Wipkingen

Wipkingen is a district of the city of Zurich. The formerly independent municipality Wipkingen was incorporated in 1893 and today, together with Hoengg the circle 10

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History

The term Wipkingen goes back to the Alemannic settlement founder Wibicho. The place is first mentioned in the year 881, when Emperor Charles the Fat awarded the fief of his faithful wife Münster Wolfgrim. The place used to be called Wibichinga, which developed Wipkingen. Still today the Wibichstrasse in the upper part of the district to Wibicho.

Incorporation

1893, the municipality Wipkingen and ten other independent communities were part of the city of Zurich. The city and the new eleven municipalities were divided into five cities ( I to V). Wipkingen formed, along with upper and lower Strass Strass the urban district of IV

The division of the original five urban districts in 1913 and revised it were formed by the tripartite division of the city circle III and the division of the city circle V, new eight cities ( 1 to 8). Thus, the district was renumbered IV and Wipkingen was new in town district 6

The second incorporation of 1934 eight other communities came to town added, which were summarized in the new urban districts 9 to 11, while the old urban districts were left unchanged, with two exceptions: the new community Witikon was assigned to the existing circuit 7 as only the old municipalities had Wipkingen change the circle and was assigned to the new city circuit 10 together with Hoengg.

Infrastructure

On the Waidberg, high above the center of Wipkingen, there is the Waid City Hospital - one of two urban hospitals in Zurich - which is responsible for the supply of the Northwest of the city.

The actual center of Wipkingen extends from Wipkingerplatz on the right bank of the Limmat ( Latvians ) over the Röschibachstrasse up to the North Bridge, where the Wipkingen train station. Construction of the new hardware bridge and the expansion Selbiger the provisional Westtangente (1982 ) tear the neighborhood since then in half.

Traffic

Today the tram line is tangent to the 13 district only at the southeastern edge. Prior to the construction of piled led the tram line 4 from Wipkingerplatz, which is still served by the 13, by the Röschibachstrasse the north bridge. The road had to be abandoned because the four-lane bridge hardware occupies the space where the wide curved track was in the Röschibachstrasse.

The main access point of the quarter do the trolley bus lines 33, 46 and 72, which run on the main road axes ( Rosengartenstrasse / Hard Bridge and North Street / Rotbuchstrasse ).

The district has a train station with the Wipkingen SBB breakpoint at one of the oldest railway lines in Switzerland, the 1856 opened by the NOB rail route Zurich - Oerlikon ( with continuation to Winterthur ). However drove during the first 75 years, the trains only vobei - the station was opened in 1932. The station is now served by trains of the S2, S8 and S14 of the Zurich S-Bahn. Until 1989 Wipkingen possessed with the Letten station on the border with Unterstrass a second station, at the former railway line Zurich - Stadelhofen -Rapperswil. With the opening of deer grave tunnel, the line was canceled and the station closed; the area has since conditions for Zurich comparatively poorly developed.

Because of the slope Wipkingens run the main axes of the traffic in the east-west direction. High is the volume of traffic therefore leading to the few main roads slope upward; these are the axes Kornhausbrücke - Rötelstrasse -Buchegg on the eastern edge of the neighborhood as well as the so-called western tangent of the Rose Garden road, which after its expansion in 1982 a massive impact on the neighborhood (as well as the quarters Under rhinestone, hardware and Wiedikon ) until 2009 and the Quartier completely shares. This Westtangente joined as the short term, in -built in the urban motorway branches A1L, A1H/A3 and A3W each other because one bad planning had provided from the fifties a composition of three highways in the middle with the Zurich Express road Y in the city, which was only partially realized. At the opening of the Uetliberg Tunnel and a beltway around the city in 2009, the tracks of the west bypass were also reduced in Wipkingen to force the passage of traffic on the beltway.

Churches

In Wipkingen there are the following parishes, churches and church centers:

The Reformed congregation Wipkingen has two churches:

• The church Wipkingen is clearly visible on the Wibichstrasse in the Quartier silhouette. It was built in 1908-1909 by Jacques sweepers and Charles Conrad, replacing the previous church that had to make way for the growing traffic of today Rosengartenstrasse.
• In the residential district Latvians is built on the Imfeldstrasse the church Latvians which 1954-1955 Max Aeschlimann and Armin Baumgartner Landi style.
• Also, the reformed congregation Wipkingen heard the Kirchgemeindehaus Wipkingen, built 1930-1932 by the architectural firm Vogelsanger and Maurer and is considered the first skyscraper in the city of Zurich. Since December 2008, here is also the center for migrant churches.

The Roman Catholic Church is represented by the parish Guthirt in the neighborhood:

• The church Guthirt was built between 1922-1923 by the architect and later councilor Anton Higi (1885-1951) and is at the Guthirtstrasse 3 The bells expert Stefan Mean designated in the NZZ on July 6, 2007, the bells of the church in Guthirt Wipkingen together with another church as his favorites among the wohlklingendsten peals in the canton of Zurich.

The Greek Orthodox Church has its Zurich Church in Wipkingen:

• The church of Agios Dimitrios is located in the residential district Latvians and is at the Rousseaustrasse. It was built in the years 1983-1985 by the architect Marcel Ferrier and was allowed because of objections not outwardly conform to the traditional image of an Orthodox church.

Recreation areas

The city deemed the Zurich area at the bank of the Limmat between Wipkingerbrücke and Ampèrestrasse to a city park on, which was officially opened (based on the former cotton industry in the neighborhood of French coton = cotton ) on 18 June 2004 as Kattunpark. However, the proposed designation of the street name Commission met with the population to reject, so the park officially called Wipkingerpark since 15 December 2004. It is used actively in the summer and expands the community center GZ.

From Waidberg that overlooks except for the municipal districts 11 and 12, the whole city towards the lake and mountains.