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Zurich
Zurich (; ) is the list of cities in Switzerland, largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zurich. It is in north-central Switzerland, at the northwestern tip of Lake Zurich. , the municipality had 448,664 inhabitants. The Urban agglomeration, urban area was home to 1.45 million people (2020), while the Zurich Metropolitan Area, Zurich metropolitan area had a total population of 2.1 million (2020). Zurich is a hub for railways, roads, and air traffic. Both Zurich Airport and Zürich Hauptbahnhof, Zurich's main railway station are the largest and busiest in the country. Permanently settled for over 2,000 years, Zurich was founded by the Roman Empire, Romans, who called it '. However, early settlements have been found dating back more than 6,400 years (although this only indicates human presence in the area and not the presence of a town that early). During the Middle Ages, Zurich gained the independent and privileged status of imperial immediacy and, in 1519 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ETH Zurich
ETH Zurich (; ) is a public university in Zurich, Switzerland. Founded in 1854 with the stated mission to educate engineers and scientists, the university focuses primarily on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. ETH Zurich ranks among Europe's best universities. Like its sister institution École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, EPFL, ETH Zurich is part of the ETH Domain, Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology Domain, a consortium of universities and research institutes under the Swiss Federal Department of Economic Affairs, Education and Research. , ETH Zurich enrolled 25,380 students from over 120 countries, of which 4,425 were pursuing doctoral degrees. Students, faculty, and researchers affiliated with ETH Zurich include 22 Nobel Prize, Nobel laureates, two Fields Medalists, three Pritzker Architecture Prize, Pritzker Prize winners, and one Turing Award, Turing Award recipient, including Albert Einstein and John von Neumann. It is a founding member o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Altstadt (Zürich)
The Altstadt ( German for "old town") in the Swiss city of Zurich encompasses the area of the entire historical city before 1893, before the incorporation of what are now districts 2 to 12 into the municipality, over the period 1893 to 1934. ''Die Altstadt'' approximately corresponds to the area enclosed by the former city ramparts, and is today within the administrative area of the city called Kreis 1 (District 1). With a population of 5,617 (as of 2015), it houses about 1.4% of the city's total population. Administratively, District 1 is divided into four parts or quarters by the Zurich statistical office, Rathaus (town hall), Hochschulen (universities), Lindenhof ("lime trees courtyard") and City. ''Lindenhof'' and ''Rathaus'' correspond to the parts of the medieval city left (west) and right (east) of the Limmat, respectively, while ''City'' and ''Hochschulen'' include the area of the Early Modern city west and east of the medieval walls, respectively. Lindenhof Der Li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Cities In Switzerland
Below is a list of towns and City, cities in Switzerland. Until 2014 Municipality, municipalities with more than 10,000 inhabitants were considered to be towns (, , ). Since 2014, the Federal Statistical Office (Switzerland), Federal Statistical Office (FSO) uses a new algorithm (called , or ) to define whether a municipality can be called a town or not; it now also depends on its character. Currently, FSO considers 162 municipalities as towns/cities (, ) in Switzerland. Further, some municipalities which would fulfill such a definition nevertheless prefer to understand themselves still as a village, or consequently refer to themselves just as municipalities (, , ). The Swiss definition of a town differs from the definition of a Municipalities of Switzerland, municipality. List of towns and cities This is an alphabetical list of towns or cities (these English terms can be used interchangeably, as there is no official differentiation), which follows the FSO's definition (, ), as w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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, continuing a further 35 km until it reaches the river Aare. The confluence is located north of the small town of Brugg, Aargau, Brugg and shortly after the mouth of the Reuss (river), Reuss. The main towns along the Limmat Valley downstream of Zurich are Dietikon, Wettingen, and Baden, Switzerland, Baden. Its main tributaries are the Linth, Wägitalersee, Wägitaler Aa and Jona (river), Jona, all via Lake Zurich, the Sihl in Zurich, and the Reppisch in Dietikon. The hydronym is first attested in the 8th century, as ''Lindimacus''. It is of Gaulish language, Gaulish origin, from ''*lindo-'' "lake" (Welsh language, Welsh ''llyn'') and ''*magos'' "plain" (Welsh ''maes''), and was thus presumably in origin the name of the plain formed by the Linth. Power generation Like many Swiss rivers, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adliswil
Adliswil is a town and a municipality in the district of Horgen in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland. The official language of Adliswil is (the Swiss variety of Standard) German, but the main spoken language is the local variant of the Alemannic Swiss German dialect. History Adliswil is first mentioned in 1050 as ''Adelenswile''. In the second half of the 12th Century it was mentioned as ''Adololdiswile'' and in 1248 as ''Adeloswile''. Under the Helvetic Republic, the hamlet of Buchenegg was transferred to the municipality of Stallikon. In 1893 the town sections of Oberleimbach and Sood were added to Adliswil. Geography Adliswil has an area of . Of this area, 23.4% is used for agricultural purposes, while 32.1% is forested. The rest of the land, 42.9% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (1.7%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains). housing and buildings made up 32.6% of the total area, while transportation infrastructure made up the rest (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zurich Opera House
The Zurich Opera House () is an opera house in the Swiss city of Zurich. Located at the Sechseläutenplatz, it has been the home of the Zurich Opera since 1891, and also houses the Bernhard-Theater Zürich. It is also home to Ballett Zürich. It received the "Opera Company of the Year" award at the 2014 International Opera Awards. History The first permanent theatre in Zurich, the , was built in 1834 and it became the focus of Richard Wagner’s activities during his period of exile from Germany. The burnt down in 1890. The new (municipal theatre) was built by the Viennese architects Fellner & Helmer, who changed their previous design for the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden, theatre in Wiesbaden only slightly. It was built in only 16 months and was opened in 1891 and became the first opera house in Europe to have electrical lighting. It was the city's main performance space for drama, opera, and musical events until 1925, when the Bernhard Theater was built for separ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corine Mauch
