Lindenhof
Hilltop plaza with a bronze fountain statue of an armored woman, shaded by centuries-old lindens.
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This guide to Lindenhof in Zurich starts at the fountain statue overlooking the square: a bronze woman in chain mail and helmet that every visitor assumes is a knight, though she never held a real weapon and the battle she's dressed for never happened. According to legend, her name was Hedwig ab Burghalden, and in 1292, with Zurich's men away fighting at Winterthur, an Austrian duke marched on the undefended city. The women left behind gathered armor and lances and marched up this very hill, beating drums and waving flags. The guide follows what a sculptor named Gustav Siber made of that story, six centuries later, in bronze.
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