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I did not know to whom this was dedicated but a bit of googling brought me to Hans Bruppacher, one of the first generation Anabaptists. Hans came from Zumikon and was baptised on the 25 January 1525 by Blaurock in the house at Gstadstrasse 25 in Zollikon, cf. the first post in this thread for reference. This was one of the first baptisms and at that assembly the first communion of the Anabaptists was held as well. Bruppacher was captured with other Anabaptists (amongst others, Manz and Blaurock). He either remained in custody until 1530 or was released and imprisoned on several occasions but in 1530 finally "converted", i.e. renounced the Anabaptist faith and saved his life. In the meantime, other Anabaptists had been drowned (amongst others, Manz in 1527). More about Bruppacher on the website of the municipality of Zumikon (in German, scroll down): https://www.zumikon.ch/geschichte/7421
Anyway so I thought this path might be dedicated to Hans Bruppacher. It would make sense as the path is between Zumikon and Zollikon and I imagined that Hans took it to get to the assembly sneaking through the forest. See below map indicating Zumikon where Hans lived, the path marked red and the house at Gstadstrasse where the Anabaptists met.
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I wanted to take pictures of the signpost for quite a while to show this to you but I only got round to do it yesterday. To my great disappointment, the wooden signpost was replaced by a metal one with more explanations on why it is the Bruppacher Weg: It is actually dedicated to one Walter Bruppacher, an architect with no Anabaptist connotations (as far as I know, he might be a descendant of Hans but that would be pure speculation). Here is the new signpost.
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To make things worse, I discovered that they have set up a bench at the duck pond for the memory of 500 years of Reformation, with a Zwingli head!
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As you can see, to this day Zurich prefers to remember a murderer rather than a martyr (even if Hans wasn't technically a martyr I guess). To be fair, there are some memorial plaques here and there in Zurich remembering the gruesome deeds of the Anabaptist hunters (see some of my other posts in this thread).
Anyway, I would like to seize the opportunity to wish one and all a happy new year, may God bless you.