Fraumünster Church

This guide to the Fraumünster Church in Zurich centers on Katharina von Zimmern, the last abbess of a house so powerful its heads once minted their own coins and ruled the city outright. By 1524 Huldrych Zwingli's sermons next door had convinced Zurich's council the abbey should end, and Katharina, who had known him since childhood, faced a choice between resistance and surrender. The guide follows what that decision cost her, and how a hinge moment in the Reformation left its mark on a church later lit by Marc Chagall's windows.