Early Modern Ramparts
From 1642, an impressive set of ramparts was built based on plans by Hans Georg Werdmüller and Johann Ardüser, at an immense cost and completed only in the second half of the 18th century. The ramparts included fifteen bastions, one of them built inside the Limmat river (the Bauschänzli, location of the former Ravelin Kratz).
The ramparts were mostly destroyed in 1834, but parts of the walls and the western moat remain visible.
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1793 map of Zurich (north is left), the so called Müllerplan
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The moat (Schanzengraben) and the remains of the bastion zur Katz (Old Botanical Garden), next to Selnau station.
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18th century sketch of the old and new walls on either side of Paradeplatz (at the time known as Neuer Markt).
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