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31 unusual facts about Zürich


André Jaunet

During his life, besides occupying the principal flutist chair in the Tonhalle, he was active performing as a solo flutist with many orchestras.

After occupying the principal flute positions of the Opera de Lille (France), in the Stadtorchester Winterthur (Switzerland), and the Bern Symphony Orchestra (Switzerland), Jaunet moved to Zürich, Switzerland, where he was principal flutist in the Tonhalle Orchestra from 1938 to 1978.

Augustinergasse

In the Middle Ages, it was a small street within the town of Zürich, leading from St. Peterhofstatt at the St. Peter church, passing the former Augustine monastery below the Lindenhof hill, towards the Kecinstürlin gate at the southern Fröschengraben moat.

Brauerei Ottakringer

The heirs of Moriz von Kuffner, who had died in Zürich in the meantime, were compensated because of their expulsion and the threats of the Nazi regime, which had led to the sale of the business to the Harmer family.

Burchard II, Duke of Swabia

In 919, King Rudolph II of Upper Burgundy seized the county of Zürich and invaded the region of Konstanz, then the centre and practical capital of the Swabian duchy.

Caroline Chepkwony

In 2011 she retained her titles in Brussels, Hamburg and Zürich, as well winning the Course du Noël for a second time.

Centre Le Corbusier

It can be reached by foot (20 minutes from Bellevue) or by public transportation: Trams 2 and 4 and bus line 33 to stops Höschgasse or Fröhlichstrasse, or bus lines 912 and 916 from Bellevue to Chinagarten.

Edgar May

May was born in Zürich, Switzerland, and moved to the United States in 1940.

Eduard Ortgies

In the summer of 1855 he agreed to become Head Gardener of what is now the Old Botanical Garden, Zürich, though he found it very difficult to take his leave of the van Houtte family to whom he had grown close.

Erich Gamma

Erich Gamma (born 1961 in Zürich) is Swiss computer scientist and co-author of the influential software engineering textbook, Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software.

Erich Hückel

On receiving his doctorate, he became an assistant at Göttingen, but soon became an assistant to Peter Debye at Zürich.

Guilder

Berne and Solothurn followed in the 1480s, Fribourg in 1509 and Zürich in 1510, and other towns in the 17th century, resulting in a fragmented system of local currencies in the early modern Switzerland.

Hans Herr

Hans Herr (September 17, 1639 – October 11, 1725) was born in Zürich, Switzerland, a descendant of the Knight, Hugo Herr.

Ignác Darányi

He travelled around Central Europe on ummer 1874 on the way of Vienna-München-Zürich-Bern-Vienna.

Jasmin Feige

She had 6.63 metres as a personal best in the long jump, achieved in August 1985 in Zürich.

Kyburg

Kyburg, Zurich, a municipality in the Canton of Zurich, Switzerland

LUMA Foundation

The Foundation engages in long-term collaborations with institutions like the New Museum of Contemporary Art (New York), CCS Bard College (Annandale-on-Hudson, New York), Serpentine Gallery and Tate Modern (London), the Kunsthalle Zürich and the Fotomuseum Winterthur (Switzerland).

LZ 4

After modifications further trials were made on 23 and 29 June, and on 1 July a spectacular 12  cross-country flight was made during which it was flown over Switzerland to Zürich and then back to Lake Constance, covering 386 m (240 mi) and reaching an altitude of 795 m (2,600 ft).

Makarapa

Makarapa were present in Zürich at the selection of South Africa to host the 2010 FIFA World Cup.

Marjorie Perloff

Faced with Nazi terror, her family emigrated in 1938 when she was six-and-a-half, going first to Zürich and then to the United States, settling in Riverdale, New York.

Pfäffikon

Pfäffikon, Zurich (Pfäffikon ZH), a municipality and capital of the district

Ralph Kronig

In 1927, Kronig returned to Europe for good and worked in different prominent centres of research: Copenhagen, London, Zürich (where for a year he was Pauli's assistant).

Reichstein process

This process was devised by Nobel Prize winner Tadeus Reichstein and his colleagues in 1933 while working in the laboratory of the ETH in Zürich.

Schweizerische Wagons- und Aufzügefabrik AG Schlieren-Zürich

The Schweizerische Wagons- und Aufzügefabrik AG (SWS, known colloquially as «Wagi»), which was based at Schlieren in the Canton of Zürich, Switzerland, was a manufacturer of railway rolling stock.

Sechseläuten

The Sechseläuten (Zürich German: Sächsilüüte) is a traditional spring holiday in the Swiss city of Zürich celebrated in its current form, usually on the 3rd Monday of April, since the early 20th century.

Following the parade of the Zünfte (guilds), the climax of the holiday is the burning of Winter in effigy, in the form of the Böögg, a figure of a snowman prepared with explosives.

