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Zuerich Uetliberg Sendeturm
Zuerich Uetliberg Sendeturm

Uetliberg TV-tower is a 186.7-metre-high (613 ft) freestanding concrete TV-Tower on Uetliberg, near Zürich, Switzerland, built in 1990. The tower is used for radio and TV transmission. It is owned by Swisscom and generally not accessible to the public.

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Uetliberg TV-tower
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Oppidum Uetliberg
Oppidum Uetliberg

Oppidum Uetliberg was a La Tène era oppidum located near the top of the hill Uetliberg in what is now the Swiss canton of Zurich (Stallikon municipality, just outside the city of Zurich). It is one of the most important Iron Age fortifications in Switzerland, dating the very early La Tène or the late Hallstatt period (c. 500 BC). Early excavations on the Üetliberg were made in the 1830s and 1860s. A 5th century BC burial field was destroyed when the Üetliberg railway was built in 1874. The fortified area was at a height of between 820 and 873 metres above sea level, surrounded by a system of earth walls extending to a maximal width of up to 2 km. Outside the settlement area the so-called Fürstengrab Sonnenbühl, a rich burial of a 5th-century BC female. The toponym Uetliberg itself may continue the Celtic name of the site, although its exact derivation remains uncertain. The top of mount Uetliberg was settled from at least the Neolithic, amply documented in a total of some 60,000 small finds, the oldest artefacts dating to about 4000 BC. There was a village-like settlement on the site by the late Bronze Age (Urnfield culture). The fortifications were built in the 5th century BC, corresponding to the early Celtic culture which would emerge as the Helvetii in Roman ethnography of the 1st century BC. The walls had a height of up to 14 m and a width of up to 35 m, enclosing a large settlement on the slope, with two inner rings of fortifications protecting the core areas, one at Aegerten–Plateau (now the site of the Üetliberg television tower), the other at Uto Kulm (now the site of the look-out tower). The fortifications presumably remained in use for more than four centuries, until the Roman conquest in the 1st century BC. In the 1st century BC, a smaller oppidum was built on the level of the lake, at the Limmat (Lindenhof hill). By 15 BC, the site came to lie on the border of the Roman provinces of Raetia and Germania superior. The hill fortress was presumably now manned by a Roman garrison protecting the tax collection point at vicus of Turicum at the egress of Lake Zurich. The hill fortress presumably retained some strategic importance until the collapse of the Roman Empire in the 5th century. It is probable that the same site was again fortified as a refuge fort in the Early Middle Ages by the Alemanni and the later Carolingian rulers. This was a purely military fortress, much smaller than the fortified settlement of the Iron Age. The fortress was eventually extended into a medieval castle (the Uotelenburg, Üetliburg) in the 10th to 12th centuries, owned by the lords of Regensberg, and finally destroyed by Zurich, at the time allied with Rudolf von Habsburg, in a war with the house of Regensberg.

Uetliberg
Uetliberg

The Uetliberg (also known as Üetliberg) is a mountain in the Swiss plateau, part of the Albis chain, rising to 870 m (2,850 ft). The mountain offers a panoramic view of the entire city of Zürich (to the northeast of its summit) and the Lake of Zurich (to the east), and lies on the boundary between the city of Zürich and the municipalities of Stallikon and Uitikon. The summit, known as Uto Kulm, is in Stallikon.At the summit, there is the Hotel Uto Kulm, together with two towers. One of these is a look-out tower (access costs SFr 5, rebuilt 1990), whilst the other is the Uetliberg TV-tower (186 m, rebuilt 1990). The summit is easily accessible by train from Zürich. Uetliberg railway station lies some 812 m (2,664 ft) from, and 68 m (223 ft) below, the summit of the Uetliberg. It is the terminus of the Uetliberg line, and is linked to Zürich Hauptbahnhof by S-Bahn Zürich service S10. Trains usually run every half-hour, taking 20 minutes. There are numerous walking paths leading up to the top from Albisgüetli, Triemli or Albisrieden with frequent water fountains and camping spots. Uetliberg also has a downhill mountain bike track which starts in the camping area at the top of the mountain and finishes next to Triemli railway station, also served by the S10. A panoramic footpath leads along the crest of the Albis ridge to Felsenegg, from where the Adliswil-Felsenegg cable car connects to Adliswil and the S4 S-Bahn service in the valley below. The Uetliberg gives its name to the Zürich-based Uto section of the Swiss Alpine Club, and hence to the Uto Peak in the Selkirk Mountains of Canada, which was first climbed by members of the Uto section.