Tell monument
The Tell Monument is a memorial to the Swiss national hero Wilhelm Tell .
Tell monument in Altdorf
The most well known Telldenkmal is in the town square of Altdorf , before Türmli (coordinates:. 46.88181 ° N , 8.64389 ° O )
The bronze statue of Richard Kissling was inaugurated on August 28, 1895 at the foot of an old tower. It shows the Swiss national hero with shouldered crossbow accompanied by his son Walter. On the pedestal is the traditional date of the Rütli oath , 1307. The background image on the tower comes from the painter Hans Sandreuter .
Behind the two statues, the following inscription is placed on a large bronze plate:
One will tell of the shooter Tell
So Long The mountains stand on their bottom.
A competition was announced for the creation of the statue, and Kissling emerged as the winner. He was allowed to execute the statue, but had to rework it according to the client's wishes. The second prize went to Robert Dorer , the third to Raimondo Pereda , and the fourth to Gustav Siber.
Figure of Walther Tell at the House of Switzerland
At the House of Switzerland in Berlin a figure of Walther Tell was attached. Originally, a figure of Wilhelm Tell was to be installed on the building, which was completed in 1936. The responsible administrative authorities in the Third Reich had forbidden a representation of the freedom fighter, so that a figure of Wilhelm Tell's son, Walther Tell was installed as a compromise. (Coordinates: 52.5175 ° N , 13.38861 ° O )
Other monuments
In addition to the Altdorf memorial, there are a number of other tell monuments:
Existing monuments
- Tellskapelle on Uri (coordinates: 46.93266 ° N , 8.61182 ° O )
- Tell monument in Bürglen between the Catholic Church and Tell Museum (Coordinates: 46.87525 ° N , 8.66286 ° O ) and memorial cross at the death of Tell on the banks of Schächen , built around 1865/70
- Tell monument by Vincenzo Vela , erected in 1856 on the quay of the Hotel Du Parc in Lugano , postponed in 1914
- Tell monument by Antonin Mercié , erected in 1901 in front of the justice building (Palais de Justice) Montbenon in Lausanne (the former Federal Court building, now the District Court)
- Hollow Lane , 1937 according to the stage directions of Friedrich Schiller "restored" (Coordinates: 47.09233 ° N , 8.45316 ° O )
- Tell monument by Emilio Stanzani , erected in 1959 in front of the church in Küssnacht
- Tell Monument on Rat Island in Long Island Sound in New York . The monument on the small island is a 1: 1 copy of the Tell monument from Altdorf (height: 4 meters). The Tell Monument was inaugurated on August 1, 2016 and also has its own official address: William Tell, 1291 Wilhelm Tell Square, Rat Island, City Island, BRONX, New York, NY 10464, USA
Fountain figures
- Tell fountain in Schaffhausen from 1522
- Tell statue by Joseph Benedikt Curiger, 1786–1860 as a fountain figure in Altdorf, since 1891 a fountain figure in Bürglen
- Tell fountain by Hugo Siegwart , built in Lucerne in 1911/12
Disappeared monuments
- Obelisk erected by Guillaume Thomas François Raynal in 1783 on the Altstatt Island near Meggenhorn , destroyed by a lightning strike in 1796
- Tell monument by Friedrich Schäferle (1709–1786), erected in 1780 on the Lindenhof in Zurich , destroyed in 1800
- Gypsum tell by Hans Konrad Siegfried, erected in 1859 above the entrance gate for the Federal Free Shooting in Zurich, from 1860 in Altdorf near the church square, destroyed in 1895
- Plaster model of the statue of Kissling, until 1976 in the atrium of the main building of the ETH Zurich , then in a warehouse of the National Museum
Web links
- Information from the canton of Uri on the Tell monument in Altdorf
- Information on the Tell Monument in Altdorf , on the private website tell.ch
Individual evidence
- ↑ Karl Iten: "But we have the right Wilhelm ..." The history of the Altdorf Tell monument. Verlag Gisler, Altdorf 1995, ISBN 3-9520570-6-1 .
- ↑ Figure see Commons
- ↑ Wilhelm Tell at the Lindenhof (Lehrmittelverlag Zürich) (PDF)
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