Ulrich Zwingli is one of the least well-known leaders in the Reformation movement as Martin Luther andJohn Calvin are both better known. Zwingli may have been influential in Zurich but did his influence ever extend out of the Swiss city?
Northern Germany was very much under the influence of Martin Luther and the public spat between both men at the Marburg Colloquy did a great deal to undermine whatever influence Zwingli had in that area. Southern Germany tended to be under the control of the Catholic Church as Bavaria dominated the region. Therefore within what we now call Germany, Zwingli had little influence.
As a city, Zurich was too small to have much influence elsewhere. The merging of the church and state could work there because of the size of the city. Whether this would have worked in a larger city is open to debate. Martin Bucer had the same doctrinal views at Zwingli but he believed that the church and state should be two separate authorities which should work in co-operation. Though Strasburg became a refugee for Protestant refugees, its lack of natural defences and military strength meant that it did not become a Protestant stronghold.