Lindenhof (Rapperswil)

Geschichte

Lindenhof in Rapperswil is a moraine hill and a public square being the historic center of Rapperswil, Switzerland.GeographyLindenhof hill dominates the old city of Rapperswil, a locality of the municipality of Rapperswil-Jona in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland. Being a moraine remain of the last Glacial period in Switzerland, the area was created as a rocky conglomerate about 20,000 years ago. Its northwestern slope towards the bay of Kempraten on Zürichsee lakeshore is named Schlosshalde, and Schlosshügel, the opposite side of the longish hill, is dominated by the vineyard of that name and Rapperswil's 'official' rose garden towards the harbour area respectively Seedamm and Obersee lakeshore. In all, the around 590m long and about 150m wide hill, is surrounded on three sides by water, and rises about 30m above lakeshore level; just the small eastern Herrenberg area is connected with the landside Altstadt und 19th-century extensions of the city of Rapperswil. Endingerhorn is the name of the western side of the longish mountain where the monastery is situated.In the south, just a few dozens meters away, at the landing gate of the Zürichsee-Schifffahrtsgesellschaft operate passenger vessels on the lake towards Zürich, and the nearby situated Rapperswil railway station is a nodal point of the Südostbahn and S-Bahn Zürich railway operators.