Fraumünster Church

Fraumünster (Zurich)
The Fraumünster in Zurich is one of the four reformed old town churches and one of the city's landmarks. The former Fraumünster monastery was a Benedictine monastery with the rank of a princely abbey.
According to the founding legend, the two daughters of the East Franconian King Ludwig the German, Hildegard and Bertha, moved to Baldern Castle on the Albis to dedicate their lives to God in seclusion. They often hiked to nearby Zurich to pray in a chapel there. God gave each of the pious sisters a deer to take with them on their way, the antlers of which shone brightly, showing them the way through the dark forest. The deer showed them a spot near the Limmat where they should build a church. King Ludwig then donated the Fraumünster Abbey at the designated location, which was headed first by Hildegard and after her death by her sister Bertha.
The founding legend was taken up by Paul Bodmer for the painting of the Fraumünster cloister in 1924-34. A fresco of the founding legend from the time of Abbess Elisabeth von Wetzikon (1270-1298) was whitewashed over during the Reformation, rediscovered in the middle of the 19th century and signed by Franz Hegi - then it was whitewashed again and thus irretrievably destroyed. During the renovation work in the 2000s, this colored panel was placed in the place where the original fresco was found (niche of the abbesses). The Fraumünster Society, founded in 1988, incorporated the legend into its coat of arms, which features a white stag on a blue background with three yellow lights in its antlers.
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Marc Chagall was asked by pastor Peter Vogelsanger in 1967 for the design of the windows after a design competition in the Frauenkirche with Swiss artists had failed. Vogelsanger's attention was drawn to his first versions of the panes for the Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem, which he exhibited in Zurich in 1967. For Chagall, the Frauenkirche was something like love at first sight. In any case, half a year later the artist in Zurich was already at work. The world-famous painter received just 150,000 francs for his work, which was donated by the couple of building contractors Lou and Heinrich Hatt-Bucher.
For the choir of the Zurich women’s cathedral, the Belarusian Marc Chagall created a five-part window cycle and a rosette. Chagall's world-famous masterpiece enchants visitors from all over the world today. Marc Chagall remained true to his motto, if I work from the heart, almost everything will stay true to his life.
In an interview with Swiss television, Marc Chagall said about the Zurich glass paintings: “He do what he does. You can't explain the creative process of his works. ” Instead, visitors should be touched by the spirituality of the sacred space and its glass paintings and not be distracted.

The Fraumünster is an evangelical-reformed church in the heart of Zurich's old town. Once a church of a women's monastery, today it is a church with a large preaching congregation, with a symphonic-romantic organ and a church choir, in which over 100 singers participate. The beautiful Romanesque-Gothic church building, the glass windows by Marc Chagall and Augusto Giacometti attract many visitors every day. At Fraumünster, music and space form a unity, which can be experienced in the services and concerts. I like to sit in the room by the Chagall windows, here you can indulge yourself. I can also highly recommend the concerts that take place here.