Spelunke in vivo

Spelunke in vivo was a festival in Gattikon, near Zürich, Switzerland.

Theology of Anabaptism

Reportedly, one of the first adult baptisms was publicly performed in Zürich, Switzerland, in January 1525.

Twibright Labs

Twibright Labs are a loose developer group located in Zürich, Switzerland and Prague, Czech Republic.

Zurich.minds

Members of the board are: Rolf Dobelli (Chairman), Jean-Claude Bastos de Morais, Pascal Forster, Michael Hengartner, Thomas Ladner, Hans Jürg Rufener and Alexander Wassmer.

Züriputsch

Led by Bernhard Hirzel, pastor of Pfäffikon, several thousand putschists stormed the city from the west, and fought the cantonal troops in the alleys between Paradeplatz and Fraumünster.


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There were also protests in Argentine embassies and consulates in cities such as New York, Miami, Madrid, Sydney, Bogotá, Santiago de Chile, Naples, Zurich and Barcelona, among others.

Adrian Naef

After it, he worked at the beginning as archivist and then as photograph editor at the agency Keystone in Zürich.

Aesch

Aesch bei Neftenbach, a hamlet in the municipality of Neftenbach in the Swiss canton of Zürich

Alessandro Benetton

He is a member of the Confindustria Committee and of the Advisory Committee of Robert Bosch International Beteiligungen AG in Zurich, the consultancy organ of the Swiss holding for the foreign activities of the Bosch Group.

Alfred Escher

Johann Heinrich Alfred Escher vom Glas, known as Alfred Escher (20 February 1819 in Zurich – 6 December 1882 in Zurich/Enge) was a Swiss politician, business leader and railways pioneer.

Ana Guevara

She won the 400m race in Zurich, one of the two 400m events held at Golden League competitions this year.

Anna Mahler

The Australian violinist Alma Moodie assisted Krenek with getting financial assistance from her Swiss patron Werner Reinhart (at whose instigation Krenek and Mahler were living in Zürich) and, in gratitude, Krenek dedicated the concerto to Moodie, and she premiered it on 5 January 1925, in Dessau.

Artur Popławski

He started his study at Imperial University of Warsaw (with a Russian–language) in 1879, and moved to ETH Zurich (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich) in 1884.

Baumschlager-Eberle

Since starting up business in Vorarlberg, the westernmost state of Austria, with the focus of its activities on housing and residential architecture, the company has meanwhile become internationally established with branches in Lochau (Austria), Vienna, St. Gallen (Switzerland), Zürich (Switzerland), Vaduz (Liechtenstein) and Beijing.

Bruce Small

After the war, Small's Malvern Star bicycles were ridden by Sid Patterson, who won the World Championship Sprint in Copenhagen in 1949, and several other races including amateur World Championship Pursuit in Liege (1950), professional World Championship Pursuit in Paris (1952), and professional World Championship Pursuit in Zurich (1953).

Carlos Alexander

Alexander has sung with companies in Buenos Aires, Vienna, Brussels, Canada, Copenhagen, Paris, Athens, Bayreuth (Beckmesser in Wieland Wagner's Die Meistersinger, 1963), Berlin, Cologne, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Munich, Stuttgart, Florence, Mexico City, Basel, Geneva, Zurich, Edinburgh, Glyndebourne, Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Fort Worth, Hartford, etc.

Christian Olsson

2004: Turin (Grand Prix) - 17.61 m; Bergen (Golden League) - 17.58 m; Bydgoszcz (European Cup super league) - 17.30 m; Gateshead (Grand Prix) - 17.43 m; Rome (Golden League) - 17.50 m; Paris Saint-Denis (Golden League) - 17.41 m; Zürich (Golden League) - 17.46 m; Brussels (Golden League) - 17.44 m; Berlin (Golden League) - 17.45 m; Monaco (World Athletics Final) - 17.66 m

Denver Oldham

At the age of 24, Oldham went on his first European concert tour, which spanned Copenhagen, Zurich, Oslo, The Hague, and Vienna.

Dolf Rieser

In 1917, he studied at École Polytechnique, Zürich, obtaining a diploma in agricultural engineering, then from 1918-22 obtained a doctorate in biological science at the University of Lausanne.

Dorothea Nicolai

2007: Über Tiere by Elfriede Jelinek, world premiere, director: Christine Gaigg, Zurich, Theater am Neumarkt.

Georg Unger

He made his singing debut aged 37, going on to make appearances at Cassel, Zurich, Bremen, Neustrelitz, Brunn, Elberfeld and Mannheim.

Groff family

The original German spellings of the family name are Graf as well as Graff and the Zürich line, known in the area since the early 14th century, are a branch of the ancient rabbinical Graff family.

