Stauffacher (Zurich)

Coordinates: 47 ° 22 '24.4 "  N , 8 ° 31' 44.8"  E ; CH1903:  682,359  /  two hundred forty-seven thousand five hundred and twenty-nine

Stauffacher tram stop.

Stauffacher is the name of a tram stop in front of the St. Jakobskirche in District 4 (Aussersihl) in Zurich , at the intersection of Badenerstrasse and Stauffacherstrasse. The designation fits into the group of neighboring toponyms related to the Schwyzer Landammann Werner Stauffacher and has been applied to the entire area along the entire street section between Zweierplatz and Sihl . It roughly coincides with the older name St. Jakob ; on July 22nd, 1443 the battle of St. Jakob an der Sihl was fought there .

Battle of St. Jakob an der Sihl during the Old Zurich War on a woodcut from Stumpf's chronicle from 1548.

In 1221 there is evidence of an infirmary for lepers with a chapel under the patronage of Jacob the Disciples , which was converted into a beneficiary house (old people's home) in 1677 and remained as such until 1842. After 1820 a new cemetery with a prayer house was built on the opposite side of Badenerstrasse . The St. Jakobskirche was put into operation in 1901 instead of the prayer house.

The Stauffacher is a junction for public transport with stops for tram lines 2, 3, 8, 9 and 14 as well as the night bus line N14. There are various shops and a small shopping center, called Stauffacher-Tor , as well as the Zett-Haus around the stop . The Stauffacher should have become an important junction of the planned Zurich underground , but the project failed in a 1973 referendum.

View to the Stauffacher with the St. Jakobskirche

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Individual evidence

1. ↑ Supplementary plan for ground floor use 18: Stauffacher ( Memento of the original from November 10, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 559 kB) of the Office for Urban Development of the City of Zurich. 
2. ^ Heinrich Keller, little card of the city of Zurich , approx. 1800.
3. ^ Charles Knapp, Maurice Borel, Victor Attinger, Heinrich Brunner, Société neuchâteloise de geographie (editor): Geographical Lexicon of Switzerland . Volume 4: Plessur - Switzerland . Verlag Gebrüder Attinger, Neuenburg 1906, p. 458, keyword Sankt Jakob an der Sihl   ( scan of the lexicon page ).
4. ↑ Konrad Escher, Chronicle of the former communities Wiedikon and Ausersihl , Zurich 1911.