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Former municipality in Zurich, Switzerland

Hirzel

Hirzel is a former municipality in the district of Horgen in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland.

Hirzel
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The place

Hirzel is a former municipality in the district of Horgen in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland. On 1 January 2018 the former municipality of Hirzel merged into the municipality of Horgen.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Hirzel

2 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
    Bocken Estate

    Bocken Estate is a country estate in the municipality of Horgen of the Swiss canton of Zurich. It is a Swiss heritage site of national significance.

    3.1 km · historic country house in Horgen, canton of Zurich, Switzerland · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Hirzel Pass

    Hirzel Pass, elevation 672 metres, is a mountain pass in the Alps between the cantons of Zürich and Zug in Switzerland. It connects Wädenswil and Sihlbrugg, and the summit is in the municipality of Hirzel.

    900 m · mountain pass · 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.

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Getting to Hirzel

Airports
Zürich (ZRH), 27 km · Bodensee Friedrichshafen (FDH), 85 km · EuroAirport Basel–Mulhouse–Freiburg (BSL), 92 km
  • Geneva → Hirzel
    219 km · quickest by road, 3h 37m · CHF31–41
  • Friedrichshafen → Hirzel
    81 km · quickest by road, 2h 12m · €18–25
  • Bâle / Mulhouse → Hirzel
    92 km · quickest by road, 1h 37m · €12–16
  • From anywhere
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Hirzel

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 Hirzel. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

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

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    148 km
  2. 02
    Cinque TerreIT

    7 ways of moving, 23 sources

    354 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    721 km
  4. 04
    HvarHR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    765 km
  5. 05
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    819 km

If you know how people move in Hirzel – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Hirzel

Hirzel is 17 km from Zürich, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Horgen Districtdistrict of the canton of Zürich, Switzerland1.9 km
  • Neuheimmunicipality in the canton of Zug in Switzerland2 km
  • Sihlbruggvillage in Switzerland4 km