page_title: Zürich–Enge Alpenquai
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Zürich–Enge Alpenquai / Geography
caption_attribution_description: Replik der Altartafeln von Hans Leu im Baugeschichtlichen Archiv der Stadt Zürich im Haus zum Rech. Die Panoramansicht des linksseitigen Limmatufers – 'Standort' der BetrachterIn ist wohl der Karlsturm des Grossmünsters – von Hans Leu d. Ä. gilt als die älteste zuverlässige Darstellung der Stadt Zürich, Ende des 15. Jahrhunderts auf den Altartafeln im Grossmünster mit viel Liebe zum Detail festgehalten. Die originalen Tafeln sind heute im Landesmuseum ausgestellt, eine (vermutlich) 1:1 Replik ist im Stadtarchiv öffentlich zugänglich.
context_page_description: Zürich–Enge Alpenquai is one of the 111 serial sites of the UNESCO World Heritage Site Prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps, of which 56 are located in Switzerland.
context_section_description: Located on the then-swampland between Limmat and Lake Zurich around Sechseläutzenplatz on small islands and peninsulas in Zürich, the settlements were set on piles to protect against occasional flooding by the Linth and Jona Rivers. Because the lake has grown in size over time, most of the original piles are now around 4 metres (13 ft) to 7 metres (23 ft) under the water level of 406 metres (1,332 ft), giving modern observers the false impression that they always had been underwater. Zürich–Enge Alpenquai is located on Lake Zurich lakeshore in Enge, a locality of the municipality of Zürich in the Canton of Zürich in Switzerland. The settlement comprises 2.93 hectares (7.24 acres), and the buffer zone, including the lake area, comprises 17.40 hectares (43.00 acres) in all. It was neighbored by the settlements at Kleiner Hafner and Grosser Hafner on a then peninsula respectively island in the effluence of the Limmat, within an area of about 0.2 square kilometres (49.42 acres) in the city of Zürich.
caption: The former site around 1500 AD
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