page_title: Burkhard VII. Münch
section_title: In modern Swiss national historiography
hierarchical_section_title: Burkhard VII. Münch / In modern Swiss national historiography
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Münchenstein Trotte Wandmalereie Rosen
context_page_description: Burkhard VII. Münch was a knight and life peer, a renowned late member of the Landskron branch of the Münch family. His reputation rests primarily on his death at the Battle of St. Jakob an der Birs.
  Burkhard's death spelled the end of the family Münch of Landskron, which ended completely when his brother Johann IX. died in 1461.
context_section_description: The contrast of the cultured nobleman alluding to the literary trope of the rose garden on the battlefield to the laconic reply of the dying Swiss captain appears in patriotic accounts of Swiss history during the 18th and 19th centuries. So in Johannes von Müller (1805),
  Burkhard is depicted as a coward who watched the battle from afar, and after the battle came "riding among and over the mighty dead bodies", as he noted "the agony of one of the heroes, he intended to sour his last moments with mockery, he cried, with laughter, to the noblemen 'today we bathe in roses!'", and of the dying captain: "anger revived his spirits, 'eat one of the roses!' the dying hero cried, and hurled  with strength and truly aimed, the rock squashed his eyes, his nose, his mouth, blind and speechless lord Burkhard sank to the ground, and suffered, until on the third day death ended his pain, and he was not buried in the tomb of his fathers."
  A depiction of Arnold Schick throwing the rock, with the inscription citing his dictum of ''Da friss eine der Rosen alongside Für Freiheit und Vaterland ("For Liberty and Fatherland") appears on a silver medal cast for the cantonal tir at  Binningen, Basel in 1893.
caption: The scene of Arnold Schick throwing the rock at Burkhard as depicted in a 19th-century fresco in the winery at Münchenstein. Burkhard's  rather contrived utterance is given  as Heute baden wir in Rosen" ("today we bathe in roses") in the inscription, a simplification that had been current since the 18th century.[3]
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