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    at Fraumünster is the largest in the canton of Zurich. Fraumünster church tower Fraumünster as seen from Poststrasse towards Paradeplatz Fraumünster, Münsterhof...
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    is one of the four major churches in the city (the others being the Fraumünster, Predigerkirche, and St. Peterskirche). Its congregation forms part of...
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    Carolingian king of East Francia, and his wife Hemma. She was the abbess of Fraumünster, an abbey founded by her father. Hildegard was the eldest child of Louis...
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    The history of the Gesellschaft zu Fraumünsters dates back to the late 9th century when the abbess of the Fraumünster Abbey (853 A.D.) in fact reigned the...
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    Bahnhofstrasse as of today. Zunfthaus zur Meisen at Münsterhof plaza near Fraumünster church houses the porcelain and faience collection of the Swiss National...
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    was honored by the Fraumünster society, and a plaque marks the house at Neumarkt 13 where she once lived. Gesellschaft zu Fraumünster Regine Abegg: Spätgotische...
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    Gesellschaft zu Fraumünster. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 30 November 2014. "Frauenehrungen der Gesellschaft zu Fraumünster" (PDF) (in...
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    produced windows for the cathedrals of Reims and Metz as well as the Fraumünster in Zürich, windows for the UN and the Art Institute of Chicago and the...
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    (in Castro Turicino iuxta fluvium Lindemaci). Louis also founded the Fraumünster abbey in 853 for his daughter Hildegard. He endowed the Benedictine convent...
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  • "Ehrung der Kunstmäzenin Lydia Welti-Escher (press release)" (PDF) (in German). Gesellschaft zu Fraumünster. 27 March 2008. Retrieved 30 November 2014....
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    zu Fraumünster. Archived from the original on 9 January 2019. Retrieved 25 October 2014. "Frauenehrungen" (in German). Gesellschaft zu Fraumünster. Archived...
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  • Christian saint Hildegard of Fraumünster (828–856 or 859), daughter of Louis the German and first abbess of Fraumünster Hildegard, second wife of Charlemagne...
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    churches of the old town of Zürich, Switzerland, besides Grossmünster, Fraumünster and Predigerkirche. Located next to the Lindenhof hill, the site of the...
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    monument in front of the Fraumünster church was unveiled by the Kämbel guild on 6 April 1937 at the site of the former Fraumünster Kornhaus (granary), which...
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    (in German). Gesellschaft zu Fraumünster. Retrieved 2014-10-25. "Frauenehrungen" (in German). Gesellschaft zu Fraumünster. Retrieved 2014-12-28. Emidio...
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    abbesses of Kildare Katharina von Zimmern (1478–1547), last abbess of the Fraumünster Abbey Oestreich (1913). Chisholm 1911. Hoiberg 2010, p. 11 Henneberry...
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    windows in both of the most important churches of Zürich, Grossmünster and Fraumünster, as well as the inner decoration of the so-called Waisenhaus Zürich....
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    April 2010. as seen from Fraumünster church as seen from Poststrasse Beginning in 1999, Gesellschaft zu Fraumünster (Fraumünster society) organized every...
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    shield with heraldic eagle visible in this seal (from a document at Fraumünster, Zürich, dated 1187) is the only contemporary attestation of a Zähringer...
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    the Tang Dynasty, publishes Miscellaneous Offerings from Yu-yang. The Fraumünster Church in Zürich (modern Switzerland) is founded by Louis the German...
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    (261 ft) Lausanne Cathedral 1235 Lausanne  Switzerland 79.5 m (261 ft) Fraumünster Zürich  Switzerland 79.5 m (261 ft) John the Baptist Church 1895 Serpukhov...
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    prominent Zürich patron of the arts, was honored by the Gesellschaft zu Fraumünster association on the occasion of her 150th anniversary by a commemorative...
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    moved to nearby Frankfurt. In Switzerland, Zunfthaus zur Meisen near Fraumünster church houses the porcelain and faience collection of the Swiss National...
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  • Fraumünster. "Frauenehrungen" (in German). Gesellschaft zu Fraumünster. Retrieved 30 November 2014. "Frauenehrungen der Gesellschaft zu Fraumünster"...
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    of Reichenau, by the duke of Alamannia. In 853, Uri is granted to the Fraumünster abbey in Zürich by Louis the German. Parts of the Urseren were settled...
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    Typical large clocks characterising the towers of Swiss Protestant churches; here the towers of St. Peter and Fraumünster in Zürich....
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  • of Zürich and Ägeri. Sechseläuten History of Zürich Gesellschaft zu Fraumünster "Hochzeiten und Geburtstage im Zunfthaus in Zürich feiern". Wikimedia...
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  • "monastery", ultimately from Greek μοναστήριον - monastērion), Neumünster, Fraumünster, Grossmünster. See also minster. Slavic names: Prior to the medieval...
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    honoured by the Gesellschaft zu Fraumünster. "Anna Waser". RKD. "Frauenehrungen" (in German). Gesellschaft zu Fraumünster. Retrieved 2014-11-30. "Frauenehrungen...
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    surrounded by water: until the early medieval area, neighboring Münsterhof (Fraumünster abbey square) was a swampy hollow flooded by the Sihl. Therefore, Lindenhof...
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