Schanzengraben (Zurich)
Coordinates: 47 ° 22 '17.9 " N , 8 ° 31' 59.5" E ; CH1903: 682.67 thousand / 247332
The Schanzengraben was after 1642 the outer moat of the so-called third fastening the city Zurich . He has his appointment to the hills of the baroque fortifications , he was a part. Today it is a popular natural oasis on the periphery of the City and Enge districts .
history
The third city fortification was built from 1642 to the middle of the 18th century. On the left, the Papierwerd - at today's left bridgehead of the station bridge - was included in the fortification and the Schanzengraben was built as an outer moat , similar to a jagged semicircle.
In 1830 he was considered second Seeabfluss - near the present Tonhalle deemed necessary and therefore survived the padding at the - razing the hills. For the construction of the station bridge , the Schanzengraben was diverted into the Sihl from 1861 , where it flows into the river at Gessnerallee. From 1910, various considerations were made to fill in the Schanzengraben in favor of a road.
In 1956, the Zurich Tourist Office asked the Zurich City Council to make the Schanzengraben especially navigable for tourist boats. From a small harbor near the main train station, the boats would have driven through the Schanzengraben into Lake Zurich . For technical and financial reasons, the project was buried in favor of converting the Schanzengraben into a pedestrian promenade. The implementation of the project began in 1975 and ended in 1984 with the opening of the last section of the Schanzengraben pedestrian promenade.
Schanzengraben natural oasis
The promenade follows the zigzag line of the former ski jumping facility . Staircases lead every few hundred meters to the adjacent urban areas. A tour with information boards begins at the Gessner Bridge not far from Zurich Main Station , leads behind the Migros City and below the riding hall (Gessnerallee) mostly along the canal over wooden walkways and sandstone slabs. The Nüschelersteg enables pedestrians and bicycles to cross the moat. The promenade crosses under Sihlstrasse (Sihlporte) and leads past the “Hallenbad City” and the “Männerbadi” (officially: “Flussbad Schanzengraben”) built in 1864. A weir with a fish ladder regulates the outflow from the lake just below the “men's pool” . The high walls of the former "Katz" bulwark rise above the bathing establishment , where the old botanical garden , a small park, is today. This is followed by the Selnau Bridge and the car-free Bärenbrüggli in the Enge district . At the level of Paradeplatz , the Bleicherweg is crossed, then the Dreikönigstrasse, at the Hotel Baur au Lac the General-Guisan Quai on the lake basin. The path ends directly on the promenade.
Schanzengraben men's pool
The men's pool in the Schanzengraben by the water tower is the oldest pool in the city that still exists today. It was built in 1863. Before that, the men's and boys' bathing establishment , built in 1859, stood there . The pool is open from around mid-May to mid-September. While bathing is open during the day, a bar opens in the evening.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Schanzengraben. Website of the city of Zurich. Retrieved September 1, 2018.
- ↑ Cornelia Bauer, Hanspeter Rebsamen, Jan Capol: Zurich . In: INSA: Inventory of modern Swiss architecture, 1850-1920: Cities . Orell Füssli, 1992, Bahnhofbrücke, p. 305 , doi : 10.5169 / seals-10931 .
- ↑ Zurich as "Venice of Central Europe". In: Tagesanzeiger from September 18, 2019 (only available behind Paywall)
- ^ Art + architecture en Suisse, Volume 45, Issues 1–3, Society for Swiss Art History, 1994 Google Books Search
- ↑ stadt-zuerich.ch - Männerbad Schanzengraben , accessed on October 6, 2018.
Web links
- Park and green areas on the website of the City of Zurich