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[[Image:Wilhelm Tell Denkmal Altdorf um 1900.jpeg|left|thumb|[[Wilhelm Tell]] memorial in Altdorf, circa 1900.]] |
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==History== |
==History== |
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The earliest evidence of a settlement in Altdorf date to the 3<sup>rd</sup> Century BC. The people that settled in this region initially settled in the forest, and expanded toward the banks of the Reuss river. When the Reuss periodically flooded, the low lying settlements were destroyed and the inhabitants were driven back to the "old town", a possible source of the name Altdorf<ref>[http://www.altdorf.ch/de/alle/portrait/geschichte/welcome.php?action=showinfo&info_id=1525 Altdorf website-History-First Settlement] accessed [[22 November]] [[2008]] {{de_icon}}</ref>. |
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Altdorf is best known as the place where, according to the legend, [[William Tell]] shot the apple from his son's head. |
Altdorf is best known as the place where, according to the legend, [[William Tell]] shot the apple from his son's head. |
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This act by tradition happened on the market-place, where in 1895, at the foot of an old tower (with rude frescoes |
This act by tradition happened on the market-place, where in 1895, at the foot of an old tower (with rude frescoes |
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Revision as of 03:11, 23 November 2008
Altdorf | |
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 Coat of arms | |
Location of Altdorf  | |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Canton | Uri |
| District | n.a. |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Barbara Bär-Hellmüller |
| Area | |
| • Total | 10.21 km2 (3.94 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 458 m (1,503 ft) |
| Highest elevation (Eggberge) | 1,720 m (5,640 ft) |
| Lowest elevation (Wildried) | 432 m (1,417 ft) |
| Population (31 December 2018)[2] | |
| • Total | 9,401 |
| • Density | 920/km2 (2,400/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (Central European Time) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (Central European Summer Time) |
| Postal code(s) | 6460 |
| SFOS number | 1201 |
| ISO 3166 code | CH-UR |
| Surrounded by | Attinghausen, Bürglen, Flüelen, Seedorf |
| Twin towns | Altdorf b. Nürnberg (Germany) |
| Website | www SFSO statistics |
Altdorf (German for "old village") is the capital of the Swiss canton of Uri. The municipality covers an area of Template:Km2 to mi2. It is built at a height of Template:M to ft above sea-level, a little above the right bank of the Reuss, not far above the point where this river is joined on the right by the Schächen torrent.
The name is sometimes written as Altdorf UR, to distinguish it from Altdorf SH, a small village in the canton of Schaffhausen.
As of December 2007[update], the population of Altdorf was 8577[3]. The population density of the community is 856 inhabitants per km². In 1900 the population was 3117, all Roman Catholic and German-speaking.
Altdorf is Template:Km to mi from Lucerne by the St Gotthard railway and Template:Km to mi from Göschenen. Its port on the Lake of Lucerne, Flüelen, is Template:Mi to km miles distant. There is a stately parish church, while above the little town is the oldest Capuchin convent in Switzerland (1581).
History
The earliest evidence of a settlement in Altdorf date to the 3rd Century BC. The people that settled in this region initially settled in the forest, and expanded toward the banks of the Reuss river. When the Reuss periodically flooded, the low lying settlements were destroyed and the inhabitants were driven back to the "old town", a possible source of the name Altdorf[4].
Altdorf is best known as the place where, according to the legend, William Tell shot the apple from his son's head. This act by tradition happened on the market-place, where in 1895, at the foot of an old tower (with rude frescoes commemorating the feat), there was set up a fine bronze statue (by Richard Kissling of Zurich) of Tell and his son. In 1899 a theatre was opened close to the town's center for the purpose of performing Schiller's play of Wilhelm Tell.
The same year a new carriage-road was opened from Altdorf through the Schächental and over the Klausen Pass (Template:M to ft) to the village of Linthal (Template:Km to mi) and so to Glarus. Template:Km to mi from Altdorf by the Klausen road is the village of Bürglen, where by tradition Tell was born; while he is also said to have lost his life, while saving that of a child, in the Schächen torrent that flows past the village. On the left bank of the Reuss, immediately opposite Altdorf, is Attinghausen, where the ruined castle (which belonged to one of the real founders of the Swiss Confederation) now houses the cantonal museum of antiquities.
References
- ^ a b "Arealstatistik Standard - Gemeinden nach 4 Hauptbereichen". Federal Statistical Office. Retrieved 13 January 2019.
- ^ https://www.pxweb.bfs.admin.ch/pxweb/fr/px-x-0102020000_201/-/px-x-0102020000_201.px. Retrieved 2 June 2020.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ^ Bundesamt fur Statistik (Federal Department of Statistics) (2008). "Bilanz der ständigen Wohnbevölkerung (Total) nach Bezirken und Gemeinden" (Microsoft Excel). Retrieved November 5, 2008.
- ^ Altdorf website-History-First Settlement accessed 22 November 2008 Template:De icon
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
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External links
- Altdorf Template:De icon Official site
Media related to Altdorf at Wikimedia Commons- Altdorf (UR) in German, French and Italian in the online Historical Dictionary of Switzerland.
