Thur

The Thur is a 135-kilometre-long river in north-eastern and a tributary of the High Rhine.
  • River
  • Description: river in Switzerland
  • Also known as
    “Thur Fluss”
    “Thur River”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Flaach Castle and Schloss Eigenthal.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Volken and Flaach.
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is a municipality in the district of Andelfingen in the canton of Zürich in .
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Latitude
47.59192° or 47° 35′ 31″ north
Longitude
8.62051° or 8° 37′ 14″ east
Open location code
8FVCHJRC+Q6
Open­Street­Map ID
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­water
Open­Street­Map feature
water=­river
Geo­Names ID
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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Venetian—“Thur” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Ríu Thur”
  • Basque: “Thur”
  • Catalan: “Riu Thur”
  • Catalan: “Thur”
  • Cebuano: “Thur”
  • Chinese: “图尔河”
  • Chinese: “圖爾河”
  • Croatian: “Thur”
  • Czech: “Thur”
  • Danish: “Thur”
  • Dutch: “Thur”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “نهر ثور”
  • Esperanto: “Turo”
  • Finnish: “Thur”
  • French: “Thur”
  • German: “Thur”
  • Hungarian: “Thur”
  • Irish: “Thur”
  • Italian: “Thur”
  • Japanese: “トゥール川”
  • Lithuanian: “Tūras”
  • Luxembourgish: “Thur”
  • Malay: “Sungai Thur”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Thur”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Thur i Sveits”
  • Norwegian: “Thur”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Thur”
  • Persian: “ثور (سوئیس)”
  • Persian: “ثور”
  • Polish: “Thur”
  • Portuguese: “Rio Thur”
  • Romanian: “Thur”
  • Russian: “Проект:Водные объекты/Реки/Тур”
  • Russian: “Тур”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Thur (Rajna)”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Thur”
  • Slovenian: “Thur”
  • Spanish: “Thur”
  • Swedish: “Thur”
  • Swiss German: “Thur”
  • Turkish: “Thur Nehri”
  • Ukrainian: “Тур”
  • Venetian: “Fiume Thur”

Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Preusselen and Rütihof.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Egg and Schützenhaus Alten.

Switzerland: Highlights

Learn more about Zurich and Bern.
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