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20-755: The chapel is located next to the Seedamm , near the Rapperswil railway station . It is situated on a small island on upper Lake Zürich ( Obersee ) off of the Holzbrücke Rapperswil-Hurden , a historical wooden bridge that was reconstructed in 2001. During formation of the Alps, layers of sediment were deposited by ancient bodies of water. This gave rise to the banded rocks that form the Lindenhof hill in Rapperswil, and

40-511: A narrow section at Lake Lugano is comparable to the Seedamm. The Seedamm connects the Swiss cantons of Schwyz (Hurden) and St. Gallen (Rapperswil). The village of Hurden is located on a peninsula protruding from the south shore of Lake Zurich. This peninsula, a terminal moraine , was formed by an ice age glacier (Linth glacier) ca. 17'000 years ago. The Hurden peninsula and the Seedamm divide

60-872: Is a register of cultural property in Switzerland . It was established according to article 5 of the second protocol to the Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict , which provides for the establishment of national registers of cultural property. The register contains both mobile and immobile items of cultural property including old towns, quarters, squares, villages, sacral buildings, houses, castles, bridges, monuments, archaeological sites and collections. Its entries are classified in two groups: those of national significance (class A) and those of regional significance (class B). The selection

80-471: Is based on the significance of the items in the domains of history , aesthetics , art , typology , ethnography , social studies and in other scientific disciplines, as well as on their rarity value. Items of purely local significance are not included; these may be registered separately by the cantonal authorities. The register is prepared by the Federal Office of Civil Protection in cooperation with

100-460: Is spanned by the Sternenbrücke , which also carries both road and railway. This causeway was renovated between March and November 2010 to allow 40 tonne trucks to cross the Seedamm. At the beginning of the 21st-century, about 75 passenger trains and 24,000 vehicles crossed the causeway and the town of Rapperswil-Jona every day, and as of 2016, an average of 26,000 vehicles. In order to relieve

120-487: Is the artificial causeway at the narrowest area of Lake Zurich between Hurden (SZ) and Rapperswil (SG). The structure contains two bridge segments and is approximately 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) long. The Seedamm carries a road ( Hauptstrasse 8 ) and a railway across the lake, with the railway being used by the S5 and S40 services of Zurich S-Bahn and by Südostbahn 's Voralpen Express . The Melide causeway across

140-454: The Frauenwinkel . Remains of Prehistoric lake crossings were found at Freienbach–Hurden Rosshorn , an archaeological site located at one of the Seedamm's bridges. The Seedamm's predecessor was a historical wooden bridge that was first completed in 1360 and rebuilt several times. For centuries, this connection had been part of the so-called Jakobsweg , an old pilgrimage route. In 1873

160-675: The House of Rapperswil . In the years before the Reformation in Zürich , its last superior, Katharine Scheuchzer (Katharina Schüchter) fought that the nunnery should be dissolved, and asked the neighboring Rüti Abbey and the Old Swiss Confederacy for support. When an epidemic in the Rapperswil hospital broke out in 1563, Scheuchzer was accused of witchcraft. Although the Tagsatzung 's verdict of 1543

180-570: The Swiss federal parliament approved the construction of the today's stone causeway and bridge. Construction works began in 1875 and finished in 1878 (in the same year the existing wooden bridge was removed). The construction cost the sum of 1,462,000 Swiss Francs, of which 1,100,000 had been paid by the city of Rapperswil. In 1878 the Zürichsee-Gotthardbahn established the railway line from Rapperswil railway station via Seedamm. In 1939 and 1951

200-603: The cantonal authorities and formally issued by the Federal Council . It was first published in 1988 and re-issued in updated form in 1995 and 2009. The 2009 revision covers only A-class objects, with the B-class objects set to be reviewed and updated at a later time. Until then, the lists of B-class objects published by the Office include the B-class objects of the 1995 inventory, the proposals for new or changed B-class objects submitted by

220-647: The former Rüti Abbey via Kempraten and Rapperswil and the wooden bridge to the St. Meinrad Pass towards the Einsiedeln Abbey . According to an inscription, the present stone building dates back to 1551. The chapel became the site of an execution after a legal dispute over a pasture belonging to the Wydenchlösterli , a nunnery on the shore of the Jona River . The Wydenchlösterli was a small Beguine nunnery founded by

