[{"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BlogPosting","@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki7\/altstadt-zurich-wikipedia\/#BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki7\/altstadt-zurich-wikipedia\/","headline":"Altstadt (Z\u00fcrich) – Wikipedia","name":"Altstadt (Z\u00fcrich) – Wikipedia","description":"before-content-x4 District in Z\u00fcrich, Switzerland after-content-x4 Die Altstadt (German for “the old town”) in the Swiss city of Z\u00fcrich encompasses","datePublished":"2016-09-06","dateModified":"2016-09-06","author":{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki7\/author\/lordneo\/#Person","name":"lordneo","url":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki7\/author\/lordneo\/","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c9645c498c9701c88b89b8537773dd7c?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c9645c498c9701c88b89b8537773dd7c?s=96&d=mm&r=g","height":96,"width":96}},"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Enzyklop\u00e4die","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/wiki4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/download.jpg","url":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/wiki4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/download.jpg","width":600,"height":60}},"image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/a\/a8\/Zuerich_Altstadt_Siegfriedkarte_1881.jpg\/300px-Zuerich_Altstadt_Siegfriedkarte_1881.jpg","url":"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/a\/a8\/Zuerich_Altstadt_Siegfriedkarte_1881.jpg\/300px-Zuerich_Altstadt_Siegfriedkarte_1881.jpg","height":"378","width":"300"},"url":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki7\/altstadt-zurich-wikipedia\/","wordCount":5592,"articleBody":"     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});before-content-x4District in Z\u00fcrich, Switzerland       (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4Die Altstadt (German for “the old town”) in the Swiss city of Z\u00fcrich encompasses the area of the entire historical city before 1893, before the incorporation of what are now districts 2 to 12 into the municipality, over the period 1893 to 1934. Die Altstadt approximately corresponds to the area enclosed by the former city ramparts, and is today within the administrative area of the city called Kreis 1 (District 1).With a population of 5,617 (as of 2015), it houses about 1.4% of the city’s total population.Administratively, District 1 is divided into four parts or quarters by the Z\u00fcrich statistical office, Rathaus (town hall), Hochschulen (universities), Lindenhof (“lime trees courtyard”) and City. Lindenhof and Rathaus correspond to the parts of the medieval city left (west) and right (east) of the Limmat, respectively, while City and Hochschulen include the area of the Early Modern city west and east of the medieval walls, respectively.       (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4The city of Z\u00fcrich on the 1881 Siegfriedkarte (city area highlighted), after the construction of the Limmatquai and the train station, but before the construction of Uraniastrasse, and of the lakeside quais with Quaibr\u00fccke (hover mouse over map for labels).  Map of Z\u00fcrich in 1705 (north is left). Altstadt corresponds to the fortified area and immediately adjacent parts.Table of ContentsLindenhof[edit]Fraum\u00fcnster[edit]Rathaus[edit]Limmatquai[edit]Niederdorf[edit]M\u00fcnstergasse[edit]Grossm\u00fcnster[edit]Predigerkirche[edit]Oberdorf[edit]Hochschulen[edit]Central[edit]Pfauen[edit]Bellevue[edit]Stadelhofen[edit]Platzspitz[edit]Hauptbahnhof[edit]Bahnhofstrasse[edit]B\u00fcrkliplatz[edit]Schanzengraben[edit]Selnau[edit]See also[edit]Literature[edit]References[edit]Lindenhof[edit]         (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4Altstadt: St. Peter churchDer Lindenhof (“The lime trees courtyard”) quarter corresponds to the mindere Stadt, the smaller but more prestigious