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The dark restaurants are a project of the Blind-Liecht (Swiss German for blind-light) foundation. The foundation works to create employment opportunities for blind and visually impaired people. Their first venture, the blindekuh in Zürich, opened on September 17, 1999 and is claimed to be the world's first dark restaurant.
The restaurant began to run better, the daily turnover rose to 35 francs, and in 1904 Ambrosius Hiltl married Martha Gneupel and together they took over Vegetaria AG. In 1907 he bought the property with his family and became a citizen of Switzerland. In 1931, Hiltl became the first restaurant in Zurich with an all-electric restaurant kitchen.
"Zurich's Italian landmark faces axe". Swissinfo. (in German) Coopi: Ein Traditionsrestaurant wird 100. Swiss public television report on the restaurant's 100-year-anniversary (RM video). "Gästeliste von Brecht bis zum SVP-Gemeinderat / Aus der 100-jährigen Geschichte des Restaurants Cooperativo" (in German). Neue Zürcher Zeitung. January 19 ...
Sechseläutenplatz is located on the east shore of Lake Zurich, just south of the lake's outflow to the river Limmat and the Schanzengraben moat. The plaza is bounded to the south by the linked Opernhaus and Bernhardtheater buildings; to the west by the Utoquai lakeside promenade; and to the east by Theaterstrasse, across which is Stadelhoferplatz, with the Stadelhofen railway station and the ...
In 1835, the chief engineer of the merchant society of the city of Zurich, Alois Negrelli, initiated the construction of the bridge [1] in collaboration with the master-builders Conrad Stadler and Johann Jakob Locher-Oeri, [2] who engineered the sophisticated wooden scaffold. The foundations of the bridge were based on 472 oak piles with a ...
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It depicts the legend of the siege of Zurich in 1292 with a helmeted sculpture of the leader of the Zurich women. Under baroque influence, Lindenhof was converted in 1780 to a strictly geometrical park. 1851, the Masonic lodge Modestia cum Libertate (M.c.L.) bought the Paradies building and converted it into a lodge building with distinctive ...
The quarter of Enge in Zürich Enge (in the foreground), Seefeld (to the right) and Rathaus quarters, as seen from Uetliberg; Bürkliplatz, Quaibrücke and Bellevue-Sechseläutenplatz in the centre, as well as the site of the Prehistoric pile dwellings around Lake Zurich Aerial view from 1000 m by Walter Mittelholzer (1919) Enge railway station and Tessinerplatz Gottfried Keller memorial at ...