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Neumarkt (Zürich)
Neumarkt is a street and a historical area in the Rathaus quarter (Altstadt) of Zürich, Switzerland. Geography Neumarkt is bounded by ''Spiegelgasse'', ''Rindermarkt'', ''Froschauergasse'' and ''Seilergraben'' streets in the Rathaus quarter (Altstadt) on the right bank of the river Limmat, and Grimmenturm is a landmark seen from all location around the inner city of Zürich. History In the 12th century AD, the as of today ''Neumarkt'' street was built as a new suburb of the medieval city of Zürich, centered around the new city market (in German: ''Neuer Markt''). The previous ''Alte Markt'' (literally: old market) was established so far at the ''Marktgasse'' street and perhaps also towards ''Stüssihofstatt'' square. Some buildings, among them ''Grimmenturm'' and ''Bilgeriturm'', may allow the conclusion that the new district also completed the so-called first city fortifications to the west. In 1249, a pogrom against the Jewish people in Switzerland occurred among other ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grimmenturm
Grimmenturm (, referring to Johann Bilgeri the younger, nicknamed 'the grim') is a medieval tower and restaurant situated at Neumarkt in Zurich's District 1, Switzerland. Location The ''Grimmenturm'' building is situated at Neumarkt (Spiegelgasse 31, 8001 Zürich) in the ''Altstadt'' of Zürich on the right shore of the Limmat river. It houses the restaurant ''Neumarkt'' in one of the attached buildings towards Neumarkt. History The tower was probably built by the Zürich family ''Bilgeri'' (residential since 1256) between 1250 and 1280 AD as a residential tower. First mentioned in the year 1324 as a tower of the ''Pilgrin'' family, it was one of about 30 residential towers that existed in the European Middle Ages in Zürich. Even before 1300 housing was attached to the north-western side. Although the building was for decades used by the ''Bilgeri'' family as their home, it has not their name, as a building; also used as a residential tower, the so-called '' Bilgeriturm'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fortifications Of Zürich
Zürich was an independent (''reichsfrei'') city or city-state from 1218 to 1798. The town was Fortification, fortified with a city wall from the 13th to the 17th century, and with more elaborate Defensive wall, ramparts constructed in the 17th to 18th century and mostly demolished in the 1830s to 1870s. First wall There had been a first city wall dating to the 11th or 12th century. The existence of such an early wall had been suggested, but the mainstream view assumed that the town had been unfortified – the remains of the Roman castle at the Turicum (Zürich), Vicus ''Turicum'', and a so-called Kaiserpfalz on Lindenhof hill excepted – before the 13th century, until the chance discovery of remnants of the first wall during the 1990s construction work at the Zentralbibliothek Zürich, central library respectively location of the Predigerkloster, the former Dominican abbey. Second wall Following the extinction of the main line of the Zähringer family in 1218, Zürich became a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Squares In Zurich
In geometry, a square is a regular quadrilateral. It has four straight sides of equal length and four equal angles. Squares are special cases of rectangles, which have four equal angles, and of rhombuses, which have four equal sides. As with all rectangles, a square's angles are right angles (90 degrees, or /2 radians), making adjacent sides perpendicular. The area of a square is the side length multiplied by itself, and so in algebra, multiplying a number by itself is called squaring. Equal squares can tile the plane edge-to-edge in the square tiling. Square tilings are ubiquitous in tiled floors and walls, graph paper, image pixels, and game boards. Square shapes are also often seen in building floor plans, origami paper, food servings, in graphic design and heraldry, and in instant photos and fine art. The formula for the area of a square forms the basis of the calculation of area and motivates the search for methods for squaring the circle by compass and straightedge, now ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Altstadt (Zurich)
The Altstadt (German for "old town") in the Swiss city of Zurich 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 Zurich 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 Der Lin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
History Of Zurich
Zurich has been continuously inhabited since Roman times. The vicus of '' Turicum'' was established in AD 90, at the site of an existing Gaulish ( Helvetic) settlement. Gallo-Roman culture appears to have persisted beyond the collapse of the Western empire in the 5th century, and it is not until the Carolingian period. A royal castle was built at the site of the Lindenhof, and monasteries are established at Grossmünster and Fraumünster. Political power lay with these abbeys during medieval times, until the guild revolt in the 14th century which led to the joining of the Swiss Confederacy. Zurich was the focus of the Swiss Reformation led by Huldrych Zwingli, and it came to riches with silk industry in Early Modern times. Early history Numerous lake-side settlements from the Neolithic and Bronze Age have been found, such as those in the Zürich Pressehaus and Zürich Mozartstrasse. The settlements were found in the 1800s, submerged in Lake Zurich. Located on the then swam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Synagoge Zürich
A synagogue, also called a shul or a temple, is a place of worship for Jews and Samaritans. It is a place for prayer (the main sanctuary and sometimes smaller chapels) where Jews attend religious services or special ceremonies such as Jewish wedding, weddings, bar and bat mitzvahs, choir performances, and children's plays. They often also have Beth midrash, rooms for study, social halls, administrative and charitable offices, classrooms for religious and Hebrew school, Hebrew studies, and many places to sit and congregate. They often display commemorative, historic, or modern artwork alongside items of Jewish historical significance or history about the synagogue itself. Synagogues are buildings used for Jewish prayer, study, assembly, and reading of the Torah. The Torah (Pentateuch or Five Books of Moses) is traditionally read in its entirety over a period of a year in weekly portions during services, or in some synagogues on a triennial cycle. However, the edifice of a sy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Israelitische Cultusgemeinde Zürich (ICZ)
Israelitische Cultusgemeinde Zürich (Jewish Community of Zürich), commonly shortened to ''ICZ'', is a united Orthodox Judaism, Orthodox Judaism, Jewish Jewish community, community, located in the city of Zürich, in the canton of Canton of Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland. Consisting of approximately 2,500 members, the ICZ is the largest Jewish community in Switzerland. The community worships at Synagoge Zürich Löwenstrasse in Zürich-City, operates a community center with a kindergarten and Jewish library in Zürich-Enge, and is responsible for two cemeteries (''Unterer'' and ''Oberer Friesenberg''). History A Jewish community in Zürich was first mentioned in 1273, but during the 1349 pogrom the Jewish citizens were banned from Zürich, and the synagogue was abandoned. On 25 February 1352, Jewish citizens were allowed to live within the medieval town walls again. In 1363, the so-called "Judenschuol", a medieval term in Zürich for the synagogue situated at the Neumarkt (Z� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burgrecht
A Burgrecht (''ius burgense, ius civile'') was a medieval agreement, most commonly in southern Germany and northern German-speaking Switzerland. It came to refer to an agreement between a town and surrounding settlements or to include the specific rights held by a city or town. The word ''Burgrecht'' is first used by the St. Gall monk Notker the German in about 1000 AD to refer to the Roman Roman or Romans most often refers to: *Rome, the capital city of Italy *Ancient Rome, Roman civilization from 8th century BC to 5th century AD *Roman people, the people of Roman civilization *Epistle to the Romans, shortened to Romans, a letter w ... civil law. Later, in the southern German region, it came to refer to inheritance laws and the rights that were tied to specific castle or town. In the territory, that would become Switzerland, starting in the 13th century, the term ''Burgrecht'' began to expand. It grew to mean any agreement between a town with other towns, monasteries, indiv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Synagogue
A synagogue, also called a shul or a temple, is a place of worship for Jews and Samaritans. It is a place for prayer (the main sanctuary and sometimes smaller chapels) where Jews attend religious services or special ceremonies such as weddings, bar and bat mitzvahs, choir performances, and children's plays. They often also have rooms for study, social halls, administrative and charitable offices, classrooms for religious and Hebrew studies, and many places to sit and congregate. They often display commemorative, historic, or modern artwork alongside items of Jewish historical significance or history about the synagogue itself. Synagogues are buildings used for Jewish prayer, study, assembly, and reading of the Torah. The Torah (Pentateuch or Five Books of Moses) is traditionally read in its entirety over a period of a year in weekly portions during services, or in some synagogues on a triennial cycle. However, the edifice of a synagogue as such is not essential for hol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katharina Von Zimmern
Katharina von Zimmern (1478 – 17 August 1547), also known as the imperial abbess of Zürich and Katharina von Reischach, was the last abbess of the Fraumünster Abbey in Zürich. Early life Katharina von Zimmern was born in 1478 in Messkirch into the rich southern German noble family of baron Hans Werner von Zimmern and countess Margarethe von Oettingen. Katharina was the fourth girl and had four further brothers and two sisters. Her father loved hunting, played several musical instruments, and was in the service of the Duke Sigmund of Tyrol. In 1488 he fell from the favour of Emperor Frederick III due to intrigues and was forced to flee with his family. Katharina survived an adventurous escape with her mother and some siblings to Weesen on Walensee lakeshore. Probably there she met in 1490 the 6-year-old Ulrich Zwingli, who had been given to his uncle, the parish priest in charge. Kathrina's father tried to accommodate her and her older sister in the Fraumünster A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theater Am Neumarkt
The Theater am Neumarkt () or by its present official name Theater Neumarkt is a Theater (structure), theatre in the Swiss German language, German-speaking Switzerland situated at Neumarkt, Zürich. It is part of the building complex ''Bilgeriturm''–Neumarkt and also houses the ''Hottinger'' guild for two days a year. History The building was constructed by David Morf in 1742 as the guild house of the ''Schumacher'' (shoemakers) guild and was later used as the meeting point of the Communist Party of Switzerland that was there founded in 1923. The government of the city of Zürich bought the building in 1933, since 1966 it houses the present Neumarkt Theater, as well as the ''Neumarkt'' restaurant in the ground floor. The hall in the second floor probably was used sporadically as a venue in the 18th century by the then guild house. Since the 1940s it was in use under the name "Theater am Neumarkt" for guest performances and also served as a permanent venue, among others from 194 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bilgeriturm
Grimmenturm (, referring to Johann Bilgeri the younger, nicknamed 'the grim') is a medieval tower and restaurant situated at Neumarkt, Zürich, Neumarkt in Zurich's Altstadt (Zurich), District 1, Switzerland. Location The ''Grimmenturm'' building is situated at Neumarkt, Zürich, Neumarkt (Spiegelgasse 31, 8001 Zürich) in the ''Altstadt'' of Zürich on the right shore of the Limmat river. It houses the restaurant ''Neumarkt'' in one of the attached buildings towards Neumarkt. History The tower was probably built by the Zürich family ''Bilgeri'' (residential since 1256) between 1250 and 1280 AD as a residential tower. First mentioned in the year 1324 as a tower of the ''Pilgrin'' family, it was one of about 30 residential towers that existed in the European Middle Ages in Zürich. Even before 1300 housing was attached to the north-western side. Although the building was for decades used by the ''Bilgeri'' family as their home, it has not their name, as a building; also used a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
