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Schipfe quarter, Limmat, Lindenhof hill and Käferberg (in the background), as seen from Grossmünster (April 2010). The Lindenhof ("linden yard") is a moraine hill and public square in the historic center of Zurich, Switzerland.
Lindenhof, Sihlbühl and Schipfe by Hans Leu d.Ä. in the probably 1490s Celtic, Roman and medieval remains at Lindenhofkeller. [2]At the flat shore of Lake Zurich, there are Neolithic and Bronze Age (4500 to 850 BC) finds, most of them related to the lakeside settlements Kleiner Hafner and Grosser Hafner (both small former islands west of Sechseläutenplatz, near Bauschänzli at the ...
Population of towns (2022) Below is a list of towns and cities in Switzerland.Until 2014 municipalities with more than 10,000 inhabitants were considered to be towns (German: Stadt/Städte, French: ville(s), Italian: città).
Since 2013, the international Literaturfestival Zürich takes place annually in Zurich, presented by Literaturhaus Zürich and Kaufleuten. Zurich hosted the 1998 Men's Ice Hockey World Championships. The city previously co-hosted the 1953 and 1939 championships. Zurich was also host to the 2012 Men's World Floorball Championships. This was the ...
One such site, Zurich–Enge Alpenquai, is located on the Lake Zurich shore in Enge, a locality of the municipality of Zurich. It was neighbored by similar settlements at Kleiner Hafner and Grosser Hafner on what was then a peninsula in the effluence of the lake, within an area of about 0.2 km 2 (0.077 sq mi) within the present city of Zurich.
The Lindenhof remained a place of civil assembly into modern times. In 1798, the citizens of Zurich swore the oath to the constitution of the Helvetic Republic on the Lindenhof. In 1851, the Modestia cum Libertate Masonic Lodge (established in 1771) bought the residence Zum Paradies and built a masonic building on the southern side of the square.
Sechseläutenplatz is located on the east shore of Lake Zurich, just south of the lake's outflow to the river Limmat and the Schanzengraben moat. The plaza is bounded to the south by the linked Opernhaus and Bernhardtheater buildings; to the west by the Utoquai lakeside promenade; and to the east by Theaterstrasse, across which is Stadelhoferplatz, with the Stadelhofen railway station and the ...
The Museum as seen from the Platzspitz park A rooftopper on a crane over the swiss national museum in winter at the time of the christmas event.. The Swiss National Museum (German: Landesmuseum) is a museum in Zurich, Switzerland's largest city, adjacent to Central Station and the Platzspitz park.