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(Local Name: Fraumünster Kirche) On the south side of Zurich's Münsterhof square is the Fraumünster (restored 1965), a three-aisled pillared basilica with a Gothic nave (13th-15th C.), an Early Gothic transept and a pointed spire. The Fraumünster was given by the Emperor Ludwig (Louis) the German to his daughter Hildegard in 853 and, from that time until the high Middle Ages, the head of the convent was also governor of the town.
Choir windows by Marc Chagall.
Choir windows by Marc Chagall.
Hobbies & Activities category: Significant work of art; Architecture - Gothic; Christian sites
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Fraumunster (stained glass)
In the imposing Late Romanesque choir of Zurich's Fraumünster are five stained-glass windows by Marc Chagall (1970). The undercroft contains remains of the crypt of the abbey church founded by the
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