City (City of Zurich)

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City
quarter of Zurich
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Coordinates 685 180  /  246.59 thousand coordinates: 47 ° 21 '53 "  N , 8 ° 33' 59"  O ; CH1903:  six hundred eighty-five thousand one hundred eighty  /  246.59 thousand
height 411  m
surface 0.64 km²
Residents 706 (December 31, 2015)
Population density 1103 inhabitants / km²
BFS no. 261-014
Post Code 8001
Urban district District 1

City is a district of the city of Zurich . It forms today along with the neighborhoods Lindenhof , Rathaus and universities to circle 1 , the old town of Zurich .

population

Together with Lindenhof, the quarter has the smallest residential population in Zurich's quarters.

Attractions

The most famous street in Switzerland, Bahnhofstrasse , forms the border with the Lindenhof district; the parade ground is a symbol of Swiss banking. Today the Schanzengraben with its pedestrian path and bathing establishment as well as the former bulwark "zur Katz" (today the Old Botanical Garden Zurich ) is a local recreation area.

Because historically the quarter is only an early modern extension of the medieval city, its Reformed population belongs to the old town communities of St. Peter and Fraumünster ; the district thus has no historical or any other significant church buildings. On the other hand, there are two synagogues within the district boundaries , namely the one built by the Israelitische Cultusgemeinde on Löwenstrasse in 1883/84 according to plans by the architects Chiodera and Tschudy in the Moorish style and the one built by the Israelite Religious Society in 1923/24 according to plans by Henauer and Witschi in the style of Art Deco on Freilutstrasse.

history

The City quarter essentially comprises the part of the baroque urban expansion of the city of Zurich west of the Limmat. At the place of its eastern border, today's Bahnhofstrasse, was the frogs' ditch with the adjoining medieval city wall until well over the middle of the 19th century , the western border of the quarter is formed by the fortification ditch from the Baroque era, which is still preserved today. In 1853 (or 1854?) The former municipality of Enge (today also a city district), in connection with the construction of the district building, which was carried out in 1857 according to plans by Leonhard Zeugheer (today it houses the «Suneboge» residential and working community), became the area of ​​what would later become the Selnau district ceded to the city of Zurich, which is why the Quartier City extends over the Schanzengraben at this point and comes up to the Sihl .

The Selnau Cistercian convent founded in 1256/59 (the name comes from the Middle High German seldenouwe, which literally means 'house or hostel by the water'), which centuries later gave its name to the part of the quarter west of the Schanzengraben and to the nearby Zurich Selnau train station Closed in 1525 and gradually demolished. The foundation walls came to light when the utility lines were renewed in 1998 and 2004.

Almost nothing has survived from the former baroque garden city between Fröschengraben and Schanzengraben; almost the entire structure was replaced by commercial buildings in the late 19th century and in the first half of the 20th century. The Pelikanplatz, laid out in 1661 as a square at the intersection of Talackers and Pelikanstrasse, is still clearly recognizable as a baroque square. The last remains of the old buildings are the "Grosse Pelikan" (1675) on Pelikanplatz and the houses "Zum Schanzenhof" (1699) and "Zur Weltkugel" (1682) on Bärengasse. The Selnau district, which was laid out according to a development plan from 1860, is still largely preserved.

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literature

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Schweizerisches Idiotikon Volume VII Column 849, in the comment on the word article Seld . See also: The street names of the city of Zurich. Explained by Paul Guyer and Guntram Saladin , 3rd edition reviewed and updated by Fritz Lendenmann, p. 230 (Selnaustrasse) .