Enge (Zurich)

Enge is located in prehistoric swampland on small islands around Sechseläutenplatz and peninsulas in Zürich.

Prehistoric pile dwellings around Lake Zurich were set on piles in order to protect against the occasional flooding of the rivers Linth and Jona.

Zürich–Enge Alpenquai, a locality of the municipality of Zürich, is located on the shore of Lake Zurich in Enge.

It was bordered by the settlements at Kleiner Hafner and Grosser Hafner on a peninsula island in the effluence of the Limmat, within an area of about 0.2 square kilometres (49.42 acres) in Zürich.

It is one of 56 Swiss sites of the UNESCO World Heritage Site Prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps,[3][4] the settlement is also listed in the Swiss inventory of cultural property of national and regional significance as a Class object, as well as the Arboretum including the Voliere Zürich,[5] as part of the so-called Quaianlagen.

The quarter of Enge in Zürich
Enge (in the foreground), Seefeld (to the right) and Rathaus quarters, as seen from Uetliberg ; Bürkliplatz, Quaibrücke and Bellevue- Sechseläutenplatz in the centre, as well as the site of the Prehistoric pile dwellings around Lake Zurich
Aerial view from 1000 m by Walter Mittelholzer (1919)
Enge railway station and Tessinerplatz
Gottfried Keller memorial at Enge harbour