half of the medieval town left of the river. This is the oldest core of the city, with settlement traces dating to pre-Roman (La T\u00e8ne) times, and fortified as the Roman Vicus Turicum, a Roman customs station with a surrounding civilian settlement, in the final decades of the 1st century BC.The Lindenhof hill itself is the site of the Roman castle at the location of the Celtic Oppidum Z\u00fcrich-Lindenhof, rebuilt in Carolingian times but derelict by the 13th century, when it was used as a source for building stone for the first stone houses of rich burghers of the recently reichsfrei city. The Schipfe quarter at the Limmat below the Lindenhof is the site of the Roman vicus, with traces of a hypocaustum nearby the M\u00fcnsterhof excavated. St. Peter church was the parish church of the medieval city, built on the site of an earlier temple to  Jupiter.The Rennweg street below the Lindenhof hill was the main street of the medieval city, entering by the Rennweg gate through the western city wall which is now marked by the course of Bahnhofstrasse. Augustinergasse is a small street leading from St. Peterhofstatt situated at the St. Peter church, passing the former Augustinians monastery below the Lindenhof hill, towards the Kecinst\u00fcrlin gate at the southern Fr\u00f6schengraben moat, Bahnhofstrasse as of today.Zunfthaus zur Meisen at M\u00fcnsterhof plaza near Fraum\u00fcnster church houses the porcelain and faience collection of the Swiss National Museum. Lindenhof also contains the former Augustinian abbey, and formerly the Oetenbach nunnery north of the Lindenhof hill, demolished in 1903 to make way for the Uraniastrasse as part the partially built \u00abUrania-axis\u00bb Sihlporte\u2013Uraniastrasse\u2013Z\u00e4hringerplatz by Gustav Gull, and the Urania Sternwarte.Fraum\u00fcnster[edit]The Fraum\u00fcnster (“women’s minster”) abbey ruled the town until the 1336 “guild revolution” of Rudolf Brun and which remained highly influential until Zwingli’s Reformation.[2]Rathaus[edit]        Niederdorf: St\u00fcssihofstatt, guild house \u00abzur Schneidern\u00bb (tailors) at the left side, and Restaurant Johanniter (right side)The Rathaus quarter is named for the town hall, built in the 1690s.It is the part of the medieval town on the right side of the Limmat,  separated by the Hirschengraben from the Hochschulen quarter to the east, and delimited by the Bellevue and Central squares to the south and north, respectively. As such, it includes the Limmatquai as well as the Niederdorf (downstream of the Kirchgasse) and the Oberdorf (upstream of the Kirchgasse). The historical name of this eastern half of the medieval town was “greater town” (mehrere Stadt), contrasting with the “lesser town” (mindere Stadt), the western half along the left river bank.Limmatquai[edit]The Limmatquai was built along the right side of the Limmat, running from Central to Bellevue. It was built in the 19th century, connecting various earlier quais built into the Limmat. The current right bank is some 28 m west of the medieval river’s. The quai was constructed from 1823\u20131859 from Bellevue to the Rathaus, in 1835\u20131836 from the Rathaus to the Wasserkirche and 1835\u20131839 the portion from the Wasserkirche to Bellevue, formerly called Sonnenquai. At the Limmatquai are located some guild houses, as Zunfthaus zur Zimmerleuten, Zunfthaus zur Haue, Zunfthaus zum R\u00fcden and Zunfthaus zur Saffran.Z\u00fcrich tram routes 4 and 15 run along the Limmatquai, serving the stops Helmhaus, Rathaus and Rudolf-Brun-Br\u00fccke. The quai was one of the main routes through the old town before it was freed from traffic in 2004.The bridges passed by the Limmatquai, south to north, are:north of Limmatquai:Niederdorf[edit]The Niederdorf (lit.: “low village”) was the least developed part of the medieval city. It properly includes just the north-eastern corner, between M\u00fchlegasse and Central, but the term was extended to the whole part of the mehrere Stadt north of the town hall, i.e. for the entire length of the Niederdorfstrasse, or even including the parts north of the Kirchgasse.