History of Zurich

Protestant Reformation leader in Switzerland, Swiss Reformed Church founder (1484-1531)

thumb|200px|Burning of three witch-hunt|witches in Baden (1585).

The Grossmünster (; "great minster") is a Romanesque-style Swiss Reformed Church in Zurich, Switzerland. It is one of the four major churches in the city (the others being the Fraumünster, Predigerkirche, and St. Peterskirche). Its congregation forms part of the Evangelical Reformed Church of the Canton of Zurich. The core of the present building, near the banks of the Limmat, was constructed on the site of a Carolingian church, which was, according to legend, originally commissioned by Charlemagne. Construction of the present structure commenced around 1100 and it was inaugurated around 1220.

The Fraumünster (; lit. in ) is a church in Zurich, Switzerland, which was built on the remains of a former abbey for aristocratic women and which was founded in 853 by Louis the German for his daughter Hildegard. He endowed the Benedictine convent with the lands of Zurich, Uri, and the Albis forest, and granted the convent immunity, placing it under his direct authority. Today, it belongs to the Evangelical Reformed Church of the canton of Zurich and is one of the four main churches of Zürich, the others being the Grossmünster, Prediger and St. Peter's churches.

Coptic Orthodox and Roman Catholic saints

church in the old town of Zurich, Switzerland

noble family

1522 event in which Huldrych Zwingli and others ate sausage during Lent and publicly spoke in favor of eating meat during Lent

The Sechseläuten (Zürich German: Sächsilüüte, "The six o'clock ringing of the bells") is a traditional spring holiday in the Swiss city of Zürich celebrated in its current form, usually on the 3rd Monday of April, since the early 20th century.

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Exhibition of female achievements in Switzerland (1928 & 1958)

Swiss county from 11th to 18th century

1443 battle of the Old Zürich War

Opernhauskrawalle (Opera House riots) is the Swiss German term generally used for the youth protests at the end of May 1980 in the Swiss city of Zürich, a municipality in the Canton of Zürich. Also called Züri brännt ("Zürich is burning"), these events marked the 'rebirth' of the alternative youth movement in Switzerland in the 1980s. thumb|upright|Burning of the so-called Böögg on occasion of [[Sechseläuten in 2013, not the youth protests but the same site at Sechseläutenplatz.]]

public square in the city of Zürich, Switzerland

Lindenhof, , in the old town of Zurich, Switzerland, is the historical site of a Roman castle, and the later Carolingian Kaiserpfalz. It is situated on Lindenhof hill, on the left side of the Limmat river at the Schipfe.

public square in the city of Zürich, Switzerland

first Swiss airline

imperial abbess of the Fraumünster abbey in Zurich, Switzerland (1478-1547)

Limmatquai () is a street in the Swiss city of Zurich. It is named after the Limmat, and it follows the right-hand (eastern) bank of that river for about through the Altstadt, or historical core, of the city. The street was once important for both road and public transportation, but today sections of it form a pedestrian zone shared with Zurich's trams, effectively forming a northern extension of the Seeuferanlage promenades that ring the shores of Lake Zurich.

public square in the city of Zürich, Switzerland

Turicum was a Gallo-Roman settlement at the lower end of Lake Zurich, and precursor of the city of Zurich. It was situated within the Roman province of Germania Superior and near the border to the province of Raetia; there was a tax-collecting point for goods traffic on the waterway Walensee–Obersee-Lake Zurich–Limmat–Aare–Rhine. thumb|Roman remains of a building at Lindenhofkeller thumb|2nd/3rd century AD remains of pluster, Weinplatz (Thermengasse)

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church building in the city of Zürich, Switzerland

Vitudurum (sometimes Vitodorum) is the name of a Roman vicus, whose remains are located in Oberwinterthur, a locality of the municipality of Winterthur in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland.

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