Wollishofen is a suburb in Zurich

Zürich

Zurich is the largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zurich. It is located in central Switzerland at the northwestern tip of Lake Zurich...

's 2^nd district

District 2 (Zürich)

District 2 is a district on the western side of Lake Zurich in the Swiss city of Zurich.The district comprises the quarters Wollishofen, Leimbach and Enge.-References:...

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It was formerly a municipality of its own, having been incorporated into Zurich in 1893.

The suburb has a population of 15,592 distributed on an area of 5.75 km².

Transport

The municipality is located on the A3 motorway, and on tram route 7 of the Verkehrsbetriebe Zürich

Verkehrsbetriebe Zürich

Verkehrsbetriebe Zürich is a public transport operator in the Swiss city of Zurich, and is wholly owned by the city. Previously known as the Städtische Strassenbahn Zürich , the organisation was founded in 1896 and adopted its current name in 1950...

. Zürich Wollishofen railway station

Zürich Wollishofen railway station

Zürich Wollishofen is a railway station in the Wollishofen quarter of the Swiss city of Zürich. It is situated close to the western shore of Lake Zurich, and adjacent to the shipyard of the Zürichsee-Schiffahrtsgesellschaft, who operate the principal passenger boat services on the lake.The station...

 is a stop on line S8

S8 (ZVV)

The S8 is a regional railway line of the S-Bahn Zürich on the Zürcher Verkehrsverbund , Zürich transportation network, and is one of the network's lines connecting the cantons of Thurgau, Zürich and Schwyz.- Route :...

 of the Zürich S-Bahn

Zürich S-Bahn

The Zurich S-Bahn system is a network of rapid transit rail lines that has been incrementally expanded to cover the ZVV area, which comprises the entire canton of Zurich and portions of neighboring cantons The Zurich S-Bahn system is a network of rapid transit rail lines that has been...

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The Zürichsee-Schifffahrtsgesellschaft (ZSG)

Zürichsee-Schifffahrtsgesellschaft

The Lake Zurich Shipping Company or Zürichsee-Schifffahrtsgesellschaft is a public Swiss company operating passenger ships and boats on Lake Zürich....

 and its ship yard are located in Wollishofen.

Culture

Zürcher Theater Spektakel

Zürcher Theater Spektakel

The Zürcher Theater Spektakel is an international theatre and performing arts festival, held annually each summer in Zürich, Switzerland. First held in 1980,...

, an international theater festival ranking among the most important European festivals for contemporary performing arts

Performing arts

The performing arts are those forms art which differ from the plastic arts insofar as the former uses the artist's own body, face, and presence as a medium, and the latter uses materials such as clay, metal or paint which can be molded or transformed to create some physical art object...

, is in August yearly celebrated on Lake Zurich shore.

External links

• Website of the "Quartierverein" Wollishofen