Wiedikon District of the city of Zurich | |
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District | |
Coordinates: 47°22′N8°31′E / 47.367°N 8.517°E | |
Country | Switzerland |
Canton | Zurich |
City | Zurich |
Area | |
• Total | 8.65 km2 (3.34 sq mi) |
Population (31. Dec. 2005) | |
• Total | 45,885 |
• Density | 5,305/km2 (13,740/sq mi) |
District Number | 3 |
Quarters | Alt-Wiedikon Sihlfeld Friesenberg |
Wiedikon is a district in the Swiss city of Zurich. It corresponds to District number 3 and comprises the neighborhoods of Alt-Wiedikon, Sihlfeld and Friesenberg.
Wiedikon was formerly a municipality of its own, having been incorporated into Zurich in 1893.
The municipality is located on the A3 motorway. Zürich Wiedikon railway station is a stop of the Zürich S-Bahn on the lines S2, S8 and S21. The head office of Sihltal Zürich Uetliberg Bahn (SZU) is located in Wiedikon.
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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 bridge above the tracks – in German, this is known as Reiterbahnhof.
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Aussersihl is a district in the Swiss city of Zürich. Known officially as District number 4, the district is known as colloquially Chreis Cheib, cheib being the Zürich German word for an animal cadaver. It earned the name as the area historically contained pits for the deposition of dead animals. It comprises the quarters Werd, Langstrasse and Hard.
Sihlfeld is a quarter in the district 3 of Zürich.
Friesenberg was a quarter in the district 3 of Zürich.
Alt-Wiedikon is a quarter in the district 3 of Zürich.
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Triemli Hospital, also known in German as Stadtspital Triemli or Triemlispital, is a major hospital in the Swiss city of Zürich. The hospital is located in the western suburbs of the city, in the Friesenberg quarter and the Wiedikon district.
Zürich Binz is a railway station in the west of the Swiss city of Zürich, in the city's Alt-Wiedikon quarter. The station is on the Uetliberg line, which is operated by the Sihltal Zürich Uetliberg Bahn (SZU).
Zürich Giesshübel is a railway station in the west of the Swiss city of Zürich, in the city's Alt-Wiedikon quarter. The station is on the Sihltal line which is operated by the Sihltal Zürich Uetliberg Bahn (SZU). Trains on the same company's Uetliberg line pass by the station without stopping, instead serving the nearby Zürich Binz station.
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 former S21 line previously providing service in parts of its extended route.
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The Zürcher Museums-Bahn (ZMB) is a heritage railway association based in the Swiss city of Zurich. It operates occasional services over the Sihltal line of the Sihltal Zürich Uetliberg Bahn, and preserves rolling stock, much of which formerly belonged to that operator.