Schwyz (Canton) - Schwyz (Kanton)

The Canton of Schwyz lies in the Switzerland. It borders on the to the east Canton of Glarus, in the south Uri, in the southwest Nidwalden, in the west to the Canton lucerne and in the north to the cantons train, Zurich and St. Gallen,

Regions

• Muotatal
• Myth region
• Rigi-Massiv, which is partly already in the Canton lucerne lies
• Hoch-Ybrig
• The bank of the Sihlsee
• The bank of the Lake Zurich
• Wägital

places

• Capital Schwyz
• Küssnacht
• Fountain
• Wollerau
• Pfäffikon SZ
• Einsiedeln
• Immensee
• Merlischachen
• Gersau
• Goldau
• Muotathal
• Laugh

Other goals

• Hoch-Ybrig
• Einsiedeln Monastery
• Rigi
• Myths
• Fronalpstock

background

Around 1400 years ago, the Alemanni settled down and shaped the settlement areas with their economic and lifestyles. The people grew, the land had to be expanded. Christianity advanced; the church buildings in Tuggen and Schwyz allow this process to be established in the late 7th and early 8th centuries. The main areas of the settlement can be seen on Lake Zurich and in the Schwyz and Arth basins.

After centuries, the structures can be better understood. The previously rare written sources begin to flow more abundantly. In the 10th century, the Einsiedeln monastery, richly donated by the German kings, quickly gained in importance. The monastery and the people of Schwyz fought for centuries for the Alps, forests and grazing rights in the border area. The organization of the Schwyzers, the valley community, emerged ever more clearly. It gained power and self-confidence and competed with the foreign landlords in what would later become the canton.

With the federal government in early August 1291, the original Swiss Confederation became a political reality. The times of probation were not long in coming, the Morgarten War (Battle of Morgarten 1315) and anxious years kept the country in suspense.

Schwyz began to push its narrower limits. A balance was reached in 1350 with Einsiedeln Monastery; soon the Schwyz took the place of the old Habsburg patrons. The March was accepted as free land by the Schwyzers in the land law, the common path of a partnership rich in vicissitudes began. In the same way, the decision in favor of the Schwyz rulership was made in Küssnacht. The courtyards followed some time later, when they came under Schwyz as bailiwick after the "Old Zurich War". That development shaped the inner-cantonal structures to this day; the old landscapes live on as independent districts.

language

German is spoken.

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