Horgen

Worth seeing in and around Horgen

3 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
   Zimmerberg

   The Zimmerberg ) is a mountain and a region in the district of Horgen in the canton of Zurich, Switzerland.

   2.7 km · mountain · Wikipedia
2. 02
   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.

   2.3 km · historic country house in Horgen, canton of Zurich, Switzerland · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Zürcher Museums-Bahn

   The Zürcher Museums-Bahn is a heritage railway association based in the Swiss city of Zurich. It operates occasional services over the Sihltal line of the Sihltal Zürich Uetliberg Bahn, and preserves rolling stock, much of which formerly belonged to that operator.

   3.1 km · museum in Switzerland · 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.

What Wikivoyage says to see

1. 01
   Ortsmuseum Sust

   Bahnhofstrasse 27, ortsmuseum-horgen@bluewin.ch.

2. 02
   Käpfnach Mine

   This old coal mine can be visited on public tours every Saturday.

From Wikivoyage: Horgen, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Where to eat

1. 01
   Chalet India

   Oberdorfstrasse 51, info@chaletindia.ch.

From Wikivoyage: Horgen, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Getting to Horgen

Airports

Zürich (ZRH), 22 km · Bodensee Friedrichshafen (FDH), 82 km · EuroAirport Basel–Mulhouse–Freiburg (BSL), 89 km

Stations

Meilen railway station, 3.7 km · Horgen railway station, 100 m · Au ZH railway station, 3.8 km · Oberrieden railway station, 2.5 km · Sihlwald railway station, 3.1 km

• Geneva → Horgen

  221 km · quickest by road, 4h 22m · CHF30–40
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• Friedrichshafen → Horgen

  79 km · quickest by road, 2h 37m · €18–25
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• Bâle / Mulhouse → Horgen

  109 km · quickest by road, 2h 33m · €15–20
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No local-transport research exists yet for Horgen

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

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