Dürlerstein
The Dürlerstein is a memorial stone on the ridge of the Uetliberg near Zurich, east of the Uto Staffel restaurant.
It is reminiscent of the mountaineer, natural scientist and Zurich armies secretary Friedrich von Dürler , who fell to his death on March 8, 1840 in a wooden gutter below the stone. He had made a bet with friends as to who would be down in town first. The well-known mountaineer, who was the first tourist to climb the Tödi , sat down on his alpine stick and slid down the icy channel. At the bottom he fell to his death over a rock step.
The inscription on the bronze plaque reads:
Here
Friedrich von Dürler fell down and died on
March 8th MDCCCXL
Mourning friends
set this stone for him
literature
- Emil Zopfi : Tödi, longing and dream. AS Verlag, Zurich 2000 ISBN 3-905111-49-7
- Emil Zopfi: Shot and Ice. Historical novel. Limmat Verlag, Zurich 2005 ISBN 3-85791-487-4