Tell Chapel, Hohlen Gasse, Küssnacht am Rigi

Tell Chapel, Hohlen Gasse, Küssnacht am Rigi

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Tell Chapel, Hohlen Gasse, Küssnacht am Rigi

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Location: Küssnacht (SZ), Schwyz, Zentralschweiz, Switzerland

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April 26, 2023

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Tell's Chapel, Hohlen Gasse, Küssnacht am Rigi
According to the «White Book of Sarnen», Tell shot the Habsburg bailiff Gessler with an arrow in Hohle Gasse. According to Ägidius Tschudi (around 1530), a chapel was built to commemorate it, which was completely rebuilt in 1638. The Tells chapel (patrocinium: St. Margareta, later 14 Nothelfer) received an altarpiece by Caspar Wolf in 1760. In 1905, Hans Bachmann painted Gessler's death on the facade and Tell's death in the Schächenbach in the interior.
The construction and inauguration of Hohle Gasse from 1935 to 1937
Text / source: "White Book of Sarnen"
hohlegasse.ch/1/wilhelm-tell/index.php?id=9&L=128

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Me Li 🇨🇭

April 10, 2024

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The almost 400-year-old chapel is a magnet for visitors. You meet hikers and bikers here. It is more crowded on holidays and at weekends, but there is always someone there, but it is quiet. It is incredibly beautiful to look at these wall paintings.

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Claudia Hinkelhuber

October 10, 2020

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The Tell Chapel commemorates Gessler's death with a mural. The punished tyrant, however, has to remain outside, in the porch. Tell's death is also depicted, on the same back wall of the chapel, but on the inside.
Source: blog.nationalmuseum.ch/2017/10/kuessnacht-hohle-gasse-geschichte-raus-mythos-rein

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