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Wiedikon is a district in the
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city of
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. It corresponds to District number 3 and comprises the neighborhoods of
Alt-Wiedikon Alt-Wiedikon is a quarter in the district 3 of Zürich. It was formerly a part of Wiedikon Wiedikon is a district in the Swiss city of Zurich Zurich (; ) is the list of cities in Switzerland, largest city in Switzerland and the capi ...
,
Sihlfeld Sihlfeld is a quarter in the district 3 of Zürich. It was formerly a part of Wiedikon Wiedikon is a district in the Swiss city of Zurich Zurich (; ) is the list of cities in Switzerland, largest city in Switzerland and the capital of ...
and
Friesenberg Friesenberg is a district at the foot of the Uetliberg in the city of Zurich in Switzerland. The district is part of the formerly independent municipality of Wiedikon, which was incorporated in 1893 and now forms urban district 3. Geography ...
. Wiedikon was formerly a municipality of its own, having been incorporated into Zurich in 1893.


Transportation

The municipality is located on the A3 motorway.
Zürich Wiedikon railway station Zürich Wiedikon railway station () is a railway station on the Zürich S-Bahn system in Wiedikon in the western part of the Swiss city of Zürich. It is the only railway station in Switzerland where the ticket office building is located on a b ...
is a stop of the
Zürich S-Bahn The Zurich S-Bahn () system is a network of rail lines that has been incrementally expanded to cover the ZVV area, which comprises the entire canton of Zurich and portions of neighbouring cantons (Aargau, Glarus, Schaffhausen, Schwyz, ...
on the lines S2, S8 and S21. The head office of
Sihltal Zürich Uetliberg Bahn The ''Sihltal Zürich Uetliberg Bahn AG'' () – commonly abbreviated to SZU – is a public transport company and network in the Cantons of Switzerland, Swiss canton of canton of Zurich, Zurich. The network comprises the Uetliberg railway line, ...
(SZU) is located in Wiedikon.


References

3 Former municipalities of the canton of Zürich {{Zurich-geo-stub