The Rütli Oath (German: Rütlischwur, German pronunciation: [ˈryːtliˌʃvuːr]) is the legendary oath taken at the foundation of the Old Swiss Confederacy...

which dramatized the Rütli oath. A patriotic Rütlilied was written by Johann Krauer and Franz Joseph Greith in 1820. In 1859, the Rütli meadow was bought...

to symbolise the Holy Trinity. Depictions of the Rütli Oath or Rütlischwur, the legendary founding oath of the Old Swiss Confederacy in the 13th century...

the 25 francs coin represented William Tell and the 50 francs coin the Rütli oath. A total of 15 and 6 million pieces of the 25 and 50 francs version, respectively...

In Swiss historiography, this relates most notably to the Rütlischwur (Rütli Oath) between the three founding cantons Uri, Schwyz and Unterwalden, which...

(Landschreiber) Obwalden. It mentions the Rütli oath (German: Rütlischwur) and names Tell as one of the conspirators of the Rütli, whose heroic tyrannicide triggered...

the Rütli, a location charged with symbolism in Swiss Romantic nationalism by virtue of being identified as the site of the legendary Rütli Oath. He made...

after the Napoleonic era. Rütlischwur, a legendary oath of the Old Swiss Confederacy, taken on the Rütli, a meadow above Lake Lucerne, by three men representing...

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Neuchâtel, St. Gallen a.o.). Traditional date. The original date of the Rütli Oath was 1307 (reported by Aegidius Tschudi in the 16th century) and is just...

1280 Bishop and scholar 58 Rütlischwur after 1306 The three men of the Rütli oath, foundation of the Old Swiss Confederacy 59 Friedrich der Schöne 1330...

mountains / echo our calls / our songs of liberty" and comparing the Rütli Oath with a Republican liberty tree. Yet in spite of the Republican sentiment...

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The Oath on the Grütli, also known as The Oath of the Three Confederates on the Rütli, is an oil on canvas painting by the Swiss artist Henry Fuseli,...

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Timeline Enlargement Early history Roman era Old Confederacy Federal Charter Rütli Oath Growth Reformation Early Modern era Napoleonic era Restoration Federal...

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trurig?—while Johann Georg Krauer (1792–1845), of Lucerne, wrote the Rütlilied, Von ferne sei herzlich gegrüßet, and Gottfried Keller himself was responsible...

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and, according to Friedrich Schiller's play William Tell, oath-taker at the famous Rütli-oath of 1 August 1291 forming the Old Swiss Confederacy. There...

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Timeline Enlargement Early history Roman era Old Confederacy Federal Charter Rütli Oath Growth Reformation Early Modern era Napoleonic era Restoration Federal...

Timeline Enlargement Early history Roman era Old Confederacy Federal Charter Rütli Oath Growth Reformation Early Modern era Napoleonic era Restoration Federal...

Timeline Enlargement Early history Roman era Old Confederacy Federal Charter Rütli Oath Growth Reformation Early Modern era Napoleonic era Restoration Federal...

arm of Lake Lucerne. The trail starts at the Rütli: the meadow where, according to tradition, the oath of allegiance forming the original Swiss Confederacy...

Confederacy. This second part, 25 pages in length, makes mention of the Rütli oath (German: Rütlischwur), the Burgenbruch, and William Tell’s heroic deeds...

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