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Explore Zürich (Kreis 6)
The district Zürich (Kreis 6) of Zürich in Bezirk Zürich (Canton of Zurich) with it's 29,951 inhabitants Zürich (Kreis 6) is located in Switzerland about 60 mi north-east of Bern, the country's capital.
If you need a place to sleep, we compiled a list of available hotels close to the map centre further down the page.
Depending on your travel schedule, you might want to pay a visit to some of the following locations: Dielsdorf, Bulach, Horgen, Affoltern am Albis and Meilen. To further explore this place, just scroll down and browse the available info.
Local weather forecast
Todays Local Weather Conditions & Forecast: 3°C / 37 °F
Morning Temperature | 1°C / 34 °F |
Evening Temperature | 2°C / 36 °F |
Night Temperature | -1°C / 31 °F |
Chance of rainfall | 0% |
Air Humidity | 70% |
Air Pressure | 1027 hPa |
Wind Speed | Light breeze with 4 km/h (2 mph) from South-West |
Cloud Conditions | Overcast clouds, covering 100% of sky |
General Conditions | Overcast clouds |
Thursday, 12th of December 2024
3°C (37 °F)
-1°C (30 °F)
Few clouds, calm.
Friday, 13th of December 2024
3°C (38 °F)
-1°C (31 °F)
Sky is clear, calm, clear sky.
Saturday, 14th of December 2024
4°C (39 °F)
3°C (37 °F)
Light rain, light breeze, broken clouds.
Hotels and Places to Stay
Leonardo Boutique Hotel Rigihof
EMA House Hotel Suites
Zurich Marriott Hotel
Hotel Continental Zurich - MGallery by Sofitel
Hotel Schweizerhof Zürich
Krone Unterstrass
Central Plaza
Coronado
Leoneck Swiss Hotel
Townhouse Boutique
Videos from this area
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Trams in Zurich 2012-03-10 and 2012-03-11 50fps
Trams sprinkled with trolleybuses and S-bahn in Zurich 2012-03-10 Glattalbahn 00:05 Auzelg 01:52 Wallisellen 04:28 Glatt 06:32 Neugut 07:38 riding a Cobra tram from Giessen to Bahnhof Stettbach...
Zurich S-Bahn S16
Von Herrliberg-Feldmeilen zum Zürich HB. Front view camera. Herrliberg-Feldmeilen, Winkel, Erlenbach, Küsnacht, Küsnacht Goldbach, Zollikon, Tiefenbrunnen, Zürich Stadelhofen, Zürich HB.
Zurich Street Food - Doner Kebab (aka Shawarma or Gyro)
Was this the best Doner Kebab I've ever eaten? YES. Was this the best food of any kind that I've eaten? PRETTY CLOSE. I recorded this video at a Snack Bar in Zürich Hauptbahnhof, the main...
Trams in Zurich June 2012 - Strassenbahnen in Zürich Juni 2012
High and Low Floor Trams operating for VBZ Zurich. Tram 2000 Motors and Trailers 2001 - 2045 and 2301- 2315 delivered 1976 -1978 Built by SWS / SIG / BBC 2046 - 2098 and 2401 -2420 delivered.
2012 New Year Fireworks Zurich
The fireworks on Zurich lake as seen from the bridge near Central. Far enough away that the sound takes a couple of seconds to catch up. Watch for the geometric shapes and the smiley faces....
City Night Line with SBB Re460 departing from Zurich Hbf. and Re 4/4II runing after the CNL
This video was taken on 2010.06.12. The Re4/4 pulled the CNL when the train came into the departing gleis. (Re460が牽引するシティナイトライン。2010年6月12日チューリッヒに...
Seilbahn Rigiblick
Seilbahn Rigiblick. Funicular railway in the city of Zurich, Switzerland. It links Universitätstrasse to the Zürichberg hill.
Smooth Shape-Aware Functions with Controlled Extrema
Accompanying video for our SGP 2012 paper, "Smooth Shape-Aware Functions with Controlled Extrema". A collaboration between Alec Jacobson (ETH Zurich), Tino Weinkauf (MPI Informatik, ...
