Römerstieg (5)

Abstract

The fortress was of course also intended to demonstrate the prestige and power of the city-state, which had joined the Swiss Confederation in 1501, having been under Habsburg rule but having regained its independence in 1415 by buying its freedom from the Austrian Empire.

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