Switzerland
Canton of Zurich
Uster District

Greifensee

Uster is a city near , . Uster lies 350m above sea level, so it is just in the winter snow.
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  • Type: Village with 5,360 residents
  • Description: municipality on lake Greiffensee in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland
  • Also known as: “CH0194”, “Greifensee ZH”, and “Greifensee, Zürich”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Greifensee Castle and Schwerzenbach railway station.

Castle
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is a castle in the municipality of Greifensee and the in . It was probably built by the House of Rapperswil and is a Swiss heritage site of national significance.

Railway station
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Schwerzenbach is a railway station in the Swiss . It is situated in the on the Wallisellen–Uster–Rapperswil line.

Church
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Reformierte Kirche Greifensee, is a church and a listed heritage building in the municipality of Greifensee, Canton of Zürich, .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Uster and Volketswil.

Photo: Roland zh, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a city near , . lies 350m above sea level, so it is just in the winter snow.

Town
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is a municipality in the district of Uster in the canton of Zürich in . The municipality in the agglomeration of Zurich includes the villages of , Hegnau, Zimikon, Kindhausen and Gutenswil.

Village
Photo: DidiWeidmann, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a municipality in the district of Uster in the canton of Zürich in .

Greifensee

Latitude
47.3662° or 47° 21′ 59″ north
Longitude
8.6787° or 8° 40′ 43″ east
Population
5,360
Elevation
442 metres (1,450 feet)
Open location code
8FVC9M8H+FF
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26975220
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
7285971
Wiki­data ID
Q64882
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Greifensee” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “غرايفنسي”
  • Basque: “Greifensee”
  • Breton: “Greifensee”
  • Bulgarian: “Грайфензе”
  • Bulgarian: “Грайфензее”
  • Catalan: “Greifensee”
  • Cebuano: “Greifensee (munisipyo)”
  • Cebuano: “Greifensee”
  • Chinese: “格賴芬塞”
  • Chinese: “格赖芬塞”
  • Chuvash: “Грайфензее”
  • Czech: “Greifensee”
  • Danish: “Greifensee”
  • Dutch: “Greifensee”
  • Esperanto: “Greifensee ZH”
  • Esperanto: “Greifensee”
  • French: “Greifensee ZH”
  • French: “Greifensee”
  • German: “Greifensee ZH”
  • German: “Greifensee”
  • Greek: “Γκράιφενζεε”
  • Hungarian: “Greifensee”
  • Irish: “Greifensee”
  • Italian: “Greifensee”
  • Japanese: “グライフェンシー”
  • Kazakh: “Грайфензее”
  • Kurdish: “Greifensee”
  • Lombard: “Greifensee”
  • Malay: “Greifensee ZH”
  • Malay: “Greifensee, Zurich”
  • Malay: “Greifensee”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Greifensee”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Greifensee i Zürich”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Greifensee”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Greifensee”
  • Persian: “گرفانسه، سوئیس”
  • Piemontese: “Greifensee”
  • Polish: “Greifensee”
  • Portuguese: “Greifensee”
  • Russian: “Грайфензе”
  • Russian: “Грайфензее”
  • Slovak: “Greifensee”
  • Slovenian: “Greifensee ZH”
  • Slovenian: “Greifensee”
  • Spanish: “Greifensee”
  • Swedish: “Greifensee, Zürich”
  • Swedish: “Greifensee”
  • Swiss German: “Griiffesee ZH”
  • Swiss German: “Griiffesee”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Greifensee ZH”
  • Turkish: “Greifensee”
  • Ukrainian: “Грайфензее”
  • Ukrainian: “Ґрайфензеє”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Greifensee”
  • Uzbek: “Grayfenzee”
  • Uzbek: “Greifensee”
  • Venetian: “Greifensee”
  • Volapük: “Greifensee”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Greifensee, Zurich”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Greifensee”
  • Welsh: “Greifensee”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Greifensee”. Photo: Roland zh, CC BY-SA 3.0.