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    view of the Limmat Grossmünster as seen from the Limmat A model of Grossmünster, made for the blind The cloister of former Grossmünster Chorherrenstift dates...
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    (people's priest) of the Grossmünster at Zürich became vacant. The canons of the foundation that administered the Grossmünster recognised Zwingli's reputation...
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    seen from Bürkliplatz St. Peter as seen from Grossmünster church tower St. Peter as seen from Grossmünster Peter Ziegler: St. Peter in Zürich. Von den...
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    and is one of the four main churches of Zürich, the others being the Grossmünster, Prediger and St. Peter's churches. In 1045, King Henry III granted the...
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    Quaibrücke, connecting Bellevue and Bürkliplatz, Münsterbrücke between Grossmünster and Fraumünster, Rathausbrücke just north of the town hall, Rudolf-Brun-Brücke...
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    the Swiss Reformation at the time when he was the main preacher at the Grossmünster in 1519. The Zurich Bible was printed by Christoph Froschauer in 1531...
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    cloister of the Grossmünster Chorherrenstift in Zurich, Switzerland. Grossmünster and Carolinum (Ehemalige Mädchenschule am Grossmünster) are listed in...
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    Huldrych Zwingli as head of the Church of Zürich and a pastor at the Grossmünster. One of the most important leaders of the Swiss Reformation, Bullinger...
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    glass-painting training, Polke realized a series of stained-glass windows for the Grossmünster cathedral in Zürich between 2006 and 2009. Polke had his first one-person...
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    Lake Zurich from Grossmünster with Quaibrücke and the Limmat River in the foreground...
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    is indirectly named after two Münster (minsters), the Fraumünster and Grossmünster.[citation needed] Münsterbrücke crosses the Limmat, connecting Münsterhof...
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    that sparked the Reformation in Zürich. Huldrych Zwingli, pastor of Grossmünster in Zurich, Switzerland, spearheaded the event by publicly speaking in...
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    depiction of a cross-hilt dagger is the so-called "Guido relief" inside the Grossmünster of Zürich (c. 1120). A number of depictions of the fully developed cross-hilt...
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    Sweden Thin slices of agate set into lead and glass by Sigmar Polke, Grossmünster, Zürich, Switzerland (2009) Madonna and Child by Joseph Ehrismann, late...
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    Church. When the Swiss Reformer Huldrych Zwingli became the pastor of the Grossmünster in Zurich (1518) he began to preach ideas on reforming the Catholic Church...
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    century Charlemagne statue, Grossmünster at Zürich, late 15th century (1933 copy by Otto Münch) Charlemagne statue, Grossmünster at Zürich (original) Charlemagne...
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    Tagsatzung of 1807 at Grossmünster in Zürich...
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    (1526–1556), and later of Peter Martyr Vermigli (1556–1562) and Josias Simmler (1563-1576), professors at the Carolinum, the academy of the Grossmünster....
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    stained glass windows in both of the most important churches of Zürich, Grossmünster and Fraumünster, as well as the inner decoration of the so-called Waisenhaus...
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    Limmat, situated between the two main churches of medieval Zürich, the Grossmünster and the Fraumünster, at the Limmatquai and the Münsterbrücke. It seems...
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  • In the 1520s Zwingli introduced prophezey as a daily exercise in the Grossmünster, Zurich. Patrick Collinson argues that the library of Zwingli's successor...
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    in the today's Rathaus quarter, in the immediate neighborhood of the Grossmünster church, the Rathaus Zürich and the Haus zum Rüden, being then the most...
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    his memory (see image) The cloister in the Carolinum, Zürich in the Grossmünster church, where Gessner is buried, also houses a herbal garden dedicated...
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    Predigerkirche. Afterwards he was canon and second archdeacon at the Grossmünster. Wick is the collector of the Wickiana. Nachlass in der Zentralbibliothek...
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    king as an armed horseman, c. 1154. The so-called Guido-Relief in the Grossmünster, Zürich, depicts two combatants with helmets and kite shields, one with...
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  • Otto Münch (1885–1965) was a German artist. The bronze doors of the Grossmünster in Zürich, Switzerland, are considered to be his most important work....
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    the oldest café in the city. Located on Napfgasse, near the old town's Grossmünster, the café is on six floors, including a basement. Eberles Süsskramladen...
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    Zürich from 1552 and then second Archdeacon, and thus also canon, at the Grossmünster in Zürich from 1557. He assembled and arranged contemporary news documents...
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    built at the site of the Lindenhof, and monasteries are established at Grossmünster and Fraumünster. Political power lay with these abbeys during Medieval...
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    Kolonne Ralin retreating from Münsterhof square towards (as of today) Limmatquai, Grossmünster and Wasserkirche (to the right) in the background....
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