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Old Town is a city district of the City of Zurich in Switzerland.

The Old Town covers the area of the existing until 1893, the original city of Zurich and today forms the circle 1 Historically, divides the old town to the Small or lesser left of the Limmat city, and called the Great or several city, today Doerfli inaccurate or low- village.

Administratively, the old town is divided by the statistical office since 1971 in the four administrative units ( districts ) Town Hall and colleges (right of the Limmat ) and Lindenhof and City (left of the Limmat ); this classification has only a statistical significance.

Attractions

See also: List of cultural goods in Zurich / District 1 (East ) List of cultural goods in Zurich / District 1 (West)

Law of the Limmat

• One of the special attractions of Zurich's old town is on the right bank, the low- village with its many shops and restaurants.
• The Zurich Town Hall, originally built on an island in the Limmat, is owned by the Canton of Zurich. Here meets on Mondays and Wednesdays the Cantonal the municipal council (legislative ).
• In the main guard the keys of the city gates were kept overnight. Since the gates were closed at nightfall, had the key through the dark alleys here are brought. For this reason, the first street lamp of the city was erected in front of the City Hall station.
• At the mirror lane 14 is the house where Lenin lived during his stay in Zurich.
• Before the guild houses, the road led to the 19th century under the Tilinen (arc) by; the houses were directly on the Limmat river. Today's Limmat Quay was filled later.

Town hall

City Hall Bridge: The old main station at the Town Hall.

Neumarkt with aristocratic residential tower " Grimm Tower » 13th Century

Guildhall males.

Links of the Limmat

• Before Dame Cathedral is a statue of former mayor Hans Waldmann at the site of the former grain house. His tomb is located a few steps away from the Bahnhofstrasse left of the entrance.
• The Schipfe is one of the oldest quarters of Zurich. The name originates from the nautical, their Weidlinge to the bank and back into the water " schupften " here ( = advanced ).
• Before the town house are still the arc seen in the former seawall by which the barges could pass directly into the basement of the house above it grain.
• The Guildhall zur Meisen housed first observatory in 1759 in Zurich.

View of the tower of St. Peter from the Pfalzgasse

Look at the Schipfe of the Rudolf Brun Bridge

Townhouse

Guildhall zur Meisen

Churches

Churches in the old town:

• Grossmünsterplatz, a former Augustinian Canons over the graves of the city's martyrs Felix and Regula built and location of the first secondary school, which was founded, according to legend of Charlemagne. His statue stands on the southern tower, the so-called Carl storm. The Grossmünsterplatz was the starting point of the Zurich Reformation Zwingli and Bullinger.
• Dame Cathedral, a former nunnery, whose founding history is shown on frescoes in the cloister. His political influence in the Middle Ages was so great that its abbess was also referred to as the unofficial princess of the city.
• St. Peter was the town church. The tower belongs to the city and was inhabited until 1911 by a night watchman. The dial is the largest in Europe.
• The preacher church belonged to the Dominican monastery, which included the whole preacher quarters. The actual monastery became a hospital and poorhouse and burned the end of the 19th century from. In its place now stands the Central Library Zurich.
• The water was built on an island in the Limmat at the execution of the city's martyrs Felix and Regula.

Other churches and synagogues in Prague 1 ( Old Town)

In addition to the churches described above, there are other churches in the city circuit 1:

• The Station Church is a prayer room in Zurich main station, which was inaugurated on Pentecost Sunday 2001 as first still existing station church in Switzerland. At 60 square meters, are the chapel, a reception room and two interview rooms. The church is visited by around 300 to 500 people (as of 2012) a day. In this church, people of all religions and denominations are welcome, after which point the character of the five world religions in the church.
• The Grossmünsterplatz chapel was built in the years 1858-1859 by the architect Johann Jakob Breitinger ( 1814-1880 ). In the Middle Ages the wooden house Müsegg, but this was demolished in 1661 at this point. The Grossmünsterplatz chapel is a polygonal corner building in Tudor Gothic style, which was built along with the fountain next to it. The stained glass windows dating from the years 1858-1860 are from Johann Jakob Roettinger.
• The Peace Church is one created by the architect Johannes Baur in 1890 church, which stands on the Hirschgraben. The neo-Gothic building reveals itself as a church, which is rather rare for houses of worship of free ecclesial communities, with its high roof skylights. The Peace Church belonged first of the Protestant community, which was founded in 1800 by preacher Jacob Albrecht as a German -speaking church community in the U.S.. In 1988 the movement Plus Zurich Church of Peace, which is a listed building since 1993.
• The church of Saint Andrew's is a church of the Anglican Communion Zurich and is on the promenade alley. It was built in the years 1847-1848 according to the plans of ( Caspar ) Ferdinand Stadler as a cemetery chapel for the cemetery Hohe Promenade. 1895, the sacristy and the choir of the church were grown. 1972-1974 saw the construction of the rectory to the Church.
• The Tabor chapel stands on the promenade street and is a neo-Gothic prayer hall with organ loft, which is part of the United Methodist Church. The church was built in 1873 to designs by John Baur and remembers its name from Mount Tabor, where according to Christian tradition the Transfiguration of Jesus took place.
• The Eglise réformée française zurichoise stands on the corner Schanzengasse / Promenadegasse and was built between 1900-1902 by the architect Benjamin Recordon. This church is in the possession of the Reformed Church and is used by the French- speaking community.
• The Augustinian church was built in 1270 by the Augustinians. During the Reformation, the Augustinian monastery in 1524 was dissolved. Between 1596 and 1841 a mint was operated in the Augustinian Church. 1840, the church of the Catholic community was left Zurich and handed over after the schism between the Roman Catholic Church and Christian Catholic Church of the latter. In 1900 the church received five bells and is a historical monument since 1958.
• The St. Anne's Chapel was built in the years 1909-1911 according to plans by Robert Bischoff and Hermann Weideli traditional styles. The previous building was during the years 1807-1844 parish church of the Catholic Church in Zurich until the church had become too small and the congregation moved to the church of the former Augustinian monastery. The St. Anne's Chapel is operated by the St. Anne's Church, which is a branch factory of the foundation of Protestant societies of the Canton of Zurich. Since 1937, the St. Anne's Chapel is no longer a parish church.

In addition, there are in Prague 1 two Jewish synagogues:

• The synagogue Nüschelerstrasse was built in the years 1883-1884 according to the plans of architect Alfred Chiodera and Theophil Tschudy in orientalizing, Moorish style. It is operated by the Israeli Cultusgemeinde Zurich.
• The synagogue Freigutstrasse is operated by the Jewish Religious Community of Zurich and was built in the years 1923-1924 according to the plans of architect Walter Henauer and Ernst Witschi.