St. Peter Church (Zurich)

Church of St. Peter (Zurich)
St. Peter in Zurich is one of the three old town churches that characterize the silhouette of Zurich.
Today's baroque nave, consecrated in 1706, was the first church to be built in Zurich as a Reformed church, but by no means the first church on this site: archaeological evidence shows a 10 × 7 m church building from the 8th or 9th century. A document from 857 mentions the curtis sancti Petri, a court belonging to the church.
This small church was replaced by an early Romanesque church around 1000. A late Romanesque building followed around 1230, from which the choir and tower have been preserved. Rudolf Brun, the first mayor of Zurich, was buried in this choir in 1360. A copy of the tombstone is on the north side. The nave was rebuilt around 1450 in the Gothic style.
During the Reformation, St. Peter's Church was of great importance as Zurich's parish church. From 1522 Leo Jud, a close friend of Ulrich Zwingli, was pastor of St. Peter for twenty years and was known for his excellent sermons. He preached freely and without notes, so that none have survived. Jud was succeeded by Rudolf Gwalter, Zwingli's son-in-law and Heinrich Bullinger's successor as Antistes von Zürich, who remained in office for 33 years. In 1555 the expelled Evangelical Locarnos were assigned to this church, and the Italian Bernardino Ochino became its pastor until 1563. In that year he was banished by the Zurich Council for heretical views.
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The Church of St. Peter, together with the Grossmünster and the Fraumünster, shapes the skyline of Zurich's old town. What few people know when they stand in front of the Church of St. Peter, they see the largest church clock in Europe. The dial has a diameter of 8.64 meters.
Zurich upgraded 200 years later. The St. Peter received the largest tower clock in Europe, a dial with a diameter of 8.64 meters on each side of the tower. The time on the clock at St. Peter became the official city time. All clocks had to be based on St. Peter until the 20th century. Today, the watch has lost importance in this regard. Only at Sechseläuten is it leading the way. When it strikes 6 p.m. in the evening at St. Peter, the "Böögg" is lit and burned on Sechseläutenplatz on Bellevue.

St. Peter is the first Protestant church in the city of Zurich after the Reformation. The huge church clock is the largest in Europe.