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Rüti Reformed Church
Reformierte Kirche Rüti (native German name, literally: Rüti Reformed Church) is an Evangelical Reformed church in the Swiss Municipalities of the canton of Zürich, municipality of Rüti ZH, Rüti in the Canton of Zürich. It was built between 1214 and 1219 AD as the Romanesque style church of the then Kloster Rüti, Premonstratensian ''Kloster Rüti'', an abbey that was founded in 1206 by the House of Regensberg and suppressed in 1525 as part of the Reformation in Zürich. Location The church is situated in the center of the municipality of Rüti on a small rocky plateau near the Jona River at the site of the former abbey which is called ''Amthof'' respectively ''Klosterhof''. Northwest of the parish church there is the rectory called ''Spitzer-Liegenschaft'' and to the west the ''Amthaus'' building which was rebuilt in 1706 when a fire partially destroyed the church and most of the remaining buildings of the abbey. Architecture In 1214 AD the canons of Premonstratensian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rüti Monastery
Rüti Monastery () was a former Premonstratensian monastery, founded in 1206 and suppressed in 1525 on occasion of the Reformation in Zürich, situated in the Municipalities of the canton of Zürich, municipality of Rüti ZH, Rüti in the canton of Zürich, Switzerland. The Rüti Reformed Church#History, monastery's church was the final resting place of the Counts of Toggenburg, among them Friedrich VII, count of Toggenburg, Count Friedrich VII and 13 other members of the Toggenburg family, and other noble families. Between 1206 and 1525, the monastery comprised 14 incorporated churches and the owner of extensive lands and estates at 185 localities. History In 1206 the estate for the monastery was given by Liutold IV, Count of House of Regensberg, Regensberg, and it was confirmed on 6 May 1219 by his brother, Eberhard, Archbishop of Salzburg. The Bollingen#History, church and rights were transferred by Counts of Rapperswil, Rudolf I von Rapperswil and Diethelm of Counts o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kantonspolizei Zürich
The Kantonspolizei Zürich () is the police department of the canton of Zürich in Switzerland. The Kantonspolizei Zürich exists within the cantonal legal structure to enforce criminal, security, and traffic law on behalf of the government of the canton of Zürich. It is empowered with the executive authority of the ''Direktion der Justiz und des Innern'', the Department of Justice and Home Affairs of the Canton of Zürich. History The Kantonspolizei Zürich was established in 1804 as the ''Landjäger-Corps des Kantons Zürich'' after the period of civil unrest known as the '' Bockenkrieg.'' de">:de:Bockenkrieg">deIts administrative seat was formed in the City of Zürich in 1901. In the same year, the Kantonspolizei founded the first museum of crime to exist in Switzerland, the Kriminalmuseum der Kantonspolizei Zürich. The museum, originally used only for training of new recruits, opened to the public in 1958. The Kantonspolizei Zürich is the legally responsible police fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pfäffikersee
Pfäffikersee (or ''Lake Pfäffikon'') is a lake in the canton of Zürich, Switzerland, near the town of Pfäffikon, Zurich, Pfäffikon. It is 2.5 km long and 1.3 km wide at the middle. The lake was created in the last ice age when a moraine blocked off the ability for the lake to empty north towards Winterthur. There is also a hiking trail around the lake that people often bike and walk on, and the area is considered protected lands, among them the ''Robenhauser Ried'' and the prehistoric settlement Wetzikon–Robenhausen, discovered and researched by Jakob Messikommer (1828–1917), which became a serial site of the UNESCO World Heritage Site ''Prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps''. In Roman era, along ''Pfäffikersee'' there was a Roman road from the ''vicus Centum Prata'' (Kempraten) on Obersee (Zürichsee), Obersee–Lake Zürich via ''Vitudurum'' (Oberwinterthur) to ''Tasgetium'' (Eschenz) to the Rhine. To secure this important transport route, the Irgenhausen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greifensee (lake)
