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Wilhelm Tell Monument

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Wilhelm Tell Monument
Wilhelm Tell Monument
Wilhelm Tell Monument
Wilhelm Tell Monument
Wilhelm Tell Monument
Wilhelm Tell Monument
Wilhelm Tell Monument
Wilhelm Tell Monument
Wilhelm Tell Monument
Wilhelm Tell Monument
Wilhelm Tell Monument
Wilhelm Tell Monument
Wilhelm Tell Monument
Wilhelm Tell Monument
Wilhelm Tell Monument
Wilhelm Tell Monument
Wilhelm Tell Monument
Wilhelm Tell Monument
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Rathausplatz 1, Altdorf 6460, Switzerland

William Tell is a folk hero of Switzerland. According to the legend, Tell was an expert marksman with the crossbow who assassinated Albrecht Gessler, a tyrannical reeve of the Habsburg dukes positioned in Altdorf, in the canton of Uri. Tell's defiance and tyrannicide encouraged the population to open rebellion and a pact against the foreign rulers with neighbouring Schwyz and Unterwalden, marking the foundation of the Swiss Confederacy. Set in the early 14th century , the first written records of the legend date to the latter part of the 15th century, when the Swiss Confederacy was gaining military and political influence. Tell is a central figure in Swiss national historiography, along with Arnold von Winkelried the hero of Sempach . He was important as a symbol during the formative stage of modern Switzerland in the 19th century, known as the period of Restoration and Regeneration, as well as in the wider history of 18th- to 19th-century Europe as a symbol of resistance against aristocratic rule, especially in the Revolutions of 1848 against a House of Habsburg which still ruled Austria five hundred years later.
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