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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 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.
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 ...
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 ...
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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.
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