Oetenbach Monastery
The Oetenbach or Ötenbach monastery was a Dominican monastery in the city of Zurich and belonged to the diocese of Constance . It was first mentioned in 1237, moved from the outskirts of Zurich to the city center around 1285 and was abolished in 1525. After the Reformation, the buildings served various purposes, especially as a breeding and orphanage. They were canceled in 1902/1903.
Dominicans in Zurich
Founding years
According to the Oetenbach Foundation Book from the first half of the 14th century, the monastery goes back to the merger of two sister houses in 1234; This makes Oetenbach one of the oldest foundations of the Dominican women in German territory.
One community was founded by Gertraut Hilzingen, who was ze Zurich in der stat, after pei the preacher closter settled down (she was in Zurich in the city, near the preacher's monastery). She had teamed up with the patrician daughter Mechthild von Woloshoven and lived with her in an abandoned house on Neumarkt; their existence was based on handouts. Another group had settled in the Oberdorf (Auf Dorf) and earned their living by handicrafts. A convent building was erected on the banks of the Sihl , an often flooded area outside the city, but it was destroyed by floods. As a replacement , a piece of land could be purchased south of the city near the Zürichhorn , in the area of today's Tiefenbrunnen bathing beach.
In 1237 the convent received a papal protection privilege on existing and future property, in 1239 the monastery was granted the right to burial, property and free choice of the prioress . In 1245 the convent was incorporated into the Dominican Order.
Monastery operation
An important concern of the sisters in Oetenbach was the pastoral care that was taken care of by the monks in the preacher's monastery. Like the rest of the Dominican order, the nuns lived according to the rule of Augustine . The first Oetenbacher monastery chaplain was the folk priest Walther, who had also taken part in the trip to Rome, where the papal protection privilege was sought.
At the beginning of the 14th century, Oetenbach had a scriptorium . In addition to two works by Heinrich Seuse , the evidence of his own literary activity is particularly important. A vita ("Life and Revelations") by Elsbeth von Oye , edited in several versions, has come down to us, which deals with the subject of the Compassio with depictions of bloody self-mortification , the participation in the suffering of Christ with personal devotion and empathy. A (highly generalized) description by Walter Muschg gives an insight into the life of the nuns in the monasteries of Oetenbach and Töss :
«Through the seven canonical times of the day, the Horen , the days were given an invariably uniform course. They consisted of common prayers with singing and readings in the church choir. The interim times were filled by domestic work in the Werkhaus, especially spinning, and just another type of worship. The more highly educated they spent copying books and sheet music for choral singing. During the meals, which, like the hours in the Werkhaus, went on in silence and were so meager that novices were sometimes disgusted with the food, the reading master read aloud. Heavy fasting commandments from time to time almost completely nullified this refreshment. Lay sisters and children sat at table next to young and very old nuns. Among the women in the Tösser sister book are those who entered the monastery at the age of three, four or six. There you can also find out the zeal with which the cruel regulations were exceeded in the 13th century. During the day, it is said, there was dead silence, no one drove special works, everyone sat in the Werkhaus as devoutly as in the mass. A peculiarity of the preacher's monasteries was still the Matutin , the nocturnal choir before dawn, whose punctual pause was a matter of the heart for the enthusiasts. Some of them can be seen watching through the hours until the prim , the next hour , in the dark choir of the monastery church. This is the time of their most secret experiences, the ecstatic exercises, temptations and visions. "
In this atmosphere of great privation, an intense religious striving in the sense of “mystical” spirituality unfolded ; Through long-lasting immersion in the world of faith and through asceticism and physical mortification, a union with Christ in the sense of the Unio mystica was sought. In the 14th century, the Töss monastery was one of the strongholds of women's mysticism , and the nuns of Oetenbach and Töss are considered masters of these exercises, with which the soul should become open and ready for the encounter with the divine. About the theological education and spiritual objectives of the nuns as well as panel discussions with Meister Eckhart gives Oetenbacher Schwesternbuch information.
In addition, emphasis was placed on maintaining liturgical music. In addition to general choral singing, particularly demanding works were sung in a "championship", a small choir of eight female singers.
