Rapperswil
Rapperswil (Swiss German: or ;Andres Kristol, ''Rapperswil SG (See)'' in: ''Dictionnaire toponymique des communes suisses – Lexikon der schweizerischen Gemeindenamen – Dizionario toponomastico dei comuni svizzeri (DTS, LSG)'', Centre de dialectologie, Université de Neuchâtel, Verlag Huber, Frauenfeld/Stuttgart/Wien 2005, and Éditions Payot, Lausanne 2005, , p. 727. short: ''Rappi'') is a former municipality and since January 2007 part of the Municipalities of Switzerland, municipality of Rapperswil-Jona in the ''Wahlkreis'' (constituency) of See-Gaster (Wahlkreis), See-Gaster in the Cantons of Switzerland, canton of St. Gallen (canton), St. Gallen in Switzerland, located between ''Obersee (Lake Zurich), Obersee'' and the main part of Lake Zurich. Geography Rapperswil is located on the northern shore of Lake Zurich at the point at which the lake is cut in two by the Seedamm isthmus, which is an ice age moraine. The upper (or eastern) part of Lake Zurich is called ''Ob ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Rapperswil-Jona
Rapperswil-Jona is a municipality in the ''Wahlkreis'' (constituency) of See-Gaster in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland. Besides Rapperswil and Jona, which were separate municipalities until 2006, Rapperswil-Jona also includes Bollingen, Busskirch, Curtiberg, Kempraten-Lenggis, and Wagen. The official language of Rapperswil is (the Swiss variety of Standard) German, but the main spoken language is the local variant of the Alemannic Swiss German dialect. Today On 1 January 2007, the municipalities of Rapperswil and Jona merged to form a new political entity.Amtliches Gemeindeverzeichnis der Schweiz published by the Swiss Federal Statistical Office accessed 23 September 2009 After the merger Rapperswil-Jona had a population of 25,777 (17,799 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Rapperswil Castle
Rapperswil Castle (Swiss German: ''Schloss Rapperswil'') is a castle, built in the early 13th century by the House of Rapperswil, in the formerly independent city of Rapperswil. The castle is located on the eastern Lake Zurich's western Obersee (Lake Zurich), ''Obersee'' lakeshore in Rapperswil, a locality of the Rapperswil-Jona municipality in Switzerland's canton of St. Gallen. Since 1870 the castle has been home to the Polish Museum, Rapperswil, Polish National Museum established by Polish émigrés, including the castle's lessee and restorer, Count Wladyslaw Plater, Wladyslaw Broel-Plater. ''Schloss Rapperswil'' and the Museum are listed in the Swiss inventory of cultural property of national and regional significance as ''Class A'' objects of national importance. Geography The medieval ''Old city of Rapperswil, Altstadt'' of the city of Rapperswil is dominated by the castle perched atop a longish rocky hill on the Rapperswil Peninsula, peninsula called ''Lindenhof ( ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Stadtpfarrkirche Rapperswil
Stadtpfarrkirche St. Johann (John the Baptist, Saint John's parish church) is a Roman Catholic parish church in the city of Rapperswil, canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland. Geography The church is located next to Rapperswil Castle on the so-called Lindenhof (Rapperswil), ''Herrenberg'' hill to the northeast of Stadtmuseum Rapperswil. The Catholic city cemetery is situated to the north of the church, some meters to the northwest there is the so-called Liebfrauenkapelle (Rapperswil), ''Liebfrauenkapelle'' (St. Mary's chapel) situated, built in 1489 on the former ossuary. As of today it's the cemetery's chapel and also popular for weddings thanks to its location overlooking ''Kempratnerbucht'' at Kempraten lake shore. History Rapperswil Castle, the town walls of the former locus ''Endingen'' and the parish church were built by Count Rudolf II and his son Rudolf III Counts of Rapperswil, ''of Rapperswil'' around 1220/29. The former parish church was located at Busskirch#St. Mart ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Rapperswil Rose Gardens
The Rapperswil Rose Gardens are privately established small rose gardens probably dating back to the early years of the former independent town of Rapperswil. They are located in the present city of Rapperswil-Jona, Canton of St. Gallen, in Switzerland. History The coat of arms of the House of Rapperswil shows three roses, medieval and present Rapperswil has two roses in its coats of arms, as well as the present municipality of Rapperswil-Jona, and the former independent city and present locality of Jona. That is why we may assume that the first rose gardens date back to the early historical town, established at the Rapperswil Castle on the Lindenhof hill, and the historical Rapperswil Castle#Hintergasse lane where the ''ministeriales'' (knights) of the Rapperswil family built their homes around 1220 AD. The first documented rose gardens date back to the 1820s, shown on the map as the area of the privately owned gardens that still exist, and the present ''Duftrosengarten'' at ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Jona, Switzerland
