Zurich Main Station
Zürich Hauptbahnhof, often shortened to Zürich HB or just HB, and known in English as Zurich Main Station, is the largest railway station in Switzerland and one of the busiest in Europe.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Railway station
- Description: main railway station in the Swiss city of Zurich
- Also known as: “Hauptbahnhof Zuerich”, “Zurich Central Station”, “Zurich Hauptbahnhof”, “Zürich Hauptbahnhof”, “Zürich HB”, “Zürich Station”, and “Zurich’s Central Station”
- Wheelchair access: yes
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Zurich HB SZU railway station and Bahnhofplatz.
Zurich HB SZU railway station
Railway station
Photo: Bobo11, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Zurich HB SZU railway station is a subsurface railway station situated below Bahnhofplatz in the city centre of Zurich, Switzerland. The station is physically connected to Zürich HB, Zurich Main Station, via the underground ShopVille mall.
Bahnhofplatz
Square
Bahnhofplatz is a square in the city centre of Zurich, Switzerland. It is located in front of the southern entrance of the main building of Main Station and at the northern end of Bahnhofstrasse, the city's shopping avenue.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Schipfe and Niederdorf.
Schipfe
Locality
Photo: Roland zh, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Schipfe is a residential district in Zurich, Switzerland, located on the eastern slope of the Lindenhof, one of the oldest parts of the Helvetii Oppidum Zurich-Lindenhof, by the river Limmat.
Altstadt
Suburb
The Altstadt in the Swiss city of Zurich 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.
Zurich Main Station
Latitude
47.3781° or 47° 22′ 41″ northLongitude
8.53936° or 8° 32′ 22″ eastElevation
411 metres (1,348 feet)Inception
August 7th, 1847Operator
SBBNetwork
ZVVAbbreviation
“ZUE”IATA airport code
ZLPUIC ID
8503000United Nations Location Code
CH ZRHOpen location code
8FVC9GHQ+6POpenStreetMap ID
node 1236383343OpenStreetMap feature
public_transport=stationOpenStreetMap feature
railway=stationOpenStreetMap attribute
wheelchair=yesGeoNames ID
6324510Wikidata ID
Q224494
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yiddish—“Zurich Main Station” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “محطة قطارات زيورخ الرئيسية”
- Arpitan: “Gâra centrâla de Tsurique”
- Catalan: “Estació Central de Zúric”
- Chinese: “苏黎世火车总站”
- Czech: “Zürich Hauptbahnhof”
- Danish: “Zürich Hauptbahnhof”
- Dutch: “Station Zürich”
- Dutch: “Zurich Hauptbahnhof”
- Dutch: “Zürich Hauptbahnhof”
- Esperanto: “Ĉefstacidomo Zuriko”
- Esperanto: “Zürich HB”
- Finnish: “Zürichin päärautatieasema”
- French: “gare centrale de Zurich”
- French: “Gare centrale de Zurich”
- French: “gare de Zurich”
- French: “Zurich Gare Centrale”
- French: “Zürich Hauptbahnhof”
- French: “Zurich-Central”
- French: “Zurich-centrale”
- Galician: “estación central de Zürich”
- Galician: “Estación central de Zürich”
- German: “Bahnhof Zürich HB”
- German: “Bf Zürich HB”
- German: “Hauptbahnhof Zürich”
- German: “Zürich Hauptbahnhof”
- German: “Zürich HB”
- Hungarian: “Zürich Hauptbahnhof”
- Hungarian: “Zürichi főpályaudvar”
- Italian: “stazione di Zurigo Centrale”
- Italian: “Stazione di Zurigo Centrale”
- Italian: “stazione di Zurigo Principale”
- Japanese: “チューリッヒ中央駅”
- Korean: “HB역”
- Korean: “취리히 HB역”
- Korean: “취리히 중앙역”
- Persian: “ایستگاه راهآهن مرکزی زوریخ”
- Polish: “Zürich Hauptbahnhof”
- Portuguese: “Estação central de Zurique”
- Romanian: “Zürich Hauptbahnhof”
- Russian: “Главный вокзал Цюриха”
- Slovak: “Zürich Hauptbahnhof”
- Spanish: “Estacion central de Zurich”
- Spanish: “Estación central de Zúrich”
- Swedish: “Zürich Hauptbahnhof”
- Thai: “สถานีกลางซือริช”
- Thai: “สถานีรถไฟกลางซูริก”
- Turkish: “Zürih Merkez Garı”
- Turkish: “Zürih Merkez Tren İstasyonu”
- Ukrainian: “Цюрих-Головний”
- Venetian: “stasion Sentrałe de Zurigo”
- Yiddish: “ציריך הויפט באן סטאנציע”
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