Ueli Rotach
Ueli Rotach (also Uli Rotach and Uli Rottach ) is an Appenzell folk hero who, according to a legend, died in 1405 at the Battle of the Stoss . He is said to have killed almost a dozen opponents in front of a burning barn before he himself died in the flames.
He is mentioned for the first time in 1566 in Appenzell's year book : “They perished in the Rintall am Stoss: Hensli Duple and Ueli Rottach, whom the Fiend burns on the hand of Gaden, sunst hand sy may not kill him; yren twelve are ym gsin, from whose he suffered good Thaill ”. The reports of June 19, 1405 from St. Gallen , the entry in the White Book of Sarnen from 1470 and the entry in the Winterthur Chronicle from 1530 do not mention Ueli Rotach.
In 1904 the design by Valentin Walter Mettler for the bronze relief " Uli Rotach fights against the enemy in front of the burning hut" on the facade of the town hall in Appenzell was accepted by the local monument commission and inaugurated on June 26, 1905.
See also
literature
- Hugener, Rainer: Fallen heroes. Social impact and political instrumentalization of medieval battle dead, in: Traverse. Zeitschrift für Geschichte 15/2, 2008, pp. 15–26.
Web links
- Editor: Rotach, Uli. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .