| THE HISTORY OF ZURICH - FROM 402 TO 1000 | SELECTION LIST MENUE ZURICH |
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| 650 |
Burial places near the church of St. Peter and in the area of the 'Storchengasse' indicate that there already was a church here at that time, although the oldest, archeologically identified finds date from the 8th century.
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| 800 |
Construction of the Carolingian palatinate fortified house at the north-east corner of the 'Lindenhof'. Stones from the former Roman fort building were used to construct this building, whose dimensions were 16 by 40 meters.
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| 853 |
Foundation of the convent ‘Fraumünster’ by Ludwig the Ger- man, grandson of Charlemagne. The first abbess was Lud- wig’s daughter Hildegard. The convent ‘Fraumünster’ was endowed with numerous fiefs. One of these fiefs was the valley of Uri, one of the founding cantons of Switzerland in 1291. |
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| 874 |
Consecration of the first church of the convent Fraumünster.
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| 885 |
Foundation of the ‘Grossmünster’ cathedral and the ‘Wasser- kirche’ church by Charles the Fat. It merely appears to be a legend that they were founded by Charlemagne, whose statue decorates the west tower of the Grossmünster. |
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| 929 |
The first documentary evidence mentioning Zurich as a town.
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