![In the countryside, the war of religion resulted in scores of minor religious tussles.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/reformation-titel-300x225.jpg)
Reformation in the countryside
While Zwingli was preaching the Reformed faith in Zurich in the 16th century, the altered circumstances of life led to frictions in the countryside on a greater and lesser scale.
![The Protestant reformer Zwingli on a 16th century print.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/zwingli-288x300.jpg)
![The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, painted by John Martin, 1852.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/sodom-und-gomorra-300x188.jpg)
Priests in love and fickle congregations
![Tithing in the Middle Ages.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/abgabe-zehnter-300x235.jpg)
![Depiction of the Second War of Kappel in Johannes Stumpf’s Schweizerchronik (Swiss Chronicle), 1548.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/kappelerkrieg-300x198.jpg)
Struggle and every soul
![For a long time the church in Niederweningen had a clock only on three sides. Were the Catholics robbed of their sense of time?](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/kirche-1-210x300.jpg)