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Schipfe
Schipfe is a residential district in Zürich, Switzerland, located on the eastern slope of the Lindenhof, one of the oldest parts of the Helvetii Oppidum Zürich-Lindenhof, by the river Limmat. Historians and the '' Weinplatz'' suggest that the district was part of the former civilian harbour of the Celtic-Roman ''Turicum''. The Swiss studio of famous international artist, Conor Mccreedy is based here in a former Roman townhouse. Location Schipfe belongs to the historic area on the left hand shore of the Limmat, located on the west side of the Lindenhof-Sihlbühl hill downstream from the ancient bridges Münsterbrücke and Rathausbrücke Zürich between the present Limmatquai and the prehistoric Lindenhof hill. History The Lindenhof was the site of the Helvetii '' Oppidum'' and the first century BC Roman settlement (15 BC), with traces of a hypocaustum excavated between Weinplatz and Münsterhof. It was then the historical core of modern Zürich. This is the old ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oppidum Zürich-Lindenhof
Lindenhof is the present name of the large fortified settlement, or oppidum, likely founded by the Helvetii on the Lindenhof hill on the western shore of the Limmat in Zürich, Switzerland. Geography The Lindenhof is a moraine hill that since the European Middle Ages is used as a public square, situated amidst the historic center of Zürich. It was the site of the Roman and Carolingian era Kaiserpfalz around which the modern city has historically grown. The hilltop area including its prehistoric, Celtic, Roman and medieval remains, therefore dominates the historical center alongside the easterly Limmat riverbank and the historical Schipfe quarter. Its northern part, where the former medieval Oetenbach nunnery was built at the site of a prehistoric cultic place at the present road, is called , meaning the slope towards the Sihl river delta. At the same place, the Urania Sternwarte and Waisenhaus Zürich were built in 1901/02, and therefore important historical archaeological excava ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lindenhof-Sihlbühl
The Lindenhof (lit.: ''courtyard of the lime'') is a moraine hill and a public square in the historic center of Zürich, Switzerland. It is the site of the Roman and Carolingian era Kaiserpfalz around which the city has historically grown. The hilltop area—including its prehistoric, Roman, and medieval remains—is listed as a Swiss heritage site of national significance. Topography Lindenhof (its northern part is called ''Sihlbühl'') dominates the Lindenhof quarter in district 1 (Altstadt), the historical center of Zürich's Altstadt. To the North, it ends at ''Uraniastrasse'' (City police station) and to the South, it ends near St. Peter church. In the West, the hill is limited by the Bahnhofstrasse, and in the east, it ends at the Limmat and the Schipfe quarter. Lindenhof sits atop the remains of a glacier. The hill and its public square are part of the Linth Glacier's moraines in the area of Zürich. The now largely flattened Lindenhof (428 m ü. M) rises about ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Turicum (Zürich)
Turicum was a Gallo-Roman settlement at the lower end of Lake Zurich, and precursor of the city of Zürich. It was situated within the Roman province of Gallia Belgica (from AD 90 Germania Superior) and near the border to the province of Raetia; there was a tax-collecting point for goods traffic on the waterway Walensee– Obersee-Zürichsee–Limmat–Aare–Rhine. Name The ancient name ''Turicum'', along with the indication of a Roman customhouse, is first attested in the epitaph for Lucius Aelius Urbicus, an infant son of the , ‘head of the toll-station at Zurich’, that was found on Lindenhof hill in 1747 and dates from 185/200 AD. Regula Frei-Stolba/Reinhold Kaiser & al., ''Die Römische Zeit'', in: ''Geschichte des Kantons Zürich'', vol. 1: ''Frühzeit bis Spätmittelalter'', Zürich 1995, . The place name reappears in the Early Middle Ages as ''Turicum'', ''Turico'', ''Doricum'', ''Torico'', ''Turigo'', ''Turegum'', and in its Old High German forms ''Ziurichi'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lindenhof Hill
The Lindenhof (lit.: ''courtyard of the lime'') is a moraine hill and a public square in the historic center of Zürich, Switzerland. It is the site of the Roman and Carolingian era Kaiserpfalz around which the city has historically grown. The hilltop area—including its prehistoric, Roman, and medieval remains—is listed as a Swiss heritage site of national significance. Topography Lindenhof (its northern part is called ''Sihlbühl'') dominates the Lindenhof quarter in district 1 (Altstadt), the historical center of Zürich's Altstadt. To the North, it ends at ''Uraniastrasse'' (City police station) and to the South, it ends near St. Peter church. In the West, the hill is limited by the Bahnhofstrasse, and in the east, it ends at the Limmat and the Schipfe quarter. Lindenhof sits atop the remains of a glacier. The hill and its public square are part of the Linth Glacier's moraines in the area of Zürich. The now largely flattened Lindenhof (428 m ü. M) rises about ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Weinplatz (Zürich)
Weinplatz (literally: ''wine square'') is a popular public square adjacent to the ''Gmüesbrugg'' bridge and the historical Schipfe quarter. Geography Weinplatz is situated in the historical center of Zürich, previously known as Celtic-Roman ''Turicum'', on the southeastern foothill of the Lindenhof, right westerly of the Rathausbrücke bridge-plaza, north of the Münsterhof plaza, and south of the Schipfe quarter on the eastern bank of the Limmat. Transportation Located next to the Rathausbrücke, public transport is provided by the Zürich tram lines 2, 4, and 15. At the ''Storchen'' stop, Zürichsee-Schifffahrtsgesellschaft provides also public transportation towards Bürkliplatz and Zürichhorn. Individual transportation usually is prohibited. The area is part of the pedestrian zone in the old town of Zürich, hence, vehicle traffic is limited between lower Limmatquai downstream and the Bellevueplatz square upstream. History In 70/75 AD a harbor district rose ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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The