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Ötenbach Monastery
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 the occasion of the Reformation in Zürich – the Waisenhaus Zürich, Waisenhaus building is its only remaining 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 Oppidum Zürich-Lindenhof, Lindenhof hill. On the so-called Murerplan map of 1576, the central ''Lindenhof–Sihlbühl'' hill area is illustrated, surrounded by the Limmat river – at t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dominican Order
The Order of Preachers (, abbreviated OP), commonly known as the Dominican Order, is a Catholic Church, Catholic mendicant order of pontifical right that was founded in France by a Castilians, Castilian priest named Saint Dominic, Dominic de Guzmán. It was approved by Pope Honorius III via the papal bull on 22 December 1216. Members of the order, who are referred to as Dominicans, generally display the letters ''OP'' after their names, standing for , meaning 'of the Order of Preachers'. Membership in the order includes friars, nuns, Religious sister (Catholic), active sisters, and Laity, lay or secular Dominicans (formerly known as Third Order of Saint Dominic, tertiaries). More recently, there have been a growing number of associates of the religious sisters who are unrelated to the tertiaries. Founded to preach the The gospel, gospel and to oppose heresy, the teaching activity of the order and its scholastic organisation placed it at the forefront of the intellectual life of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sihl
The Sihl is a Switzerland, Swiss river that rises near the Druesberg mountain in the canton of Schwyz, and eventually flows into the Limmat in the centre of the Zürich, city of Zürich, after crossing the Zürich–Winterthur railway at . It has a length of , including the Sihlsee reservoir, through which the river flows. Water is abstracted from the river at the Sihlsee, leading to decreased downstream water flows and a consequent reduction in water quality. The river flows through, or along the border of, the cantons of Canton of Schwyz, Schwyz, Canton of Zürich, Zürich and Canton of Zug, Zug. The main settlements of the Sihl Valley are all in the canton of Zürich, and include the towns of Langnau am Albis and Adliswil, along with a south-western segment of the city of Zürich. Above Langnau am Albis, some from the confluence with the Limmat, there are no major settlements alongside the river, and only a few small villages. Whilst the Einsiedeln, Switzerland, town of Einsied ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rapperswil
Rapperswil (Swiss German: or ;Andres Kristol, ''Rapperswil SG (See)'' in: ''Dictionnaire toponymique des communes suisses – Lexikon der schweizerischen Gemeindenamen – Dizionario toponomastico dei comuni svizzeri (DTS, LSG)'', Centre de dialectologie, Université de Neuchâtel, Verlag Huber, Frauenfeld/Stuttgart/Wien 2005, and Éditions Payot, Lausanne 2005, , p. 727. short: ''Rappi'') is a former municipality and since January 2007 part of the Municipalities of Switzerland, municipality of Rapperswil-Jona in the ''Wahlkreis'' (constituency) of See-Gaster (Wahlkreis), See-Gaster in the Cantons of Switzerland, canton of St. Gallen (canton), St. Gallen in Switzerland, located between ''Obersee (Lake Zurich), Obersee'' and the main part of Lake Zurich. Geography Rapperswil is located on the northern shore of Lake Zurich at the point at which the lake is cut in two by the Seedamm isthmus, which is an ice age moraine. The upper (or eastern) part of Lake Zurich is called ''Ob ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Predigerkloster
The Predigerkloster was a monastery of the Dominican Order, established around 1234 and abolished in 1524, in the imperial city of Zurich, Switzerland. Its church, the Predigerkirche, is one of the four main churches in Zurich and was first built in 1231 as a Romanesque church of the then Dominican monastery. In the first half of the 14th century it was converted, the choir rebuilt between 1308 and 1350. History Early years At that time, the city of Zurich supported the popular mendicant orders by assigning them free plots in the suburbs and asking them to support the city wall construction. The city's fortification was built in the east of the area in the late 11th or 12th century. The first Dominican friars settled, according to the chronicler Heinrich Brennwald, outside of the city walls of medieval Zurich at Stadelhofen in 1230 AD, and in 1231 it was first mentioned that in Zurich was a new monastery under construction. In the ''Schweizerchronik'' of 1513, Heinrich Bren ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johann I (Habsburg-Laufenburg)
Johann I von Habsburg-Laufenburg (also ''Johannes von Rapperswil-Laufenburg-Habsburg'', ''von Laufenburg-Rapperswil''; born around 1297; died 21 September 1337 in Grynau) was the Count of the House Habsburg-Laufenburg and later Count of the House of Rapperswil. Early life Johann was born between 1295 and 1297 AD probably in the Rapperswil Castle in the medieval city of Rapperswil as the oldest son of Elisabeth Countess of Rapperswil (†1309) by second marriage with Count ''Rudolf von Habsburg-Laufenburg'' (†1315). ''Rudolf, Ludwig and Clara'' are mentioned as siblings of Johann, Stadtarchiv Rapperswil as well as his stepbrother Reichsvogt '' Wernher von Homberg'' and his stepsister ''Cecilia von Homberg'' who became the abbess of the Oetenbach Nunnery, born to Countess Elisabeth by first marriage with Count ''Ludwig von Homberg''. Johann may be raised in Laufenburg and even educated at the royal Habsburg court, as well as his son ''Johann II'' (†1380) and those bro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie
