Escher Wyss is a quarter in the district 5 of Zürich , centered on the Escher-Wyss-Platz square.
7-402: Escher Wyss was formerly a part of Aussersihl municipality, which was incorporated into Zürich in 1893. The quarter has a population of 2,727 distributed on an area of 1.27 km ( 1 ⁄ 2 sq. mile). It takes its name from the company Escher Wyss & Cie. that was formerly based in the area. The company's former Schiffbau , or shipbuilding hall, is now a theatre venue operated by
14-503: The Schauspielhaus Zürich . The Technopark Zürich site was built between 1989 and 1993 as the first large single building on the industrial site of the former Escher Wyss & Cie company, and triggered the overall planning of the 17-hectare site. The quarter is served by Zürich tram routes 4 , 13 and 17 , all of which link Escher-Wyss-Platz to central Zürich. Zürich trolleybus routes 33 and 72 pass through
21-523: The district is known as colloquially Chreis Cheib , cheib being the Zürich German word for an animal cadaver. It earned the name as the area historically contained pits for the deposition of dead animals. It comprises the quarters Werd , Langstrasse and Hard . The area of Aussersihl together with that of District 5 historically corresponds to the Sihlfeld , the pastures and fields between
28-572: The foundation is still based in Aussersihl. A female who died in about 200 B.C found buried in a carved tree trunk during a construction project at the Kern school complex in March 2017 in Aussersihl. Archaeologists revealed that she was approximately 40 years old when she died and likely carried out little physical labor when she was alive. A sheepskin coat, a belt chain, a fancy wool dress, a scarf and
35-535: The quarter on the Hardbrücke elevated roadway , serving stops above Escher-Wyss-Platz. 47°23′27″N 8°31′21″E / 47.39083°N 8.52250°E / 47.39083; 8.52250 This Canton of Zürich location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Aussersihl Aussersihl is a district in the Swiss city of Zürich . Known officially as District number 4,
42-469: The village of Wiedikon (now district 3) and the Limmat . The area was built up during the 18th century was separated from Wiedikon as the Aussersihl municipality on 27 March 1787. Aussersihl quickly grew into a town during industrialisation , mostly inhabited by factory workers, at times counting more inhabitants than the city itself. The municipality could not cope with its rapid growth and went bankrupt. It
49-539: Was incorporated into the Zürich municipality together with Wiedikon as Stadtkreis III in 1893. The separation into the current districts 3, 4 and 5 dates to 1913. Historically inhabited by migrant workers , the Aussersihl district, especially its Langstrasse quarter, remains notorious for a high crime rate , prostitution and drug dealing . The first project of pastor Ernst Sieber 's Sozialwerke Pfarrer Sieber for homeless people started at Helvetiaplatz in winter 1963;
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