• part of the Baroque fortifications of Zürich around 1642 AD, and the Bollwerk zur Katz became the eastern gunnery bastion of the city fortification. In...
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    (Bürkliplatz)) on Lake Zürich (National Bank). The street is largely pedestrianised, but is also an important link in the Zürich tram network. North of Paradeplatz...
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    History of Zürich. History of the Jews in Zürich Fortifications of Zürich Reformation in Zürich Staatsarchiv Zürich Timeline of Zürich History of Switzerland...
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    media related to Rathaus (Quarter Zürich). History of Zürich Fortifications of Zürich Heimatkunde der Stadt Zürich. Zürich: Büromaterialverwaltung, 1977....
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    Festzug in Zürich (a procession in Zürich, 1856). In August 1526, guests from St. Gallen were invited by the city councils and all the Guilds of Zürich for a...
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    of Zürich. The garden is, among the neighbored Schanzengraben moat and the Bauschänzli bastion, one of the last remains of the Baroque fortifications...
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    Zürich (/ˈzjʊərɪk/ ZURE-ik, German: [ˈtsyːrɪç] ; see below) is the largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zürich. It is located in...
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    it was as it is in the present days, a small street within the fortifications of Zürich, leading from St. Peterhofstatt at the St. Peter church, passing...
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  • The list of fortifications in Switzerland contains fortifications from the 15th century to the end of the Cold War. In the Middle Ages, towns were fortified...
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    the so-called Bauschänzli bulwark, one of the last remains of the Baroque fortifications of Zürich. The area of the moat is also an inner-city recreation...
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    Grimmenturm (category Fortifications of Zürich)
    Zürich, Switzerland. The Grimmenturm building is situated at Neumarkt (Spiegelgasse 31, 8001 Zürich) in the Altstadt of Zürich on the right shore of the...
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    church of the Augustinian order. In the high European Middle Ages, the abbey was part of the fortifications of Zürich, situated on the lower slope of the...
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    Ages, it was the main street of the upper town of Zürich, leading from the Rennwegtor gate in the fortifications of Zürich and passing below the Lindenhof...
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    high bell tower built, regarded as the highest Gothic edifice in Zürich. The city of Zürich supported at that time the popular mendicant orders by attributing...
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    on occasion of the Reformation in Zürich worship in the church was discontinued. The present Christian Catholic Church community of Zürich planned to rebuild...
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    Bauschänzli (category Fortifications of Zürich)
    in Zürich, Switzerland. Bauschänzli (diminutive of "construction entrenchment") is one of the last remains of the Baroque fortifications of Zürich which...
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    Oetenbach nunnery (category Fortifications of Zürich)
    government (Rat) of Zürich to enforce the northwesterly fortifications of Zürich, namely the so-called Oetenbach bulwark. The irrigated grave system of medieval...
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    Käferberg (category Mountains of the canton of Zürich)
    addition to a total of 15 bastions and Letzinen (palisades) outside of the Fortifications of Zürich, in the 17th century the area was part of the so-called...
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    city fortifications to the west. In 1249 a pogrom against the Jewish people in Switzerland occurred among other cities in Zürich; the homes of the Jewish...
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    Dietikon (redirect from Dietikon (Zürich))
    biggest city of the canton of Zürich in Switzerland, after Zürich, Winterthur, Uster and Dübendorf. It is the capital of the same-named district of Dietikon...
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    Turicum (redirect from Turicum (Zürich))
    settlement at the lower end of Lake Zurich, and precursor of the city of Zürich. It was situated within the Roman province of Germania Superior) and near...
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    The Reformation in Zürich was promoted initially by Huldrych Zwingli, who gained the support of the magistrates of the city of Zürich and the princess abbess...
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    Linth and Jona rivers. Zürich–Enge Alpenquai is located on the Lake Zurich lakeshore in Enge, a locality in the municipality of Zürich. There were neighbouring...
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    towards Bahnhofbrücke and Hautbahnhof Zürich. Built in fact outside of the historical core of the medieval town of Zürich, previously the Celtic-Roman Turicum...
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    transportation in Zürich, as well as an extension of the quaysides in Zürich that were built between 1881 and 1887. It is part of the Altstadt district...
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    area was the location of the former military harbour of the city of Zürich, part of the Stadelhoferbollwerk bastion on the Lake Zürich shore. The former Stadelhofer...
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    municipality in the district of Pfäffikon in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland, since 2016 part of the municipality of Illnau-Effretikon. Kyburg castle...
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    or Lake Zürich Navigation Company (commonly abbreviated to ZSG) is a public Swiss company operating passenger ships and boats on Lake Zürich. The company...
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    Irgenhausen Castrum (category Cultural property of regional significance in the canton of Zürich)
    of Zürich in Switzerland. Bürglen (Swiss German: "small castle") is a 25 metres (82 ft) high drumlin, 400 metres (1,312 ft) from the eastern shore of...
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    had to pawn Regensberg to the city of Zürich. However it wasn't until 1417 that Regensberg was fully owned by Zürich. They established an Obervogtei at...
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