Canton of Zurich
Zürich District
Zurich

Altstetten

Altstetten is a quarter in of the city of in . It was formerly a municipality in its own right, but was incorporated into Zurich in 1934.
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  • Type: Suburb with 28,300 residents
  • Description: quarter of the city of Zurich, Switzerland
  • Also known as: “Zuerich (Kreis 9) / Altstetten” and “Zürich (Kreis 9) / Altstetten”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Alte Kirche Altstetten and Grosse Kirche Altstetten.

Church
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is a church.

Church
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is a church.

Stadium
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Letzigrund is a in , Switzerland, the home of the football clubs FC Zürich and Grasshopper Club Zürich, as well as the athletics club LC Zürich.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Albisrieden and Höngg.

Suburb
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is a quarter in the district 9 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 23,877 distributed on an area of 4.615 km2.

Suburb
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is a quarter in district 10 in Zürich. It was formerly a municipality of its own, having been incorporated into Zürich in 1934. As of 2024, the quarter has a population of 24,810, distributed across an area of 6.98 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.

Altstetten

Latitude
47.3874° or 47° 23′ 15″ north
Longitude
8.48606° or 8° 29′ 10″ east
Population
28,300
Elevation
403 metres (1,322 feet)
Open location code
8FVC9FPP+XC
Open­Street­Map ID
node 63030860
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
6295513
Wiki­data ID
Q445711
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In Other Languages

From Catalan to Upper Sorbian—“Altstetten” goes by many names.
  • Catalan: “Altstetten”
  • Cebuano: “Zürich”
  • Dutch: “Altstetten”
  • French: “Altstetten”
  • German: “Altstetten”
  • German: “Zürich-Altstetten”
  • Irish: “Altstetten”
  • Italian: “Altstetten”
  • Latin: “Altstetten”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Altstetten”
  • Spanish: “Altstetten”
  • Turkish: “Altstetten”
  • Ukrainian: “Альтштеттен”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Altstetten”

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Notable Places Nearby

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