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Katzensee

lake in canton of Zürich, Switzerland
LakeBodyOfWater lake Q672290
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Summary

Katzensee is a lake[1]. Katzensee ranks in the top 4% of lake entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (238 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: Canton of Zürich[3]
  • Country: Switzerland[4]
  • Instance of: protected area[5]
  • Outflows: Katzenbach[6]
  • Basin country: Switzerland[7]
  • Commons category: Katzensee[8]
  • Inception: 1912[9]
  • IUCN protected areas category: IUCN category Ia: Strict Nature Reserve[10]
  • Official name: Chatzensee[11], Büsisee[12]
  • Length: 1.1 km[13]
  • Elevation above sea level: 439 m[14]
  • Area: 0.36 km²[15]
  • Width: 0.54 km[16]

Why It Matters

Katzensee has Wikipedia articles in 6 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[17] Katzensee is known by 8 alternative names across languages and contexts.[18]

Related Entities

Switzerland

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . Nationally designated areas inventory. wikidata.org.
  3. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . Nationally designated areas inventory. protectedplanet.net. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . schweizersee.ch. schweizersee.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . Q141593662. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [17] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [18] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 15d ago · OKA bot bot · 2026-10-08 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Width → {'unit': 'Q828224', 'amount': '+0.54'}
    Coordinate location → {'lat': 47.4325, 'lon': 8.4927777777778}
    Elevation above sea level → {'unit': 'Q11573', 'amount': '+439'}
    Outflows → Katzenbach
    + 17 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update-languages-and-other-short:0||mul */ default label, official name from swisstopo data ([[Wikidata:Requests for permissions/Bot/OKA bot|swisstopo task]])"
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