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Below you find Wädenswil's historical tales — from old legends to famous local events. Create a free account, pick one as your starting point, your child takes a role inside it.
Real stories from Wädenswil's past — pick one and your child takes a role
Rudolf III has no heir and must decide the castle’s fate. A child helps him negotiate with the Johanniter knights, discovering secret passages in Alt-Wädenswil before the handover in 1287 — and learns what it means to let go of a legacy for the greater good.
Hermann Müller-Thurgau carries his precious grape cuttings from Geisenheim to Wädenswil in 1891. A child accompanies him on the journey, learning about patience and cultivation as the first vines are planted on the Au peninsula — the beginning of a grape that will conquer the world.
The master builder bets he can span 36 metres without a single column. A child apprentice helps him build the scale model and must stand on it alongside Grubenmann to convince the doubting church council — discovering that daring engineering begins with trusting your craft.
During the Stäfner Handel, a child from a textile-worker family plants a secret seedling that will grow into the liberty tree at the Eidmatt meadow. Carrying messages of freedom between lake communities, they discover that even a small act of defiance can change history.
An Anabaptist child must memorise 46 stanzas of a forbidden hymn before the community emigrates to the Palatinate. Running through the forests above Wädenswil to deliver it to the next congregation, they carry the memory of Hans Landis and the courage to keep faith alive.
A child follows a single silk thread from the looms of Gessner AG all the way to a Dior fashion show in Paris. Along the journey from Wädenswil’s factory floors to the runways of haute couture, they discover how a small lakeside town once clothed the world’s most glamorous stages.
Young Paul Wild lies on the Au peninsula one clear night, looking through a homemade telescope at the sky above Lake Zurich. A comet whispers its name and dares him to find it when he grows up — the start of a lifelong adventure that will see him discover 94 asteroids from a small Swiss observatory.
A child dives into Lake Zurich near the Au peninsula and discovers ancient wooden pilings four metres below the surface. Slipping back in time to a Neolithic village where the Pfyn and Horgen cultures meet, they experience life on a lake dwelling and must help the village prepare for the rising waters.
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