The Old World

I. An Early History of Zurich and Northeast Switzerland
Numerous lake-side settlements along Lake Zurich from the Neolithic and ... Read More

II. Zurich and the Old Swiss Confederacy, 1291-1523
The Old Swiss Confederacy was an alliance among the valley ... Read More

III. The Protestant Reformation in Europe
Martin Luther, oil on panel by Lucas Cranach the ... Read More

IV. The Protestant Reformation in Switzerland
Huldrych (or Ulrich) Zwingli started the Swiss reformation at the ... Read More

V. The Radical Reformation
The Radical Reformation was the response to what was believed ... Read More

VI. The Anabaptists
Anabaptists are Christians of the Radical Reformation of 16th century ... Read More

VII. Menno Simons
Menno Simons was born in 1496 in Friesland, in an ... Read More

VIII. The Mennonites
The Mennonites are a Christian group based around the church ... Read More

IX. The Earliest Brubakers and Anabaptist Persection
Anabaptists drowned in the River Limmat 1527.Credit: Zurich Central ... Read More

X. Refugees
Farmland outside of Hirzel, much like it was in ... Read More