Greifensee () is a lake in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland. Geography Greifensee is located to the east of the city of Zürich, separated by the Pfannenstiel (Zürich), Pfannenstiel from Lake Zurich. As the second largest lake in the canton of Zürich (Lake Zurich being the largest), it is about long and at the widest point, with a maximum depth of . The Aabach (Greifensee) (or just Aa) is the main supplying river, while its outlet is the Glatt (Rhine), Glatt. On its southeastern end the Mönchaltorfer Aa (or just Aa) enters the Greifensee. Nature The lakeside is under UNESCO Environmental protection, protection, and buildings are not allowed, resulting in reed bed and a rich fauna and flora: Around 400 plant species in the lake and 19 species in its tributaries. The nature reserves are important for the birds breeding there including more than 120 migratory species. Cultural heritage The lake was known as ''Glattsee'' (after the Glatt (river), Glatt) in the med ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Staatsarchiv Des Kantons Zürich
Staatsarchiv may refer to the archives An archive is an accumulation of historical records or materials, in any medium, or the physical facility in which they are located. Archives contain primary source documents that have accumulated over the course of an individual or organ ... of one of several national or sub-national governments: * Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg, the archives of the state of Hesse, situated in Marburg, Germany * Österreichisches Staatsarchiv, the national archives of Austria * Staatsarchiv Bern, the archives of the canton of Bern, Switzerland * Staatsarchiv Ludwigsburg, the archives of various public bodies in and around the city of Stuttgart, Germany * Staatsarchiv München, the archives of the administration of Upper Bavaria, Germany * Staatsarchiv des Kantons St. Gallen, the archives of the canton of St Gallen, Switzerland * Staatsarchiv Zürich, the archives of the canton of Zürich, Switzerland {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johann II (Habsburg-Laufenburg)
Johann II von Habsburg-Laufenburg (also ''Johannes von Rapperswil-Laufenburg-Habsburg'', ''von Laufenburg-Rapperswil''; born around 1330; died 17 December 1380) was the Count of the House of Habsburg-Laufenburg and later Count of the House of Rapperswil. Early life Johann was born around 1330, probably in the Rapperswil Castle in the Swiss medieval city of Rapperswil, as the oldest son of ''Agnes von Werd'' († 1352) and Johann († 1337), Countess Elisabeth von Rapperswil's († 1309) son of second marriage with Count ''Rudolf von Habsburg-Laufenburg'' († 1315). He had three younger siblings: Agnes who became a nun, Rudolf (IV) and Gottfried (II). Johann may have been raised in Rapperswil and even educated at the royal Habsburg court after the death of his father on 21 December 1337 on the occasion of a battle against Zürich-Toggenburg invaders at the Grynau Castle. As did his grandmother, Johann II also supported the Rüti Abbey and assigned an estate and all rights in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johann I (Habsburg-Laufenburg)
Johann I von Habsburg-Laufenburg (also ''Johannes von Rapperswil-Laufenburg-Habsburg'', ''von Laufenburg-Rapperswil''; born around 1297; died 21 September 1337 in Grynau) was the Count of the House Habsburg-Laufenburg and later Count of the House of Rapperswil. Early life Johann was born between 1295 and 1297 AD probably in the Rapperswil Castle in the medieval city of Rapperswil as the oldest son of Elisabeth Countess of Rapperswil († 1309) by second marriage with Count ''Rudolf von Habsburg-Laufenburg'' († 1315). ''Rudolf, Ludwig and Clara'' are mentioned as siblings of Johann, Stadtarchiv Rapperswil as well as his stepbrother Reichsvogt '' Wernher von Homberg'' and his stepsister ''Cecilia von Homberg'' who became the abbess of the Oetenbach Nunnery, born to Countess Elisabeth by first marriage with Count ''Ludwig von Homberg''. Johann may be raised in Laufenburg and even educated at the royal Habsburg court, as well as his son ''Johann II'' († 1380) and those bro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
House Of Rapperswil
The House of Rapperswil respectively Counts of Rapperswil (''Grafen von Rapperwil'' since 1233, before ''Lords'') ruled the upper ''Zürichsee'' and ''Seedamm'' region around Rapperswil and parts of, as of today, Swiss cantons of St. Gallen, Glarus, Zürich and Graubünden when their influence was most extensive around the 1200s until the 1290s. They acted also as ''Vogt'' of the most influential Einsiedeln Abbey in the 12th and 13th century, and at least three abbots of Einsiedeln were members of Rapperswil family. History Early history In 697 legends mentions a knight called ''Raprecht'' in connection with the later Grynau Castle. The former seat of the ''Vogt'' in Altendorf was first mentioned as "Rahprehteswilare" in a document of emperor Otto II, in which goods of the Einsiedeln abbey were confirmed on 14 August 972. The fourth Abbot of Einsiedeln, ''Wirunt'' (996–1026), or Wirendus, Wirund, Wem, Wirand, Verendus, was according to 15th-century chronis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elisabeth Von Rapperswil
