Fräkmüntegg

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View of the Fräkmüntegg with train station ( 1415  m ) and toboggan run on Alp Fräkmünt

The Fräkmüntegg is a northeastern branch of the Pilatus in the Emmental Alps . The ridge forms from a height of 1469  m above sea level. M. the border between the cantons of Lucerne and Nidwalden . On the Fräkmüntegg there is an intermediate station of the aerial cableway from Kriens to the Pilatus, and it is a destination with several attractions. Alp Fräkmünt is located below the Egg (= mountain edge) .

etymology

In the Middle Ages, the Pilatus massif was called Mons fractus (German: broken mountain), Frakmont or Fräkmünd . The oldest reference dates from around 1100 under the name fractus mons . The term has been retained in Fräkmünt and Fräkmüntegg .

Tourism

The Fräkmüntegg was opened up for tourism in 1954 with the Kriens -Krienseregg-Fräkmüntegg gondola lift from the former Kriensereggbahn AG (subsidiary of the Pilatusbahn company at that time ). It was a system based on the Bell / Wallmannsberger system . In 1956 the aerial cableway from Fräkmüntegg to Pilatus was added. Both tracks were renewed in 1996 and 1983 respectively.

In 1902 the Kurhaus Fräkmünt was built below the Fräkmüntegg on the Fräkmüntalp. This was destroyed by an avalanche in 1915 and again by fire in 1969. The Fräkmüntalp mountain inn was then built at a different location. On the night of January 31, 2008, the Fräkmüntalp excursion restaurant fell victim to another fire. The Fräkmüntegg restaurant, built in 1955, is also located on Fräkmüntegg.

The Fräkmüntegg was also a popular ski area with two ski lifts and the valley runs to Hergiswil and Kriens . In the 1980s there were plans to expand the ski area, but these were dropped. The ski operation was stopped in 1994, the ski lift on Mülimäss demolished and the ski lift on Fräkmüntalp converted for the toboggan run . Today the former ski area belongs to tobogganers.

Below the Egg (mountain edge) is the Fräkigaudi summer toboggan run . At 1,350 meters, it is one of the longest summer toboggan runs in Switzerland. A little further down is the rope park Pilatus Rope Park . The Fräkmüntegg is also a popular destination for mountain bikers and hikers.

chapel

In 1960/61 the Fräkmünt chapel was built on the Fräkmüntalp farm, owned by the Fräkmüntegg Chapel Foundation.

literature

  • Hans Pfister: Pilatus Alps. Summer farms around the mountain . Eugen Haag publishing house, Lucerne 1982.
  • Verena Gurtner: Pilatus via Lucerne . Orell Füssli, Zurich 1975.
  • Peter A. Meyer: Pilate between mysticism and tourism. Festschrift . LIGRA-Verlag, Lucerne 1995.
  • Bernhard Zimmermann: Pilatus. The world famous mountain in Switzerland . Alpnachstad 1949.
  • Willy Renggli: 25 years of the Kriensereggbahn . Kriens 1980.

Web links

Commons : Fräkmüntegg  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ↑ Schweizerisches Idiotikon , Volume I, Column 155 ff., Article Egg, Egge, Eggt: “Corner. 1. […]. 2. a certain shape of elevation […] c) roof-like spurs of a mountain, mountain edge and the dump leaning below it […]. »

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fire brigade had no chance , article in the Neue Nidwaldner Zeitung from February 1, 2008
  2. ↑ Fräkmüntkapelle information page of the parish of St. Nikolaus, accessed on May 9, 2018

Coordinates: 46 ° 59 ′ 16 "  N , 8 ° 14 ′ 59"  E ; CH1903:  661700  /  204,399