Winterthur

Winterthur is a city and municipality in the canton of Zurich in northern Switzerland, about 20 kilometres northeast of the city of Zurich. With more than 120,000 residents it is the sixth largest city in the country and the centre of an agglomeration of about 140,000 people, working as a service and high-tech industrial satellite within the Zurich Metropolitan Area. The Romans kept a trading settlement here called Vitudurum, and the medieval town was founded by Hartmann III of Dillingen in 1180. It lies at an elevation of 439 metres in a basin where the small river Eulach meets the Töss, which earns it the nickname Eulachstadt, and its railway station is the fourth busiest in Switzerland. Locals shorten the name to Winti.