Adlisberg

View from Uetliberg to the populated western flank of Adlisbergs ( right of center )

The Adlisberg is a 701 m high hill on the eastern edge of the city of Zurich. The majority of forested hills lies between the valleys of Lake Zurich / Limmat and the Glatt and is thus part of the Pfannenstiel mountain range between the right bank of Lake Zurich and the left bank of Greifensee. To the northwest is the Adlisberg in Allmendfeld Fluntern (600 m) in the Zurich mountain ( 670 m.) To the south west of Öschbrig ( 696 m), in which the Wassberg Forch ( 748 m) and then the actual panhandle close to beyond Witikon at ( 853 m).

Zurich quarters Hottingen, Hirslanden and Witikon be drawn on the steep southern and western flanks of the Adlisbergs partly high up to the flat, wooded knoll. The upper part Hottingens on the west side of the hill is called Dolder and is a residential district of Zurich. On a terrace on the north side are of belonging to the city of Zurich Tobelhof hamlet, the village and the neighboring hamlet Gockhausen Geeren. The latter belong to the city of Dübendorf, which lies on the northwestern foot of Adlisberges in the Glatt valley. The mostly steep flanks of the hill are several deep ravines - including those of Hornbach and Wolfbach - cut.

The Adlisberg is an important recreational area with its vast forest. Some restaurants are trippers available. On the eastern edge of the dome is at Loorenkopf ( 690 meters above sea level) a 33 meter high observation tower that offers a panoramic view of Lake Zurich and the Glatt valley. In the sticks Tobel a stone elephant stands in the stream. At the Grand Hotel Dolder a small golf course was laid out, a little further up there is a wave pool, a mini-golf course, a driving range and the Dolder ice rink, which was built in 1930 and is considered the largest public indoor rink in Europe. In the summer, there is the music festival Live at Sunset on this system. Around the hills are numerous tennis clubs to find.

At the same time Adlisberg is also influenced by traffic. The Dolderbahn, a cogwheel railway, allows a rapid rise from the city. The busy Tobelhofstrasse connects Zurich with Gockhausen and Dübendorf, another Witikon with the zoo and Fluntern. In addition, the Adlisberg crossed by nearly five -kilometer mountain tunnel Zurich S-Bahn Zurich.

Around 1130 the castle was built on the eastern slope stone anchors, the seat of the Lords of Dübendorf. It burned down in 1611. However, the majority of the forest belonged to the monastery on the mountain Zurich, after the Reformation, the city of Zurich and the communities Hottingen and Fluntern. In the years 1897-1899, the Grand Hotel was built in Dolder, which characterizes the whole quarter today.

Early 1970s the city of Zurich pursued the idea to build on the Adlisberg a forest city. 45 hectares of forest should be cleared in order to build a long line of residential towers with apartments for 100,000 people. The strung together, sometimes up to 100 meters high rise apartments should pull along more than two kilometers around the mountain along the edge of the hilltop. The clearing was not approved by the canton.