Morschach

Morschach
State :	Switzerland
Canton :	Schwyz (SZ)
District :	Schwyz
BFS no. :	1366
Postal code :	6433 Stoos 6443 Morschach
UN / LOCODE :	CH STO (Stoos)
Coordinates :	689 797  /  204149 coordinates: 46 ° 58 '56 "  N , 8 ° 37' 8"  O ; CH1903:  689 797  /  204149
Height :	643  m above sea level M.
Height range :	434–1935 m above sea level M.
Area :	20.83  km²
Residents:	1159 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	56 inhabitants per km²
Proportion of foreigners : (residents without citizenship )	18.7% (December 31, 2,015)
Website:	www.morschach.ch
Morschach, below the Urnersee
Location of the municipality

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

geography

Historic aerial photo by Werner Friedli from 1963

It is located above the village of Brunnen SZ on a natural terrace above Lake Lucerne . The view extends to the south-west of the historic Rütliwiese and the Uri mountains , to the north-east of the wide valley basin of Schwyz .

history

"Morsacho" was first mentioned in a document in 1261. For a long time the pilgrim and mule route led via Morschach over the Gotthard.

After the construction of Axenstrasse , a small access road was carved into the rock from Brunnen in 1866. From 1905 to 1968 the Brunnen-Morschach-Bahn , an electric rack railway , drove to the then world-famous resort with its sophisticated hotel palaces Axenfels and Axenstein and brought an illustrious audience, including Queen Victoria of Great Britain, King Ludwig II of Bavaria and Winston Churchill . The plan was to even run the lift up to the Fronalpstock . This plan was thwarted in 1933 by the construction of the Schwyz – Stoos funicular , which was replaced by the new Schwyz – Stoos funicular in mid-December 2017 .

The decline of the resort of Morschach began when hotel guests stayed away during the war and crisis years. The big hotels had to be closed; the "Axenfels" was demolished in 1947 and the "Grandhotel Axenstein" in 1967. This sealed the fate of the rack-and-pinion railway, which was never particularly profitable.

In the 1980s, the planning and implementation of a new holiday center began, which was gradually expanded into the Swiss Holiday Park , which today (as of 2019) is the largest holiday resort in Switzerland and is run by the Swiss travel fund .

traffic

A two-lane side road leads from Brunnen up to Morschach. It is used by bus line no. 4 Auto AG Schwyz . From Morschach you can take the Morschach – Stoos cable car to the even higher ski resort of Stoos and from there to the Fronalpstock ( 1922  m above sea level ) or on foot on the Swiss Path to the Uri village of Sisikon . Two footpaths lead from Axenstein to Brunnen (hike approx. 40 minutes).

Attractions

See also : List of cultural assets in Morschach

• House Tannen from 1341, monument and holiday home of the Swiss Heritage Protection
• To the northwest above the village is the Druidenstein .
• The «Calamestein» stands on the hiking trail down to Brunnen. It is reminiscent of the painter Alexandre Calame , who around 1850 often painted views of Lake Lucerne and Lake Uri from here .

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  Druid Stone

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  Calame stone

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  Haus Tannen 2011 before the renovation

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  church

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  Village center

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  View in winter (road to Degenbalm)

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 : Morschach  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Morschach website
• Josef Wiget: Morschach. 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. ^ History of the Swiss Holiday Park
4. ↑ Article in the NZZ from December 7, 2018
5. ↑ Luzerner Zeitung of September 16, 2017: Monuments - 700-year-old house in Morschach is now open to holiday guests