Wiedikon District of the city of Zurich | |
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District | |
Coordinates: 47°22′N8°31′E / 47.367°N 8.517°E 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.
The A3 is a motorway in northeast Switzerland, running diagonally from France toward the southeast border, and passing by Zürich on the way. The total length of the A3 motorway spans roughly 180 kilometres (110 mi), but parts of the road share sections of the A1 and A2 motorways.
Berikon is a municipality in the district of Bremgarten in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland.
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. The station is located on the Lake Zürich left bank line, although it is now bypassed by the alternative Zimmerberg Base Tunnel routing.
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 is a quarter in the district 3 of Zürich.
Alt-Wiedikon is a quarter in the district 3 of Zürich.
Sihlcity is a shopping mall located in Zürich which was built on the ground of a former paper mill near the Sihl river in the Wiedikon district and opened on March 22, 2007.
Werd is a quarter in district 4, Aussersihl in Zürich, Switzerland. The three quarters of district 4, Aussersihl are Werd, Langstrasse and Hard.
Zürich District is a district of the Swiss canton of Zürich in Switzerland.
The S8 is a regional railway line of the S-Bahn Zürich on the Zürcher Verkehrsverbund (ZVV), Zürich transportation network, and is one of the network's lines connecting the cantons of Thurgau, Zürich and Schwyz.
The Sihltal Zürich Uetliberg Bahn AG – commonly abbreviated to SZU – is a railway company and transport network in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland. The network comprises the Uetliberg railway line and the Sihltal railway line, a cable car and a network of bus services.
The S2 is a railway service of the S-Bahn Zürich on the Zürcher Verkehrsverbund (ZVV) transportation network, and is one of the network's services connecting the canton of Zürich with the cantons of Schwyz, Glarus and St. Gallen.
Sihl Valley is a river valley and belongs to the Zimmerberg-Sihltal region located in the district of Horgen in the canton of Zurich, Switzerland. Commonly Sihltal is used as the name of the Lower Sihl Valley, i.e. the area in the southwest of the city of Zürich.
Feldmeilen is a village (Wacht) within the municipality of Meilen in the Canton of Zürich in Switzerland.
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).
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 Sihltal railway line is a railway line in the Swiss canton of Zürich, which connects the city of Zürich with the communities of the Sihl Valley. Passenger service on the line now forms part of the Zürich S-Bahn, branded as that network's service S4, and is part of the Zürcher Verkehrsverbund (ZVV) zone-based fare network.
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.
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