Fraumünster

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Fraumünster

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Location: Zurich, Switzerland

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July 25, 2022

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The Fraumünster is one of Zurich's oldest sacred buildings. It looks back on a turbulent past. The house of God, St. Felix and St. Regula, was founded on July 21, 853. The monastery contributed to Zurich developing from a Celtic settlement, then a Roman settlement, into a medieval city. For many centuries, the monastery was owned by Benedictine nuns. The abbesses were the formal rulers of the city from the 13th century onwards. This ended with the Reformation. In 1524, the last abbess Katharina von Zimmern handed over the abbey to the city of Zurich. The Reformation was thus completed.

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Matto

July 12, 2020

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Marc Chagall was approached by Pastor Peter Vogelsanger in 1967 to design the windows of the Frauenkirche (Church of Our Lady) after a design competition involving Swiss artists had failed. His initial drafts of the stained-glass windows for the Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem, exhibited in Zurich in 1967, had caught Vogelsanger's attention. For Chagall, the Frauenkirche was love at first sight. Just six months later, the artist was already at work in Zurich. The world-famous painter received a mere 150,000 Swiss francs for his work, donated by the construction entrepreneurs Lou and Heinrich Hatt-Bucher.

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Paul

November 15, 2022

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Fraumünster (Zurich)

The Fraumünster in Zurich is one of the four Reformed churches in the Old Town and one of the city's landmarks. The former Fraumünster Abbey was a Benedictine …

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