railway stations, rapid transit, subway stations, bus depots, ferry terminals, shopping mall, shopping centres, and major street intersections. Usually stands are marked by simple painted signs. Stands generally work as a first-come, first-served queue, so that the first taxicab to arrive on the stand (the one at the front of the line) serves the first passenger to arrive, and as the first taxicab leaves, each taxicab behind it moves ahead one spot, with the last taxicab to arrive taking the last spot. In the Republic of Ireland an intending passenger is entitled to choose any taxicab that is available for hire at an appointed taxi stand. The Commission for Taxi Regulation has deemed that the cu ...
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