Loorenkopf

Loorenkopf tower is a 33-metre high freestanding wood lattice tower on , north of in Zürich, . It was built in 1954. The tower is owned by Zürich city and it is open to the public.
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  • Type: Scenic viewpoint
  • Description: Tower in Zurich, Switzerland
  • Also known as: “Loorenkopf tower” and “Loorenkopf-Turm”
  • Address: Loorenkopfstrasse 99, Zürich, 8053
  • Roof shape: pyramidal
  • Wheelchair access: no

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Adlisberg and Cemetery Witikon.

Peak
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, with an elevation of 701 metres, is a wooded mountain in overlooking to the northwest near the .

Cemetery
Photo: Charly Bernasconi, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is situated 1 km southeast of Loorenkopf.

Castle
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is a castle, which is situated 1½ km northeast of Loorenkopf.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Witikon and Pfaffhausen.

Suburb
Photo: Martin E. Walder, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a quarter in the district 7 in Zürich. It was formerly a municipality of its own, having been incorporated into Zürich in 1934. As of 2025, the quarter has a population of 11,747 distributed on an area of 4.93 km2.

Village
is a settlement in the municipality of in the canton of Zürich, . It has an elevation of 597 m, and lies in the valley between the northern flank of the Öschbrig and the southeastern slope of the .

Village
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is a village, which is situated 2½ km southeast of Loorenkopf.

Loorenkopf

Latitude
47.36976° or 47° 22′ 11″ north
Longitude
8.59897° or 8° 35′ 56″ east
Elevation
694 metres (2,277 feet)
Height
33 metres (108 feet)
Open location code
8FVC9H9X+WH
Open­Street­Map ID
way 303186336
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­roof
Open­Street­Map feature
man_made=­tower
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­viewpoint
Open­Street­Map attribute
roof-shape=­pyramidal
Open­Street­Map attribute
wheelchair=­no
Wiki­data ID
Q17041583
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