The wars of Kappel (Kappelerkriege) were two armed conflicts fought near Kappel am Albis between the protestant and the catholiccantons of the Old Swiss Confederacy during the reformation in Switzerland. Protestantism is a general grouping of denominations within Christianity. ... The Roman Catholic Church, most often spoken of simply as the Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with over one billion members. ... The twenty-six cantons of Switzerland are the states of the federal state of Switzerland. ... 1550 illustration for the Sempacherbrief of 1393, one of the major alliance contracts of the Old Swiss Confederacy The Old Swiss Confederacy was the precursor of modern-day Switzerland. ... Huldrych Zwingli was elected priest of the Great Minster church in Zürich in 1518. ...
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Zwingli was killed at Kappel am Albis, in a battle against the Catholiccantons.
In Kappel, the army of Zürich was defeated, and slightly more than a month later, the Peace of Kappel was signed.
Zwingli's successor, Heinrich Bullinger, was elected on December 9, 1531, to be the pastor of the Great Minster at Zürich, a position which he held to the end of his life (1575).
Zwingli's Reformation of 1523 was supported by the magistrate and population of Zürich and led to significant changes in civil life and state matters in Zürich.
The reformation was spread from Zürich to five other cantons of Switzerland, while the remaining five sternly held onto the Roman Catholic faith, leading to inter-cantonal wars (KappelerKriege) in 1529 and 1531, where Zwingli died on the battlefield.
During the Thirty Years' War, Switzerland was a relative "oasis of peace and prosperity" (Grimmelshausen) in war-torn Europe, mostly because all major powers in Europe were depending on Swiss mercenaries, and would not let Switzerland fall in the hands of one of their rivals.
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