[citation needed]So defined,[clarification needed] the Niederdorf includes Rindermarkt and Neumarkt, Froschaugasse and the area of the medieval Jewish quarter, the Predigerkirche (the former Blackfriars’ monastery) at Z\u00e4hringerplatz (historically the city hospital, now housing the city library) and the Z\u00e4hringerstrasse.M\u00fcnstergasse[edit]The mehrere Stadt between the Niederdorf and the Oberdorf (between Rathaus and Kirchgasse) includes the M\u00fcnstergasse, Obere Z\u00e4une, Untere Z\u00e4une and the Barf\u00fcsserkloster (the former Franciscan abbey) as well as a number of alleys leaving M\u00fcnstergasse:  Marktgasse, Spiegelgasse, Krebsgasse, Ankengasse, R\u00f6mergasse and Kirchgasse.[citation needed]Grossm\u00fcnster[edit]Predigerkirche[edit]Initially the church of the Predigerkloster (Dominican monastery), it became after the Reformation in Switzerland the parish church of Niederdorf respectively Neumarkt, and owns since 1900 the tallest church tower of Z\u00fcrich.[3]Oberdorf[edit]The Oberdorf (lit.: “upper village”) proper is the mehrere Stadt south of the Grossm\u00fcnster, along the Oberdorfstrasse, between Kirchgasse and R\u00e4mistrasse.Hochschulen[edit]        Hochschulen (universities) is wedged between Hirschengraben (the historical course of the eastern moat) and R\u00e4mistrasse, corresponding to the area taken up by the eastern fortifications of the 17th century ramparts (destroyed following the 1839 Z\u00fcriputsch), the hillside now holding the main buildings of both ETH Zurich (built 1861 to 1864 under Gustav Zeuner) and University of Zurich (built 1914 under Karl Moser), at the sites of the Kronen Bollwerk and Sch\u00f6nenberg Bollwerk ramparts, respectively. Hochschulen borders on District 6 (Unterstrass and Oberstrass) to the north, on District 7 (Fluntern and Hottingen) to the east and on District 8 (M\u00fchlebach and Seefeld) to the south.Hochschulen in its southern end also includes the Bellevue and Sechsel\u00e4uten squares as well as the theater and opera house at Stadelhoferplatz and the Stadelhofen train station. Stops of the Z\u00fcrich tram system in the Hochschulen quarter are: Central, ETH\/Universit\u00e4tsspital, Kantonsschule, Kunsthaus, Neumarkt, Bellevue, Opernhaus and Stadelhofen. Line 9 follows  R\u00e4mistrasse which separates Hochschulen from Fluntern, line 3 follows Hirschengraben and Seilergraben (the historical eastern moat), which separates it from the Rathaus quarter. The Polybahn funicular connects Central and the ETH Zurich main building.Central[edit]The Central square at the northern border between Rathaus and Hochschulen quarters is a major junction of the Z\u00fcrich tram system, served by lines 3, 4, 6, 7, 10 and 15 besides buses 31 and 46. Formerly called Leonhardsplatz, it was renamed after the Hotel Central built in 1883.Pfauen[edit]Situated at Heimplatz, vernacularly called the Pfauen, are the theatre Schauspielhaus Z\u00fcrich and the art museum Kunsthaus Z\u00fcrich.Bellevue[edit]The Bellevueplatz, a square at the southern border between the Rathaus quarter and the southern end of the Hochschulen quarter, right next to the lake outflow, is a major junction of the Z\u00fcrich tram system, served by lines 2, 4, 5, 8, 9, 11 and 15 besides buses 912 and 916. It is situated at the lakeside, just north of Sechsel\u00e4utenplatz. It is named for the Grandhotel Bellevue built in 1856, and is the nodal point of the quaysides that were built between 1881 and 1887 crossing the Quaibr\u00fccke towards B\u00fcrkliplatz and General-Guisan-Quai.Stadelhofen[edit]South of Bellevue are the squares Sechsel\u00e4utenplatz and Stadelhofenplatz. Stadelhofen was an estate just south of the southeasternmost bastion, the Stadelhofen Bollwerk, whilst Sechsel\u00e4utenplatz takes its name from the Sechsel\u00e4uten, a traditional Z\u00fcrich festival that is celebrated there.Stadelhofen station, on Stadelhofenplatz, is an important stop of the Z\u00fcrich S-Bahn lines to Uster, Rapperswil-Jona and Winterthur as well as the terminal of the Forchbahn (S18) line serving Zumikon and Esslingen. The Z\u00fcrich Opera House is situated at the southern end of the Sechsel\u00e4utenplatz.City is the area west of the Bahnhofstrasse, delimited by the Sihl and the Schanzengraben, the moat of the 17th century ramparts. It includes the Paradeplatz, Z\u00fcrich Hauptbahnhof, the Swiss National Museum and the Platzspitz park (formerly Limmatspitz). It comprises the tram stops B\u00fcrkliplatz, Paradeplatz, Rennweg, Bahnhofstrasse \/ Bahnhofplatz \/ Bahnhofquai, L\u00f6wenplatz, Sihlstrasse and Bahnhof Selnau. City borders on District 2 (Enge) to the southwest, and on Districts 4 and 5 (Aussersihl) to the northwest.Platzspitz[edit]  1724 view of the northern end of town, with the Platzspitz in the foreground, at the time a shooting-range.Platzspitz (formerly Platzpromenade, Limmatspitz) is a park at the confluence of the two rivers of Z\u00fcrich; the Limmat and the Sihl.In medieval times, the area situated north of the city was used as pasture. In the early 15th century it was made into a shooting-range, and in the 16th to 17th centuries, Sch\u00fctzenfeste were held there. A remnant of these can be found in the contemporary Knabenschiessen shooting contest.During the 1990s, the long-practised official tolerance of drug users there from throughout Central Europe has been the subject of much worldwide media interest.Hauptbahnhof[edit]  The Limmat, Bahnhofbr\u00fccke, Bahnhofquai and Hauptbahnhof seen from Walche-Br\u00fccke looking upstreamBahnhofstrasse[edit]    B\u00fcrkliplatz, St. Peter and Fraum\u00fcnster church towers in the backgroundB\u00fcrkliplatz[edit]B\u00fcrkliplatz is a square and stop of the Z\u00fcrich tram system (lines 2, 4, 8, 9, 11 and buses 161, 165), situated at the southern end of the Bahnhofstrasse, and west of the Bellevue square, with which it is connected by the Quaibr\u00fccke. The lakeshore quay connecting the square with Lake Zurich is named General-Guisan-Quai, after Henri Guisan. From the B\u00fcrkliplatz landing gate, Z\u00fcrichsee-Schifffahrtsgesellschaft boat services leave for Thalwil, Rapperswil, Schmerikon, Erlenbach and down the Limmat to Z\u00fcrich Landesmuseum. B\u00fcrkliplatz is named for Arnold B\u00fcrkli (1833\u20131894), the engineer responsible for the construction of the city’s quays.Schanzengraben[edit]On its remains at \u00abzur Katz\u00bb ramparts, the Old Botanical Garden is located.Selnau[edit]Selnau (from earlier Sellnau, Seldnau) was historically an estate west of the city, which came to lie between the north-western moat (Schanzengraben) and the Sihl. Together with the Gessnerallee, Selnaustrasse and Sihlh\u00f6lzlistrasse running along the right bank of the Sihl, it is part of the City quarter even though strictly situated outside the city ramparts. Today, Z\u00fcrich Selnau railway station is a stop on the line of the Uetlibergbahn, running from  Z\u00fcrich Hauptbahnhof to the Sihltal (S4) and to the Uetliberg (S10). The SWX Swiss Exchange building is located in Selnau. The museum Haus Konstruktiv is located in a former power station near Selnau train station.See also[edit]Literature[edit]Heimatkunde der Stadt Z\u00fcrich. Z\u00fcrich: B\u00fcromaterialverwaltung, 1977.Hochbaudepartement der Stadt Z\u00fcrich, Amt f\u00fcr St\u00e4dtebau: Stadtzentrum \u2013 Altstadt \/ City. Verlag Neue Z\u00fcrcher Zeitung, Z\u00fcrich 2008 (Baukultur in Z\u00fcrich, Band VI), ISBN\u00a0978-3-03823-343-5References[edit]     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4"},{"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki7\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Enzyklop\u00e4die"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki7\/altstadt-zurich-wikipedia\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Altstadt (Z\u00fcrich) – Wikipedia"}}]}]