A Zwinger (German pronunciation: [ˈt͡svɪŋɐ]) is an open kill zone area between two defensive walls that is used for defensive purposes. Zwingers were built...

The Zwinger (‹See Tfd›German: Dresdner Zwinger, IPA: [ˈdʁeːzdnɐ ˈt͡svɪŋɐ]) is a palatial complex with gardens in Dresden, Germany. Designed by architect...

Theodor Zwinger the Elder (2 August 1533 – 10 March 1588) was a Swiss physician and Renaissance humanist scholar. He made significant contributions to...

A Zwinger is part of a medieval castle or town fortification. It may also refer to: Zwinger (Goslar), a battery tower in the town fortifications of Goslar...

Ann Haymond Zwinger (1925–2014) was the author of many natural histories noted for detail and lyrical prose. Ann Haymond Zwinger was born March 12, 1925...

Thorsten Zwinger (artist pseudonym ZWINGER, born March 23, 1962, in Greifswald) is a German painter. Thorsten Zwinger works on the assumptions of an image...

The Zwinger in Goslar is a battery tower that is part of the fortifications of the old imperial city of Goslar, Germany. It is located on the Thomaswall...

The Zwinger in the Westphalian city of Münster is part of the old city fortifications from the Early Modern Period. In the Nazi era it was both a gaol...

Heinrich Louis Ewald Eugen Zwinger ("Pastor S. Swinger", born February 22, 1866, in Bernburg) was a pastor and founder of the Lutheran Church of the Epiphany...

being rebuilt between 1994 and 2005. Other famous landmarks include the Zwinger, the Semperoper and Dresden Castle. Furthermore, the city is home to the...

Theodor Zwinger III (26 August 1658 – 22 April 1724) was a Swiss physician. Theodor Zwinger came from an important Basel family of scholars. His father...

Opernhaus am Zwinger (Opera house at the Zwinger) was a theatre in Dresden, Saxony, Germany, opened in 1719. The architect of the Zwinger, Matthäus Daniel...

Gustav Philipp Zwinger (3 January 1779 – 15 January 1819), painter and etcher, was born at Nuremberg. He was the son and pupil of the painter and engraver...

The collection is located in the Semper Gallery, the gallery wing of the Zwinger. When the Kunstkammer (Art Chamber) of the Electors of Saxony in Dresden...

facades and in the interiors of palaces, churches, edifices, etc. (e.g. Zwinger, Dresden Cathedral, Moritzburg Castle), and on numerous mileposts, and...

Ferrara University of Pisa University of Padua Doctoral advisor Antonio Musa Brasavola Notable students Hieronymus Fabricius Volcher Coiter Theodor Zwinger...

was sent to recruit more Italian singers for the new Dresden opera, "am Zwinger". Whilst in Venice he secured the services of Margherita Durastanti and...

Sigmundstor was defended on its western side by a fortified defensive Zwinger, including a defensive wall, guardhouse and tollbooth, surrounded in three...

wall. The outer wall guarded the main entrance in the manner of a gateway zwinger. In 1456 the two gateways were reinforced. On the west side of the inner...

Church of Peace in Świdnica the largest wooden Baroque temple in Europe. Zwinger, Dresden, Germany, by Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann and Balthasar Permoser...

Dresden to collaborate with the architect Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann on the Zwinger palace, built 1710–28 for Augustus the Strong, Elector of Saxony, where...

Switzerland. It is named Zwingerhaus in memory of the physician Theodor Zwinger, who bought the house in 1572. It is first mentioned in 1345, then in possession...

You Trundle – Outside Online". outsideonline.com. July 7, 2011. Ann., Zwinger (1996). Land above the trees: A Guide to American Alpine Tundra. Willard...

III. The most famous building started under Augustus the Strong was the Zwinger. Also known are Pillnitz Castle, his summer residence, Moritzburg Castle...

to 1982, a brown bear named Poldi lived in a Zwinger (a defensive enclosure) in the castle. The Zwinger is still present, but today only houses a stuffed...

are held by the Musée des Arts et Métiers in Paris and one more by the Zwinger museum in Dresden, Germany, exhibit two of his original mechanical calculators...

Church, Kyiv, 1744 – 1767, designed by Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli Zwinger (Dresden) Eszterháza in Fertőd, Hungary, 1720 – 1766, sometimes called...

Cinchona tree by Theodor Zwinger, 1696...

1803 The Zwinger fortress built in 1528. Used from the 18th to the 20th century as a prison. During World War II, the Gestapo also used the Zwinger for executions...

Archived from the original on 11 January 2013. Retrieved 24 January 2013. "Zwinger von Wiesmadern" [Kennel of Wiesmadern] (in German). Archived from the original...