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Zürich (Kreis 7) / Fluntern, Zürich — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Fluntern is a quarter of Kreis 7 in Zürich, self-governing until 1893 and part of the city ever since.
About Zürich (Kreis 7) / Fluntern
Where to stay in Zürich (Kreis 7) / Fluntern
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Rooms in Fluntern sit closer to the Zürich Zoo than to any hotel row, and the quarter reads as residential ground inside Kreis 7. Little lodging sits inside the quarter. Travellers who want choice book across the wider city, where the Kunsthaus Zürich and the Zentralbibliothek Zürich anchor the museum walk, then come back to Fluntern for a quieter night away from the centre of Zürich.
About Zürich (Kreis 7) / Fluntern
What are the main landmarks in Zürich (Kreis 7) / Fluntern?
The landmark roster recorded for Fluntern belongs to Zürich at large. The Kunsthaus Zürich holds the art, the Zentralbibliothek Zürich the books, and the Swiss National Museum the national record, while the Wasserkirche and the Liebfrauenkirche stand among the older church fabric. University collections fill out the rest.
Visitors working through them pass the Natural History Museum of the University of Zurich, the Palaeontological Museum of the University of Zurich, the Kulturama and the MoneyMuseum, with the Zürich Zoo listed alongside them.
What is the history of Zürich (Kreis 7) / Fluntern?
Fluntern ran its own affairs until 1893. That year the quarter was incorporated into Zürich, a city whose recorded past reaches back through Turicum and the earlier site listed as Oppidum Zürich-Lindenhof. The older municipal identity survives in the name.
Later monuments across Zürich mark that longer story rather than the quarter's own, among them the Schlachtendenkmal, the Georg Büchner memorial and the Bullinger memorial, so what Fluntern contributes to the record is administrative and dated to the merger of 1893.
Where is Zürich (Kreis 7) / Fluntern?
Fluntern covers 2.84 square kilometres inside Kreis 7, one of the quarters that make up Zürich in Switzerland.
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Updated September 2026