Hans Georg Nägeli

One version of the tune, sung by a bird (feathered) on Today, was described by its presenters as a "Folk Song", but also appears in various music editions of the Metrical psalter (as the tune "Zurich"), where it is correctly attributed to Nägeli.

Hayk Gyulikekhvyan

He studied at Leipzig and Zurich universities, then finished the department of philosophy of Heidelberg University.

Hildegart Rodríguez Carballeira

Auroras Anlaß, Erich Hackl, Zürich 1987 (described in the German Wikipedia article Auroras Anlaß).

Hürlimann Brewery

Hürlimann Brewery is a former brewery in Zürich, Switzerland, now owned by the Rheinfelden, Aargau based brewery Feldschlösschen, which is owned by Carlsberg.

Israel Rokach

He traveled to Switzerland, where he continued his education at a high school in Lausanne and then studied electrical engineering at the Zürich polytechnic.

Jakob Lechleiter

Lechleiter served as the Zurich canton secretary of the Swiss Party of Labour between 1945 and 1956, and as national secretary of the party between 1966 and 1978 (as part of a triumvirate along with Jean Vincent and André Muret).

Jarosław Lasecki

From 1990-1995 he worked at the American consulting firm “The Boston Consulting Group” (BCG) in Düsseldorf and Zurich.

Kloten

When Swissair existed, its head office was on the property of Zurich Airport and in Kloten.

Letov Š-3

It took part in the International Meeting at Zurich in 1922 with modest success but the Military Aircraft Works decided to concentrate its efforts on the biplane Letov Š-4 and the development of the Š-3 ended.

Machold Rare Violins

Machold had branch establishments in Vienna, Zurich (Geigenbau Machold GmbH and Cadenza AG), Alpnach (Bomalu AG), Bremen, Berlin, New York City, Aspen, Chicago, Seoul and Tokyo, buying and selling, among others, Stradivari and del Gesù violins.

Mark Roeder

Before becoming a writer, Roeder worked as a corporate executive, and held senior roles at UBS Banking Group, Zurich Insurance Group and Westpac and lived in London, New York, Sydney and Zurich.

Martin Rhonheimer

Martin Rhonheimer (born 1950 in Zurich, Switzerland) is a Swiss academic philosopher and a priest of the Catholic personal prelature Opus Dei.

Métamorphose d'une gare

The new Guillemins station in Liège was a huge project undertaken by the Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava, who had already directed construction of stations in Zurich, Lisbon and Lyon.

Niele Toroni

Toroni's works are part of major collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Strasbourg Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Strasbourg; the Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin; the Kunstmuseum Luzern; Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich.

Ossip Gabrilowitsch

Through the intervention of the nuncio to Bavaria, Archbishop Eugenio Pacelli (later Pope Pius XII), Gabrilowitsch was freed from jail, and then he headed to Zürich and the United States.

Paul Jaccard

Paul Jaccard (18 November 1868 in Sainte-Croix - 9 May 1944 in Zurich) was a professor of botany and plant physiology at the ETH Zurich.

Protestantism in Switzerland

The Zwingli and Calvin branches had each their theological distinctions, but in 1549 under the lead of Bullinger and Calvin they came to a common agreement in the Consensus Tigurinus (Zürich Consent), and 1566 in the Second Helvetic Confession.

Railjet

Operations on the routes Vienna to Graz, Ljubljana and/or Zagreb, and from Vienna to Villach and Venice and for an increased service between Vienna and Bregenz/Zurich via Salzburg and Innsbruck were also planned from the end of 2010 onwards.

RegioExpress

One of the main lines which ran as a RegioExpress line (abbreviation: RX) was the Rheintal Express, from St. Gallen through Sargans to Chur (the other was the CityVogel from Zurich to Konstanz).

Ringier

Ringier AG is the largest international operating media company in Switzerland, founded in 1833 in Zofingen and based in Zürich.

Søylen Eiendom

Søylen Eiendom is the owner of several properties in Oslo, Tønsberg and Moss in Norway as well as in Rostock, Germany and Zurich, Switzerland.

Swiss Party of Labour

Holding two seats in the Swiss National Council (lower or first chamber of the Swiss parliament), going into the 2007 elections, the party stood candidates in the cantons of Zürich, Vaud, Geneva and the Ticino on their own, and in Neuchâtel the candidate was on a joint list with Solidarity.

Walter Herdeg

Walter Herdeg (born January 3, 1908 in Zurich died 1995) was a Swiss graphic designer, noted for his travel posters and work with Graphis Magazine, who was awarded an AIGA medal in 1986.

Werner Stauffacher

In Zürich, a tram stop (Stauffacher), a street, a bridge and a quai are named for Stauffacher.

Zürich Triemli railway station

The station is adjacent to the Triemli Hospital, one of Zürich's main hospitals, and there is direct access from the station platform to the hospital site.