Werd (City of Zurich)

Become a quarter of Zurich
Coordinates	682 289  /  247280 coordinates: 47 ° 22 '16 "  N , 8 ° 31' 41"  O ; CH1903:  six hundred eighty-two thousand two hundred and eighty-nine  /  247280
height	410  m
surface	0.31 km²
Residents	4428 (Dec. 31, 2014)
Population density	14'284 inhabitants / km²
BFS no.	261-041
Post Code	8004
Urban district	District 4

The Werd district is located south of the Langstrasse district in District 4 of the city ​​of Zurich . Badenerstrasse forms the border to the Langstrasse district, to the southeast the Sihl is the boundary to District 1 and to the southwest the Seebahnstrasse and Schimmelstrasse are the boundary to District 3 .

Quarter

The Church of St. Peter and Paul with the Werdhochhaus in the background

The term Werd goes back to the old German word warid, werid or the Middle High German word worth and means island, peninsula, river island or lowland between rivers and lakes. With reference to the Werd quarter, it describes the area between the Sihl and Wiediker Dorfbach - or possibly a former arm of the Sihl.

The most striking building in the quarter is the Werd high-rise , which is now used by the Zurich city administration.

At Werdplatz

literature

• Presidential Department of the City of Zurich, Statistics City of Zurich: Quartierspiegel Albisrieden . Zurich 2015 ( stadt-zuerich.ch ).

Web links

Commons : Werd (City of Zurich)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Stephan Bopp: Worth, Werth, Werd and Werder , Canoonet
2. ↑ Werder. In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 29 : Little Wiking - (XIV, 1st section, part 2). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1960 ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).
3. ↑ Streets and field names.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. District association Aussersihl