Canton of Zurich
Zürich District
Zurich

Friesenberg

Friesenberg is a district at the foot of the in the city of in . The district is part of the formerly independent municipality of , which was incorporated in 1893 and now forms urban district 3.
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  • Type: Quarter with 9,910 residents
  • Description: quarter of the city of Zurich, Switzerland
  • Also known as: “Friesenberg (ZH)”, “Zuerich (Kreis 3) / Friesenberg”, and “Zürich (Kreis 3) / Friesenberg”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Friesenberg and Israelite Cemetery Lower Frisian Mountain.

Church
Photo: Michael D. Schmid, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a church.

Cemetery
Photo: Albinfo, CC0.

Railway stop
Photo: Chris j wood, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Zürich Schweighof is a railway station in the west of the city of , on Schweighofstrasse in the city's Friesenberg quarter. It is located within fare zone 110 of the Zürcher Verkehrsverbund.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Wiedikon and Alt-Wiedikon.

Suburb
is a district in the city of . It corresponds to District number 3 and comprises the neighborhoods of , and Friesenberg. was formerly a municipality of its own, having been incorporated into Zurich in 1893.

Quarter
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
is a quarter in the district 3 of Zürich. It was formerly a part of municipality, which was incorporated into Zürich in 1893. As of 2025, the quarter has a population of 18,610 distributed on an area of 1.69 km2.

Quarter
is a quarter in the district 3 of Zürich. It was formerly a part of municipality, which was incorporated into Zürich in 1893. As of 2025, the quarter has a population of 21,687 distributed on an area of 1.66 km2.

Friesenberg

Latitude
47.36192° or 47° 21′ 43″ north
Longitude
8.50555° or 8° 30′ 20″ east
Population
9,910
Elevation
465 metres (1,526 feet)
Open location code
8FVC9G64+Q6
Open­Street­Map ID
node 5349213319
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­quarter
Geo­Names ID
6295497
Wiki­data ID
Q693357
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In Other Languages

From Catalan to Ukrainian—“Friesenberg” goes by many names.
  • Catalan: “Friesenberg”
  • Cebuano: “Zürich”
  • Dutch: “Friesenberg”
  • French: “Friesenberg”
  • German: “Friesenberg (ZH)”
  • German: “Friesenberg”
  • Latin: “Friesenberg”
  • Turkish: “Friesenberg”
  • Ukrainian: “Фрізенберг”

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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 “Friesenberg”. Photo: ויקיג’אנקי, CC BY-SA 4.0.