Jona is a former municipality and since January 2007 part of the Municipalities of Switzerland, municipality of Rapperswil-Jona in the ''Wahlkreis'' (constituency) of See-Gaster (Wahlkreis), See-Gaster in the Cantons of Switzerland, canton of St. Gallen (canton), St. Gallen in Switzerland. Before the merger with Rapperswil, the former municipality of Jona comprised the villages of Jona, Bollingen, Switzerland, Bollingen, Busskirch, Curtiberg, Kempraten-Lenggis, and Wagen. Geography The former municipality of Jona extended from the eastern shore of the main part of Lake Zürich (Kempraten) to the northern shore of Obersee (Zürichsee), ''Obersee'', the upper or eastern division of Lake Zurich (Bollingen, Switzerland, Bollingen, Busskirch). The former village of Jona is located on the Jona (river), River Jona, which flows into the ''Obersee''. History The River Jona (river), Jona flows through the former Jona municipality in the ''Obersee'' (upper Lake Zürich). The settle ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Lake Zurich
Lake Zurich (, ; ) is a lake in Switzerland, extending southeast of the city of Zurich. Depending on the context, Lake Zurich or can be used to describe the lake as a whole, or just that part of the lake downstream of the Hurden peninsula and Seedamm causeway (between Pfäffikon and Rapperswil). In the latter case, the upstream part of the lake is called '' Obersee'' (), while the lower part is sometimes also referred to as the Lower Lake (), respectively. Geography Lake Zurich is a glacial lake that was formed by the . Its main tributary is the River Linth, which rises in the glaciers of the Glarus Alps. The Linth originally flew directly into Lake Zurich, but was later diverted by the Escher canal (completed in 1811) into Lake Walen () from where its waters are now carried to the east end of Lake Zurich (near Schmerikon) by means of the straightened Linth canal (completed in 1816). Until the early 16th century, there was another lake upstream of ''Obersee'', Lake Tug ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Holzbrücke Rapperswil-Hurden
Holzbrücke Rapperswil-Hurden is a wooden pedestrian bridge between the city of Rapperswil and the village of Hurden crossing the Obersee (the upper part of Lake Zurich) in Switzerland. On 6 April 2001, the footbridge was opened. With a length of it is the longest wooden bridge in Switzerland. The wooden bridge has many predecessors. Wooden structures enabling lake crossings in the same area were already built thousands of years ago. Geography The pedestrian bridge is located next to the so-called Seedamm, a stone and metal structure which includes two bridges. Like the Seedamm it connects Rapperswil in the canton of St. Gallen and Hurden in the canton of Schwyz. The water area between Rapperswil and Hurden is the narrowest and shallowest part of Lake Zurich. While the Seedamm separates the Obersee part from the main part of Lake Zurich, the pedestrian bridge crosses the Obersee. Earlier wooden bridges Neolithic and Bronze Age The oldest remains of bridges or ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Hurden
Hurden is a village in the municipality of Freienbach in the canton of Schwyz in Switzerland. First mentioned in 1217, the name "de Hurden" was used for the peninsula and for the fish traps made of woven work, called "Hürden" or "Hurden", which were used by the locals. Geography The village of Hurden is located on a peninsula protruding from the southern shore of Lake Zürich at its narrowest point. The peninsula has its origin in the retreat of the Linth glacier at the end of the last glacial period when Lake Zürich was formed. This retreat left a moraine across the valley now occupied by Lake Zürich. The higher southern section of this moraine extends above the lake's water level and forms the peninsula, whilst the lower northern section forms a shallow section in the otherwise deep lake. Together these separate Lake Zürich into two parts, the larger lower lake to the north-west, and the smaller upper lake ( ''Obersee'') to the east. The artificial Seedamm uses a com ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Seedamm
The Rapperswil Seedamm is the artificial causeway at the narrowest area of Lake Zurich between Hurden, Hurden (SZ) and Rapperswil (SG). The structure contains two bridge segments and is approximately long. The Seedamm carries a road () and a Rapperswil–Pfäffikon railway, railway across the lake, with the railway being used by the S5 (ZVV), S5 and S40 (ZVV), S40 services of Zurich S-Bahn and by Südostbahn's Voralpen Express. The Melide causeway across a narrow section at Lake Lugano is comparable to the Seedamm. Geography and location The Seedamm connects the Switzerland, Swiss cantons of Canton of Schwyz, Schwyz (Hurden) and Canton of St. Gallen, St. Gallen (Rapperswil). The village of Hurden is located on a peninsula protruding from the south shore of Lake Zurich. This peninsula, a terminal moraine, was formed by an ice age glacier (Linth glacier) ca. 17'000 years ago. The Hurden peninsula and the Seedamm divide the main part of Lake Zurich from its upper part, the O ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Kapuzinerkloster Rapperswil
The Capuchin Friary, Rapperswil, () is a Order of Friars Minor Capuchin, Capuchin friary located in Rapperswil in the Canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland. Geography The monastery is situated to the west of the city of Rapperswil, below the Lindenhof (Rapperswil), ''Lindenhof'' of Rapperswil Castle on the shore of Lake Zürich on a peninsula called the ''Endingerhorn''. History The friary was established in 1606, consisting originally of only four ''patres'' (priests) and three brothers (friars), as a Roman Catholic counterpart to the centre of the Reformation in Zürich. The monastic buildings were built by the citizens of Rapperswil, and belong to the locality of Rapperswil, while Endingen - the site of the buildings - belongs to Einsiedeln Abbey.Kapuzinerkloster Rapperswil official website The friary ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |