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4 unusual facts about Lake Zurich


Justin Tranter

Justin Tranter and his three older brothers were raised by his parents in Lake Zurich, Illinois.

Lake Zurich, Illinois

In 2006, Lake Zurich was named by Frommer's as one of the top hundred "Best Places to Raise Your Family" and by U.S. News as one of the "Top Twenty-five Affordable Places to Live in the Country".

Long-billed Murrelet

The first found in Europe was a first-winter individual discovered drowned in a fishing net at Zollikon, Lake Zurich, Switzerland on a date between 15 and 18 December 1997.

Subaru Industrial Power Products

The company’s United States headquarters is located in Lake Zurich, Illinois.


Bodan-Werft

The company built many of the ferries and other vessels used on the larger lakes of the Alps, including vessels for the White Fleet on Lake Constance, for the Zürichsee-Schifffahrtsgesellschaft and the Zürichsee-Fähre Horgen–Meilen on Lake Zurich, and for the Società Navigazione del Lago di Lugano on Lake Lugano.

Meinrad of Einsiedeln

After some years at Reichenau, the dependent priory of Benken, St. Gallen near Lake Zurich, he embraced an eremitical life and established his hermitage on the slopes of Etzel Pass, taking with him a wonder-working statue of the Virgin Mary which he had been given by the Abbess Hildegarde of Zurich.


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Au peninsula

Au peninsula got further literary honor: The German poet Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (1724–1803) immortalized his 1750s visit in his „Ode an den Zürichsee“ (Ode to the Lake Zurich).

Freienbach railway station

Freienbach SBB railway station on the Lake Zurich left-bank railway line in Switzerland

Lindenhof hill

In 15 BC, Augustus' stepsons Drusus and Tiberius (later Emperor Tiberius Claudius Nero 14 to 37 AD) integrated the territory on the left side of Lake Zurich into the Roman provinces Raetia and Germania Superior.

Oppidum Üetliberg

The hill fortress was presumably now manned by a Roman garrison protecting the tax collection point at vicus of Turicum at the egress of Lake Zurich.

Pfäffikon railway station

Pfäffikon SZ railway station - in the Swiss canton of Schwyz, albeit on the shores of Lake Zurich

Wollishofen

Zürcher Theater Spektakel, an international theater festival ranking among the most important European festivals for contemporary performing arts, is held annually in August on the shore of Lake Zurich.

ZSG

Zürichsee-Schifffahrtsgesellschaft, a public Swiss company operating boats on Lake Zürich

Zurich International School

This villa, which was built in 1906 on the shore of Lake Zurich in Kilchberg, is now attended by children aged two to four.