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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.
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.
Neue Zürcher Nachrichten: 1904 1991 Zurich Canton of Zurich Daily Preceded by the Zürcher Nachrichten. [82] Badener Tagblatt: 1856 1996 Canton of Aargau: Daily Formerly the Tagblatt der Stadt Baden, succeeded the Neue Eidgenössische Zeitung. Had two local editions, which were the Bremgartner Tagblatt and the Freiämter Nachrichten.
Along with Wetzikon, it forms one of the two centres of the Zürcher Oberland. Uster is located next to a lake, called Greifensee . The official language of Uster is (the Swiss variety of Standard) German , but the main spoken language is the local variant of the Alemannic Swiss German dialect.
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 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 ...
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.
Lake Zurich (German: Zürichsee; Alemannic German: Zürisee) [1] is a lake in Switzerland, extending southeast of the city of Zurich.Depending on the context, Lake Zurich or Zürichsee can be used to describe the lake as a whole, or just that part of the lake downstream of the Hurden peninsula and Seedamm causeway (between Pfäffikon and Rapperswil).