Memorial for the Battle of Näfels:
Two months later, the Habsburg army of 600 men on horseback and 6,000 foot soldiers, which had gathered in Weesen, broke into the Linth …

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Reminiscent of the battle of 1388, created 500 years later, in 1888. Client Kt. Glarus, architect Alfred Romang, construction period December 1887 to March 1888, material granite from Osogna (Ti). Height 10.8 m.

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Monument to the battle of 1388 and remains of the Letzimauer.

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