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Zürich Zoo
Progressive Swiss zoo known for its Masoala Rainforest hall, a massive indoor tropical ecosystem.
15 km · about 30 min drive
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Töss (Kreis 4) / Schlosstal is a town located in Zurich, Switzerland. With a population of 8,672, it is an important destination in Europe.
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Töss Monastery was a community of Dominican nuns located in the former Swiss city of Töss, now a part of Winterthur. Nothing of the original buildings exists today.
Construction of the monastery began in 1233, near the bridge at the Töss River by command of Count Hartmann IV of Kyburg. In December of the same year,Read more
the monastery was confirmed by Bishop Heinrich von Tanne of Constance. In 1235 Pope Gregory IX placed it under the authority of the Predigerkloster in Zürich. Initially the nuns followed the Rule of St. Augustine but in 1245 it became a Dominican monastery. Over the following centuries, the monastery grew until it owned properties or incomes in about 130 communities around the Canton of Zürich. It was originally part of the Kyburg Herrschaft until 1264. It then passed to the Habsburgs until 1424, when the city of Zürich took over. Zürich held the monastery for less than two decades before it passed back to the Habsburgs in 1442. Finally, in 1452, the monastery returned to Zürich.
The monastery residence hall was begun in 1238 and finished in 1271. The monastery church was dedicated in 1240 by the Bishop of Constance. A new main altar and two side altars were dedicated in 1325, probably after the church was enlarged. The cloister was expanded and decorated with murals between 1468 and 1491. The 15th-century paintings were redone in 1613 and were copied in 1851 before it was demolished.
In the 14th century there were around 100 nuns at Töss. The Swiss mystic Elsbeth Stagel and the Blessed Elizabeth of Hungary, the last member of the House of Árpád, were both nuns of the monastery. Stagel was the prioress of Töss and may have written parts of the Lives of the Nuns of Töss, a sister-book containing biographies of 39 nuns and providing a comprehensive picture of mysticism at Töss.
This monastic community had a significant influence on Zurich during the Middle Ages but the influence diminished after the start of the Protestant Reformation in Switzerland about 1520. The monastery was closed soon thereafter, and the complex deteriorated as the centuries passed. The monastery's estates were nationalized and used to support the needy in the Canton and after 1606 a local school.
After the French Revolution, there were not sufficient resources to conserve the complex and the site was sold to Johan Jacob Rieter, who started Rieter Textile there. The former monastery church was demolished at the beginning of the 20th century.
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Töss (Kreis 4) / Schlosstal is located in Zurich, Switzerland, Europe. The coordinates are 47.4928 latitude, 8.7022 longitude.
Töss (Kreis 4) / Schlosstal has a population of approximately 8,672 people, making it a town in Switzerland.
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Progressive Swiss zoo known for its Masoala Rainforest hall, a massive indoor tropical ecosystem.
15 km · about 30 min drive
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Switzerland's largest city blending a medieval old town with trendy districts, all set along the Limmat River and the shores of Lake Zürich.
18 km · about 20 min drive
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Europe's largest plain waterfall, spanning 150 meters wide and 23 meters high near the town of Schaffhausen.
22 km · about 25 min drive
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A Mediterranean flower island on Lake Constance bursts with palms, butterfly house and a baroque palace garden.
44 km · about 50 min drive
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Germany's oldest inhabited castle overlooks Lake Constance from a vineyard terrace in a charming medieval old town.
48 km · about 55 min drive
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Racing driver Fredy Lienhard's supercar and motorsport collection in a former Romanshorn industrial plant on Lake Constance: Ferraris, Le Mans prototypes and Indy cars.
50 km · about 60 min drive
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The 'Queen of the Mountains' above Lake Lucerne, site of Europe's first mountain railway and offering sunrise panoramas over the Alps.
51 km · about 60 min drive
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The first overseas outpost of London's legendary biker hangout, complete with diner, shop and event halls in Rothenburg near Lucerne: a magnet for petrolhead meets.
55 km · about 65 min drive
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