Members
Since the second half of the 13th century, perhaps since Sophies von Werdenberg joined in 1278, the sisters have come from the noble families of Eastern Switzerland and the families of the Constaffel family , which was reflected in foundations and donations. The considerable attraction of the monastery leads to a growing number of sisters, and Oetenbach, like the Töss monastery near Winterthur, became an exclusive women's monastery, which led to efforts to limit the number of members. According to a decree of the head of the Dominican order Egeno von Staufen, the number of members was to be reduced to 60 by 1310, but this goal was not achieved in 1330, although reading and knowledge of Latin were now among the admission criteria.
decline
Up to the end of the 13th century women without class or property were also accepted, later the Oetenbach monastery became a place of supply for aristocratic or wealthy daughters. The number of members was reduced by high entrance fees by 1360, but this meant that applicants who stood out for their piety were rarely accepted.
In addition, at Oetenbach, as at other monasteries, there was a general moral decline; the rules of the retreat were only observed to a limited extent and piety was lost. At the end of the Middle Ages, Oetenbach was only of minor importance for the religious development of the city.
The monastery at Oetenbach on the Zürichhorn
The monastery on the Zürichhorn am Oetenbach, today's Hornbach - the name attested as Otinbach from 1237 onwards is explained by name research as "Bach des Oto" - was opened on August 13, 1237 on the occasion of an indulgence by Pope Gregory IX . first mentioned and received the already mentioned protection privilege. The new community thus avoided the danger of being persecuted by the church as a heretical enterprise. The Pope called on the faithful to support the nuns of Oetenbach. Recognition required that two sisters set out on foot on the arduous journey to Rome. The papal bull of 1239 formed the ecclesiastical basis for the later development of the monastery. In 1261 the knight Burkhard Brühunt, a follower of the Rapperswil family , confirmed that he had sold the building site on the Oetenbach to the women. The establishment of the 64 sisters is described in the foundation book as the hülzen closter .
The positive development of the small monastery allowed 1247, the Grossmünster Provost ( canons ) in the neighborhood abzukaufen country and obviously considerably expand the existing building towards the lake, was so feared in the city, the Wave t of Oetenbach de se verswellen (the lake stow). However, the scope and type of expansion work on the now brick-built monastery are not known. Due to a lack of experience, however, the sisters built too close to the water on swampy ground, so that the nuns saw that the closter was almost standing by the water, so they were saddened as heartfelt, that they wept bitterly .
In 1251 the monastery received considerable support from various quarters: the anti-king Wilhelm of Holland promised him preferential treatment for transfers of goods, a papal privilege protects it from tithing demands from the great minster and the Bishop of Constance promised him contributions to structural renovations. Count Rudolf IV of Rapperswil and his wife Mechthild von Neifen were among the patrons. The house of Rapperswil remained connected to Oetenbach for a long time: The Countess of Homberg-Rapperswil also promoted the monastery; her daughter Cäcilie vom Homberg became an important prioress at the beginning of the 14th century.
Growing land ownership through grants and acquisitions enabled the community to have modest incomes and a secure existence. In 1261 a cemetery, gardens, meadows, officinas and a curia are mentioned. The buildings on the Zürichhorn are neither documented nor archaeologically proven. A reference to the former monastery can still be found as a field name on maps.
The Sihlbühl monastery in the city
Reasons for moving
It is not known what reasons led to the abandonment of the monastery on the Zürichhorn and the move to the city. Conceivable is the increased number of nuns, structural defects, the limitation of pastoral care for women within the city by the preachers' monks, the desire for greater security within the city walls and increased demands. In any case, according to the foundation book, the move seems to have divided the women.
location
The new monastery was to be built on the Sihlbühl hill, the northern branch of the Lindenhof hill . According to tradition, the city saints Felix and Regula are said to have suffered part of their martyrdom there. The triangular area was bounded in the east by the Limmat , in the west by an arm of the Sihl and in the south by the Lindenhof. Compared to today: The Urania multi-storey car park now stands at the site of the monastery church, Uraniastrasse runs a little lower across the area where the monastery building was located, and the northern part of the monastery was located at the location of the small car park north of it. The Sisters of the Fraumünster Abbey and the merchants Rüdiger Manesse and Götz Mülner bought the land . " And when the closter was pounded that you would like to stay in it, you prepared yourself and sent ire pücher and other things that you would have to the new court ." The bones of the sisters who had died so far were also dug up and carried along.
construction
The 120 women moved to the new monastery between 1280 and 1285. Even before the move, a Liebfrauenkapelle and a klein hulzen closter (a small, wooden monastery building) were built on the new area . This first facility was gradually expanded and expanded with the help of erberer people (honorable people); the course of the work is not recorded in a document. The lack of sales contracts between 1283 and 1285 and a proven debt of the monastery in 1284 indicate correspondingly high costs.