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240-584: The interior, is preserved together with a representation of the Virgin Mary with the body of Christ in the Stadtmuseum Rapperswil-Jona . The fresco was replaced by a replica by the Swiss artist Marlies Pekarek, and was inaugurated and blessed on 7 April 2011 with the intention of returning the bridge chapel to its original purpose. The interior of the chapel is visible only through the latticed east side. Following an old custom, pilgrims throw coins into

260-607: The interior. As of today the small chapel is owned by the Ortsgemeinde (citizenry's community) Rapperswil. The chapel was partially renovated in 1908, 1930, 1957, 2011 and 2015. The chapel is under protection since 1907 and the building itself is listed in the Swiss inventory of cultural property of national and regional significance as an object of regional importance . 47°13′20.90″N 8°48′53.7″E  /  47.2224722°N 8.814917°E  / 47.2224722; 8.814917 Seedamm The Rapperswil Seedamm

280-493: The islands of Ufnau , Lützelau and Heilighüsli. During the last Ice Age the island was under a thick layer of ice. Over time, only the harder layers of conglomerate rock and sandstone remained after the erosion by the glacier, creating the islands. The chapel, built near the former medieval wooden bridge between Rapperswil and Hurden , was first mentioned in 1485 AD as a wooden prayer house or pilgrim's chapel. The pilgrimage route Jakobsweg (Way of St. James) leads through

300-438: The lake and was not accessible to visitors until the reconstruction of the former wooden bridge was completed in 2001. The chapel stands on an approximately 4 metres (13 ft) high base, and measures just 2 metres (7 ft) x 3 metres (10 ft), with eaves standing at about 3.5 metres (11 ft). It has a west-facing apse, in which a miraculous fresco was once installed. The altarpiece, whose outlines are still visible in

320-483: The main part of Lake Zurich from its upper part, the Obersee . The Seedamm runs across an area of shallow water. The Holzbrücke Rapperswil-Hurden , a wooden pedestrian bridge built in 2001, is located to the east of the Seedamm. The mire landscape Frauenwinkel is situated on the western side of Hurden and on the southern lakeshore between Hurden and Pfäffikon. The islands Lützelau and Ufenau are located close to

340-512: The now called Seedamm causeway was reinforced to meet growing demand. Whilst the bridge sections of the Seedamm allow smaller vessels to pass under them, the main shipping channel between the lower and upper halves of Lake Zurich now passes through the Hurden ship canal , which was cut through the base of the Hurden peninsular in 1942/43, thus placing the village of Hurden on an artificial island. This canal

360-556: The region, from Wattwil over the Ricken Pass to Schmerikon on to Lachen and Buechberg , along the left bank of the upper lake to St. Meinrad Pass , or from Schmerikon along Obersee , passing Bollingen , Wurmsbach and Jona - Busskirch to Rapperswil and then crossing the wooden bridge towards Hurden . Another route leads over the Hörnli mountain through the Töss Valley , passing

380-724: The traffic on road and rail during rush hours, Rapperswil-Jona is expected to participate as the first Swiss city in a pilot project for so-called Mobility pricing . 47°13′16″N 8°48′40″E  /  47.22111°N 8.81111°E  / 47.22111; 8.81111 Swiss inventory of cultural property of national and regional significance The Swiss Inventory of Cultural Property of National and Regional Significance ( German : Schweizerisches Inventar der Kulturgüter von nationaler und regionaler Bedeutung ; French : Inventaire suisse des biens culturels d'importance nationale et régionale ; Italian : Inventario dei beni culturali svizzeri d'importanza nazionale e regionale )

400-508: Was in favor of the small nunnery, after cruel torture, the old woman was sentenced by the town council to death, put in a bag, and drowned in the Obersee lake at Heilig Hüsli chapel. The property of the nunnery was transferred to the hospital. After the Seedamm was built in 1878, the Heilig Hüsli chapel was the only remaining structure of the original medieval wooden bridge. It stood isolated in

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