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Rapperswil 1637

Drawing: View of the City of  Rapperswil, Switzerland at around  the year of 1637

Drawing: View of the City of Rapperswil, Switzerland at around the year of 1637

From Wikipedia: Because of its strategic location along important infrastructure lines, and because of flourishing trade, the town grew rich. In 1656 and 1712 (Battles of Villmergen), Rapperswil was involved in two wars between the Catholic and Reformed cantons of the Old Swiss Confederation. Rapperswil was at first part of the Helvetic and the canton of Linth's capital city. After the 1803 Act of Mediation, it joined the canton of St. Gallen, and the former Herrschaft Rapperswil was split into the municipalites of Rapperswil and Jona.

 

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