Morgarten ZG

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The place Morgarten am Ägerisee (2009)

Morgarten is a village in the municipality of Oberägeri in the Swiss canton of Zug . The place is on the banks of the Ägeri lake and on the road from Oberägeri to Sattel .

Originally the place was called Hauptsee . In 1905 it was renamed in connection with the commemoration of the Battle of Morgarten on November 15, 1315 and the erection of a battle memorial (1906-08). The name was changed at the request of the Oberägeri-Morgarten Tourist Office by the Zurich District Post Office.

Historic aerial photo by Werner Friedli from 1958

Controversial battlefield issue

Old view of Hauptsee with the mountainside at Morgarten

The location of the slaughter area was very controversial around 1900. The place name "Morgarten" was not helpful for this. In 1620 the word appears for the first time in the so-called Haller-Gyger map at the southeastern end of Lake Aegeri and was subsequently found in several other places in the valley. Today it refers to the small village on the lake, the Morgartenberg (1239 m) in the community of Rothenthurm and the slope below with the farms Morgartenberg and Chli Morgarten.

In 1895 Karl Bürkli from Zurich published a battle plan . In it he took the view that the Confederates had met Duke Leopold's cavalry and infantry on the Buechwäldli directly on the lake shore and protested against plans to erect a monument on the Figlenfluh near the Schornen property. The canton Schwyz, however, has for a long time located the battle in the Schornen, where the battle chapel and a Letziturm are located, as well as in Schafstetten, both in the municipality of Sattel. The Schwyz side saw itself confirmed by the battle plan published by Father Wilhelm Sidler in 1909.

Monument, Morgartenhütte and restaurant in the Buechwäldli

On the Zug side, plans for a memorial in the Buechwäldli were pursued from 1901 by the doctor and tourism promoter Josef Hürlimann from Unterägeri , which were based on Bürkli's plan. The Schwyz government resigned from the initiative committee in 1903 and pursued future plans for a national monument to be erected in Schwyz . In 1906 the construction of the battle memorial designed by the architect Robert Rittmeyer began. It was inaugurated on August 2, 1908.

Morning garden shooting

Every year on November 15th, a shooting festival takes place at the monument , the Morgartenschiessen, organized by the Morgartenschützenverband Zug. It is related to the Rütli shooting, from which the Zug riflemen were often excluded from 1911 due to lack of space. As a reminder of the Battle of Liberty on Morgarten, in November 1912, they held a 300-meter shooting for rifle shooters for the first time in the open air, to which they invited shooting clubs from other cantons. The best shooters are each awarded a "Morgarten cup" at a celebration in the shooting range.

Attractions

literature

  • Culture Commission Canton Schwyz (Ed.): 100 Years Morgartendenkmal. Monument, bone of contention and tourist attraction. Schwyzer Heft, Volume 93.Schwyz 2008, ISBN 978-3-909102-55-6 .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Pirmin Moser: Morgarten and tourism. In: 100 Years of the Morgarten Monument. Schwyz 2008, pp. 87/88.
  2. ↑ Pirmin Moser: A long way: from the idea to the monument. In: 100 Years of the Morgarten Monument. Schwyz 2008, p. 12.
  3. ↑ Pirmin Moser: A long way: from the idea to the monument. In: 100 Years of the Morgarten Monument. Schwyz 2008, pp. 13-17.
  4. ↑ Pirmin Moser: A long way: from the idea to the monument. In: 100 Years of the Morgarten Monument. Schwyz 2008, p. 19.
  5. ↑ Pirmin Moser: A long way: from the idea to the monument. In: 100 Years of the Morgarten Monument. Schwyz 2008, p. 29 ff.

Coordinates: 47 ° 6 '  N , 8 ° 38'  E ; CH1903:  six hundred and ninety-one thousand two hundred forty-one  /  217820