--- title: "Hirzel – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Hirzel, Switzerland: Hirzel is a former municipality in the district of Horgen in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland. Nearby: Bocken Estate, Hirzel Pass.…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/hirzel" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/hirzel.md" image: "https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Friedhof_und_Ortskern_Hirzel.JPG/3840px-Friedhof_und_Ortskern_Hirzel.JPG" --- Former municipality in Zurich, Switzerland # Hirzel Hirzel is a former municipality in the district of Horgen in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland. ![Hirzel](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Friedhof_und_Ortskern_Hirzel.JPG/3840px-Friedhof_und_Ortskern_Hirzel.JPG) Hirzel · Wikimedia Commons 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hirzel), 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. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bocken_Estate) 2. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hirzel_Pass) 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 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 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/geneva-to-hirzel) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Geneva&to=Hirzel) - Friedrichshafen → Hirzel 81 km · quickest by road, 2h 12m · €18–25 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/friedrichshafen-to-hirzel) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Friedrichshafen&to=Hirzel) - Bâle / Mulhouse → Hirzel 92 km · quickest by road, 1h 37m · €12–16 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/bale-mulhouse-to-hirzel) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=B%C3%A2le+%2F+Mulhouse&to=Hirzel) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Hirzel) 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. [Zermatt](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/zermatt) CH 8 ways of moving, 26 sources 148 km 2. [Cinque Terre](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/cinque-terre) IT 7 ways of moving, 23 sources 354 km 3. [Vlieland](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/vlieland) NL 10 ways of moving, 47 sources 721 km 4. [Hvar](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/hvar) HR 8 ways of moving, 27 sources 765 km 5. [Isle of Wight](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-wight) GB 11 ways of moving, 22 sources 819 km If you know how people move in Hirzel – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Chirzel&title=Hirzel&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fhirzel), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Hirzel Hirzel is 17 km from [Zürich](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/zurich), the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture. - [Horgen District](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/horgen-district) district of the canton of Zürich, Switzerland 1.9 km - [Neuheim](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/neuheim) municipality in the canton of Zug in Switzerland 2 km - [Sihlbrugg](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/sihlbrugg) village in Switzerland 4 km [The place page for Hirzel](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/hirzel) [All the notes](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes) [Every note on Switzerland](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes#c-CH) --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/hirzel, for search crawlers and AI assistants. The HTML page is the canonical copy. Mixroutes is made by Lascade LLC, Sharjah Media City, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Index of every page: https://www.mixroutes.com/llms.txt