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Fraumünster Church (“Women’s church” in German) is a former Benedictine abbey situated in the heart of Zürich, Switzerland that was founded in the mid-9th century CE by Louis the German and his daughters, Hildegard and Bertha. Flourishing in the Middle Ages until the Swiss Reformation, Fraumünster had “imperial immediacy,” which gave the abbey a privileged political and constitutional status under imperial feudal law. The abbesses of Fraumünster were thus able to act and rule with tremendous power, independent of everyone except the Holy Roman Emperor himself. Following the Swiss Reformation led by Ulrich Zwingli, the abbey at Fraumünster was dissolved in 1524 CE and its last abbess, Katharina von Zimmern, placed Fraumünster in the control of the city of Zürich.
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Wiener, J. B. (2018, December 17). Fraumunster's Tower in Zurich. World History Encyclopedia. Retrieved from https://www.worldhistory.org/image/9739/fraumunsters-tower-in-zurich/
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Wiener, James Blake. "Fraumunster's Tower in Zurich." World History Encyclopedia. Last modified December 17, 2018. https://www.worldhistory.org/image/9739/fraumunsters-tower-in-zurich/.
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Wiener, James Blake. "Fraumunster's Tower in Zurich." World History Encyclopedia. World History Encyclopedia, 17 Dec 2018. Web. 22 Feb 2025.
