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District 11 (Zurich)

District 11 is the most northern and the most populous district in the Swiss city of Zurich.

District 11 (Zurich)
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The place

District 11 is the most northern and the most populous district in the Swiss city of Zurich.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around District 11 (Zurich)

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Hardturm

    The Hardturm was a football stadium located in Zürich's Kreis 5. Opened in 1929, it was the home of the Grasshopper Club Zürich until it closed in 2007.

    3.5 km · football stadium · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Hallenstadion

    The Hallenstadion is a multi-purpose facility in the Oerlikon quarter of northern Zürich. It has a capacity of 11,200 spectators.

    2.6 km · multipurpose hall in Oerlikon in the city of Zurich, Switzerland · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Käferberg

    Käferberg and Waidberg (el.

    2 km · mountain · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Katzensee

    Katzensee is a lake on the border of the city of Zürich and Regensdorf in the Canton of Zürich, Switzerland. Its surface area is 36 ha.

    2.4 km · lake in canton of Zürich, Switzerland · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    MFO-Park

    The MFO-Park is a public park in the Oerlikon quarter of the Swiss city of Zürich. The area to the north of Zürich Oerlikon railway station was once home to the extensive works of Maschinenfabrik Oerlikon, a site that has now been redeveloped as Neu Oerlikon.

    1.9 km · park in the city of Zürich, Switzerland · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Oerlikon Velodrome

    Oerlikon Velodrome is an uncovered velodrome in the Oerlikon district of Zürich, Switzerland. It was built in 1912.

    2.7 km · Velodrome in Zurich, Switzerland · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Irchelpark

    Irchelpark is the biggest public park in the city of Zurich, Switzerland and home to the Irchel campus of the University of Zurich and Staatsarchiv Zürich. Like the university itself, Irchelpark is owned by the Canton of Zurich, but is maintained by the city on the canton's behalf.

    3.6 km · park · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Migros Museum of Contemporary Art

    The Migros Museum of Contemporary Art is a museum for contemporary art in Zürich, Switzerland. Founded in 1996 by Gottlieb Duttweiler, the museum was directed by Rein Wolfs up until 2001, when he was replaced by Heike Munder.

    3.7 km · museum in Zurich (Switzerland) · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Alte Kirche Höngg

    The Alte Kirche Höngg is a Reformed church in the district 10 of Zürich. Its congregation forms part of the Evangelical Reformed Church of the Canton of Zürich.

    3 km · evangelical church building in Zurich, Switzerland · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Gustav-Ammann-Park

    The Gustav-Ammann-Park is a public park in Oerlikon, Zurich on the former premises of Oerlikon-Bührle and covers 32,291 ft2. In 1996, the privately owned park became a preserve.

    1.7 km · urban park · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to District 11 (Zurich)

Airports
Zürich (ZRH), 4 km · EuroAirport Basel–Mulhouse–Freiburg (BSL), 78 km · Bodensee Friedrichshafen (FDH), 79 km
Stations
Zürich Oerlikon railway station, 2.2 km · Zurich Wipkingen railway station, 3.5 km · Zürich Seebach railway station, 1.8 km · Zürich Affoltern railway station, 1 km · Regensdorf-Watt railway station, 4 km
  • Geneva → District 11 (Zurich)
    162 km · quickest by road, 2h 59m · CHF20–26
  • Bâle / Mulhouse → District 11 (Zurich)
    68 km · quickest by road, 1h 57m · €10–14
  • Friedrichshafen → District 11 (Zurich)
    75 km · quickest by road, 2h 42m · €13–18
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for District 11 (Zurich)

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for District 11 (Zurich). What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextA bit further away, but also worth a day trip: Appenzell — As close to the stereotypical image of Switzerland with wooden farm houses and traditional clothes as it gets.

From Wikivoyage: Zurich, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    167 km
  2. 02
    Cinque TerreIT

    7 ways of moving, 22 sources

    378 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    697 km
  4. 04
    HvarHR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    783 km
  5. 05
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    802 km

If you know how people move in District 11 (Zurich) – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to District 11 (Zurich)

District 11 (Zurich) is 7 km from Zürich, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Opfikonmunicipality in Switzerland4 km
  • Regensdorfmunicipality in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland3.9 km
  • Rümlangmunicipality in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland3.5 km
  • Oerlikonsuburb and quarter of the Swiss city of Zurich2.3 km
  • Seebachquarter of the city of Zurich, Switzerland2.1 km
  • Affolternquarter of the city of Zurich, Switzerland1.1 km