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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.
The city became known for its manufacturing, especially of fine wood furniture. William Tell and symbols of an apple with an arrow through it are prominent in the town, which includes a bronze statue of Tell and his son, based on the one in Altdorf, Switzerland. The statue was erected on a fountain in front of city hall in 1974.
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 ...
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 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.
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 ...
William Tell monument in Bürglen. According to legend, this village is the home of William Tell. Priest Wendelin Bucheli of Bürglen became well known within Switzerland in February 2015 for blessing a lesbian couple, in the aftermath of which the bishop of Chur questioned his status as a priest. Residents and people throughout the country ...
Swiss folk hero William Tell shows Gessler the bolt he meant to kill him with.. Albrecht Gessler, also known as Hermann, [1] was a legendary 14th-century Habsburg bailiff (German: Landvogt) at Altdorf, [2] whose brutal rule led to the William Tell rebellion and the eventual independence of the Old Swiss Confederacy.