Meienberg ob Rapperswil on Lake Zurich
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Meienberg whether Rapperswil on Lake Zurich , also "Meyenberg" or "Meienberggut", is a Nagelfluh terrace above Rapperswil-Jona on Lake Zurich , in the canton of St. Gallen , Switzerland and is 487 m above sea level. M. high. The place is located 2.3 km northeast of Rapperswil train station and has fruit, wine and meadow growing.
history
First mentioned in the chronicle of Aegidius Tschudi , who describes how Urner, Zug and Glarus troops set up camp in 1443 during the Old Zurich War "from the Kilchen ze Kempraten / behind the Büchel to the Meienberg ob Rapperschwil / since the Strash von Rüte harin gat ".
The upper Meienberg probably belonged to the Pfäfers monastery since the early Middle Ages . In 1824 the monastery sold the Meienberg terrace to the Braendlin brothers and the Pfauenwirt Heussi. In the first half of the 19th century, the lower Meienberg belonged to the Helbling family .
In 1828 the Swiss abroad Johann Jakob Staub , who had acquired a large fortune in Paris as a "marchand tailleur" (master tailor), built a classicist country residence on the upper Meienberg ( called Schloss Meienberg after later renovations ). Staub's daughter married the industrialist Jakob Braendlin-Näf , who lived on the Meienberg and had the Villa Grünstels built on the eastern slope in 1822.
In 1845 the German poet and radical democrat Ferdinand Freiligrath (1810–1876) lived as a political refugee in the villa in the lower Meienberg. Among the politicians and artists who visited Freiligrath on the Meienberg were Franz Liszt , who presented him with the famous melody to the poem " O dear, as long as you can " ( Liebestraum No. 3), the writer Gottfried Keller and the American Travel writer and poet Bayard Taylor on his walking tour of Europe.
In 1859, Louise Marie von Bourbon , Duchess of Parma (Luisa Maria di Borbone, daughter of the Duke of Berry , 1819–1864) lived with her children and entourage in Meienberg Castle. In 1854, after her husband, Karl III. The regency of Parma for its still infant son, Robert I , adopted. Despite a wise government and high reputation, the duchess-regent could not prevent the fall of the dynasty in Italy's second war of independence and fled to Switzerland under pressure from the troops of Sardinia-Piedmont and Garibaldi's freedom movement. In 1912/13 the Swiss Abroad Albert Meyer-von Reutercrona , who had returned from Argentina , acquired the Meienberggut.
literature
- Wilhelm Buchner: Ferdinand Freiligrath - A poet's life in letters, Lahr 1882.
- Gustav Strickler-Meyer: The Meyer von Dürnten family, Zurich 1915.
- Martha Burkhardt: Rapperswil the city of roses, Erlenbach 1921, 142 ff.
- Gottlieb Binder: On the cultural history of Lake Zurich, Erlenbach around 1936, p. 313 ff.
- Ernst Braendlin: Old stories from Meienberg, yearbook from Lake Zurich 1944/45, Max Niehans Verlag, Zurich 1944, p. 103 ff.
- Emil Bebler: Ferdinand Freiligrath in Switzerland, separate print from the Zurich paperback for the year 1947; Zurich 1946.
- Eugen Halter u. Liselotte Gass-Halter: The Meienberg near Rapperswil in the 19th century, 1984.
- Carl Helbling: Die Helbling, Rapperswil and Jona, Verlag Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Zurich 2003, ISBN 3-03823-006-5 , p. 115.
- Peter Röllin: Kulturbaukasten Rapperswil-Jona, Rapperswil-Jona 2005, ISBN 3-033-00478-4 , p. 90 f.
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Coordinates: 47 ° 14 ′ 9 " N , 8 ° 49 ′ 50" E ; CH1903: 705.4 thousand / 232600