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Salomon Gessner Memorial

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    July 29, 2021

    Half an hour from the Rhodannenberg, turning left from the little road in "Güntlenau" into the darkness of the forest, a path a few meters long leads to moss-covered rock debris. From the largest of these gray blocks, the dedication of artistic enthusiasm for the poems of the great Zurich artist Salomon Geßner, which two admirers of the poet dedicated to his poetry here in 1788, shines in white letters.

    SALOMON GESSNERN
    NATURE WANTED TO CREATE A MONUMENT
    AND SHE HAS HIS NAME HERE
    BY Z. AND B., 1788


    Geßner himself never visited the valley; But the two admirers, governor Büeler von Rapperswil and Pannerherr J. P. Zwicky von Glarus, rightly found the symbol for the poet's delicate idyllic art in the quiet place on the lake shore.
    «We looked at each other, couldn't talk; for everyone had tears in their eyes; we fell on each other's necks and kissed. " Büeler tells of the intimate inauguration of the memorial stone.


    Kaspar Freuler, 1897

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      October 19, 2022

      Nice view from the monument.

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        Location: Glarus, Eastern Switzerland, Switzerland

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