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One letter from a different town in a different canton. Write Küsnacht ZH.
Küsnacht sits on the eastern shore of Lake Zurich, the side people call the Gold Coast. It is also one letter away from Küssnacht am Rigi in the canton of Schwyz, which is a different town about thirty kilometres off.
Küsnacht in Zurich has one s in the middle. Küssnacht am Rigi in Schwyz has two, and sits on a different lake in a different canton. On a hand written note or a hurried email the difference is easy to lose entirely.
The convention that solves it is the canton code. Write Küsnacht ZH, add the postcode, and no driver has to work out which you meant. The full form of the other town includes am Rigi, which helps when it is written out properly and not at all when it is not.
With the address settled, this is an eastern shore delivery: comfortable in itself, with the usual Gold Coast complication that a good deal of the property is large, set back, and managed carefully.
Küsnacht also appears as Küsnacht ZH and Goldküste. Whichever version you searched for, this is the same city and the same page. Give the mover the address exactly as it appears on your Swiss lease.
A wooded ravine cuts up from the lake through the town and into the slope behind, which shapes the street pattern. Roads follow the contours around it rather than running straight, so two addresses close together can have quite different approaches.
Above the shore the ground climbs steadily towards the ridge, and the higher streets are narrower with tighter turns, as they are everywhere in this canton.
Give the street and say whether the approach climbs. On this shore the postcode covers ground that varies more than it looks.
These three are the ones that actually get asked about on a Küsnacht move. Ask movers about these three before anything else on the list.
Furniture down a long drive, or up from the road.
What a long carry does to the number.
Packing, for a larger household.
The eastern shore carries a good deal of larger property, and larger property brings its own problems rather than removing them. Private drives can be long, gated, steeply graded and too narrow for a full sized vehicle to enter or turn in.
The pattern that catches crews out is a house with plenty of room around it and no way to get a lorry to the door. Where that is the case the vehicle stands on the public road and everything is carried, which on a long drive is a serious amount of time.
Measure the entrance and the drive, and say whether there is anywhere to turn. Those two facts matter more here than the size of the house does.
Two separate things can go wrong here. The name, which is resolved by the canton code and the postcode. And the shore, because describing an address as being on Lake Zurich does not say which side, and the two are an hour apart by road.
Küsnacht is on the eastern bank, with Meilen further out along the same shore. Thalwil and Horgen face them from the west. A car ferry crosses between the two shores further out.
Everything is German speaking, and registration and parking applications go to the commune of your address as always.
If your Swiss address is not Küsnacht itself, one of these may be closer.
Meilen · Zurich · Uster · Rapperswil-Jona · Horgen · Lachen · all Swiss towns
Because Küssnacht am Rigi in the canton of Schwyz is a different town about thirty kilometres away, on a different lake, and the two names differ by a single letter. On a hand written note or a hurried email that difference disappears. Add the canton code and the postcode.
Küsnacht in Zurich has one s in the middle. Küssnacht am Rigi in Schwyz has two, and its full form includes am Rigi, which helps when written out properly and not at all when it is shortened.
Frequently not. Private drives here can be long, gated, steeply graded and too narrow for a full sized vehicle to enter or turn in. The pattern that catches crews out is a house with plenty of room around it and no way to get a lorry to the door.
The entrance to the drive and whether there is anywhere to turn. Those two facts matter more on this shore than the size of the house does, because they decide whether the vehicle reaches the door or stands on the public road while everything is carried.
A wooded ravine cuts up from the lake through the town, so roads follow the contours around it rather than running straight and two nearby addresses can have quite different approaches. Above the shore the ground climbs and the higher streets narrow.
The eastern bank, with Meilen further out along the same shore. Thalwil and Horgen face them from the western side. The two shores are an hour apart by road, so describing an address as being on Lake Zurich is not enough on its own.
Yes, further out between Horgen on the western shore and Meilen on the eastern one. It carries road vehicles and takes a few minutes, against an hour or so driving round. Whether a move uses it depends entirely on which direction the vehicle is coming from.
Collection address, the Küsnacht delivery address, a room by room list and the window you can work with. One vetted moving company from our network checks the route and the access, then comes back to you.
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Written by Darren Benjamin, founder of International Removals Companies, who has run the business since 2010. Last checked 5 August 2026.