Lindenhof, in the old town of Zürich, Switzerland, is the historical site of the Roman castle, and the later Carolingian Kaiserpfalz. It is situated on Lindenhof hill, on the left side of the Limmat at the Schipfe. In 1747, a second-century Roman tombstone was discovered at the site, bearing the oldest attestation of ''Turīcum'', the Roman-era name of Zürich, as ''STA ioTURIC nsis', at the time a tax-collection point. The castle remained intact during the early phase of Alemannic immigration in between the fifth and sixth centuries, but was derelict by the ninth century, when it was rebuilt as a residence for Louis the German Louis the German (c. 806/810 – 28 August 876), also known as Louis II of Germany and Louis II of East Francia, was the first king of East Francia, and ruled from 843 to 876 AD. Grandson of emperor Charlemagne and the third son of Louis the P .... It later became dilapidated and used as a source of building stone by the 13th century. The Li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oetenbach Nunnery
Oetenbach was a Dominican nunnery in the medieval municipality of Zürich in Switzerland. Oetenbach was named after the small stream of the same name at its first location at Zürichhorn, situated outside of the European Middle Ages town walls, but moved to the present Sihlbühl. The nunnery was abolished on occasion of the Reformation in Zürich – the Waisenhaus building is its only remained structure, now the headquarters of Stadtpolizei Zürich. Location The ''Oetenbach'' nunnery was first mentioned in 1237 AD at its first location at the present Zürichhorn. Because the swampy area at the ''Oetenbach'' stream was a bad place for the construction of a permanently inhabited convent, some decades later, it was built on the northern slope ''Sihlbühl'' of the present Lindenhof hill. On the so-called Murerplan map of 1576, the central ''Lindenhof–Sihlbühl'' hill area is illustrated, surrounded by the Limmat river – at the top, in fact in the east and not in the north â ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waisenhaus Zürich
Waisenhaus (also Amthaus I) is the last remaining building of the Oetenbach nunnery, and houses today the police department of the city of Zürich in Switzerland. Location The ''Waisenhaus'' building is situated at ''Bahnhofquai 3'' towards Bahnhofbrücke and Hautbahnhof Zürich. Built in fact outside of the historical core of the medieval town of Zürich, previously the Celtic-Roman ''Turicum'', the former ''Zucht- und Waisenhaus'' is the last remaining structure of the Oetenbach nunnery at the ''Lindenhof-Silhlbühl'' hill on the western shore of the Limmat river. History After the Reformation in Zürich, the city government took over the monastic buildings for new uses. To manage the income of the former convent, the former administration building was held as ''Oetenbacheramt'' housing the former wine cellar. In 1601 the building was extensively remodeled and equipped with stepped gables, and as police barracks, in 1872 the remains of wall paintings were discovered. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Limmatquai
''Limmatquai'' is a street in the Swiss city of Zürich. It is named after the Limmat, and it follows the right-hand (eastern) bank of that river for about through the '' Altstadt'', or historical core, of the city. The street was once important for both road and public transportation, but today sections of it form a pedestrian zone shared with Zürich's trams, effectively forming a northern extension of the '' Seeuferanlage'' promenades that ring the shores of Lake Zürich. The ''Limmatquai'' has its southern end adjacent to the '' Quaibrücke'' bridge and ''Bellevueplatz'' square, where the Limmat flows out of Lake Zürich. Its northern end is at the '' Bahnhofbrücke'' bridge and ''Central'' plaza. Between the ''Quaibrücke'' and the ''Bahnhofbrücke'', the river is crossed by four other bridges all of which connect to the ''Limmatquai''; from south to north these are the '' Münsterbrücke'', '' Rathausbrücke'', '' Rudolf-Brun-Brücke'' and '' Mühlesteg''. For most of its ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Altstadt (Zürich)
Die Altstadt (German for "the old town") in the Swiss city of Zürich encompasses the area of the entire historical city before 1893, before the incorporation of what are now districts 2 to 12 into the municipality, over the period 1893 to 1934. ''Die Altstadt'' approximately corresponds to the area enclosed by the former city ramparts, and is today within the administrative area of the city called Kreis 1 (District 1). With a population of 5,617 (as of 2015), it houses about 1.4% of the city's total population. Administratively, District 1 is divided into four parts or quarters by the Zürich statistical office, Rathaus (town hall), Hochschulen (universities), Lindenhof ("lime trees courtyard") and City. ''Lindenhof'' and ''Rathaus'' correspond to the parts of the medieval city left (west) and right (east) of the Limmat, respectively, while ''City'' and ''Hochschulen'' include the area of the Early Modern city west and east of the medieval walls, respectively. Lindenhof ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ancient Roman Architecture
Ancient Roman architecture adopted the external language of classical Greek architecture for the purposes of the ancient Romans, but was different from Greek buildings, becoming a new architectural style. The two styles are often considered one body of classical architecture. Roman architecture flourished in the Roman Republic and to even a greater extent under the Empire, when the great majority of surviving buildings were constructed. It used new materials, particularly Roman concrete, and newer technologies such as the arch and the dome to make buildings that were typically strong and well-engineered. Large numbers remain in some form across the former empire, sometimes complete and still in use to this day. Roman architecture covers the period from the establishment of the Roman Republic in 509 BC to about the 4th century AD, after which it becomes reclassified as Late Antique or Byzantine architecture. Few substantial examples survive from before about 100 BC, and most of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