On March 28, 1285, Bishop John of Lithuania consecrated three altars in the new church and pronounced various indulgences. In November of the same year, a certificate was issued for the first time in the new monastery apud Oetenbach infra muros Thuregi (analogously: at Oetenbach within the walls of Zurich). The Oetenbachgasse was first mentioned in 1314: the alleys, as one goes from the Renneweg to Ötenbach . With the consecration of the high altar in the choir and the middle altar in the lay church in 1317, the construction of the new church was completed, the prioress was Cäcilia von Homberg.
During construction, the site was integrated into the city fortifications . In 1292 the sisters were ordered by the city to build the walls two fathoms above the stove and daruffe battlements (above the ground, around 4 m, and a walkable battlement on top of it ) at their own expense, as well as a passage between the town and To leave the monastery wall open. In the same year the monastery was given courtyards and gardens behind the Lindenhof from the royal estate of King Adolf von Nassau . In 1318 a mill was added on the Sihl. The main portal in the southwest is mentioned in 1394, another portal was next to what would later become the Wollenhof, today's Swiss Heimatwerk .
The monastery in the 14th and 15th centuries
In the first half of the 14th century, the Oetenbach monastery had a well-functioning scriptorium (writing workshop), where women carried out writing and illuminating work for a fee. The few manuscripts that can be verified there have fueled the assumption that one of the most important German-language manuscripts of the Middle Ages, the “Manessische or Grosse Heidelberger Liederhandschrift” ( Codex Manesse ), was also produced in Oetenbach.
As an institute for daughters from the city nobility, the Oetenbach monastery became increasingly important for the interests of the city, but was exempt from tax liability. The city was able to exert an economic influence through the caretakers who have been documented since 1348 (the most prominent carer was Mayor Hans Waldmann ). At the end of the 15th century she also intervened in internal affairs and prevented the monastery from joining the Dominican movement of observants .
Around 1400 the dormitory was abolished in favor of individual cells. These were equipped according to the financial possibilities of the nuns. Thanks to the financial strength of the noble families, considerable sums of money could be spent on building work and equipping the monastery and church. According to city tax registers, the convent consisted of around forty sisters from 1454 to 1470. This made Oetenbach the numerically largest women's monastery in the city.
Reformation and end of monastery operations
Apparently the reformers tried very hard to get Oetenbach. In 1522, a sermon by Ulrich Zwingli on behalf of the authorities, On clarity and certainty of the word of God ("You must be theodidacti ") caused a violent conflict in which the council and the Bishop of Constance mediated. After a sermon by Leo Jud , the people's priest of St. Peter , in January 1523 there was renewed tumult, and in May the first sisters resigned from the convent. According to a council resolution of June 17, 1523, a nun received an amount of 150 pounds , a lay sister 100 pounds. The last prioress, Sister Küngolt von Landenberg , left the monastery in autumn 1524. With a resolution of the council of February 1, 1525, the monastery in Oetenbach came to an end. One of the last nuns living in the monastery was Anna Adlischwyler , the daughter of Hans Waldmann's personal cook. She entered the monastery at the age of 19 and married the reformer Heinrich Bullinger in 1529 . Eva Straessler, the last member of the convent still living in Oetenbach, died in the spring of 1566; Margarethe Schneeberger, the last nun living in Zurich, died on March 13, 1567.
After the Reformation
Conversion of the buildings
With a resolution of March 23, 1541, the council authorized the town builder to use the church as he saw fit. The room was used as a brick store, probably in 1546 grain floors were drawn into the choir. From 1554 the lay church also served as a grain store, the windows of which were barred in 1556. The grain master moved into the former living quarters of the prioress as an official residence; different parts of the building served as magazines.
From 1577 saltpeter was stored in the northern chapel, and after 1600 also in the southern Liebfrauenkapelle. In 1769 the north chapel was converted into a drying plant for grain; for this purpose the vaults were removed and the building was raised by one floor. Both chapels and the eastern part of the choir had to give way to the construction of the new surrounding wall of the prison between 1868 and 1874. Initially, the convent room in the north wing served as a sermon room for the inmates of the prison. From 1653 the eastern part of the nave was converted into a church and in 1655 the first Sunday sermon was given. The services were open to everyone. The most prominent clergyman in the orphanage church was probably Johann Caspar Lavater , who worked here from 1769–1778.
