Zurich ( German: Zürich, ; Swiss German: Züri ) is the largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zurich.

The famous illuminated manuscript – described as " the most beautifully illumined German manuscript in centuries ;" – was commissioned by the Manesse family of Zurich, copied and illustrated in the city at some time between 1304 and 1340.

The first written document on the area originates from the year 858, and refers to King Ludwig the German giving the farm ‘ Chama ’ ( Cham ) to the Zurich Fraumünster convent.

Lake Zurich ( Swiss German / Alemannic: Zürisee ; German: Zürichsee ) is a lake in Switzerland, extending southeast of the city of Zurich.

In Swiss and Southern German Reformed churches, where the Reformed churches are organized as regionally defined independent churches ( such as Evangelical Reformed Church of Zurich or Reformed Church of Berne ), the synod corresponds to the general assembly of Presbyterian churches.

* Histoire des Alpes – Storia delle Alpi – Geschichte der Alpen: annual journal of the International Society for Alpine History with French, Italian and German articles and English abstracts, Chronos Verlag, Zurich, from 1996, ISSN 1660-8070 ; online access on http :// www. arc. usi. ch / labisalp or http :// retro. seals. ch.

* NS Hispeed-operator, in conjunction with NS Reizigers and foreign partners, of high-speed international Fyra services on the HSL-Zuid, Thalys ( from Amsterdam to Paris ), ICE ( to the German Ruhr area ), Intercities ( to Berlin and Brussels ) and the Swiss CityNightLine ( to Munich and Zurich ).

Schwyz ( Standard German ) is a canton in central Switzerland between the Alps in the south, Lake Lucerne to the west and Lake Zurich in the north, centered around and named after the town of Schwyz.

* Doctoral Thesis of Daniel Speich, ETH Zurich ( German )

Viennese refer to the Zentralfriedhof ' half the size of Zurich and twice as much fun ',( German: „ Halb so groß wie Zürich-aber doppelt so lustig ist der Wiener Zentralfriedhof !“) as the cemetery is only half as large as the city of Zurich.

In 1880 he joined a group of German socialists in Zurich who were supported financially by Karl Höchberg, and who smuggled socialist material into the Reich at the time of the Anti-Socialist Laws ( 1878-).

Born in Mulhouse ( then part of the German Empire ), Maria Benz met Max Bill in the Odeon Café in Zurich who called her " Nusch ", the name she would stick to.

Pyke was not the first to suggest a floating mid-ocean stopping point for aircraft, nor even the first to suggest that such a floating island could be made of ice: German scientist Dr. Gerke of Waldenberg proposed the idea and carried out some preliminary experiments in Lake Zurich in 1930.

* Museum of Moulages, University of Zurich ( English / German )

Berlin Dada in particular, started by Richard Huelsenbeck after leaving Zurich in 1917, would publish a number of incendiary artists ' books, such as George Grosz's The Face Of The Dominant Class ( 1921 ), a series of politically motivated satirical lithographs about the German Bourgeoisie.

In November 1897, he opened a sanatorium in Zurich called " Vital Force ," named after a " key term from the German lifestyle reform movement which states that people should pattern their lives after the logic determined by nature ".

is a stadium in Zurich ( German: Zürich ), Switzerland, and the home of the football club FC Zürich.

On December 16, 2006 he was transferred by the highly specialized, ICU equipped, Swiss Air Ambulance Bombardier Challenger Jet http :// www. rega. ch /, reportedly made possible and organized in a bold and daring action by the Swiss banker, Pascal Najadi, who was able to convince the REGA Flight Operations over the phone from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, ( perhaps because he was an active patron of the REGA Swiss Air Ambulance ) to swiftly approve the decision to fly without any payment guarantees and assemble at highest possible speed within 48 hours the necessary flight plan, specialized doctors, logistics and Vietnam airspace ( Northern Sector ) entry clearances for the Jet to take off from Zurich HQ, via Lahore to Hanoi, then to proceed with the critical patient in full ICU care of specialized Swiss Doctors and immediate family on board, via Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky and Edmonton to Boston, Massachusetts, where the plane was met by US Customs ( thanks to the help of Senator John Kerry ).

In English, the name is usually written Zurich, without the umlaut.

In 1912 these tensions came to a peak because Jung felt severely slighted after Freud visited his colleague Ludwig Binswanger in Kreuzlingen without paying him a visit in nearby Zurich, an incident Jung referred to as " the Kreuzlingen gesture.

Other dates included Hamburg ( without Nitzer Ebb ), Bochum, Zurich, and Munich.

Hartmann claims it was chiefly this stay in Berlin which molded Keller's character into its final shape, toned down his rather bitter pessimism to a more moderate form, and prepared him ( not without the privations of hunger ), in the whirl of a large city, for an enjoyment of the more restricted pleasures of his native Zurich.

Other routes from Paris to Istanbul also exist, such as Paris – Munich – Budapest – Bucharest – Istanbul, or Paris – Zurich – Belgrade – Istanbul, all of which have comparable travel times of approximately 60 hours without delays.

