History Rapperswil

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1 history

1.1 history
1.2 counts of rapperswil
1.3 modern history





history
early history



























einsiedlerhaus, endingertor , southern town walls, seen lake zürich, capuchin monastery left, vineyards , lindenhof hill in background



rapperswil on codex vindobonensis (1550)



upper lake zürich , medieval central municipality rapperswil on murerplan (1566)



zsg paddle steamships stadt rapperswil (to left) , stadt zürich @ rapperswil harbour (1914)



holzbrücke rapperswil-hurden, seedamm left, heilig hüsli , rapperswil in background



st. john s church portal , liebfrauenkapelle left



capuchin monastery seen lake zürich



rose gardens @ einsiedlerhaus



s-bahn zürich s15 line @ rapperswil railway station, schloss rapperswil , st. john s church in background



guggenmusik concert (eis-zwei-geissebei)



knie s kinderzoo


settlements in region of rapperswil date @ least 5000 years ago. archaeological relicts have been found @ technikum island settlement, , remains of first wooden bridge (1523 bc, reconstructed in 2001) hurden located on obersee lakeshore nearby technical university (hsr) respectively so-called heilig hüsli @ northwestern part of seedamm area. 3 neighbouring prehistoric settlements, lake crossings, part of unesco world heritage site prehistoric pile dwellings around alps. in kempraten, 2 kilometers away, there helvetic settlement; , in beginning of 1st century ad, roman vicus centum prata (meaning 100 meadows) became important trade center on way roman heartland. neolithic bridge between hurden , rapperswil renewed romans @ least around 165 ad.


historians mention 10th-century ferry station assumably @ so-called einsiedlerhaus in rapperswil – in 981 ad vineyard on lindenhof hill – between kempraten on kempratnerbucht, lützelau , ufenau island , assumably present hurden, allowed pilgrims towards einsiedeln cross lake before prehistoric bridge @ seedamm isthmus re-built in 1358.


counts of rapperswil

rapperswil castle , fortifications of former locus endingen (given einsiedeln abbey) built counts of rapperswil, i.e. rudolf ii , son rudolf iii von rapperswil around 1200: town founded when nobility of rapperswil moved altendorf across lake rapperswil. on peninsula @ oberbollingen, st. nicholas chapel mentioned, around 1229 small cistercian (later premonstratensian) monastery established house of rapperswil; in 1267 united nearby mariazell-wurmsbach abbey. st. martin busskirch 1 of oldest churches around uper lake zürich. citizens of rapperswil had attend services in busskirch until count rudolf ii built stadtpfarrkirche on herrenberg next rapperswil castle on lindenhof hill. known members of family countess elisabeth von rapperswil (around 1252/62 –1309), sons wernher von homberg, reichsvogt , minnesang poet, , count johann i. von habsburg-laufenburg-rapperswil (* around 1295/97, † 1337). son johann ii († 1380), opposition s leader against rudolf brun, mayor of zürich, arrested 2 years, , town walls of rapperswil, castle , altendorf castle destroyed brun in 1350.


modern history

between 1358 , 1360 rudolf iv, duke of austria, built wooden bridge across lake has been used 1878 – measuring approximately 1,450 metres (4,757 ft) in length , 4 metres (13 ft) wide; 546 oak piles have been installed. in 1415, town bought freedom itself. in 1442, during old zurich war, rapperswil in alliance zürich , habsburg dynasty. in 1458 rapperswil controlled swiss confederation so-called gemeine herrschaft, i.e. under control of 2 cantons (glarus , schwyz) of old swiss conferation , representant, vogt @ rapperswil castle.


because of strategic location along important infrastructure lines, , because of flourishing trade, town grew rich. allowed degree of freedom (especially within habsburg-controlled territories and) within swiss confederation ended formation of swiss cantons napoleon in 1799. in 1656 , 1712 (the first war of villmergen , toggenburg war, or second war of villmergen, respectively), rapperswil involved in wars between catholic , reformed cantons of old swiss confederation. rapperswil @ first part of helvetic , canton of linth s capital city. after 1803 act of mediation, joined canton of st. gallen, , former herrschaft rapperswil split municipalities of rapperswil , jona.


on january 1, 2007, former municipalities of rapperswil , jona merged form new political entity: rapperswil-jona has population of 25,777 (december 2007). makes second-largest town in canton after capital of st. gallen itself.








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