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1230 – Inner wall built (approximate date). 1349 Black Death plague. Basel massacre; murder of the Jews of Basel. 1356 – The Basel earthquake shook the city with a maximum MSK intensity, causing 300 deaths in the city and about 1,000 overall. [3] 1380 – Public clock installed (approximate date). [10] 1398 – Outer wall built.
Basel Minster, built between 1019 and 1500. From the donation by Rudolph III of Burgundy [35] of the Moutier-Grandval Abbey and all its possessions to Bishop Adalbero II of Metz in 999 until the Reformation, Basel was ruled by Prince-Bishops. [36]
Basel Minster (German: Basler Münster) is a religious building in the Swiss city of Basel, originally a Catholic cathedral and today a Reformed Protestant church. The original cathedral was built between 1019 and 1500 in Romanesque and Gothic styles.
The University of Basel (Latin: Universitas Basiliensis, German: Universität Basel) is a public research university in Basel, Switzerland. Founded on 4 April 1460, it is Switzerland's oldest university and among the world's oldest surviving universities .
The castle was abandoned after the death of Flavius Aetius in 454 and was probably once again in ruins by the 6th century, when the Alamannic settlement was established that would grow into the medieval city of Basel. The first Basel cathedral was built on the site in the early 9th century (replaced by an early Romanesque structure in c. 999 ...
The Basel Mission was a Christian missionary society based in Switzerland. It was active from 1815 to 2001, when it transferred the operative work to Mission 21 [ de ; fr ] , the successor organization of Kooperation Evangelischer Kirchen und Missione (KEM), founded in 2001.
The Basel Historical Museum ... (House to the Cherry garden) was built between 1775 and 1780 for Johann Rudolf Burckhardt , a silk ribbon manufacturer.
Map of Basel city walls. The Basel city walls are a complex of walls surrounding the central part of the Swiss city of Basel, only partially preserved today. The first city wall was completed around 1080 under bishop Burkhard von Fenis. A newer wall was constructed around 1230, which is known as the Inner Wall. Its course was mostly identical ...