Kappeler milk soup
The so-called Kappeler milk soup is at the center of an important event in the history of Switzerland . At the end of June 1529, the Zurich troops marched against the central Swiss cantons . In this First Kappel War , a fratricidal war among the confederates could be prevented thanks to the mediation of the neutral towns .
According to the reports, the common footmen of the two armies used the time while the leaders were negotiating to fraternize and put a large saucepan on a fire near Kappel am Albis, exactly on the border between the two cantons. The people of Zug are said to have provided the milk and the people of Zurich the bread for a milk soup , which was then eaten by both armies together.
On a hill to the southwest of Ebertswil , the "Milk Soup Stone" reminds of this process. The large pot from which everyone ate together was of great symbolic value for the later historiography and identification of Switzerland.
In memory of this event, Kappel milk soup is still served today when a dispute can be settled through negotiation, for example by Federal Councilor Pascal Couchepin at the conclusion of the St. Gallen cultural property dispute in 2006.
The Kappeler milk soup on a painting by Albert Anker
Depiction in Heinrich Thomann's chronicle, around 1606
Coordinates: 47 ° 13 '17.5 " N , 8 ° 32' 42.8" E ; CH1903: six hundred eighty-three thousand eight hundred thirteen / 230657
Movie
- "Ex Voto", a film by Erich Langjahr
Individual evidence
- ^ Hans Nabholz, History of Switzerland , Zurich: Schulthess & Co., 1932–1938. OCLC 6857180
- ^ Helmut Meyer: Kappelerkriege. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- ↑ The Federal Council: Cultural goods dispute St. Gallen - Zurich: Successful conclusion of the federal mediation. April 27, 2006. Retrieved November 29, 2017 .
