À propos de ce lieu
The Fraumünster began in the year 853 as a royal abbey for aristocratic women, founded by King Louis the German for his daughter Hildegard, and for centuries its abbesses effectively ruled the city, holding the rights to mint Zurich's coins, collect tolls and appoint officials. The convent was dissolved during Huldrych Zwingli's Reformation in 1524, when its last abbess, Katharina von Zimmern, handed the church and its lands over to the city. Today the pale sandstone church is famous above all for its art. In the choir stand five soaring stained-glass windows, each ten metres tall, designed by Marc Chagall when he was already in his eighties, their reds, blues and greens scattering colour across the stone whenever the sun strikes the eastern wall.
À retenir
- 853 year — Founded as a royal abbey for noblewomen by King Louis the German
- 5 windows — Ten-metre-tall Marc Chagall stained-glass windows fill the choir
- 6959 pipes — The organ is the largest in the entire canton of Zurich
📍 Münsterhof 2, 8001, Zürich