Canton of Zurich
Zürich District
Zurich

Oberstrass

Oberstrass is a quarter in the in . It was formerly a municipality of its own, having been incorporated into Zurich in 1893. As of 2025, the quarter has a population of 11,083 distributed on an area of 2.64 km2.
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  • Type: Suburb with 9,910 residents
  • Description: quarter of the city of Zurich, Switzerland
  • Also known as: “Zuerich (Kreis 6) / Oberstrass” and “Zürich (Kreis 6) / Oberstrass”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Zurich Main Station and MoneyMuseum.

Railway station
Photo: Ikiwaner, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Zürich Hauptbahnhof, often shortened to Zürich HB or just HB, and known in English as , is the largest railway station in and one of the busiest in .

Museum
Photo: Albinfo, CC0.
is a private museum in , Switzerland, that focuses critically on monetary history and the future of money. It is funded by the nonprofit Sunflower Foundation.

Theater building
Photo: Roland zh, CC BY-SA 3.0.
or Theatersaal Rigiblick is a theatre in the German-speaking Switzerland situated in Zürich-Oberstrass. Built in 1901 as the restaurant Rigiblick, the theater houses mainly guest performances, focussed on the dance theater.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Unterstrass and Fluntern.

Suburb
Photo: Roland zh, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a quarter in the district 6 in . It was formerly a municipality of its own, having been incorporated into Zurich in 1893. As of 2025, the quarter has a population of 25,078, in an area of 2.47 km2.

Suburb
Photo: Roland zh, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a quarter in the district 7 in Zürich, Switzerland. It was formerly a municipality of its own, having been incorporated into Zürich in 1893. The quarter has a population of 7,325 distributed on an area of 2.84 km2.

Locality
Photo: Morgner, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a locality.

Oberstrass

Latitude
47.38571° or 47° 23′ 9″ north
Longitude
8.54913° or 8° 32′ 57″ east
Population
9,910
Elevation
527 metres (1,729 feet)
Open location code
8FVC9GPX+7M
Open­Street­Map ID
node 603102179
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
6295505
Wiki­data ID
Q693483
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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Upper Sorbian—“Oberstrass” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Zürich”
  • Dutch: “Oberstrass”
  • French: “Oberstrass”
  • German: “Oberstrass”
  • Irish: “Oberstrass”
  • Italian: “Oberstrass”
  • Japanese: “オーバーシュトラース”
  • Latin: “Oberstrass”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Oberstrass”
  • Russian: “Оберштрасс (город Цюрих)”
  • Russian: “Оберштрасс”
  • Slovenian: “Oberstrass”
  • Swedish: “Oberstrass”
  • Turkish: “Oberstrass”
  • Ukrainian: “Оберштрас”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Oberstrass”

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Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Seilbahn Rigiblick and Schwingklub Zürich.

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