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Pfäffikersee

Pfäffikersee is a in the canton of Zürich, Switzerland, near the town of Pfäffikon. It is 2.5 km long and 1.3 km wide at the middle. The lake was created in the last ice age when a moraine blocked off the ability for the lake to empty north towards .
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  • Type: Lake
  • Description: lake in canton of Zürich, Switzerland
  • Also known as: “Lake Pfäffikon” and “Pfaffikersee”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Pfäffikon ZH railway station and Jucker Farm.

Railway station
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Pfäffikon ZH is a railway station in the municipality of Pfäffikon in the , Switzerland. The station is located on the Effretikon to Hinwil railway line, within fare zone 135 of the Zürcher Verkehrsverbund.

Restaurant
is a agrotourism company and agriculture producer and distributor, that operates three farm estates including restaurants and three farm shops.

Church
Photo: Roland zh, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Seegräben and Pfaeffikon.

Village
Photo: Roland zh, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a village and a municipality in the district of Hinwil in the canton of Zürich in . Besides the village of itself, the municipality also includes the settlements of Aathal, Aathal-Seegräben, Aretshalden, Ottenhausen, Sack and Wagenburg.

Village
Photo: Roland zh, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Pfäffikon is a municipality in the canton of Zürich in . It is the seat of the district of the same name. It is not to be confused with on Lake Zurich but in the canton of Schwyz.

Hamlet
Seegräben is a village and a municipality in the district of Hinwil in the canton of Zürich in . Besides the village of Seegräben itself, the municipality also includes the settlements of Aathal, Aathal-Seegräben, , Ottenhausen, Sack and Wagenburg.

Pfäffikersee

Latitude
47.35235° or 47° 21′ 9″ north
Longitude
8.78086° or 8° 46′ 51″ east
Elevation
534 metres (1,752 feet)
Open location code
8FVC9Q2J+W8
Open­Street­Map ID
way 4605042
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­water
Open­Street­Map feature
water=­lake
Geo­Names ID
2659221
Wiki­data ID
Q14514
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In Other Languages

From Catalan to Venetian—“Pfäffikersee” goes by many names.
  • Catalan: “llac de Pfäffikon”
  • Cebuano: “Pfäffikersee”
  • Chinese: “普费菲孔湖”
  • Chinese: “法菲克湖”
  • Dutch: “Pfäffikersee”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بحيره پفافيكيرسى”
  • Esperanto: “Lago de Pfäffikon”
  • French: “lac de Pfäffikon”
  • French: “Lac de Pfäffikon”
  • German: “Pfäffikersee”
  • Italian: “lago di Pfäffikon”
  • Italian: “Lago di Pfäffikon”
  • Korean: “페피콘호”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Pfäffikersee”
  • Portuguese: “Lago Pfäffikersee”
  • Slovenian: “Pfäffikersee”
  • Spanish: “Lago de Pfäffikon”
  • Swedish: “Pfäffikersee”
  • Swiss German: “Pfäffikersee”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Pfäffikersee”
  • Venetian: “lago de Pfäffikon”

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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 “Pfäffikersee”. Photo: Roland zh, CC BY-SA 3.0.