Käferberg
View from the mountain beetle - Waidberg (from left to right) Zurich mountain, Adlisberg, Pfannenstiel, city center, Lake Zurich, Glarus Alps (background) and Albis ridge (March 2008)
The Beetle mountain ( 571 m above sea level. M. ), together with the Waidberg (601 m above sea level. M. ) and the west adjacent Hönggerberg (541 m above sea level. M. ) a range of hills in the city of Zurich and is one of their local mountains.
Location
The Käferberg ( Chäferberg ) and the Waidberg are the highest elevations of an elongated bastide north of the Limmat between the Bucheggplatz and ETH - Hönggerberg, the so-called Science City. West of the plateau height (520 m above sea level. M. ) of the ETH campus is the reaching to the residential district Ruetihof Hönggerberg, whose highest point is in the so-called Bergholz.
The ridge runs north-west of the city center between the Limmat and the Furttal, in the field of urban neighborhoods Wipkingen and Hoengg (District 10) and Affoltern (District 11).
The highest points rise about 200 feet above the level of the Limmat at the Latvians, as part of a longer, mostly wooded hills between Wipkingen and Würenlos, which marks the watershed between the Limmat and the Glatt.
701 Hönggerberg and Käferberg with Waidberg and Zurich mountain and Adlisberg (m: From northwest to southeast, the height of the hilltops increases (541 m asl. ) ( 571 and 601 m asl. ) ( 676 m asl. ) ü. M. ), the western foothills of the mountain range of the Pfannenstiel ( 853 m above sea level. M. ).
East of the Beetle Mountain, (M. 476 m above sea level. ) The ' green belt ' of settlement area is interrupted, where the Zurich city over the deepest part of the bastide, between Bucheggplatz (472 m above sea level. M. ) and Milchbuck into Furttal ( spreads affoltern ), according to Oerlikon / Zurich Nord and the Glatt Valley ( Schwamendingenstrasse / Hirzenbach ).
History
His name have the beetle and the mountain Käferholzstrasse according to a wooded area with a large collection of beetles, primarily cockchafer. The field name Waid suggests the pasture on Käferberg. Hoengg goes on a Alamannic settlement called Hoinga respectively Hohinco, Hoenkain and villa Hoenka back (as " those living on the hill people " handed ).
Together with 15 bastions, redoubts and other Letzinen far outside the city at that time, the Käferberg was a part of the so-called third fortress in the 17th century.
The houses to Waid served since 1907 as a medical home. In 1918 the old Waidgut was converted to urban Krankenheim and 1962/3 replaced by the current care center Käferberg.
As part of the annexation the community of citizens Hoengg entered her forest area on the Käferberg in 1934 to the city of Zurich, the other Stadtwaldungen are selectively passed over into city ownership. Even today are on the Käferberg / Waidberg larger, contiguous agricultural land in the immediate vicinity of the " Science City " (ETH Hönggerberg).
Public transportation
Tram and Bus ( VBZ)
The Zurich Public Transport ( VBZ) make the residential and recreation area with public transport easily accessible: the two inner-city bus lines 38 and 69 ( to ETH Hönggerberg) open up the southern heights and the tram line 13 and the trolley bus line 46 to the lower hill area to Frankenthal and Ruetihof.
Bus number 80 from Triemlispital - Altstetten - Hönggerberg - Affoltern served to Oerlikon station the south-north axis. The northern side of the survey is also very well connected with the lines 32, 37, 40 and 61, 62 on the inner-city tram and bus network.
The Bucheggplatz on the eastern edge of the beetle Mountain, following the tram lines 11 and 15 and buses 32, 40, 69 and 72
S -Bahn Zurich
The Käferberg line is the second connection between Oerlikon and Central Station. It was built in 1969 as a direct connection between Oerlikon and Altstetten for freight trains. In 1979, the double-track bridge to the Zurich main station was opened with the stop Hardbrucke, and since 1990 the connection to the S -Bahn Zurich ensures the Limmat valley. The Käferberg line is traversed by the S5, S6, S7 and S16.
The Beetle Mountain Tunnel is a 2,119 -meter-long, doppelspuriger railway tunnel and part of the SBB Käferberg line, as a second connection between the Glatt valley and Limmat, under bypassing the congested already in the 1960s Zurich main station (HB ). Together with the tunnel in 1969 in the south of the subsequent single track viaduct Hardturmstraße I opened to the station Altstetten and served exclusively to freight marshalling yard for today's Limmat Valley (RBL ). Since the opening (1982 ) of the double-track viaduct Hardturmstraße II also use regular passenger trains the beetle mountain tunnel to the Oerlikon train station, 1982-1990, in particular the inter-city transport via Airport line.
Shut down when the S-Bahn Zurich in May 1990, lying on the Hardturmstraße Viaduct II Station Zurich Hardbrucke has been greatly expanded and operational endpoint of the deer grave line, the heart of the S-Bahn. Thus since 1990, at all S-Bahn trains that serve Oerlikon and sail the heart, mandatory by the Käferberg tunnel.
The single-tube, double track tunnel forms vineyard in 2013 at the heart of so-called transmitted Altstetten - Zurich HB- Oerlikon ( DML), which will in future form the third railway line between the Zurich main station and the Oerlikon train station. The tunnel is used to increase capacity and also makes the change of direction in the terminal station on the links Wiedikon - Oerlikon ( late 2013 ) and Altstetten -Oerlikon (from the end of 2015, with two additional viaduct structures ) superfluous, and also receives connection to Käferberg line.
Private transport
About the saddle at the " Science City " performs a good road connection ( Emil Klöti Street) to the north -lying quarters Affoltern, travels around the west the ETH campus and in this area is directionally expanded - the campus is through a bridge structure ( Einstein - bridge ) and various ramps connected to the road, but well connected with the mentioned bus routes 69 and 80 and a student operating the reserved bus connection to ETH-Zentrum.
Excursion destinations and sights
The exposed on the south flank of the Waidberg Beetle Mountain is a popular recreation area in Zurich. Here flourish lean Trespenwiesen, a rarity in the densely populated city on which Knapweed, Meadow Sage and widow flowers bloom and find a rare sand lizard habitat. In particular, on the southern side elevation allotments have a long tradition, but also in the eastern and northern hillside.
Sports fans can be found at Laufträff and on the fitness trail or hiking on the ridge to Baden.
Two restaurants, one with a stunning view of the Glarus Alps and over the entire downtown of time and the other in the middle of a vast forest area on the summit plateau, is quite busy.
Above the City Hospital Waid and nursing center a private Rehzucht and a forest kindergarten is not only known residents ' local attractions '. Nationwide awareness enjoys the 32 ° C heated heat bath Käferberg, with multi-purpose pool of 25 x 10 meters, relaxation room, gym, a disabled architecture and outdoor lawn, with a view over the city of Zurich, the lake and up into the Glarus Alps.
On the saddle between Hönggerberg and Käferberg is " Science City ", the ETH Hönggerberg campus of ETH Zurich. It houses the departments of chemistry, physics, materials science, architecture, civil engineering and biology. The ETH intends in the field of teaching and research facilities in the Science City, a residential district for students and researchers, as well as to build more geared to students' concerns shops and cafes in the center.
Gallery
Käferberg - Waidberg, view from the south ( Triemlispital )
Waidberg, view from the west ( near ETH Hönggerberg)
Care center Käferberg, city, Lake Zurich and Glarus Alps
Beetle Mountain, overlooking the city center, Lake Zurich and Glarus Alps
Allotments on the southern slope
Waidberg, view of downtown