Lauerz

Lauerz
State :	Switzerland
Canton :	Schwyz (SZ)
District :	Schwyz
BFS no. :	1365
Postal code :	6424
Coordinates :	686 791  /  209 959 coordinates: 47 ° 2 '6 "  N , 8 ° 34' 50"  O ; CH1903:  686791  /  two hundred and nine thousand nine hundred fifty-nine
Height :	457  m above sea level M.
Height range :	447–1699 m above sea level M.
Area :	9.19  km²
Residents:	1100 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	120 inhabitants per km²
Proportion of foreigners : (residents without citizenship )	8.1% (December 31, 2,015)
Website:	www.lauerz.ch
Entrance to the village of Lauerz, the Mythen in the background
Location of the municipality

Lauerz is a municipality in the district of Schwyz in the canton of Schwyz in Switzerland .

geography

Lauerz is located in the foothills of the Alps at the northeastern foot of the Rigi , directly on the Lauerzersee (450 m above sea level). The island of Schwanau in the Lauerzersee belongs to the municipality of Lauerz. The parish church of St. Nicholas is located in the center of the village. In the municipality there are many individual farms, on the lakeshore and on the hillside the place has numerous holiday homes.

Surname

An earlier spelling is "Lowerz". It is very doubtful whether ore deposits in the municipality gave the village its name. Likewise, “Lau” does not come from the Celtic “lokwa”, which means “lake”. It is more likely that the name “Lauerz” is related to an Old High German personal name such as “Lauwart”. The original form should have been called «Lauwerts hov», although the word for the court has been omitted.

history

Schwanau Island, historical aerial photo by Werner Friedli from 1960

In the 13th century there was a castle on the island of Schwanau, which is now a ruin. It was originally Kyburgish, later the area around Lauerz became the property of the Habsburgs.

From 1480, a St. Theodul chapel was known as a branch of the Schwyz parish. After a fire, the chapel was rebuilt in 1508. From 1600 Lauerz was its own parish. In 1675, a new building for the St. Nicholas Church replaced the chapel.

On September 2, 1806, large parts of the village were destroyed by a tidal wave triggered by the Goldau landslide . The church was rebuilt from 1807-10 according to plans by Father Jakob Natter. Hermits gave up their previous dwelling on the island of Schwanau. The island was acquired by the governor of Schwyz, Louis Auf der Maur. It has been owned by the Canton of Schwyz since 1967.

photos

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  Lauerz seen from the Engelstock

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  The village of Lauerz

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  Parish Church of St. Nicholas

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  Parish Church of St. Nicholas, interior view

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  Lauerz before the landslide of 1806

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  Schwanau (after the landslide of 1806)

Attractions

See also : List of cultural assets in Lauerz

literature

• Linus Birchler : The art monuments of the canton Schwyz, Volume II: The districts Gersau, Küssnacht and Schwyz. Art historical overview. (= Swiss art monuments. Volume 2). Edited by the Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Bern 1930.

Web links

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

• Official website of the municipality of Lauerz
• Andreas Meyerhans: Lauerz. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Permanent and non-permanent resident population by year, canton, district, municipality, population type and gender (permanent resident population). In: bfs. admin.ch . Federal Statistical Office (FSO), August 31, 2019, accessed on December 22, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original dated May 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ Lexicon of Swiss municipality names . Edited by the Center de Dialectologie at the University of Neuchâtel under the direction of Andres Kristol. Huber, Frauenfeld 2005, p. 509.