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Karte Quartier Wipkingen
The quarter of Wipkingen in Zürich
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The Limmat in Wipkingen
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Community hall (Kirchgemeindehaus Haus für das Volk) at the Limmat, locality of the Zentrum für Migrationskirchen
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Rosengartenstrasse, seen from Bucheggplatz

Wipkingen is a quarter in the district 10 in Zürich.

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

The quarter has a population of 15,446 distributed on an area of 2.11 km².

Zentrum für Migrationskirchen (literally: Centre for migration churches) comprises eight Protestant churches from four continents, situated in the former church hall of the Evangelical Reformed Church of the Canton of Zürich in Zürich-Wipkingen, being a unique centre in Switzerland for the so-called migration churches.

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Aerial view from 400 m by Walter Mittelholzer (1934)

Transportation

Zurich Wipkingen railway station is a stop of Zürich S-Bahn line S24. The station is a 3-minute ride from Zürich Hauptbahnhof.

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