Endingen (Rapperswil)

The Rapperswil peninsula on Lake Zurich

The approximate location of the center of Endingen: Endingerturm - Einsiedlerhaus and Curti-Haus in the foreground, in the background the Lindenhof with the Schlossberg winery and on the right the towers of the castle and parish church , view from the steamship Stadt Rapperswil

Endingen is the predecessor settlement of the town of Rapperswil , founded by the Rapperswilers around 1200 , a district of the Swiss municipality of Rapperswil-Jona in the canton of St. Gallen .

location

The settlement, presumably inhabited by winegrowers, fishermen and ferrymen, probably extended along the southern foothills of the Lindenhof, called the central hill in today's old town of Rapperswil , roughly in the area between the Endingerturm bastion - the hermitage of the medieval city wall of Rapperswil and the fish market square . The settlement was located in the eastern part of a peninsula on Lake Zurich , formed by the Kempraten Bay and the narrow lake between Hurden and Rapperswil, the so-called Rapperswil lake dam .

history

→ Main article : History of the city of Rapperswil

The island village , an early Bronze Age wet soil settlement in a shoal near Heilig Hüsli on the northern bridgehead of the prehistoric and historical lake crossings in upper Lake Zurich, has been archaeologically researched . Discovered during dives in 1998, the site was archaeologically recorded in 1999, 2000 and 2006. It is located about three hundred meters southeast of the likely center of Endingen.

The neighboring Vicus Centum Prata , which probably goes back to a Celtic foundation and whose development can be easily traced in the context of the Gallo-Roman successor settlement of Kempraten, has again been very well researched . In the early medieval settlement phase, there was also a ferry service between the lakeshore, the islands of Lützelau and Ufenau and probably also with the settlement near Endingen, which is said to have moved to this point in the High Middle Ages.

The high medieval settlement of Endingen has not yet been archaeologically recorded, but documents and early medieval ownership at least indirectly refer to a predecessor settlement of the medieval city of Rapperswil. In 744 the eastern peninsula was donated to the St. Gallen monastery . In around 981, Einsiedeln Abbey secured the ferry rights for pilgrims across Lake Zurich and the property of the land at the dock at the so-called Einsiedlerhaus. In the same year should also Rebgut on the Schlossberg, originally owned by the monastery of Einsiedeln, his first documented viticulture already 972. Besides the two monasteries, founded in 1206 possessed monastery Rüti an office building in Endingen , at today's Hotel Schwanen against the Curti- House . When the city was founded, the settlement was included in the city wall built after 1220.

literature

• Peter Röllin: Rapperswil-Jona cultural building set: 36 museums without a roof . Rapperswil-Jona 2005, ISBN 3-033-00478-4 .

Web links

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Individual evidence

1. ↑ palafittes.org: Swiss sites in the UNESCO World Heritage Site ( Memento of the original from May 31, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. : Rapperswil-Jona / Hombrechtikon-Feldbach ( Seegubel , CH-SG-01), Rapperswil-Jona-Technikum (CH-SG-02), Freienbach-Hurden-Rosshorn (CH-SZ-01) in connection with the prehistoric and historical Sea crossings , accessed February 15, 2013  

Coordinates: 47 ° 13 '35.2 "  N , 8 ° 48' 46.5"  E ; CH1903:  seven hundred and four thousand and seventy-six  /  two hundred and thirty-one thousand five hundred and twenty-four