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![[Flag of Altendorf]](../images/c/ch-sz007.gif)
image by Pascal Gross
Argent a rose Gules seeded Or barbed and slipped Vert.
Christopher Southworth
Altendorf is mentioned for the first time in a document from 972 AD as Rahprehteswilare, which
means village or hamlet of a man called Raprecht and probably goes back to an Alemannic founding in the 7th or 8th
century. The name evolved to Rapperswil, whose lord Rudolf III decided in 1220 to move to the opposite side of
the Lake of Zurich and founded there a new city with the same name: Rapperswil, which later became
Rapperswil-Jona. From then on the old Rapperswil was called vetus villa Rapperswile
(Latin for "old village of Rapperswil") which since the 15th century was called in German zu
dem alten Dorfe (at the old village), whence became today's Altendorf.
Those historical connections explain the similarity of the two commune's emblems.
Martin Karner
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