[citation needed] The Münsterbrücke crosses the Limmat, connecting Münsterhof and Limmatquai at the historical core of the medieval town of Zurich.

The pillars between the arches have a diameter of 2.4 m (7 ft 10 in) and are protected by a layer of cement and paneled with black Jura marble.

Alois Negrelli engineered and supervised the construction of the bridge as it is still present today;[6][unreliable source?]

[7][8] The bridge congested the traffic on the Limmat, so a land connection in the then "modern" Zurich was urgently needed by replacing the narrow medieval Reichsstrasse towards the present Rathausbrücke crossing.

Starting in 1861, the Fraumünster granary temporarily housed in one of its numerous empty rooms the Betraum of the Jewish citizens of Zurich until the Synagoge Zürich Löwenstrasse was built in 1881.