Fabian Jenny - FameLab Zurich 2012, Regional Competition
The first FameLab competition took place at the theater hall of the University of Zurich on Saturday, 14th of January. Of the nine candidates, 5 were selected to participate in the weekend...
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Attractions and noteworthy things
Distances are based on the centre of the city/town and sightseeing location. This list contains brief abstracts about monuments, holiday activities, national parcs, museums, organisations and more from the area as well as interesting facts about the region itself. Where available, you'll find the corresponding homepage. Otherwise the related wikipedia article.
ETH Zurich
ETH Zürich (German: Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, English: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich) is an engineering, science, technology, mathematics and management university in the City of Zurich, Switzerland. Like its sister institution École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), it is an integral part of the ETH Domain that is directly subordinate to Switzerland's Federal Department of Home Affairs.
Zürich Hauptbahnhof
Zürich Hauptbahnhof (often shortened to Zürich HB) (English: Zurich Main Station) is the largest railway station in Switzerland. Zurich is a major railway hub, with services to and from across Switzerland and neighbouring European countries such as Germany, Italy, Austria and France. Constructed as the terminus of the Spanisch Brötli Bahn, the first railway built completely within Switzerland, it is one of the oldest railway stations in Switzerland.
Milchbuck Tunnel
The Milchbuck Tunnel is a motor road tunnel in Switzerland, and forms part of the A1L motorway from Zürich Schwamendingen to Zürich Letten. The tunnel, constructed in 1978, is 1.8 km long. The southwestern end lies on Wasserwerkstrasse, which leads into central Zürich {{#invoke:Coordinates|coord}}{{#coordinates:47.3853|N|8.5369|E|type:landmark_region:CH-ZH|||| |primary |name= }}. A proposed second tunnel bore (to create two separate tunnels for two directions of traffic) was turned down.
Schweizer Radio DRS
Schweizer Radio: Radio der deutschen und rätoromanischen Schweiz (SR DRS) (SR GRS) is a company of SRG SSR. On 1 January 2011, Schweizer Fernsehen (SF) and Schweizer Radio DRS began the process of merging the two entities into Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (SRF). On 16 December 2012, the merger was complete, with SF and SR DSR adopting the SRF name to their television and radio stations.
Bahnhofstrasse
Bahnhofstrasse is Zurich's main downtown street and one of the world's most expensive and exclusive shopping avenues. In 2011, a study has named the Bahnhofstrasse the most expensive street for retail property in Europe, and the third most expensive worldwide. It came into existence when the city fortifications were demolished and the ditch in front of the walls was filled in in 1864.
Sihl
The Sihl is a river of Switzerland. It rises at Drusberg in the Canton of Schwyz. It passes through the Sihlsee near Einsiedeln, and then enters the Canton of Zurich, flowing through the Sihl valley (Sihltal) at the foot of the Albis, passing the Sihlwald, the largest remaining deciduous forest of the Swiss plateau, near Langnau am Albis. In Zurich the Sihl flows underneath Zürich Hauptbahnhof (parts of the station are actually built below the Sihl), before joining the Limmat.
Antiquarische Gesellschaft in Zürich
The Antiquarische Gesellschaft in Zürich (Antiquarian Society of Zürich), often shortened to Antiquarische or AGZ, is an association concerned with the study and preservation of the history of the canton of Zürich. The society has its headquarters next to the public records of Zürich.
Swiss National Museum
The Swiss National Museum — part of the Musée Suisse Group, itself affiliated with the Federal Office of Culture — is one of the most important art museums of cultural history in Europe and the world. It is located in the city of Zurich, Switzerland's largest city, next to the Hauptbahnhof. The museum building of 1898 in the historicist style was built by Gustav Gull in the form of the French Renaissance city chateaus.
Polybahn funicular
The Polybahn, also known as the UBS Polybahn, is a funicular railway in the centre of the city of Zurich, Switzerland. Previous names for the line include the SBG Polybahn and the Zürichbergbahn. The line is owned by the banking group UBS AG, and operated on their behalf by the municipal transport operator Verkehrsbetriebe Zürich.
District 6 (Zurich)
District 6 is a district north of the old town in the Swiss city of Zurich. The district comprises the quarters Unterstrass and Oberstrass. Both entities were formerly municipalities of their own, but were incorporated into Zurich in 1893.
