Rapperswil Parish Church

St. Gallen · Schweiz · Church

Since the blood-soaked year of 1388, the funeral bells of Rapperswil are said to ring at times without any human hand.

The parish church of St. John crowns Rapperswil's old town on Lake Zurich, and one of the region's most persistent ghost stories is tied to it. Since the war year of 1388, when the town was drawn into the bloody struggles between Habsburg and the Swiss Confederates, the church's funeral bells have reportedly rung on their own from time to time. No bell-ringer is in the tower, and no ropes have been touched. The tolling has been read as the lament of the fallen – a reminder that the town's dead have not forgotten their fate.

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Hvor ligger Rapperswil Parish Church?

Rapperswil Parish Church ligger i St. Gallen, Schweiz.

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