Oerlikon (Zürich)

A formerly independent municipality, Oerlikon was merged with Zürich in 1934 and forms today, together with Affoltern and Seebach, the city district 11.

[citation needed] In 1855 the line from Oerlikon to Winterthur via Wallisellen was established by the Schweizerische Nordostbahn (NOB).

[citation needed] In 1897, the Zürich-Oerlikon-Seebach tramway [de] from Zürich to Oerlikon was built, with branches to Seebach, Glattbrugg and Schwamendingen.

The tramway was linked to, and became part of, Zürich's city trams in 1931, at which time the lines to Glattbrugg and Schwamendingen were closed.

[citation needed] In the early 1950s, Zurich Airport opened less than 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) to the north of Oerlikon.

[7] In the 1930s, the Maschinenfabrik Oerlikon produced, among else, weapons for Germany’s Nazi regime during World War II.

It has been suggested that this is why in 1995, in an effort to come to terms with Switzerland’s role in World War II, a streetnaming-committee decided to name some of Neu-Oerlikon’s streets after humanitarian activists, Jewish immigrants and others who opposed Germany’s Nazi regime.

The Swissôtel Zürich, one of the city's largest hotels, is located opposite Oerlikon railway station.

Usfahrt Oerlike is a 2015 Swiss German film starring Mathias Gnädinger and Jörg Schneider.