Canton of Zurich
Zürich District
Zurich

Helvetiaplatz

The Helvetiaplatz is a located in at the corner of and Stauffacherstrasse in . The first project of pastor Ernst Sieber's Sozialwerke Pfarrer Sieber for homeless people started at Helvetiaplatz in winter 1963; the foundation is still based in Zürich-Aussersihl.
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Wikipedia
Photo: MCaviglia, Public domain.
  • Type: Square
  • Description: public square in Zurich, Switzerland
  • Also known as: “Helvetia Platz” and “Helvetiaplatz, Zürich”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Kino Xenix and Olivia-Brunnen.

Movie theater
Photo: Muvibuff, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a movie theater, which is situated 110 metres southwest of Helvetiaplatz.

Fountain
Photo: SophiaHenke, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a fountain.

Railway station
Photo: Ikiwaner, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Zürich Hauptbahnhof, often shortened to Zürich HB or just HB, and known in English as , is the largest railway station in and one of the busiest in . is situated 1 km east of Helvetiaplatz.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Aussersihl and Schipfe.

Suburb
Photo: Roland zh, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a district in the city of Zürich. Known officially as District number 4, the district is known as colloquially Chreis Cheib, cheib being the Zürich German word for an animal cadaver.

Locality
Photo: Roland zh, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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 .

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.

Helvetiaplatz

Latitude
47.37608° or 47° 22′ 34″ north
Longitude
8.52686° or 8° 31′ 37″ east
Elevation
410 metres (1,345 feet)
Open location code
8FVC9GGG+CP
Open­Street­Map ID
way 4533221
Open­Street­Map feature
highway=­pedestrian
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­square
Geo­Names ID
13353886
Wiki­data ID
Q1236093
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In Other Languages

From Dutch to Romansh—“Helvetiaplatz” goes by many names.
  • Dutch: “Helvetiaplatz”
  • French: “Helvetiaplatz”
  • German: “Helvetiaplatz”
  • Italian: “Helvetiaplatz”
  • Korean: “헬베티아 광장”
  • Romansh: “Helvetiaplatz”

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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 Wikipedia page “Helvetiaplatz”. Photo: MCaviglia, Public domain.