(ADB; ) is one of the most important and comprehensive biographical reference works in the German language. It was published by the Historical Commission of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences between 1875 and 1912 in 56 volumes, printed in Leipzig by Duncker & Humblot. The ADB contains biographies of about 26,500 people who died before 1900 and lived in the German language Sprachraum of their time, including people from the Netherlands before 1648. Its successor, the , was started in 1953 and is planned to be finished in 2023. The index and full-text articles of ADB and NDB are freely available online via the website ''German Biography'' ('' Deutsche Biographie''). Notes References * * External links * ''Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie'' – full-text articles at German Wikisource Wikisource is an online wiki-based digital library of free-content source text, textual sources operated by the Wikimedia Foundation. Wikisource is the name of the project as a whole; it i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wernher Von Homberg
Wernher von Homberg (also ''Werner''; ''Hohenberg'', 1284 – 21 March 1320) was a knight in the service Emperor Henry VII, and later of Frederick the Fair. His Minnesang poems are recorded in the ''Codex Manesse''. Wernher's father was Ludwig of Homberg (d. 1289 in the battle of Schosshalde, the son of Hermann IV of Frohburg), and his mother was Elisabeth von Rapperswil (d. 1309), the heiress of Rudolf, Count of Rapperswil. At the death of her husband, Elisabeth gave her estates in Rapperswil to her children. Elisabeth, like her mother and father before, was an ally of the city of Zürich, held citizenship (''Burgrecht'') there. She was patron of the Oetenbach nunnery, and Wernher's sister, Cecilia von Homberg became the prioress there. Wernher inherited territories that today form the northern part of the canton of Schwyz. Beginning in 1302, king Albert I of Germany laid claim to these territories, prompting Wernher to enter a pact with the people of Schwyz. In 1303, Wernher ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elisabeth Von Rapperswil
Elisabeth von Rapperswil (also ''von Habsburg-Laufenburg'', ''von Homberg''; c.1251/1261 – 1309) was the last countess of the House of Rapperswil, and secured by her second marriage the female line of the Counts of Rapperswil and the extensive possessions of Rapperswil in the former ''Zürichgau'' to the Laufenburg line. Her son by first marriage was Reichsvogt Wernher von Homberg, and her oldest son by second marriage was Count Johann I (Habsburg-Laufenburg), Johann von Habsburg-Laufenburg who passed over the title of the count of Rapperswil to his oldest son Johann II (Habsburg-Laufenburg), Johann II and his brothers Rudolf and Gotfried. Early life Elisabeth von Rapperswil was born around 1251 or rather around 1261 AD presumably in the Rapperswil Castle in the medieval city of Rapperswil as the daughter of ''Mechthild von Neifen'' (d. 1267) and ''Rudolf III von Vaz'' (b. around 1230; d. 27 July 1262) whose mother ''Adelheid'' was a member of the House of Rapperswil. Ru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
House Of Rapperswil
The House of Rapperswil respectively Counts of Rapperswil (''Grafen von Rapperwil'' since 1233, before ''Lords'') ruled the upper ''Zürichsee'' and ''Seedamm'' region around Rapperswil and parts of, as of today, Swiss cantons of St. Gallen, Glarus, Zürich and Graubünden when their influence was most extensive around the 1200s until the 1290s. They acted also as ''Vogt'' of the most influential Einsiedeln Abbey in the 12th and 13th century, and at least three abbots of Einsiedeln were members of Rapperswil family. History Early history In 697 legends mentions a knight called ''Raprecht'' in connection with the later Grynau Castle. The former seat of the ''Vogt'' in Altendorf was first mentioned as "Rahprehteswilare" in a document of emperor Otto II, in which goods of the Einsiedeln abbey were confirmed on 14 August 972. The fourth Abbot of Einsiedeln, ''Wirunt'' (996–1026), or Wirendus, Wirund, Wem, Wirand, Verendus, was according to 15th-century chronis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Münsterhof
Münsterhof (literally: Fraumünster abbey courtyard) is a town square situated in the Lindenhof hill, Lindenhof quarter in the historical center of Zurich, Switzerland. It is the largest town square within the Altstadt (old town) of Zurich and is surrounded by medieval buildings. The area forms part of the southern extension of the Quaianlagen (Zürich), Quaianlagen promenades along Lake Zurich. Geography Münsterhof is located in front of the Fraumünster and lies a short distance from the Münsterbrücke Zürich, Münsterbrücke, a bridge which leads eastwards across the river Limmat to the Limmatquai and Grossmünster beyond. It is surrounded by medieval buildings, among which are several Zünfte of Zürich, guild houses, including Zunfthaus zur Waag, the former Zunft zum Kämbel, Kämbel guild house and the art museum Zunfthaus zur Meisen. This area forms part of the southern extension of the Quaianlagen (Zürich), Quaianlagen promenades which were built between 1881 and 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fraumünster
The Fraumünster (; lit. in ) is a church in Zürich which was built on the remains of a former abbey for aristocratic women which was founded in 853 by Louis the German for his daughter Hildegard. He endowed the Benedictine convent with the lands of Zürich, Uri, and the Albis forest, and granted the convent immunity, placing it under his direct authority. Today, it belongs to the Evangelical Reformed Church of the canton of Zürich and is one of the four main churches of Zürich, the others being the Grossmünster, Prediger and St. Peter's churches. History In 1045, King Henry III granted the convent the right to hold markets, collect tolls, and mint coins, and thus effectively made the abbess the ruler of the city. Emperor Frederick II granted the abbey '' Reichsunmittelbarkeit'' in 1218, thus making it territorially independent of all authority save that of the Emperor himself, and increasing the political power of the abbess. The abbess assigned the mayor, and s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
