Weinegg is a quarter in

District 8 District 8 can refer to: *District 8 Jakarta, in Indonesia * District 8 (Ho Chi Minh City), in Vietnam *VIII District, Turku, in Finland * VIII District, Budapest, in Hungary * Riesbach, also known as District 8, in Zürich, Switzerland * District ...

Zürich 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 ...

Geography and demographics

Weinegg was formerly a part of Riesbach municipality, which was incorporated into Zürich in 1893. The quarter has a population of 4,951 distributed on an area of 1.72 km².

Enzenbühl and Rehalp cemeteries

In 1902 ''Enzenbühl'' was, after the old ''Neumünster'' and ''Rehalp'' cemeteries, the third expansion phase for the growing needs of northeastern Zürich. Arnold Geiser, the city's chief engineer, designed an architecturally simple cemetery with longitudinal and transverse axes, surrounded by high, circular walls. Geiser positioned the abdication chapel, which was built in the Gothic Revival style, at the highest area of the westward sloping plant. In 1934, the cemetery grounds were expanded to their present size. ''Friedhof Enzenbühl'', a cemetery whose area is shared with the

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, became the resting place of some popular people, among them Inigo Gallo, César Keiser and

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. Friedhof Enzenbühl - Kapelle 2015-11-06 15-51-28.JPG, Enzenbühl, cemetery chapel Friedhof Enzenbühl - Grab César 'Cés' Keiser 2015-11-06 15-48-31.JPG, grave of César Keiser Friedhof Enzenbühl - Grab Margrit Rainer, Susanne Gallo-De Santi und Inigo Gallo 2015-11-06 15-58-08.JPG, grave of

, Inigo Gallo and his wife of second marriage Heinrich Federer Grab.jpg, grave of

Heinrich Federer Heinrich Federer (6 October 1866 – 29 April 1928) was a Swiss writer and Catholic priest. Biography Federer was born on 6 October 1866 in the Bernese village of Brienz. His father, Johann Paul Federer, was a wood carver and school teacher ...

Culture

The fictitious 2007 Swiss mystery film '' Marmorea'' was filmed among others, in the ''

Burghölzli Burghölzli, named after the wooded hill in the district of Riesbach in southeastern Zürich where it is located, is the ''Psychiatrische Universitätsklinik Zürich'' ('Psychiatric University Hospital Zürich'), a psychiatric hospital in Switzerl ...

'' sanatory in the Weinegg district, on the

Limmat River 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 A ...

near

Technopark Zürich Technopark Zürich is a technopark research park based in the municipality of Zürich in the Canton of Zürich in Switzerland. History Technopark Zürich was established in 1993. Its stated purpose was to provide rooms, offices and other spac ...

, at the

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

promenade, and on the Münsterbrücke river crossing towards

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

Gallery

File:Zürich - Burghölzli - Weinegg.jpg, «Burghölzli» hill (in the middle),

Lake Zurich Lake Zurich (, ; ) is a lake in Switzerland, extending southeast of the city of Zurich. Depending on the context, Lake Zurich or can be used to describe the lake as a whole, or just that part of the lake downstream of the Hurden peninsula and ...

and

Albis The Albis is a chain of hills in the Canton of Zürich, Switzerland. Localisation A paronamic tower allows to observe the landscape. Picture gallery Albis - Balderen IMG 3281.jpg, Hiking trail from Felsenegg to Uetliberg __NOTOC__ ...

chains in the background File:Zürich - Botanischer Garten - Gewächshäuser.jpg, Botanical Garden, Greenhouses, seen from the West File:Zürich - Weinegg Quartierhof IMG 1890.jpg, Estate (Quartierhof) Weinegg

References

{{Quarters of Zürich District 8 of Zurich