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Willisau parish church

The late Roman church tower dates from the 13th century.Today's church has extensive classicist columns dating to 1805–10 and was designed by Josef Purtschert.It is the most important building within the old part of town.On the occasion of the church's renovation in 1929, a solid bell carrier was put onto the church roof which experts today consider an architectural achievement in reinforced concrete construction.Apart from refurbishments and modernizations the interior of the church was restored to its original state in 1996.

Castle Hill with St.Niklausen Chapel

The plant with the Habsburg Castle "Old Willisau" and a chapel dating from the end of the 12th Century, was pledged in 1321 the rabbit burgers, destroyed in 1386 Sempach war where the chapel was spared from destruction.This was originally a small chapel with Romanesque and lower Rundbogenfensterchen, the oldest bell in the canton of Lucerne with a Hebrew inscription is the oldest of the canton of Lucerne it was made around 1200, the 14th Century it was rebuilt at the end of the 15th Century enlarged with the oldest painting above the chancel arch was built from the 16th Century comes the scrolls painting in the choir and the great mural depicting the martyrdom of the ten thousand knights on the left side; a Baroque style building was constructed in 1655 with today's window openings, decorative vines in the window frames and the portal with a protective sign and gallery.

Landvogteischloss

Originally it was just an open tower, Chutzenturm called and he was constructed to defend the city walls; 1690-1695 was the cultivation of a lock for each bailiff of Willisau made the architect is unknown the exterior walls have graffito decoration, the interior rich stucco, Grisaillenmalereien, carvings, Taferwerk, ornate wall and ceiling paintings from the Baroque period, the first floor is a series of paintings of the Holy Blood legend is from 1638; 1833 to 1836 it was local a high school under the German educator Friedrich Froebel the founder of kindergarten and later it was used as a normal school and after the renovation of 1979-1982 was the Hans Roelli-built facility, reminiscent of those born in Willisau songwriter, singer and poet and today it is home to the district court.

Chapel of the Holy Blood

Originally a wooden chapel, it was transformed in 1497 into a geosteten Gothic stone; 1674 designed them in a Renaissance building to open Tuscan porch she has three-figured wood early baroque altars and eight oil paintings of 1684 with the founding legend 1854, a decorative wooden ceiling with New Testament scenes, apostles and the cartridge side of the chapel built.There was once a heavily visited place of pilgrimage a drain with hard penance procession held on the second Sunday after Pentecost and is reminiscent of an outrage of 7 July 1392nd.

House of origin Willi Ringli

The building consists of two original buildings whose left was hired by Leon Nordmann for the department store chain Manor, whose right is the original home of the Willi Ringli but, in 1850 were those made for the first time by Henry Mason, the original recipe had him through second wife, Martha Peyer, a cook at Castle Heidegg was handed over in 1880, leased the house and later sold to Maurice Amrein-Bruges in 1924, the two houses converted into a commercial and residential building in 1930 expanded to include a coffee shop and "Gebr Amrein & Co.renamed" Ringliproduktion was the first by Walter Amrein Renggli, later continued by Walter Renggli Schupbach and today by Michael Renggli Kurmann.

Willisau Jazz Festival

The Jazz Festival Willisau heard since its inception in 1975 and internationally on the key events of the contemporary jazz scene.The festival in Lucerne Willisau/Switzerland for many years broadcast live on Swiss radio.It is an international forum for contemporary jazz, rooted in the first free jazz.The festival in Willisau has long been a smaller counterpart to the Moers Festival.Willisau in a similar program in Moers Festival was presented.Concert recordings of festival appearances include on HatHut records have been published.Troxler 2011, the festival has archive tapes with 250, 123 DAT tapes with concert recordings from the festival as well as program brochures, press releases and posters as a gift to the University of Lucerne pass where they will be professionally archived.

May - September

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