After a renovation in 1735, the south facade was rebuilt in simple baroque forms in 1776 . An additional ceiling was put in and a second floor was set up. From 1799–1802 the church and other buildings served as a military hospital, from 1803 it was used again for worship. In 1868 the services were stopped and in 1878 the church was converted into a work room for the prisoners and used as a warehouse. The western part of the former lay church became the director's apartment.
Function as an economic building
After the Reformation, the monastery was taken over by the city, which used the monastery buildings for their offices. In order to manage the income of the former monastery, the "Oetenbacheramt" was created in the building of the former monastery office, which was later called "Vorderamt". It contained the former trot and was also responsible for the care of the leaf sick . In 1601 the house was extensively rebuilt and equipped with stepped gables. When it was converted into a police barracks in 1872, remains of wall paintings came to light on the ground floor.
The "Rear Office" or "Corn Office" occupied the east wing of the cloister, the choir and part of the nave. In the former farmhand or cart house, the municipal building authority and the wagon keeping with wagons, carriages, sedan chairs and horses were housed. In 1868 the building was demolished for the construction of the “women's house” of the new prison.
Function as a breeding and orphanage
From 1637 to 1639 an orphanage was set up in rooms on the ground floor in the north wing and a penitentiary in the west wing . No major renovations were necessary, only a free-standing wash house was built. As early as 1637, 140 orphans and refugee children moved into the rooms in the former bedrooms of the nuns. In 1699 they moved to the upper floor, which had previously served as a grain chute. In addition, a bell factory was set up in a building separated from the other buildings, a form of imprisonment for thieves, morality criminals and adulterers, the useless and vicious people . The prisoners were made to work and wore a clamp on a frame when performing tasks outside the prison walls, which should make escape more difficult. This spatial separation of the three facilities was considered progressive and exemplary for the construction of other comparable buildings.
In 1771 the orphans moved to the newly built orphanage in the garden north of the monastery, along the Limmat. The north and west wings were extensively converted into a “breeding and workhouse”, and the old bells disappeared. A wall separated the prison from the new orphanage. 1789–1803 these buildings also served as a military hospital. The former orphanage now serves as Amtshaus I; Waisenhausstrasse is still a reminder of this today.
1830–1834, the buildings were converted into a cantonal penal institution by architect Hans Conrad Stadler as part of the changes in the penal system . The north and west wings were raised to four and three storeys respectively; only the east wing of the old cloister remained intact. A single-storey building with work rooms divided the courtyard. In the west wing, two towers gave the building a fortress-like character.
Increasing numbers of prisoners, the confusing, winding building and the abolition of public convict work in 1849 required a fundamental reorientation and so between 1868 and 1878 the facility was rebuilt in stages. In 1872 experts from the International Prison Congress in London visited the institution. The core of the complex, which was designed for 300 to 325 prisoners, was still the quadrangle of the cloisters. Two new wings were built for the women in the southeast. The most important innovation in the opening year, on November 11, 1875, was a prison school. The enclosure wall with a height of 5.4 meters and a patrol corridor was completed in 1867.
Lack of space and the separation of prisoners according to criminal categories required by law led to the planning and construction of a new penal institution based on modern principles, and so on the night of October 8th to 9th, 1901, the prisoners of the Oetenbach moved in moving vans to the new prison in Regensdorf ( now the Pöschwies correctional facility ). In the same year, the monastery area became the property of the city. 1902-1903 the buildings (only the orphanage remained) were demolished in favor of an administrative center. In 1904/1905 the breakthrough for the Uraniastrasse took place on the former hill of the Sihlbühl.
In the summer of 1911 the orphans were relocated to the two new orphanages on the Sonnenberg and the Entlisberg. Before the First World War, the former orphanage was converted into Amtshaus I , the current headquarters of the Zurich Police Department. When Gustav Gull integrated the former orphanage into the entire “Urania” development between 1911 and 1914, he converted the former basement into the entrance floor of Amtshaus I. On behalf of Emil Klöti , the then city councilor and later city president of the " Red Zurich ", Augusto Giacometti furnished the entrance foyer of the police headquarters with vaulted and wall paintings, which are considered a work of art of national importance. During the overall renovation of Amtshaus I, the “Giacometti Hall” was extensively renovated between 1985 and 2000.
building
The monastery complex was demolished in 1902/03. The eastern part of the choir with the two chapels fell victim to the conversion to a penitentiary in 1868–1878. However, based on descriptions, drawings and plans, one is quite well informed about the buildings.
church
Exterior
With a length of 43 meters, the narrow choir was significantly longer and higher than the single-nave nave (lay church) with its length of 39 meters; both were covered flat. The originally plastered walls were made of sandstone, the windows were framed with sandstone blocks. The exterior of the church, apart from the window openings, was unstructured and unadorned. There were four or five pointed arch windows on the south side of the nave, the north side is not known. On the long sides of the choir there were five pointed arch windows in the south and four in the north.
