Rütli
Rütli or Grütli is a mountain meadow on Lake Lucerne, in the Seelisberg municipality of the Swiss canton of Uri. It is the site of the Rütlischwur in traditional Swiss historiography, the oath marking the foundation of the original Swiss Confederacy.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Locality
- Description: mountain meadow on Lake Lucerne, Switzerland
- Also known as: “Rutli” and “Rütli-Wiese”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Rütli house on the Rütli meadow and Maria Sonnenberg pilgrimage chapel with chaplain’s house.
Rütli house on the Rütli meadow
Building
Photo: WES1947, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Rütli house on the Rütli meadow is a building.
Maria Sonnenberg pilgrimage chapel with chaplain’s house
Church
Photo: Roland Zumbuehl, CC BY 3.0.
Maria Sonnenberg pilgrimage chapel with chaplain’s house is a church.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Treib and Morschach.
Treib
Hamlet
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Treib is a small lakeside community and landing stage on the shore of Lake Lucerne and in the Swiss canton of Uri. It forms part of the municipality of Seelisberg, to the centre of which it is linked by the Treib–Seelisberg funicular.
Morschach
Village
Photo: Uwelino, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Morschach is a municipality in Schwyz District in the canton of Schwyz in Switzerland. It was a world-famous resort from 1869 up to the Great Depression. Morschach is situated 2½ km northeast of Rütli.
Sisikon
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sisikon is a municipality in the canton of Uri in Switzerland. It is situated on the shore of Lake Lucerne. Sisikon is situated 3 km southeast of Rütli.
Rütli
- Categories: meadow and cultural landscape
- Location: Seelisberg, Uri, Canton of Uri, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
46.96791° or 46° 58′ 5″ northLongitude
8.59272° or 8° 35′ 34″ eastOpen location code
8FRCXH9V+53OpenStreetMap ID
node 240049030OpenStreetMap feature
place=localityWikidata ID
Q688537
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Ukrainian—“Rütli” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “呂特利”
- Czech: “Grütli”
- Czech: “Rütli”
- Danish: “Rütli”
- Danish: “Rytli”
- Dutch: “Grutli”
- Dutch: “Grütli”
- Dutch: “Ruetli”
- Dutch: “Rutli”
- Dutch: “Rütli”
- Esperanto: “Grütli”
- Esperanto: “Ruetli”
- Esperanto: “Rütli”
- French: “Grutli”
- French: “Grütli”
- French: “Rütli”
- German: “Grütli”
- German: “Rütli”
- German: “Rütliwiese”
- Italian: “Grütli”
- Italian: “Rutli”
- Italian: “Rütli”
- Korean: “뤼틀리”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Rütli”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Grutli”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Grütli”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Rutli”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Rütli”
- Polish: “Rütli”
- Portuguese: “Gruetli”
- Portuguese: “Grütli”
- Portuguese: “Pradaria do Grütli”
- Portuguese: “Pradaria do Rütli”
- Portuguese: “Ruetli”
- Portuguese: “Rütli”
- Russian: “Рютли”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Rütli”
- Sicilian: “Grütli”
- Slovenian: “Grütli”
- Slovenian: “Rütli”
- Swedish: “Rütli”
- Swiss German: “Rütli”
- Swiss German: “Rütliwiese”
- Tosk Albanian: “Rütli”
- Turkish: “Rütli Çayırı”
- Turkish: “Rütli”
- Ukrainian: “Рютлі”
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