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William Tell (German: Wilhelm Tell, pronounced [ˈvɪlhɛlm ˈtɛl] ⓘ; French: Guillaume Tell; Italian: Guglielmo Tell; Romansh: Guglielm Tell) is a folk hero of Switzerland. According to the legend, Tell was an expert mountain climber and marksman with a crossbow who assassinated Albrecht Gessler , a tyrannical reeve of the Austrian dukes of the House of Habsburg positioned in Altdorf , in ...
Jun 13, 2024 · William Tell, Swiss legendary hero who symbolized the struggle for political and individual freedom. The historical existence of Tell is disputed. According to popular legend, he was a peasant from Bürglen in the canton of Uri in the 13th and early 14th centuries who defied Austrian authority, was forced to shoot an apple from his son’s head ...
Feb 16, 2022 · The story of William Tell is one of the myths surrounding the creation of the Swiss Confederation. First mentioned in the White Book of Sarnen, a collection of manuscripts dating from 1470, he became a household name thanks to Friedrich von Schiller's play 'Wilhelm Tell'. This is the story of Switzerland's iconic hero who has been held up as the personification of bravery ever since.
William Tell's picture can be seen on the back of coins worth 5 Swiss Francs (largest coin in Switzerland, approximately 4 US $) - but there is reasonable doubt whether Wilhelm Tell ever has lived at all. However, the very legend of William Tell itself did have an enormous influence on the history of Switzerland and of other countries.
Nov 18, 2021 · William Tell, visiting with his son from a nearby village, refused to bow down and was arrested. Gessler decided that he would challenge Tell to shoot an apple on his son’s head from a distance of 120 paces. So Tell drew two arrows from his quiver, and naturally enough split the apple in two, and not his son’s head, no doubt to the ...
Aug 15, 2023 · The legend of William Tell, with its gripping tales of heroism and resistance, has become deeply embedded in the cultural fabric of Switzerland and beyond. But, a question that has long intrigued historians and scholars alike is whether William Tell was a flesh-and-blood figure or merely a mythological creation.
William Tell, verse drama in five acts by German dramatist Friedrich Schiller, published and produced in 1804 as Wilhelm Tell. During the 15th century, in the Swiss canton of Uri, the legendary hero Wilhelm Tell leads the people of the forest cantons in rebellion against tyrannical Austrian rule.
William Tell from Bürglen was known as an expert marksman with the crossbow. At the time, the Habsburg emperors were seeking to dominate Uri. Hermann Gessler, the newly appointed Austrian Vogt of Altdorf raised a pole in the village's central square with his hat on top and demanded that all the local townsfolk bow before it.
Jul 26, 2004 · Daniele Papacella and Dale Bechtel, swissinfo.ch. The legend says Tell came from the village of Bürglen in canton Uri. Tell was a hunter, a family man and skilled with a crossbow. But not much ...
This is what the legend tells…. It was on a Sunday in 1307 when William Tell set out from Bürglen, a small village in the Schächen Valley of Canton Uri, to visit his father-in-law, Walter Fürst, in Altdorf. He shouldered his crossbow, took his boy Walter by the hand, and strode forward. The path was not long, and they soon reached the town.
Oct 28, 2020 · William Tell (Wilhelm, Guillaume) is the name of a legendary Swiss hero from Canton Uri in the present-day Swiss Confederation. From the first recorded appearances of Tell in the late 15th century until the Revolutionary Era of the late 18th century, the symbol of William Tell has been used in a variety of ways to shape the cultural mythology of Switzerland, Europe, and the Atlantic world.
Wilhelm Tell ist zu jener Zeit Bergbauer und lebt im steilen unwegsamen Schächental (Kanton Uri). Geboren in Bürglen, lebt er dort auf dem "Schochen Land", das er von seinem Vater nach dessen Tod übernommen hat. Das steile "Bergheimätli", welches der kräftig gebaute Tell mit seiner Familie bewirtschaftet, ist umgeben von hohen Bergen mit ...
Sep 11, 2023 · Tell was carted off and tossed onto a boat. While being transported across Lake Lucerne, a vicious storm whipped up, rocking the boat savagely from side to side. The guards, apparently well aware of Tell’s legendary strength, released him, pleaded that he save them all from certain death. Seizing the opportunity, Tell drove the boat towards ...
The hunter William Tell hears Baumgarten’s story. Tell, the only person in the crowd with the courage to steer the boat in a tempest, makes preparations to take the fugitive across the lake. As ...
Jun 7, 2022 · Tell’s first name being “Wilhelm” (William), his origins in Burglen, the date of the apple shot and the story of his death in 1354 are among the extra details. This is the version, later fabrications and all, that became popular. William Tell here is a mountain climber and a skilled crossbow shooter.
Aug 1, 2012 · According to legend, William Tell came from Bürglen, canton Uri, and was an expert shot with the crossbow. At the beginning of the 14th century, the Habsburg emperors of Austria were seeking to ...
On the occasion of the 100th birthday of Friedrich Schiller, author of the play “Wilhelm Tell”, the original forest cantons decided in 1859 to dedicate the obelisk-shaped rock to Tell’s bard. R Legend has it that on an alpine meadow outside the Uri town of Seelisberg called the “Rütli”, the alliance between the three original forest cantons of Uri, Schwyz and Unterwalden (Obwalden ...
Legendary Swiss patriot. The legend goes that William Tell refused to remove his hat before the Austrian bailiff Gessler, and, as a punishment, was ordered to shoot an apple off his son's head. William Tell eventually shot Gessler at Küssnacht, an event which led to the uprising to oust Gessler in 1308. The legend is best known from Schiller's ...
English: William Tell / German: WILHELM TELL, Swiss legendary hero who symbolized the struggle for political and individual freedom. The historical existence of Tell is disputed. According to popular legend, he was a peasant from Bürglen in the canton of Uri in the 13th and early 14th centuries who defied Austrian authority, was forced to ...
William (Wilhelm) Tell, a renowned hunter of the Canton of Uri. Tell, a pacifist, avenges the oppression of the Swiss people by slaying the ruthless governor, the representative of the emperor of ...
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