Greifensee Castle (German: Schloss Greifensee) is a castle in the municipality of Greifensee and the canton of Zurich in Switzerland. It was probably built...
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Greifensee is a municipality in the district of Uster in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland. Settlements in Greifensee date back in 4000 B.C. In 1975...
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Ital Reding the Elder (redirect from Murder of Greifensee)
the Murder of Veer, the mass execution of 62 men of the garrison of Greifensee Castle after their surrender, on 28 May 1444. As Landammann of Schwyz, Reding...
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Altstadt and Greifensee castle. Greifensee is the scene of the Greifensee-Lauf, a semi-marathon around the lake held every year. Greifensee is a popular...
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Rapperswil sold the pledge of the reign Greifensee to the knight Hermann II. von Landenberg, including the Greifensee castle, the town and the lake of the same...
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Girsberg Castle, Girsberg Ruins of Glanzenberg Castle, Unterengstringen Greifenberg Castle, Bäretswil Greifensee Castle, Greifensee Grüningen Castle, Grüningen...
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Reformierte Kirche Greifensee (native German name, literally: Greifensee Reformed Church or commonly Gallus-Kapelle Im Städtli), is a church and a listed...
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Landenberg (section Landenberg-Greifensee)
Landenberg-Greifensee line peaked in the 1350s with Hermann IV, whose sons came into financial difficulties and had to sell a number of castles, among them...
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chapel in Greifensee and the foundation of those castle chapel are mentioned around 1350. On 18 March 1381 Herman von Landenberg-Greifensee asked the...
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Greifensee Castle...
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metres (1,332 ft). Two other sites are not far away: Greifensee–Storen/Wildsberg at the Greifensee and Wetzikon–Robenhausen at the Pfäffikersee. As well...
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Tauber, Germany, in 1900... ... and in 2008 Castles of Bellinzona, Switzerland Greifensee and its castle, Switzerland, as seen from the Gallus chapel...
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October, on Sundays 2 to 5 pm, the castle's tower may used as vantage point overlooking the Glatt Valley and the Greifensee lake shore towards the Pfannenstiel–Forch...
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Rapperswil not earlier than 1300. Some fortifications, among them in Greifensee, Uster and Alt-Rapperswil were built probably in the early 12th century...
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by the House of Regensberg, and about 1350 to 1458 by the Landenberg-Greifensee family, and the fourth construction phase from 1458 to 1468 by the then...
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withdrew from the war altogether. In May 1444, the confederacy laid siege to Greifensee, and captured the town after four weeks, on May 27, beheading all but...
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Jucker Farm, Aathal Dinosaur Museum, some notable medieval castles (Bubikon, Kyburg, Greifensee, Uster, Rapperswil), the DVZO heritage railway between Hinwil...
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construction. The municipality is located on the south-west shore of the Greifensee. It includes the village of Maur and the settlements of Aesch, Scheuren...
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(15 sq mi) around Lake Zurich, there also the settlements Greifensee–Storen/Wildsberg at the Greifensee and Wetzikon–Robenhausen at the Pfäffikersee. As well...
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mountain pass named Forch connects Küsnacht on Lake Zürich and Maur on Greifensee respectively in the Glatt Valley. A monument called Wehrmännerdenkmal...
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1274 by the Habsburgs. In 1358 Hermann IV of Landsberg-Greifensee acquired Alt-Bichelsee Castle along with various rights and possessions, including the...
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Breitenlandenberg and 61 companions (1444) – executed following the siege of Greifensee during the Old Zürich War Anna Göldi (1782) – executed as the "last witch...
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such as a school, college, hospital, palace or large aristocratic house, castle, barracks, prison, funeral home, cemetery, airport, or a military or commercial...
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Clendy Le Marais Oterswil / Insel Eielen Riedmatt Sumpf Erlenbach–Winkel Greifensee–Storen/Wildsberg Meilen–Rorenhaab Wädenswil–Vorder Au Wetzikon-Robenhausen...
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Bürgermeister und der Rat von Zürich halten fest, dass Ulrich von Landenberg-Greifensee und dessen Ehefrau Verena vo... (1386.01.05)" (in German). Staatsarchiv...
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east of Zürich. It is bisected by the Glatt river which runs from the Greifensee (Lake Greifen) which lies directly to the southeast. Dübendorf is located...
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(1914) Note: The oldest active Swiss steamship is Greif (1895, on the Greifensee) with screw propulsion. No paddle ship is currently in operation in France...
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Bremgarten Brugg Bülach Chur Delémont Diessenhofen Frauenfeld Fribourg Geneva Greifensee Grüningen Gruyères Ilanz Laufen Lausanne Lenzburg Liestal – one town gate...
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immediate lordship 14th Century: Fief of Bishopric of Chur 1388: Extinct; to Greifensee 1424: Imperial immediacy 1469: To Friedingen 1494: To Grüningen 1509:...
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Glarus and Zug defeat Zürich and Habsburg 1444, 28 May Siege of Greifensee Greifensee Bern, Lucerne, Uri, Schwyz, Unterwalden, Glarus and Zug defeat Zürich...
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