Excursion: Zwingli's Beginnings and End, Wildhaus and Zug
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Visitors interested in Zwingli's beginnings can visit the Zwinglihaus in Wildhaus, 80 miles east of Zürich. A small museum occupies the farmhouse where the Reformer was born in 1484, and includes displays of period furniture and Bibles.
Zwingli celebrated his first mass as a priest in the local church before it became Protestant. Zwingli's life ended at the Battle of Kappel in 1531 when the Reformer died of a sword wound. A monument marks the occasion of his death near the town of Zug, about 20 miles south of Zürich.