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33-747: In 1871 the Zürich Catholic community planned to build a church to commemorate the 1270s Augustinian abbey church. As the whole community was excommunicated from the Catholic Church for refusing to accept the First Vatican Council , the Augustinerkirche at the Münzplatz became its present parish church. Ferdinand Stadler (1813–1870), an architect born in Zürich, was charged with the construction of

66-529: A Celtic Oppidum from the 1st century BC ( La Tène culture ), whose remains were found in archaeological campaigns in the years 1989, 1997, 2004 and 2007 on Lindenhof and Rennweg . In 15 BC, Augustus's stepsons Drusus and Tiberius integrated the territory on the left side of Lake Zurich into the Roman provinces Raetia and Germania Superior . Several stone buildings from the Roman period were located on and around

99-467: A new church building. In February 2000, Denise Wyss was ordained within the Christian Catholic Church of Switzerland, as the first female Old Catholic priest of Switzerland . Between 1970 and 1990, the membership of the Christian Catholic Church decreased from 20,268 to only 11,748 members. Data from the last censuses show that the aging of the population is a much greater problem for

132-563: A parish priest and as vicar general of the church. On September 12, 2009, he was consecrated in Zurich by Archbishop Joris Vercammen of Utrecht. In August 2020, same-sex marriages were allowed in Christian Catholic Church of Switzerland. In ecumenism, the Christian Catholic Church of Switzerland is a member at the national level of the Association of Christian Churches in Switzerland, and at

165-521: A place of festivities, including the engagement of the German emperor Henry IV with Bertha von Turin on Christmas in 1055. The Roman castle's remains existed until the early medieval age: a Carolingian , later Ottonian Pfalz (1054) was built on its remains. This Kaiserpfalz was a long building with a chapel on the eastern side of the fortified hill; it is last mentioned in 1172, and it was derelict by 1218, when its remains were scavenged for construction of

198-578: The Augustinerturm gate was erected. On both sides of the lower edge of the roof of the tower, there were the two wings of the so-called Almosen office of 1524. The transverse wing was used as the refectory , the monks' dining hall. The monastery area was separated by a wall from the urban environment. On the northwestern narrow side of the monastery, there is the present Augustinerkirche, the nave and chancel under one roof. The present roof skylights disappeared in 1692, and were rebuilt in 1936/37. In 1519

231-553: The Bürkliplatz square and Lindenhof). Lindenhof was largely surrounded by water: until the early medieval area, neighboring Münsterhof ( Fraumünster abbey square) was a swampy hollow flooded by the Sihl . Therefore, Lindenhof was an optimal location for early fortified settlements. Middle Bronze Age (1500 BC) artefacts were found near the Limmat ( Schipfe ). Archaeologists found remains of

264-623: The E. Orthodox -Old Catholic Dialogue at all meetings from 1975 to 1987; in the International Roman Catholic-Old Catholic Dialogue Commission (IRAD), the Christian Catholic bishop exercised the function of co-president from 2004 to 2009. Christian Catholic theologians are also significantly involved in the current (international) dialogue commissions of the Union of Utrecht for Dialogue with Rome, with

297-688: The Ecumenical Patriarchate , the Church of Sweden , and the Mar Thoma Church of India . The episcopal see of the denomination has been the Church of St. Peter and Paul in Bern since 1875. Another significant church is the Augustinerkirche Zürich . Augustinerkloster Z%C3%BCrich Augustinerkloster was one of the eight monasteries within the medieval city of Zürich in Switzerland. It

330-720: The Gröditzberg in Silesia. From there, six of the former stained glass windows were bought by the Gottfried Keller Foundation in 1894, exhibited in the cloister of the Fraumünster cathedral, and then entrusted to the Swiss National Museum on deposit. 47°22′18″N 8°32′21″E  /  47.37167°N 8.53917°E  / 47.37167; 8.53917 Lindenhof hill The Lindenhof (lit.: courtyard of

363-779: The Lindenhof quarter in district 1 (Altstadt) , the historical center of Zürich's Altstadt . To the North, it ends at Uraniastrasse (City police station) and to the South, it ends near St. Peter church . In the West, the hill is limited by the Bahnhofstrasse , and in the east, it ends at the Limmat and the Schipfe quarter. Lindenhof sits atop the remains of a glacier . The hill and its public square are part of

