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Hinwil, Wetzikon, Pfäffikersee, Greifensee and Pfannstiel in the background as seen from Bachtel mountain. The Zürcher Oberland ("Zürich highlands") in Switzerland, is the hilly south-eastern part of the canton of Zürich, bordering on the Toggenburg, including the districts of Uster, Hinwil, Pfäffikon as well as the Töss Valley as far as the district of Winterthur.
Allmann, founded in 1852 in Hinwil, was the earliest predecessor of the as of today Zürcher Oberländer. Allmann in which Jakob Messikommer published a poem, was adopted by the printing office Buchdruckerei Wetzikon AG (as of today Zürcher Oberland Medien AG), which was founded by liberals in 1870, and renamed in Der Freisinnige.
In the first half of the 20th century, the region between Lake Zürich and the Zürcher Oberland was served by a number of rail lines. These included a standard gauge steam railway, the Uerikon-Bauma-Bahn, and two metre gauge electric tramways, the Wetzikon-Meilen-Bahn and the Uster-Oetwil-Bahn. These three lines were operating with large ...
The dialect of the Zürcher Oberland around Lake Pfäffikon and the upper Tösstal valley; The dialect of the Zürcher Unterland around Bülach and Dielsdorf; Akin to all Swiss German dialects, it is essentially a spoken language, whereas the written language is standard German. Likewise, there is no official orthography of the Zurich dialect.
The Zürcher Unterland ("Zurich lowlands") comprises the northwestern part of the canton of Zurich, including the districts of Bülach and Dielsdorf. Geographically, it is located in the Swiss plateau , between the Limmat valley , the city of Zurich and the Zürcher Oberland in the south, river Rhine and Germany in the north.
The Dampfbahn-Verein Zürcher Oberland (DVZO), lit. ' steam train association of Zürcher Oberland ' , is a heritage railway association based in the Swiss canton of Zürich . It owns historic locomotives and coaches and operates railway services between the towns of Hinwil and Bauma most Sundays from May to October, in addition to charter ...
Location within Switzerland. The European Metropolitan Region of Zurich (EMRZ), also Greater Zurich Area (GZA, German Zürcher Wirtschaftsraum, Metropolregion Zürich), the metropolitan area surrounding Zurich, is one of Europe’s economically strongest areas and Switzerland’s economic centre.
The Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ; "New Journal of Zürich") is a Swiss, German-language daily newspaper, published by NZZ Mediengruppe in Zürich. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The paper was founded in 1780. It has a reputation as a high-quality newspaper, as the Swiss-German newspaper of record , and for detailed reports on international affairs.