page_title: History of Zürich
section_title: Reformation
hierarchical_section_title: History of Zürich / Holy Roman Empire / Reformation
caption_attribution_description: Switzerland, Zürich AR Taler (-gm, 12h). Dated 1727. MONETA REIPUBLICÆ TIGURINÆ, oval city coat-of-arms within ornate frame supported by lions rampant, one holding palm, the other sword DOMINI CONSERVA NOS IN PACE, aerial view of city along the Limmat River with boats; date in ornate cartouche. Cf. Coraggioni Tafel V, 7 (date); Davenport 1784; KM 144.
context_page_description: Zürich has been continuously inhabited since Roman times. The vicus of Turicum was established in AD 90, at the site of an existing Gaulish settlement.
  Gallo-Roman culture appears to have persisted beyond the collapse of the Western empire in the 5th century, and it is not until the Carolingian period. A royal castle was built at the site of the Lindenhof, and monasteries are established at Grossmünster and Fraumünster.
  Political power lay with these abbeys during Medieval times, until the guild revolt in the 14th century which led to the joining of the Swiss Confederacy. Zürich was the focus of the Swiss Reformation led by Huldrych Zwingli, and it came to riches with silk industry in Early Modern times.
context_section_description: Zwingli started the Swiss reformation at the time when he was the main preacher in Zürich at the Grossmünster.  He started his preaching there by preaching systematically through Matthew which was a huge difference from almost every other priest that preached through the liturgical cycle of readings issued by the Church.
  He lived and preached in Zürich from 1484 until his death in 1531 at the defeat of Zürich in the second war of Kappel.
  Zwingli's Zürich Bible first appeared in 1531 and continued to be revised until the present day. Katharina von Zimmern (1478-1547), the last abbess of the Fraumünster Abbey, supported the peaceful introduction of the reformation in Zürich.
caption: 1727 thaler of Zürich, with the city on the reverse.
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