Elisabeth von Rapperswil (also ''von Habsburg-Laufenburg'', ''von Homberg''; c.1251/1261 – 1309) was the last countess of the House of Rapperswil, and secured by her second marriage the female line of the Counts of Rapperswil and the extensive possessions of Rapperswil in the former ''Zürichgau'' to the Laufenburg line. Her son by first marriage was Reichsvogt Wernher von Homberg, and her oldest son by second marriage was Count Johann I (Habsburg-Laufenburg), Johann von Habsburg-Laufenburg who passed over the title of the count of Rapperswil to his oldest son Johann II (Habsburg-Laufenburg), Johann II and his brothers Rudolf and Gotfried. Early life Elisabeth von Rapperswil was born around 1251 or rather around 1261 AD presumably in the Rapperswil Castle in the medieval city of Rapperswil as the daughter of ''Mechthild von Neifen'' (d. 1267) and ''Rudolf III von Vaz'' (b. around 1230; d. 27 July 1262) whose mother ''Adelheid'' was a member of the House of Rapperswil. Ru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Counts Of Toggenburg
The counts of Toggenburg (''Grafen von Toggenburg'') ruled the Toggenburg region of today's canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland, and adjacent areas during the 13th to 15th centuries. A baronial family of Toggenburg is mentioned in the 11th and 12th centuries, but their genealogical connection to the comital family is unclear. They are named for their ancestral seat, now known as ''Alt-Toggenburg'', near Kirchberg, St. Gallen. The castle was built in the 10th or 11th century, and was destroyed in 1085 in a conflict with the Abbot of St. Gallen, later rebuilt and in 1226 given to St. Gallen Abbey by count Diethelm of Toggenburg. The family is attested from the early 13th century, as ''Toccanburg'', later ''Tochimburc''. Diethelm I (possible mention 1176, died 1205 or 1207) was followed by Diethelm II (possible mention 1210, died c. 1230). Either of these was the beneficiary of the inheritance of a number of local noble families (among these Alt-Rapperswil) in c. 1200 and adopted ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Counts Of Rapperswil
The House of Rapperswil respectively Counts of Rapperswil (''Grafen von Rapperwil'' since 1233, before ''Lords'') ruled the upper ''Zürichsee'' and ''Seedamm'' region around Rapperswil and parts of, as of today, Swiss cantons of St. Gallen, Glarus, Zürich and Graubünden when their influence was most extensive around the 1200s until the 1290s. They acted also as '' Vogt'' of the most influential Einsiedeln Abbey in the 12th and 13th century, and at least three abbots of Einsiedeln were members of Rapperswil family. History Early history In 697 legends mentions a knight called ''Raprecht'' in connection with the later Grynau Castle. The former seat of the ''Vogt'' in Altendorf was first mentioned as "Rahprehteswilare" in a document of emperor Otto II, in which goods of the Einsiedeln abbey were confirmed on 14 August 972. The fourth Abbot of Einsiedeln, ''Wirunt'' (996–1026), or Wirendus, Wirund, Wem, Wirand, Verendus, was according to 15th-century chro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bollingen
Bollingen is a village () within the municipality of Rapperswil-Jona in the Swiss canton of St. Gallen. Geography The village is located along the northern shore of the upper Lake Zürich (''Obersee'') between Jona and Schmerikon. Bollingen was part of the former municipality of Jona: On 1 January 2007 the former municipalities of Rapperswil and Jona merged to form the new political entity Rapperswil-Jona. History Sandstone from Bollingen may have been used even in the Roman Empire era, but presumably is extracted and processed since 1000 AD. Among others it was used for the Grossmünster and Fraumünster churches in Zürich, as well as for the Einsiedeln and St. Gallen abbeys, or the Zunfthaus zur Meisen that was built in 1757 at the Münsterhof plaza in Zürich. In the European Middle Ages, the two settlements named and are mentioned as part of the later Herrschaft Rapperswil of the Counts of Rapperswil. The earliest document sealed at the Rapperswil Castle was re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
