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Sempach has a population (as of December 2020) of 4,234. [6] As of 2014, 7.9% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 4 years (2010–2014) the population has changed at a rate of 3.52%. The birth rate in the municipality, in 2014, was 12.3, while the death rate was 5.0 per thousand residents.
The Battle of Sempach was fought on 9 July 1386, between Leopold III, Duke of Austria and the Old Swiss Confederacy. The battle was a decisive Swiss victory in which Duke Leopold and numerous Austrian nobles died.
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Battle of Sempach, (July 9, 1386), decisive victory won by the Swiss Confederation in its struggle with the Austrian Habsburgs. At Meiersholz, near Sempach, Swiss confederate forces from Uri, Schwyz, Unterwalden, and Lucern met an Austrian army led by the Habsburg duke Leopold III of Tirol and his.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Jul 9, 2021 · The Battle of Sempach: a tragedy and a turning point 9 July 1386 was a catastrophe for the knights of Reinach. From the Obere Reinach castle, Rutschmann, recently turned 14, died at Sempach along with 38-year-old Ulrich, his son-in-law Hans von Hallwyl and von Hallwyl’s brother Thüring.
Konrad Grob’s painting of the 1386 Battle of Sempach shows Swiss hero Arnold von Winkel- ried sacrificially impaling himself on Austrian pikes to create a gap through which his comrades stormed and routed the enemy, killing Duke Leopold III and some 1,500 of his soldiers.
Sempach is a municipality of the district of Sursee in the canton of Lucerne in Switzerland. It is the home to the Sempach Bird Observatory. It is on Lake Sempach. Steinibühlweiher is located above the town.
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Sempacherlied is the title of a number of patriotic songs celebrating the Swiss victory at the Battle of Sempach (1386). The oldest versions are recorded in the late 15th to early 16th century, e.g. by Melchior Russ (1488), by Wernher Schodeler (1515) and by Aegidius Tschudi (1536).
