Hollow Alley
The Hohle Gasse is an artificial ravine between Küssnacht and Immensee in Switzerland . In 1307 , Wilhelm Tell is said to have shot the Habsburg bailiff Hermann Gessler in Hohlen Gasse . In Friedrich Schiller's drama Wilhelm Tell , Tell (IV, 3) says: “He has to come through this hollow alley. There is no other way to Küssnacht. "
Today's Hohle Gasse was once the road from Küssnacht to Immensee. When the traffic increased, a bypass road was built in 1937, which relieved the Hohle Gasse from motorized traffic. The old street was narrowed with the help of stone blocks.
A collection of donations from the Swiss school youth led to the establishment of the Swiss Foundation for the Preservation of Hohlen Gasse in 1934. In 2004/05 this foundation renovated Hohle Gasse and created a new wheelchair-accessible path.
At the upper end are today's Immensee High School and the Bethlehem Mission Immensee . Both were founded in 1896 by the Savoy priest Pierre-Marie Barral . A picnic area and an information pavilion were built at the lower end.
literature
- Ivo Zemp, Kaspar Michel, Markus Bamert, Valentin Kessler: Gesslerburg and Hohle Gasse with Tell Chapel. (Swiss Art Guide, No. 790, Series 79). Ed. Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Bern 2006, ISBN 978-3-85782-790-7 .
Web links
- Hohle Gasse Foundation
- Franz Wyrsch: Hollow Lane. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Coordinates: 47 ° 5 '32.4 " N , 8 ° 27' 11.4" E ; CH1903: 677 027 / 216200