Rote Fabrik

This guide to Rote Fabrik on the shore of Lake Zurich opens with a Bob Marley concert crowd merging into a 1980 street protest that turned into weeks of unrest known as Zuri brannt. It traces the building itself, an 1892 silk-weaving mill the city nearly demolished for a road before voters saved it in a 1977 referendum, and the years it sat funded only as reluctant opera storage. Stand in the old spinning hall and picture the tear gas and water cannon that once filled the street outside.