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624: 304: 487: 174: 528: 228: 36: 670:, the city government took over the monastic buildings for new uses. Among others, the buildings were used between 1637 and 1639 as an orphanage and a prison. In 1771 the orphans were held in the newly built orphanage in the former monastery's garden. The former orphanage today serves as the official 507:
was a bastion of the fortifications, and was built under the supervision of Balthasar Keller in 1532. The stronghold replaced a wooden mounting in the garden of the Oetenbach convent and had to secure the western town wall and the gate at the Limmat River. In 1642 the bulwark was covered, and in 1764
852: 440:, a house is mentioned in 1346. Over the decades, the time accumulating sludge was periodically dug out by day labourers or in forced labour to process. The excavation was used to fertilize the fields of the Oetenbach nunnery. 593:. It may be assumed that the grain master occupied the principal rooms, including the two wood-carved rooms at the northern end of the wing that probably served as the apartment of the prioress. As well as the so-called 1077: 605:, thanks to their uninterrupted use and appreciation of the institutions established there, remained in use until a few years before the demolition of the monastic buildings occurred. In 1894 the wood-carved 512:
building was provided as a storage room and economics building. In 1903 the bastion was broken as the last construction of the city's fortifications. Numerous finds came to light, including the gravestone of
1097: 1062: 856: 1082: 821: 1117: 470:, and its property was passed over to the city government in 1525. It served thereafter as part of the city fortifications, prison and asylum. Except for the later-built 877: 623: 1067: 303: 919: 892:"C I, Nr. 856 Der Rat von Zürich trifft mit dem Kloster Oetenbach eine Übereinkunft betreffend die Stadtmauer am Sihlbühl (Gegenbrief ... (1292.06.23)" 853:"Die Zürcher Predigerkirche – Wichtige Etappen der Baugeschichte. Auf dem Murerplan beschönigt? – Untersuchungen an der Westfassade der Predigerkirche" 1072: 360: 143: 426:, and on 23 June 1292, a law to regulate by decree was sealed by the city of Zürich and the convent, related to the section of the town wall at the 1023: 1112: 1102: 1087: 738: 547:
that was created by architect Vögtlin over an arm of the Limmat river in 1689. Measuring about 17.5 metres in length, it connected the lower
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stream was a bad place for the construction of a permanently inhabited convent, some decades later, it was built on the northern slope
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parish church was in charge of the pastoral care of the Oetenbach nunnery, as well as of the urban communities of the women
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river to the right. There are also shown the watermills, provided by the nunneries in Zürich at the location of the present
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served as a pedestrian bridge, was very popular, but was broken in 1950. As its Swiss-German name explains, it was a
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building, thus not one of the former convent buildings, but now used as the headquarters of the city police
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opposite of the Limmat river, influenced almost throughout German-speaking Switzerland. Therefore, the
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in Switzerland. Oetenbach was named after the small stream of the same name at its first location at
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underground parking facilities were built in the 1960s, and also was forced by the city government (
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Stadtgeschichte und Städtebau in Zürich. Schriften zu Archäologie, Denkmalpflege und Stadtplanung.
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Schrift zur Ausstellung im Haus zum Haus zum Rech, Zürich, 6. Februar bis 30. April 2004
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bridges over the Limmat river, an old privilege dating back to the foundation of the
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Die Stadt Zürich I. Stadt vor der Mauer, mittelalterliche Befestigung und Limmatraum
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Because of his great appointment district in the province of the order Dominican
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nunnery was first mentioned in 1237 AD at its first location at the present
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was named after the small stream of the same name at its first location at
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bulwark. The irrigated grave system of medieval Zürich, consisting of
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The area of the abolished nunnery towards Uraniastrasse, as seen from
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river – at the top, in fact in the east and not in the north – the
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building is its only remaining structure, now the headquarters of
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and the intermediate town wall was first mentioned in 1258 AD as
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of the city of Zürich moved his offices to the east wing of the
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16th-century disestablishments in the Old Swiss Confederacy
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The Oetenbach nunnery was dissolved on the occasion of the
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Stadtmauern. Ein neues Bild der Stadtbefestigungen Zürichs
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The last remaining building of the nunnery is the former
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After the death of the last Oetenbach nun in 1566, the
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Christian monasteries established in the 13th century
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Dominican
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Zürich
Zürichhorn
Sihlbühl
Reformation in Zürich
Waisenhaus
Stadtpolizei Zürich

Limmatquai
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Zürichhorn
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Lindenhof hill

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