Each story is rooted in real local history and landmarks
A monk arrives at court with a skeleton who speaks: the dead Ursus must confirm his land donation before his greedy brother Landolf. A child helps Saint Fridolin find the courage to summon the dead witness, discovering that truth can rise even from the grave. The legend of Glarus's patron saint becomes a mystery of faith and justice.
A child escapes the 1861 inferno that destroys two-thirds of Glarus, fleeing through the Meerenge as church bells melt in the heat. Afterward, the child helps architect Bernhard Simon redesign the town with a magic grid that fire cannot cross — wide streets, stone buildings, and a plan for a safer future.
A child inherits a miniature wooden sword and discovers it grants the power to speak at the Landsgemeinde. At the open-air assembly on the Zaunplatz, the child learns that democracy means every voice counts, even the smallest — and that the orange voting cards raised by thousands of hands can change the law in an instant.
A child climbs the Glärnisch and finds Vreneli's ghost tending her snow garden at 2,904 meters. Together they must plant one real flower before the summer heat melts the last patch of snow — the triangular snowfield visible from Zurich that tells the story of a spirited girl buried beneath her own ambition.
On the battlefield in 1388, a child from Glarus and a child from Austria meet in the fog and must decide: fight or make peace? Retelling the Battle of Näfels through children's eyes, the story explores how 400 defenders defeated 6,500 Habsburg soldiers when snow, fog, and courage turned the tide of history.
A child follows a trail of fenugreek herbs from the Säckingen monastery to the Landsgemeinde of 1463, where the secret recipe for Schabziger is about to be sealed with the cantonal stamp forever. The world's oldest branded cheese reveals its origins in a tale of monks, crusaders, and a mysterious green herb from the Middle East.
A child discovers the Linth plain is sinking back into swamp and must travel back to 1807 to help young Hans Conrad Escher convince the cantons to build the canal together. A story of engineering, solidarity, and the man who tamed a river — earning the honorific "von der Linth" for his family name forever.
A child works in a textile printing factory in 1860, stamping colored patterns onto millions of meters of cloth. When the Landsgemeinde debates the factory law, she finds the courage to speak up for children's rights — and helps pass the first factory law on continental Europe.
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