Oberwinterthur District of the city of Winterthur | |
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District | |
Country | Switzerland |
Canton | Zürich |
City | Winterthur |
Area | |
• Total | 17.40 km2 (6.72 sq mi) |
Population (31. Dec. 2012) | |
• Total | 21,748 |
District number | 2 |
Quarters | Talacker Guggenbühl Zinzikon Reutlingen Stadel Grüze Hegmatten Hegi |
Oberwinterthur is a district in the Swiss city of Winterthur. It is district number 2.
The district comprises the quarters Talacker, Guggenbühl, Zinzikon, Reutlingen, Stadel, Grüze, Hegmatten and Hegi.
Oberwinterthur was formerly a municipality of its own, but was incorporated into Winterthur in 1922, and the location of the Roman Vicus Vitudurum .
Oberwinterthur railway station is a stop of the Zürich S-Bahn on the lines S8, S29 and S30.
Winterthur is a city in the canton of Zürich in northern Switzerland. With over 110,000 residents it is the country's sixth-largest city by population, and is the ninth-largest agglomeration with about 140,000 inhabitants. Located about 20 kilometres (12 mi) northeast of Zürich, Winterthur is a service and high-tech industrial satellite city within Greater Zürich.
The S29 is a regional railway line of the Zürich S-Bahn on the ZVV, in the cantons of Zürich, Thurgau and Schaffhausen.
Wülflingen is a district in the Swiss city of Winterthur, situated in the lower Töss Valley. It is district number six, and comprises the quarters Weinberg, Oberfeld, Lindenplatz, Niederfeld, Neuburg, Hardau, Härti and Taggenberg.
Guggenbühl is a quarter in the district 2 of Winterthur.
Talacker is a quarter in the district 2 of Winterthur.
Hegi is a quarter in the district 2 of Winterthur.
Ricketwil is a quarter and a hamlet with 91 inhabitants (2007) in the district 2 of Winterthur.
Zinzikon is a quarter in the district 2 of Winterthur.
Stadel is a quarter in the district 2 of Winterthur.
Grüze is a quarter in the district 2 of Winterthur, Switzerland.
Hegmatten is a quarter in the district 2 of Winterthur.
Reutlingen is a quarter in the district 2 of Winterthur.
Winterthur railway station is the principal railway station of Winterthur, in the Swiss canton of Zürich. The station is listed on the Swiss Inventory of Cultural Property of National Significance.
Oberwinterthur railway station is a railway station that serves Oberwinterthur, which is district number 2 in Winterthur, a city in the Canton of Zurich, Switzerland.
The S24 is a regional railway line of the Zürich S-Bahn of the Zürcher Verkehrsverbund (ZVV), Zürich transportation network. The line was significantly extended in June 2014, and again in December 2015, and has subsumed the S21 line previously providing service in parts of its extended route.
The S30 is a regional railway line of the Zürich S-Bahn on the ZVV. It connects the cantons of Zürich and Thurgau, Switzerland, with some services extending to the canton of St. Gallen.
The Winterthur–Etzwilen railway line is a railway line in Switzerland. It links Winterthur in the canton of Zurich with Etzwilen in the canton of Thurgau. The line is 31.81 kilometres (19.77 mi) long, standard gauge, single track and electrified at 15 kV 16.7 Hz AC supplied by overhead line.
The Winterthur tramway network was part of the public transport network of the city of Winterthur, in the canton of Zürich, Switzerland, for more than 50 years.
Vitudurum is the name of a Roman vicus, those remains are located in Oberwinterthur, a locality of the municipality of Winterthur in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland.
The Winterthur–Romanshorn railway, also known in German as the Thurtallinie, is a Swiss railway line and was built as part of the railway between Zürich and Lake Constance (Bodensee). It connects Winterthur with Romanshorn, where it formerly connected to train ferries over Lake Constance. It is the fourth oldest internal railway in Switzerland. Its construction was to be funded by the Zürich-Lake Constance Railway (Zürich-Bodenseebahn), but during the construction the company was merged with the Swiss Northern Railway to form the Swiss Northeastern Railway. The Winterthur–Romanshorn railway was opened on 16 May 1855 and the line from Winterthur to Oerlikon was opened on 27 December 1855. Zürich was reached on 26 June 1856 and the two existing NOB lines were connected.
Coordinates: 47°31′01″N8°46′08″E / 47.517°N 8.769°E