Oberengstringen
Oberengstringen is a municipality in the district of Dietikon in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland, located in the Limmat Valley.
Oberengstringen is a municipality in the district of Dietikon in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland, located in the Limmat Valley.
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Worth seeing in and around Oberengstringen
9 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.
- 01Hardturm
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.
3.9 km · football stadium · Wikipedia - 02Katzensee
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.
2.6 km · lake in canton of Zürich, Switzerland · Wikipedia - 03Swiss Life Arena
The Swiss Life Arena is an ice hockey and entertainment arena in the Altstetten quarter of Zürich, Switzerland. It is located approximately seven kilometers west of downtown Zürich.
2.6 km · indoor ice hockey arena in Zürich, Switzerland · Wikipedia - 04Benedictine Monastery Fahr
Fahr Convent is a Benedictine convent located in an exclave of the canton of Aargau, surrounded by the municipality of Unterengstringen. It is located 8 km to the north of Zürich's city centre.
2.3 km · monastery complex in Würenlos in the canton of Aargau, Switzerland · Wikipedia - 05Altberg
Altberg is a range of hills in the canton of Zurich, Switzerland. It runs between the Limmat Valley in the south and the Furttal valley in the north.
3.9 km · mountain in the Canton of Zurich · Wikipedia - 06Alte 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.
2.8 km · evangelical church building in Zurich, Switzerland · Wikipedia - 07Alt-Regensberg Castle
Alt-Regensberg Castle is a hill castle which was built about the mid-11th century AD by the House of Regensberg in the Swiss municipality of Regensdorf in the Canton of Zürich.
1.8 km · castle ruin in Regensdorf in the canton of Zürich, Switzerland · Wikipedia - 08Institute for History and Theory of Architecture
The Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture is a teaching and research institute at the Department of Architecture of ETH Zurich, situated on the ETH Zurich's Hönggerberg Campus site.
3.2 km · institute of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich - ETH · Wikipedia - 09Regensdorf Reformed Church
Regensdorf Reformed Church stands on Watterstrasse in Regensdorf, Switzerland. It was completed in 1705.
1.6 km · church building in Regensdorf in the canton of Zurich, Switzerland · Wikipedia
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Getting to Oberengstringen
- Airports
- Zürich (ZRH), 8 km · EuroAirport Basel–Mulhouse–Freiburg (BSL), 74 km · Bodensee Friedrichshafen (FDH), 83 km
- Stations
- Zurich Altstetten railway station, 3.3 km · Zürich Affoltern railway station, 3.2 km · Regensdorf-Watt railway station, 2.3 km · Glanzenberg railway station, 4 km · Schlieren railway station, 2.5 km
- Geneva → Oberengstringen222 km · quickest by road, 4h · CHF28–37
- Bâle / Mulhouse → Oberengstringen74 km · quickest by road, 1h 45m · €9–12
- Friedrichshafen → Oberengstringen81 km · quickest by road, 2h 50m · €14–20
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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.
No local-transport research exists yet for Oberengstringen
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 Oberengstringen. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- 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.
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Next door to Oberengstringen
Oberengstringen is 8 km from Zürich, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Schlierenmunicipality in Switzerland2.4 km
- Regensdorfmunicipality in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland2.5 km
- Dällikonmunicipality in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland3.4 km
- Unterengstringenmunicipality in the canton of Zürich, Switzerland1.3 km
- Weiningenmunicipality in the canton of Zürich, Switzerland2.4 km
- Affolternquarter of the city of Zurich, Switzerland3.1 km