Wiedikon
Wiedikon is a district in the Swiss city of Zurich. It corresponds to District number 3 and comprises the neighborhoods of Alt-Wiedikon, Sihlfeld and Friesenberg. Wiedikon was formerly a municipality of its own, having been incorporated into Zurich in 1893.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Suburb with 46,000 residents
- Description: district in Zurich, Switzerland
- Also known as: “city district #3 (Zürich)”, “Kreis 3”, “Kreis 3 (Zürich)”, “Zuerich (Kreis 3)”, and “Zürich (Kreis 3)”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Letzigrund Stadium and Zürich Friesenberg railway station.
Letzigrund Stadium
Stadium
Photo: Seasider53, CC BY 4.0.
Letzigrund is a stadium in Zurich, Switzerland, the home of the football clubs FC Zürich and Grasshopper Club Zürich, as well as the athletics club LC Zürich.
Zürich Friesenberg railway station
Railway stop
Photo: Re 460, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Zürich Friesenberg is a railway station in the west of the Swiss city of Zurich, in the city's Friesenberg quarter. It is located within fare zone 110 of the Zürcher Verkehrsverbund.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Alt-Wiedikon and Friesenberg.
Alt-Wiedikon
Quarter
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Alt-Wiedikon is a quarter in the district 3 of Zürich. It was formerly a part of Wiedikon 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.
Friesenberg
Quarter
Friesenberg is a district at the foot of the Uetliberg in the city of Zurich in Switzerland. The district is part of the formerly independent municipality of Wiedikon, which was incorporated in 1893 and now forms urban district 3.
Sihlfeld
Quarter
Sihlfeld is a quarter in the district 3 of Zürich. It was formerly a part of Wiedikon municipality, which was incorporated into Zürich in 1893. The quarter has a population of 20,554 distributed on an area of 1.64 km2.
Wiedikon
- Categories: former municipality of Switzerland, Kreis (city of Zürich), electoral unit, and locality
- Location: Zurich, Zürich District, Canton of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
47.36627° or 47° 21′ 59″ northLongitude
8.51071° or 8° 30′ 39″ eastPopulation
46,000Elevation
507 metres (1,663 feet)Open location code
8FVC9G86+G7OpenStreetMap ID
node 603102177OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbGeoNames ID
6295532Wikidata ID
Q675017
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Ukrainian—“Wiedikon” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Districte 3”
- Dutch: “Wiedikon”
- French: “Wiedikon”
- German: “Kreis 3”
- German: “Wiedikon”
- German: “Zürich Wiedikon”
- German: “Zürich-Wiedikon”
- Irish: “Wiedikon”
- Italian: “Wiedikon”
- Latin: “Circulus 3”
- Latin: “Wiedikon”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Wiedikon”
- Russian: “Видикон”
- Swiss German: “Wiedike”
- Tosk Albanian: “Wiedikon”
- Turkish: “3. Bölge”
- Turkish: “Kreis 3”
- Turkish: “Wiedikon”
- Ukrainian: “Відікон”
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