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396-532: The Linth Glacier's moraines in the area of Zürich. The now largely flattened Lindenhof (428 m ü. M) rises about 25 meters above the Limmat. At the flat shore of Lake Zurich were Neolithic and Bronze Age (4500 to 850 BC) lakeside settlements , such as Kleiner Hafner and Grosser Hafner (both small former islands west of Sechseläutenplatz , near Bauschänzli at the Stadthausquai , Alpenquai at

429-536: The Middle Ages , the hilltop leveled fort became the retaining wall and gave the Lindenhof terrace a form similar to its current form. The remains of the Roman camp were used as the center of the later fortification of the historical center of Zürich. Significant parts of the lime mortar and ancient castle wall were integrated into the town houses around the Lindenhof and in a Kaiserpfalz (broken in 1218), which served as

462-457: The Paradies building and converted it into a lodge building with distinctive gables. At this time, coins, stove tiles and other artefacts from the Roman and medieval times were found. 1865, severe storm damage resulted in a redesign: Instead of Lime trees, the park was dominated for some years by chestnut and acacia trees. The redesign was not accepted by the population, and in 1900, Lindenhof Square

495-471: The Reformation in Zürich , the convent was abolished in 1524, worship in the church was discontinued, and the buildings and income of the monastery were assigned to an Amt , conducting administration for the city government ( Rat ). In 1525 a wine press was installed, an alms institution established, and thereafter the administration was integrated in the so-called Rütiamt , the former Rüti Abbey . In 1841

528-528: The Swiss National Museum ; a copy is integrated in the Lindenhof wall at Pfalzgasse , leading to St. Peter church. Using the topography, the Roman military built a citadel on top of the hill in the years of the Roman emperor Valentinian I (364–375), to defend migrations from the North by the Alamanni . It was 4500 square meters large, and it was fitted with 10 towers and two meter wide walls. During

561-568: The city walls and stone masonry on private houses. In 1937, archaeologists found graves of late medieval children and adults that were oriented from the east to the west. In the year 1384, a chapel on the Lindenhof was mentioned, but no remains have been found. It is believed that the chapel was part of the processional axis Wasserkirche , Grossmünster and Fraumünster church processions that ended in 1524 or 1525 ( Reformation in Zürich ). These religious celebrations at Pentecost honored Zürich's Saints Felix and Regula and Exuperantius. Following

594-595: The Augustinian community petitioned the governments of the thirteen members of the Old Swiss Confederacy for chapter house windows. The canton of Fribourg approved and one of the windows showed the attached coat of arms, marking a community foundation of Basel, Fribourg, Solothurn, Schaffhausen and Appenzell. The art dealer Martin Usteri acquired 32 glass panes in 1796, which were sold from his legacy in 1829, and came into

627-436: The Christian Catholic Church than for the other national churches. However, contrary to the trend of church departures from the two large national churches, the Christian Catholic Church has again recorded a constant increase in membership since 1990. Between 1990 and 2000, the number of members grew by over 13% from 11,748 to 13,312. In 2009, Bishop Harald Rein was elected as the head of the church. Prior to this, he served as

660-673: The Grossmünster abbey. Hence, like the other mendicant orders , the Augustinians were reduced to the status of area pastors within the medieval city. As a result, the order supported the Brun regime of the Guilds of Zürich and may therefore not have lost as much influence as its brother convents within the city walls, namely the Predigerkloster which even had to leave the city for one decade. During

693-585: The Roman Catholic community of Zürich planned to build a church to commemorate the old Augustinian church. But, as the majority of the Catholic community rejected the decisions of the First Vatican Council of 1870, the whole community was expelled from the Catholic church, forming the present Christkatholische Kirche der Schweiz . This explains why Augustinerkirche is still its Parish church . There

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726-403: The demolition of the former royal residence, the hill—the only public park within the city walls—became an area for public life and relaxation, with dense tree vegetation, stone tables, crossbow stands, and bowling and chess; the latter are still very popular in modern times. According to a chronicle, fifty-two tilias (lime trees) were planted in 1774. Bow and crossbow-shooting was probably one of

