Wald
Wald is a village and a municipality in the district of Hinwil in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 10,600 residents
- Description: municipality in the canton of Zürich, Switzerland
- Also known as: “CH0120”, “Wald ZH”, “Wald, Canton of Zürich, Switzerland”, and “Wald, Zürich”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Bachtel and Wald railway station.
Bachtel
Peak
Photo: Berger, Public domain.
Bachtel is a mountain of the Zurich Oberland, located between Hinwil and Wald in the canton of Zurich, Switzerland. It lies approximately halfway between the Schnebelhorn and Lake Zurich.
Wald railway station
Railway station
Photo: Roland zh, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Wald railway station is a railway station in the Swiss canton of Zürich, situated in the municipality of Wald. The station is located on the Tösstalbahn between Winterthur and Rüti ZH, within fare zone 134 of the Zürcher Verkehrsverbund.
Fründsberg Castle
Archaeological site
Photo: Lokolia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Fründsberg Castle is a castle in the municipality of Goldingen of the Canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland. It is a Swiss heritage site of national significance.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Rapperswil and Rüti.
Rapperswil
Photo: Böhringer, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Rapperswil is a city that borders Northeastern Switzerland & Central Switzerland and lays direct at the end of Lake Zurich and Obersee. Rapperswil merged lately with the city of Jona and is a picturesque town and popular destination for hikers, bikers and families at the weekend in the vicinity of Zurich.
Rüti
Town
Photo: Roland zh, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Rüti is a Swiss town and a municipality in the district of Hinwil in the canton of Zürich. The river Jona flows through the town. Rüti is situated 5 km west of Wald.
Eschenbach
Village
Photo: DidiWeidmann, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Eschenbach is a village, which is situated 4 km south of Wald.
Wald
- Categories: municipality of Switzerland and locality
- Location: Hinwil District, Canton of Zurich, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
47.2741° or 47° 16′ 27″ northLongitude
8.9132° or 8° 54′ 48″ eastPopulation
10,600Elevation
734 metres (2,408 feet)Open location code
8FVC7WF7+J7OpenStreetMap ID
node 240114466OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
7287524Wikidata ID
Q67272
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Wald” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “فالد”
- Basque: “Wald (ZH)”
- Basque: “Wald”
- Breton: “Wald”
- Catalan: “Wald”
- Cebuano: “Wald (munisipyo sa Swisa, Kanton Zürich, Bezirk Hinwil, lat 47,29, long 8,92)”
- Cebuano: “Wald”
- Chinese: “瓦尔德”
- Chinese: “瓦爾德”
- Chuvash: “Вальд”
- Czech: “Wald ZH”
- Czech: “Wald”
- Dutch: “Wald”
- Esperanto: “Wald ZH”
- Finnish: “Wald”
- French: “Wald ZH”
- French: “Wald”
- German: “Laupen ZH”
- German: “Wald ZH”
- German: “Wald”
- Hungarian: “Wald (ZH)”
- Irish: “Wald”
- Italian: “Wald”
- Kazakh: “Вальд”
- Lombard: “Wald”
- Luxembourgish: “Wald”
- Malay: “Wald ZH”
- Malay: “Wald, Zurich”
- Malay: “Wald”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Wald”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Wald i Zürich”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Wald”
- Polish: “Wald (kanton Zurych)”
- Polish: “Wald”
- Portuguese: “Wald”
- Russian: “Вальд”
- Spanish: “Wald”
- Swedish: “Wald, Zürich”
- Swedish: “Wald”
- Swiss German: “Wald ZH”
- Swiss German: “Wald”
- Tosk Albanian: “Wald ZH”
- Turkish: “Wald ZH”
- Turkish: “Wald, Zürih”
- Turkish: “Wald”
- Ukrainian: “Вальд”
- Upper Sorbian: “Wald”
- Uzbek: “Vald”
- Uzbek: “Wald”
- Venetian: “Wald (Xurigo)”
- Venetian: “Wald”
- Volapük: “Wald”
- Waray (Philippines): “Wald, Zurich”
- Waray (Philippines): “Wald”
- Welsh: “Wald”
- “Wald”
- “Wald ZH”
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