Corine Mauch (born 28 May 1960) is an American-born Swiss politician who currently serves as Mayor of Zurich since 2009. She previously served on the city council of Zürich between 1999 and 2008 for the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland (of which she was a member since 1990). Mauch is the first female and first openly lesbian person to be elected mayor of the city. Early life Corine Mauch was born 28 May 1960 in Iowa City, Iowa to Samuel Mauch, an engineer, and Ursula Mauch (née Widmer), a chemistry teacher. Mauch lived in Boston, where her father worked at MIT as a doctoral student, until age four. Her family then moved back to the rural village of Oberlunkhofen in Switzerland, though Mauch spent another year in the US at age ten. In Oberlunkhofen, Mauch and her two younger brothers were the only protestant students in the school. In 1976, Samuel and Ursula Mauch founded , a research and consulting agency focused on sustainable development. In 1979, Ursula Mauch bec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uetliberg
__NOTOC__ The Uetliberg (also known as Üetliberg) is a mountain in the Swiss plateau, part of the Albis chain, rising to . The mountain offers a panoramic view of the entire city of Zürich (to the northeast of its summit), Zürichberg and Lake Zurich (both to the east), and lies on the boundary between the city of Zurich and the municipalities of Stallikon and Uitikon in the canton of Zurich. The summit, known as Uto Kulm, is in Stallikon. Uetliberg is the '' Hausberg'' of Zurich. At the summit, there is the Hotel Uto Kulm, together with two towers. One of these is a look-out tower (access costs , rebuilt 1990), whilst the other is the tall Uetliberg TV-tower (rebuilt 1990). Transport The summit is accessible year-round by train from Zurich. Uetliberg railway station lies some from, and below, the summit of the Uetliberg. It is the upper terminus of the Uetliberg line from Zurich Central Station (), which is operated by Zurich S-Bahn service S10. Trains usually ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Schlieren, Zurich
Schlieren ( Zürich German ''Schlierä'') is a municipality in the district of Dietikon in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland. History The oldest artifact discovered in the Canton of Zürich is a Stone Age Neanderthal hand axe which was found in Schlieren, and dates back to approximately 100,000 BCE. Schlieren was first mentioned in 828. Until 1415, Schlieren belonged to Habsburg. After the conquest of Aargau by the Swiss Confederates it was a component of the county of Baden. In 1803 Schlieren was assigned to the Canton of Zürich. In 1777 the minister Heinrich Keller created here the first "deaf-mute school" in Switzerland. In the late 1800s, Schlieren began evolving from a rural agricultural village into a burgeoning urban town, a change driven by the industrial revolution. Thanks to the proximity to the city of Zürich and the good traffic facilities (Tram, S-Bahn), Schlieren showed a population growth of 10,000 since the 1930s. Schlieren was considered for inclusion o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kilchberg, Zurich
Kilchberg (High Alemannic German, High Alemannic: ''Chilchbèèrg'') is a Municipalities of Switzerland, municipality in the district of Horgen (district), Horgen in the Cantons of Switzerland, canton of Zürich (canton), Zürich in Switzerland. Kilchberg is the site of a regional cemetery. History Kilchberg is first mentioned in 1248 as ''Hilchberch''. In 1250 it was mentioned as ''Kilchperch''. It grew out of the Late Middle Ages, medieval village of Bendlikon (first mentioned in 1250 as ''Benklinkon'') where Kilchberg was just a section of the village. Its coat of arms is Azure a Quatrefoil Argent seeded Or. Geography Kilchberg has an area of . Of this area, 26.5% is used for agricultural purposes, while 1.9% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 71.2% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (0.4%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains). housing and buildings made up 58.1% of the total area, while transportation infrastructure made up the rest ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grossmünster
The Grossmünster (; "great minster") is a Romanesque-style Protestant church in Zürich, Switzerland. It is one of the four major churches in the city (the others being the Fraumünster, Predigerkirche, and St. Peterskirche). Its congregation forms part of the Evangelical Reformed Church of the Canton of Zürich. The core of the present building near the banks of the Limmat was constructed on the site of a Carolingian church, which was, according to legend, originally commissioned by Charlemagne. Construction of the present structure commenced around 1100 and it was inaugurated around 1220. The Grossmünster was a monastery church, vying for precedence with the Fraumünster across the Limmat throughout the Middle Ages. According to legend, the Grossmünster was founded by Charlemagne, whose horse fell to its knees over the tombs of Felix, Regula and Exuperantius, Zürich's patron saints. The legend helps support a claim of seniority over the Fraumünster, which was founded b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zurich (district)
Zurich District is a Districts of Switzerland, district () of the Switzerland, Swiss Cantons of Switzerland, canton of Canton of Zurich, Zurich in Switzerland. History In 1814, the former district of Zürich was established including the Municipalities of the canton of Zurich, municipalities – "Landgemeinden des Bezirks Zürich" (country municipalities) – surrounding the old city of Zürich, the so-called Altstadt (Zürich), Altstadt. The district of Zürich as it exists today, was created on 1 July 1989, by splitting the former district of Zürich into three parts: * The western part became the Dietikon (district), district of Dietikon; * the eastern part became the district (respectively city) of Zürich with its subdivisions;The former 19 independent municipalities of 1893 and 1934, now called ''districts'' (German: ''Kreise''), too, form the subdivisions of the city of Zürich. Their subdivisions are called ''quarters'' (German: ''Quartiere''). * the Municipalities of S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
