Canton of Zurich
Zürich District
Zurich

Riesbach

Riesbach is a district in the city of Zürich. It is District number 8. Riesbach has about 15,500 residents.
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  • Type: Suburb with 15,500 residents
  • Description: district in Zürich, Switzerland
  • Also known as: “city district #8 (Zürich)”, “Kreis 8”, “Kreis 8 (Zürich)”, “Zuerich (Kreis 8)”, and “Zürich (Kreis 8)”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Botanical Garden and Villa Patumbah.

Garden
Photo: Pimpinellus, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The of the University of Zurich is a in the city of . It was opened in 1977 and is located at Zollikerstrasse in the Weinegg quarter of the city.

House
Photo: Roland zh, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a house.

Theater building
Photo: Roland zh, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The is an opera house in the Swiss city of . Located at the Sechseläutenplatz, it has been the home of the Zurich Opera since 1891, and also houses the Bernhard-Theater Zürich.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Hirslanden and Hottingen.

Suburb
is a quarter in the district 7 in Zürich. It was formerly a municipality of its own, having been incorporated into Zürich in 1893. As of 2025, the quarter has a population of 7,648 distributed on an area of 2.187 km2.

Suburb
is a quarter in of . It was formerly a municipality of its own, but was incorporated into Zurich in 1893. The quarter has a population of 10,100 in an area of 5.05 square kilometres.

Suburb
The in the city of encompasses the area of the entire historical city before 1893, before the incorporation of what are now districts 2 to 12 into the municipality, over the period 1893 to 1934.

Riesbach

Latitude
47.35748° or 47° 21′ 27″ north
Longitude
8.55987° or 8° 33′ 36″ east
Population
15,500
Elevation
430 metres (1,411 feet)
Open location code
8FVC9H45+XW
Open­Street­Map ID
node 30757711
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
6295542
Wiki­data ID
Q677710
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In Other Languages

From Catalan to Ukrainian—“Riesbach” goes by many names.
  • Catalan: “Districte 8”
  • Chinese: “里斯巴赫”
  • Czech: “Riesbach”
  • Danish: “Riesbach”
  • Dutch: “Riesbach”
  • French: “Riesbach”
  • German: “Kreis 8”
  • German: “Riesbach”
  • Irish: “Riesbach”
  • Italian: “Riesbach”
  • Japanese: “リースバッハ”
  • Korean: “리스바흐”
  • Latin: “Circulus 8”
  • Latin: “Riesbach”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Riesbach”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Riesbach”
  • Polish: “Riesbach”
  • Russian: “Рисбах”
  • Slovenian: “Kreis 8”
  • Slovenian: “Okrožje 8”
  • Slovenian: “Riesbach”
  • Spanish: “Riesbach”
  • Swedish: “Kreis 8”
  • Swedish: “Riesbach”
  • Swiss German: “Chrais 8”
  • Swiss German: “Riesbach”
  • Turkish: “8. Bölge”
  • Turkish: “Kreis 8”
  • Turkish: “Riesbach”
  • Ukrainian: “Рісбах”

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Zwei weibliche Figuren and Heimatschutzzentrum in der Villa Patumbah.

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