Canton of Zurich
Uster District
Fällanden

Pfaffhausen

Pfaffhausen is a settlement in the municipality of in the canton of Zürich, . It has an elevation of 597 m, and lies in the valley between the northern flank of the Öschbrig and the southeastern slope of the .
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  • Type: Village with 1,680 residents
  • Description: village in Switzerland
  • Also known as: “Pffaffhausen”
  • Postal code: 8118

Places of Interest

Highlights include Loorenkopf and Burg Dübelstein.

Scenic viewpoint
Photo: Tschubby, CC BY-SA 3.0.
tower is a 33-metre high freestanding wood lattice tower on , north of in Zürich, . It was built in 1954. The tower is owned by Zürich city and it is open to the public.

Castle
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is a castle.

Cemetery
Photo: Charly Bernasconi, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Binz and Fällanden.

Village
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is a village.

Village
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is a municipality in the district of Uster in the canton of Zürich in , and belongs to the Glatt Valley.

Suburb
Photo: Martin E. Walder, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a quarter in the district 7 in Zürich. It was formerly a municipality of its own, having been incorporated into Zürich in 1934. As of 2025, the quarter has a population of 11,747 distributed on an area of 4.93 km2. is situated 2½ km west of Pfaffhausen.

Pfaffhausen

Latitude
47.36586° or 47° 21′ 57″ north
Longitude
8.62325° or 8° 37′ 24″ east
Population
1,680
Elevation
597 metres (1,959 feet)
Open location code
8FVC9J8F+87
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1437532189
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
2659213
Wiki­data ID
Q7179763
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In Other Languages

From Bulgarian to Swedish—“Pfaffhausen” goes by many names.
  • Bulgarian: “Пфафхаусен”
  • Cebuano: “Pfaffhausen”
  • Dutch: “Pfaffhausen”
  • French: “Pfaffhausen”
  • German: “Pfaffhausen”
  • German: “Pfaffhusen”
  • Italian: “Pfaffhausen”
  • Swedish: “Pfaffhausen”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Pfaffhausen”. Photo: Roland zh, CC BY-SA 3.0.