Abbot Müller from Wettingen Monastery is said to have donated the roof turret, which is decorated with a gilded creüz, shortly before the Reformation. In 1698 he received a bell clock and a hood that is on the tach. In 1710 the ridge turret was raised, provided with a copper flag instead of the cross and equipped with a bell that was inaugurated on New Year's Day 1710.
Interior
The nurses' choir and the lay church belonging to the closed area were separated from each other by a three-meter-high wall with a passage in the middle, and a 9.35-meter-wide arch spanned over it. In front of it there were three altars in the lay church. The nave and choir were covered with a flat wooden ceiling. Several niches were let into the undivided wall. The nuns entered the choir through the adjoining room in the north, presumably the sacristy .
The elevated high altar stood in the east of the choir and was consecrated to Maria, Felix and Regula and other saints. Gerold Edlibach mentioned seven altars around 1485/86, four of which have been documented. The late Gothic choir stalls from the end of the 15th century, a pretty eichin gestuol that had cost 600 guilders, stood on the two long sides and faced the lectern in the middle. After the Reformation, it was brought to the Church of St. Peter along with other chairs from other monasteries in 1527.
When the church was demolished, paintings from the 14th and early 16th centuries came to light in two layers, which are documented in images and photographs.
Chapels
There were two chapels to the north and south of the choir. The older, southern one, however, is not identical to the Liebfrauenkapelle am Sihlbühl mentioned in the foundation book; probably it was built at the same time as the choir. It is mentioned in a document in 1333 on the occasion of a foundation for the maintenance of an eternal light by Count Kraft von Toggenburg , provost of Zurich: the one of our frowen, you stozet at the kor of the monastery .
The newer chapel in the north was first mentioned in 1347 as "Count Wernher sel. Von Homberg Kapellen". Werner von Homberg had set up a foundation of 290 marks before his death in 1320. Since his sister Cäcilia von Homberg had been prioress since 1317, it can be assumed that she had this chapel built from the foundation. From 1522 onwards it was known as the “golden chapel” because of its rich, picturesque decoration. The two-bay vaulted chapel was accessible from the west and was probably connected to the choir.
graveyard
The location of the cemetery, in which the remains of the deceased nuns brought with them when they moved to the city, were buried, is not known. In 1878, during construction work in the Rennweg / Oberer Mühlesteg area, graves came to light that may have come from the monastery cemetery. Numerous annual foundations show that Oetenbach was also a popular burial site among laypeople.
Monastery building
Nothing is known about the size and shape of the monastery buildings around the cloister before the renovation in the late 15th century, the state afterwards is shown in illustrations on the Murer plan (1576) and other images. The facility remained unchanged until it was converted into a penitentiary in 1772–1774, some parts even until it was demolished in 1902.
Cloister
With a side length of 45 meters, the cloister in the Oetenbach was one of the largest medieval cloisters on Swiss territory. Twelve wide lancet windows on a low parapet separated it from the Kreuzgarten. The construction (arches, windows) indicates that it was built at the same time as the church in the 14th century.
Between 1470 and 1495 the cloister was rebuilt and three gates to the cross garden were installed. The corridor was covered with a flat wooden ceiling and decorated with carved and painted coats of arms of cities and families. The east wing was preserved until the monastery was demolished, the other wings were torn down during the renovation in 1830-1834.
Rooms around the cloister
Of the rooms in the three two-storey wings around the Kreuzgarten, a chapter house has been identified on the first floor of the east wing, the other rooms cannot be clearly identified. There was probably a sacristy between the chapter house and the church, from which a door led into the choir. In the north wing in the east there was a long room that was still called the "convent room" in the 18th century and which may have served as a refectory .
The location of the general dormitory or the later individual cells can only be determined roughly. Where previously the nuns had camped for the night, the chambers of the first orphanage were set up in 1637. In the east wing, individual cells for a grain chute are said to have been broken off in 1554. In the outermost end, two completely peeled cells remained until the termination; this was probably the apartment of the prioress. The paneling from 1521 was installed in the Swiss National Museum in room 25 in 1894 .