The statesman, scientist, painter and manager Conrad Escher ( later named " von der Linth ") from Zurich developed and executed the plan of channeling the Linth into Lake Walen, where the gravel could be deposited without damage.

They had negotiated a settlement whereby the Nobel Prize money that Einstein anticipated he would soon receive was to be placed in trust for their two boys, while Marić would be able to draw on the interest, but have no authority over the capital without Einstein's permission, After Einstein married his second wife in June, he returned to Zurich to talk to Marić about the children's future, taking Hans Albert on Lake Constance and Eduard to Arosa for convalescence.

According to data in " Cities and Automobile Dependence " by Kenworthy and Laube ( 1999 ), urbanized area population losses occurred while there was an expansion of sprawl between 1970 and 1990 in Brussels, Belgium ; Copenhagen, Denmark ; Frankfurt, Hamburg, and Munich, Germany ; and Zurich, Switzerland, albeit without the wholesale dismantling of public transit systems that occurred in the United States.

He gave up his business in Zurich, and, in October 1939, rented a small farm house without electricity or running water, the " Hüs am Bach " (" house at the stream ") in Platenga.

Zurich is an exception since it is not a case of a " dropped Umlaut ", but is a genuine English exonym, used also in French ( from Latin Turicum ) written without the umlaut alongside other German and Swiss names which retain it.

After short stays at sanatoriums in Zurich, Dresden and Wiesbaden, he began a psychotherapy practice in Frankfurt in 1925, but without much success.

In a sworn affidavit before a Zurich notary, Lumpert stated that he had stolen a prototype MST-13 timer PC-board from Mebo and gave it without permission on 22 June 1989, to " an official person investigating the Lockerbie case ".

Zurich Dada, with Tzara at the helm, published the art and literature review Dada beginning in July 1917, with five editions from Zurich and the final two from Paris.

The two ministers were unwilling to follow Bern's lead and delayed the use of such bread until a synod in Zurich could be convened to make the final decision.

Venus won her sixth title of the year at the Tier I event in Zurich, defeating World No. 1 Hingis in the final.

A fortnight later, Williams won the Zurich Open, defeating Ivanovic in the semifinals before defeating Pennetta in the final to claim her second title of the year and secure a position in the year-ending 2008 WTA Tour Championships in Doha, Qatar.

In his final book, however, published in 2007, shortly after his death, Bronstein more strongly implied that Smyslov was favored for Zurich 1953 by the Soviet Chess Federation, and that other Soviet representatives were pressured to make this happen.

At the Tier I Zurich Open the following week, Henin reached her sixth consecutive final where she defeated Serbia's Jelena Dokić.

The win marked Henin's 24th consecutive clay court win and her tenth consecutive final win, a streak dating back to Zurich in October 2003.

Two weeks later, Henin won the Zurich Open, her ninth title of the year, by again defeating Golovin in the final.

Bronstein, in his final book, published just after his death in late 2006, wrote that the Soviet chess leadership favoured Smyslov to win Zurich 1953, and pressured several of the other top Soviets to arrange this outcome, which did in fact occur.

In October 1836, after receiving his doctorate and being appointed by the University of Zurich as a lecturer in anatomy, Büchner relocated to Zurich where he spent his final months writing and teaching until he died of typhus at the age of twenty-three.

He disregarded doctor's orders to rest and attended Schwarzkopf's final recital two days later in Zurich.

Only three days after the final Morceli set a world season's best in Monaco and a week later he broke his personal best to win in Zurich in 3: 30. 76.

In 2004 the club were relegated from the Super League but the club managed to win the Swiss Cup, beating Grasshoppers Zurich in the final.

He then went on to score in their 3 – 1 semi final first leg win over Zurich.

He finally established himself as a regular in the No. 9 spot during the 2003 – 04 season, making 19 appearances and helping Tigers come back from a poor start and a turbulent midseason to reach the Zurich Wild Card final.

The team eliminated successively Sporting Lisbon, Newcastle United, Torino, Carl Zeiss Jena and Grasshoppers Zurich before a final defeat to PSV Eindhoven ( 0-0, 0-3 ).

She has also won the Zurich Open, a Tier I tournament, defeating Maria Sharapova in the final.

She then went on to reach the quarterfinals of Zurich, losing to eventual champion Patty Schnyder in three tight sets, and the semifinals in Linz, and winning both of her singles rubbers in the Fed Cup final.

At the final Tier I event of the year, Hantuchová pushed Davenport to three sets and had match points in the second set in Zurich before losing, 6 – 3, 5 – 7, 2 – 6.

In October 2006, Hantuchová reached the final of the Zurich Open.

With the Shoguns finishing the season with the most bonus points in the Zurich Premiership, three players in the top try scorers chart, a place at Twickenham in the final of the Zurich Championship, and also a place in the Heineken Cup for the 2002 – 03 season.