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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 632 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SEMPACH , a small See also:

town in the Swiss See also:canton of See also:Lucerne, built above the eastern See also:shore of the See also:lake of the same name, and about 1 z m. by road See also:north of the Sempach railway station (9 M. N.W. of Lucerne) on the See also:main See also:line between Lucerne and Olten. In 1900 it had 2592 inhabitants, See also:German-speaking and Romanists. It has retained some traces of its See also:medieval See also:appearance, especially the main gateway, beneath a See also:watch See also:tower, and reached by a See also:bridge over the old See also:moat. About See also:half an See also:hour distant to the north-See also:east, on the hillside, is the site of the famous See also:battle of Sempach (9th See also:July 1386), in which the Swiss defeated the Austrians, whose See also:leader, See also:Duke See also:Leopold, lost his See also:life. The legendary See also:deed of See also:Arnold of See also:Winkelried (q.v.) is associated with this victory. The spot is now marked by an See also:ancient and picturesque Battle See also:Chapel (restored in 1886) and by a See also:modern See also:monument to Winkelried. Some See also:miles north of Sempach is the See also:quaint See also:village of See also:Munster or Beromunster (973 inhabitants in 1900), with a collegiate See also:church founded in the loth See also:century and dating, in parts, from the 1 nth and 12th centuries (See also:fine 17th-century See also:choir stalls and See also:altar frontals), the See also:chapter of See also:secular canons now consisting of invalided priests of the canton of Lucerne: it was in Beromunster that the first dated See also:book was printed (1470) in See also:Switzerland, by care of the canons, while thence came Gering who introduced See also:printing into See also:France. See Th. von Liebenau. See also:Die Schlacht bei Sempach (Lucerne, 1886). (W. A.

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