Canton of Zurich
Zürich District
Zurich

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 and one of the busiest in .
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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.

Railway station
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is a subsurface railway station situated below in the of , Switzerland. The station is physically connected to Zürich HB, Zurich Main Station, via the underground ShopVille mall.

Square
is a square in the of , Switzerland. It is located in front of the southern entrance of the main building of Main Station and at the northern end of , the city's shopping avenue.

Church
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Places in the Area

Nearby places include Schipfe and Niederdorf.

Locality
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is a residential district in , Switzerland, located on the eastern slope of the , one of the oldest parts of the Helvetii Oppidum Zurich-Lindenhof, by the river .

Locality
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is a locality.

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.

Zurich Main Station

Latitude
47.3781° or 47° 22′ 41″ north
Longitude
8.53936° or 8° 32′ 22″ east
Elevation
411 metres (1,348 feet)
Inception
August 7th, 1847
Operator
SBB
Network
ZVV
Abbreviation
“ZUE”
IATA airport code
ZLP
UIC ID
8503000
United Nations Location Code
CH ZRH
Open location code
8FVC9GHQ+6P
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1236383343
Open­Street­Map feature
public_transport=­station
Open­Street­Map feature
railway=­station
Open­Street­Map attribute
wheelchair=­yes
Geo­Names ID
6324510
Wiki­data ID
Q224494
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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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