Bürgenstock exclave

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The Bürgenstock exclave is located on the northern steep drop of the Bürgenstock on Lake Lucerne in Switzerland . In the east, south and west, the area belonging to the city of Lucerne borders on the canton of Nidwalden and is therefore considered an exclave of the city and canton of Lucerne . The city of Lucerne has owned this area since 1378.

The area extends over 3.3 km from east to west along the southern shore of Lake Lucerne. It has an area of ​​145.8 hectares and is officially uninhabited.

With the Hammetschwand lift , the highest open-air lift in Europe leads from the exclave to the Hammetschwand viewpoint on the Bürgenstock.

Untermatt is located in the east of the exclave . The village of Obermatt , 700 meters further east , which can be reached from Untermatt via a footpath, already belongs to the canton of Nidwalden (municipality of Ennetbürgen ).

Untermatt, like the entire exclave, is uninhabited and consists only of an agricultural building, a ship landing stage and the remains of the valley station of the former cable car station on the Mattgrat, on which there used to be a hotel that burned down in the 1970s but was not rebuilt. The cable car, which overcame a height difference of 310 meters over a length of 350 meters, was built by the Oehler company in 1934 to make the hotel more accessible for guests. After the hotel fire, the cable car was still in operation for hikers and after the expiry of the concession for passenger transport for material transport to the farms on the Mattgrat until the early 1990s.

Picture gallery

  • The Bürgenstock as seen from Vitznau .

  • The Bürgenstock exclave as seen from Lake Lucerne. On the right edge of the picture (west) you can see the place Kehrsiten , which already belongs to the canton of Nidwalden (municipality of Stansstad ).

  • View from the Bürgenstock to Kehrsiten on Lake Lucerne

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hansjakob Achermann: Bürgenstock. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  2. ↑ Swiss Federal Census 2000. The spatial structure of Switzerland. Table 3: Exclaves of districts, islands and opposite shores of the lake .
  3. ↑ cableway Matt Mattgrat ( Memento of 14 November 2012 at the Internet Archive ).

Coordinates: 47 ° 0 '7.2 "  N , 8 ° 24' 21.6"  E ; CH1903:  six hundred seventy-three thousand five hundred seventy  /  206113