Church Fraumünster

The Fraumünster church is one of the four main churches in Zurich. The temple belongs to the reformed evangelical church. The temple has features of Romanesque and Gothic architecture. Among the historic elements, valuable stained glass, frescoes, a crypt from the museum and a tower have survived.

The Fraumünster church in Zurich was built on the remains of the former abbey for aristocrats, founded in 853 by Ludwig Ludwik for the daughter Hildegard. In the eleventh century, King Henry III granted the monastery the right to control the markets, collect fees for entering the city, and thus effectively exercised power in the city.

Emperor Frederick II made the abbey independent of any authority except the emperor. However, in the fourteenth century, the political power of the monastery slowly disappeared with the founding of guild law by mayor Rudolf Brun. The abbey was dissolved during the reform of Huldrych Zwingli. The monastery's buildings were demolished at the end of the 19th century.