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Fraumünster founded as an abbey by King Louis the German and his daughters Princess Hildegard and Princess Bertha.
c. 1145 - c. 1300
Fraumünster's medieval abbesses dominate political and social life in Zürich, Switzerland.
1519
Beginnings of the Protestant Reformation in Zürich, Switzerland led by Ulrich Zwingli.
1524
Abbess Katharina von Zimmern hands Fraumünster over to the city of Zürich.