The House of Rapperswil respectively Counts of Rapperswil ruled the upper Zürichsee and Seedamm region around Rapperswil and parts of, as of today, Swiss cantons of St. Gallen, Glarus, Zürich and Graubünden when their influence was most extensive around the 1200s until the 1290s. They acted also as Vogt of the most influential Einsiedeln Abbey in the 12th and 13th century, and at least three abbots of Einsiedeln were members of Rapperswil family.
House of Rapperswil
Rapperswil Castle and the neighbouring parish church
Grynau Tower
Uster Castle
The Obersee is the smaller of the two parts of Zürichsee in the cantons of St. Gallen and Schwyz in Switzerland.
Zürichsee and Obersee divided by the Seedamm area between Rapperswil and Hurden, Frauenwinkel wetland in the foreground.
Lindenhof in Rapperswil as seen from Kempraten on an 1899 photochrome, Kempratnerbucht in the foreground.
Obersee towards Buechberg
the lake area at Schmerikon