Hans Waldmann Statue of Burgermeister Hans Waldmann, Swiss General and Statesman. A crucial figure i

Hans Waldmann

Statue of Burgermeister Hans Waldmann, Swiss General and Statesman. A crucial figure in the fall of the the Duchy of Burgundy and the rise of the Swiss Confederacy that irrevocably altered the face and fate of Europe. One does wonder whether it was inevitable that the Swiss and the Burgundians should have clashed so existentially, whether Europe wasn’t big enough to hold both of them, could they have co-existed.

An early 20th-century construction, placed on a huge pedestal in the Münsterhof plaza outside the Fraumünster, Zurich.