Oetenbach tower
In 1292 the nuns received three proposals for a community departure. The nuns chose the most elaborate variant: a low tower with a gable roof, which sat on supporting walls partly on and partly on the wall. It was connected to the monastery building with a wooden bridge. Raised by one storey and built over the water, as can be seen on the Murer map from 1576, it was only built in 1545. It was connected to the former monastery building by a three-story covered bridge. When the new penitentiary was built, the tower was shortened by 20 shoes in 1772 so that there was more air and cheerfulness against the new penitentiary . It was later used as a shed (storage room) and demolished in 1813.
More buildings
On the administrative and farm buildings were near the gate of a monastery office building, north of it a servant home , bakeries, a granary with dried plant for grain as well as a wine press .
Outside the monastery area, the monastery also had a pumping station that had been approved by the Zurich City Council in 1505. The water came via a water wheel in the Limmat through a pressure pipe into the fountain of the tree garden north of the monastery, in the triangle between the Limmat and Sihl, depicted by Jos Murer in 1576 . The fountain was connected to the Albisrieder line together with the monastery building in 1598 and demolished in 1601. The lower Werdmühle on the Sihl Canal was destroyed in 1444 in the old Zurich War.
- Picture gallery
Oetenbach 1892, view from the south
The cloister is demolished
Demolition: partition wall between choir and lay church
Oetenbach bulwark around 1900, on the left the covered Brüggli
The newly built Uraniastrasse in 1905
Amtshaus I (left) and II (2006)
Office building I (2008)
literature
Monastery and monastery buildings
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Literary works
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- Wolfram Schneider-Lastin: From Beguine to Choir Sister . The vita of the nobility of Freiburg from the “Ötenbacher sister book”. Critical edition with commentary. In: German mysticism in an occidental context. Newly developed texts, new methodological approaches, new theoretical concepts. Edited by Walter Haug and Wolfram Schneider-Lastin, Tübingen 2000, pp. 515-561.
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Web links
- Dieter Minder: When the prison left the monastery. In: Aargauer Zeitung of January 14, 2015
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sigmund Widmer : Zurich - a cultural history, volume 3. Artemis, Zurich 1976, p. 44/45.
- ^ Sigmund Widmer: Zurich - a cultural history, volume 3. Artemis, Zurich 1976; P. 54.
- ↑ See above at: Literature. For Meister Eckhart s. esp .: Otto Langer: Mystical experience and spiritual theology. On Master Eckhart's examination of the piety of women of his time. Artemis, Munich / Zurich 1987 (Munich texts and studies on German literature in the Middle Ages 91).
- ↑ Sigmund Widmer: Zurich - a cultural history, volume 3. Artemis, Zurich 1976, p. 50.
- ↑ Die Kunstdenkmäler des Kantons Zürich, New Edition Volume II.I, Bern 2002, ISBN 3-906131-03-3 , pp. 212-213.
- ↑ Sigmund Widmer: Zurich - a cultural history, volume 3. Artemis, Zurich 1976, p. 52/53.
- ↑ Schweizerisches Idiotikon , Volume IV, Col. 950, comment on the article Bach ( digitized version ), and H. Meyer: Die Ortnames des Kantons Zürich. Collected and explained from the documents. Zürcher and Furrer, Zurich 1849, p. 40. For the Old High German personal name Oto (genitive: Otin ), compare place names such as Ötwil an der Limmat (" Höft des Oto"; 9th century: Otenwilare ) and Ötikon ("Höfe der Menschen des Oto") ; 809: Otinchova ) and Ernst Förstemann : Old German name book. 3rd edition Bonn 1916, s. v., Hans Kläui and Viktor Schobinger : Zurich place names. 2nd edition Zurich 1989, s. v. and lexicon of Swiss municipality names . Frauenfeld / Lausanne 2005, s. v. The derivation of "dreary brook" proposed by Gerold Meyer von Knonau , Der Canton Zürich, Part 2, St. Gallen / Bern 1844, p. 401 is linguistically not possible.
- ↑ Sigmund Widmer: Zurich - a cultural history, volume 3. Artemis, Zurich 1976, p. 46/47.
- ↑ Die Kunstdenkmäler des Kantons Zürich, New Edition Volume II.I, Bern 2002, ISBN 3-906131-03-3 , pp. 213–214.
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- ↑ Website of the City of Zurich, Police Department: The Giacometti Hall in Amtshaus 1. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
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