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The 'Tell Monument' (German: Telldenkmal) is a memorial to William Tell in the market place of Altdorf, Canton of Uri, Switzerland. Tell monument in 2022. The bronze statue by sculptor Richard Kissling was inaugurated on August 28, 1895, at the foot of an old tower. It shows the Swiss national hero with his crossbow and accompanied by his son.
William Tell (German: Wilhelm Tell, pronounced [ˈvɪlhɛlm ˈtɛl] ⓘ; French: Guillaume Tell; Italian: Guglielmo Tell; Romansh: Guglielm Tell) is a legendary folk hero of Switzerland. According to the legend, Tell was an expert mountain climber and marksman with a crossbow who assassinated Albrecht Gessler , a tyrannical reeve of the ...
The William Tell Monument in Altdorf, the result of an 1892 national competition and probably Kissling's best-known work. It was inaugurated on 28 August 1895. [1] Jünglingsfigur, Villa Tobler in Zürich, statue of Joachim Vadian in St. Gallen, 1904, Rizal Monument in Rizal Park, Manila, 1912.
According to the legend, Altdorf's marketplace is the site where William Tell shot the apple from his son's head, [3] and in 1895 sculptor Richard Kissling unveiled a bronze statue commemorating the feat at the foot of an old tower. [13] In 1899 a theatre was opened close to the town's center for the purpose of performing Schiller's play of ...
As Swiss legend goes, William Tell became a medieval folk hero when occupying Austrian militants forced him into a sick game: He was forced to fire an arrow into an apple atop his son’s head to ...
Tell's leap (Tellensprung) from the boat of his captors at the Axen cliffs, fresco by frescos by Ernst Stückelberg, 1880-1882.The Tellskapelle ("Tell's chapel") [1] is located on the Tellsplatte or Tellenplatte ("Tell's slab") on the shore of Lake Lucerne at the foot of the Axenberg cliffs (an offshoot ridge of Glärnisch, 1,022 m), in the Sisikon municipality, canton of Uri, Switzerland
The Tellenspiel of Uri (1512) replaces Fürst with Tell in the role of the oath-taker on behalf of Uri. [3] Jacob Stampfer depicted the oath scene on his Bundestaler (c. 1546). The coin legend dates the event to 1296, and the three oath-takers are named as Wilhelm Tell von Ure, Stouffacher von Schwytz and Erni von Underwalden.
[1] The first statue was installed in 1870, and, by 1971, the collection included at least one statue from every state. In 1933, Congress passed House Concurrent Resolution No. 47, which limited each state to only one statue in the Statuary Hall. Others would be distributed throughout the Capitol building. [1]