759-473: The hill. It was part of the small vicus Turicum , located on both sides of the Limmat and connected by a Roman bridge located near the present Rathausbrücke . Turicum , Zürich's Roman name and possibly also its Celtic name, is engraved on a 2nd-century tombstone of a little boy. It was found on May 15, 1747, and it refers to the Roman STA(tio) TUR(i)CEN(sis) . The tombstone is located in

792-571: The international level of the Conference of European Churches and the World Council of Churches . At the national level, the Dialogue Commission of the Christian Catholic and Roman Catholic Churches in Switzerland (CRGK) has existed since 1966. At the international level, within the framework of the ecumenical dialogues of the Union of Utrecht, the Christian Catholic Church was represented in

825-413: The lime ) is a moraine hill and a public square in the historic center of Zürich , Switzerland. It is the site of the Roman and Carolingian era Kaiserpfalz around which the city has historically grown. The hilltop area—including its prehistoric, Roman, and medieval remains—is listed as a Swiss heritage site of national significance . Lindenhof (its northern part is called Sihlbühl ) dominates

858-492: The most important leisure activities on the Lindenhof. Each Zürich guild had its own stone table, and the costumed guild members met on Sechseläuten for dinner, described by Gottfried Keller in his poem Ein 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 dinner. The attendees of this dinner included Ulrich Zwingli ,

891-491: The present Romanesque church, and a building complex attached to the north of the church. The important late medieval city fortifications, namely the Augustinertor and the Augustinerturm tower gates, are mentioned as its western section. Until the 14th century memorial measurements in Zürich, as a basis for the increasing income, had to be held at Grossmünster. By 1524 all income obtained from funerals had also to be given to

924-546: The prominent Zürich cleric; Leo Jud ; Konrad Pelikan ; Friedrich Myconius ; and the Kappel abbey 's abbot. The Hedwig Fountain (1688) was sculpted by Gustav Siber . It depicts the legend of the siege of Zürich in 1292 with a helmeted sculpture of the leader of the Zürich women. Under baroque influence, Lindenhof was converted in 1780 to a strictly geometrical park. 1851, the Masonic lodge Modestia cum Libertate (M.c.L.) bought

957-463: The street with the same name, is named after the former Augustinian monastery, meaning the 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 Lindenhof hill , at the location of the so-called small Kecinstürlin gate at the southern Fröschengraben moat, the Augustinertor gate. The inner moat

990-478: Was considerable construction activity, when the mendicant order, near the present "Strohof" (Augustinergasse 3) from Werner Strouhmeier acquired the estates of that name in 1270. The order had to build the section of the town wall, south of the Lindenhof hill and St. Peterhofstatt towards the Fröschengraben moat. The monastery complex consisted of a rectangular four bay wing, housing the later Rütiamt , where

1023-430: Was enforced by the 16th-century Schanzengraben . The city of Zürich supported the popular mendicant orders of the times by attributing free plots in the suburbs, requiring them to assist with the construction of the city wall in return. In the west of the area, the city's fortification was not yet built in the late 11th or 12th century, and the Augustinian monks were allowed to settle there. The monastery consisted of

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1056-470: Was founded around 1270 as an Augustinian Order priory on the site of the present Augustinerkirche Zürich on Münzplatz , and was abolished in 1524. Situated on today's Münzplatz that is named after the later mint , the street Augustinergasse is named after the abbey. The area of the convent was west of the St. Peterhofstatt square towards the then Fröschengraben moat. The Augustinerkirche Zürich , like

1089-612: Was given its present appearance. Today, there are numerous public events and festivals in addition to the historical guild dinner. The Square is also a tourist attraction. Cars are not allowed in the narrow streets to the Lindenhof. Among the prominent historical visitors are Giacomo Casanova ; Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ; Johannes von Müller ; Herzog Charles Augustus, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach ; Johann Gottlieb Fichte ; Anne Louise Germaine de Staël ; Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel ; Johann Ludwig Uhland ; Franz Liszt ; Richard Wagner and Johannes Brahms . The hillside area

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