Oberstrass
Oberstrass is a quarter in the district 6 in Zurich. It was formerly a municipality of its own, having been incorporated into Zurich in 1893. The quarter has a population of 9,494 distributed on an area of 2.64 km².
Unterstrass
Unterstrass is a quarter in the district 6 in Zurich. It was formerly a municipality of its own, having been incorporated into Zurich in 1893. The quarter has a population of 19,921 distributed on an area of 2.46 km².
Seebach (Zurich)
Seebach is a quarter in the district 11 of Zurich, located in the Glatt Valley . It was formerly a municipality of its own, having been incorporated into Zurich in 1934. The quarter has a population of 19,879 distributed on an area of 4.72 km².
Uhrenmuseum zum Rösli
The Uhrenmuseum zum Rösli is a small horological museum in Zurich, Switzerland that was founded in 2006. The museum is open by appointment and located in a historic building on Röslistrasse 46, about 3 kilometers north of the city center on the route to Oerlikon (Take Streetcar no. 7 to stop Röslistrasse).
Museum of Design, Zurich
The Museum of Design, Zurich is a museum for industrial design, visual communication, architecture, and craft in Zurich, Switzerland.
University Hospital Zurich
The University Hospital Zurich is the university hospital of Zürich, Switzerland. It is the country's largest hospital. The first hospital in Zürich, whose continuation the University Hospital ultimately is, is recorded as having existed as early as 1204. The name, location and buildings have since changed many times. As of 2008, the hospital employs a staff of 6,100, providing medical care to 160,000 ambulant and over 30,000 stationary patients each year in 42 clinics.
Gewerbeschule (Zurich)
Gewerbeschule is a quarter in the district 5 in Zurich. The district Gewerbeschule (upper district 5, there are located several Business schools) formed the formerly separate municipality of Aussersihl, which was incorporated into Zurich in 1893. The separation into the current districts 3, 4 and 5 dates to 1913. The quarter has a population of 9,690 distributed on an area of 0.73 km².
Zurich District
Zurich District is a district of the Swiss canton of Zurich in Switzerland.
A.V. Turicia
AV Turicia is a color-bearing student society in Zürich. It was founded in 1860. It is a section of the Swiss Student Association and a member of the "Federation of Student Komment Societies" (also known as "Block"). It is the oldest university group within the Federation, which was founded in 1841.
Laboratory for Energy Conversion
The Laboratory for Energy Conversion (LEC) formerly known as Turbomachinery Laboratory (LSM) was founded in 1892 by Aurel Boleslav Stodola. As part of the Federal Institute of Technology Zurich. The laboratory has been headed by some of the most prominent mechanical engineers in the history of turbomachinery.
BWI Center for Industrial Management
The BWI Center for Industrial Management at the ETH Zürich (formerly Institute of Industrial Engineering and Management of the ETH) conducts enterprise research as well as education and services for the ETH and commercial enterprises.
Rigiblick funicular
The Rigiblick funicular is a funicular railway in the north-east of the city of Zurich, Switzerland. It links a lower station served by tram lines 9 and 10 and trolley bus line 33, with an upper station at Rigiblick on the Zürichberg hill. The Rigiblick funicular is one of two funiculars within the city of Zurich, the other being the Polybahn funicular in the city centre.
Zürich Wipkingen railway station
Zürich Wipkingen is a railway station in the Wipkingen quarter of the Swiss city of Zürich. It is served by lines S2, S8 and S14 of the Zürich S-Bahn.
Zurich Letten railway station
Zurich Letten is a former railway station in the Swiss city of Zurich. It is situated on the old route of the Lake Zurich right bank railway (Rechtsufrige Zürichseebahn) from Zurich Hbf station to Rapperswil station. Radical changes to the local railway geography led to the closure of the station in 1990, but the station building still exists, and the trackbed is used as a pedestrian path.
Platzspitz park
The Platzspitz park is a park in Zurich, located next to the Swiss National Museum. History of the park goes back to the Middle Ages. Positioned between the Sihl and Limmat rivers, it was originally used as a hunting and shooting ground in the 14th century, and by the end of the 18th century the park was also adorned with beautiful Baroque architecture.