Pilatussee

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The Pilatussee (June 2014)
View from Pilatus in west direction to the valley of the Bründlenbach : The Mittaggüpfi with the Oberalp and the former Pilatussee in the Goldwang forest . In the shady foreground is the Bründle  ( 1,434  m above sea level ).

The Pilatussee is a legendary, former lake at an altitude of 1548  m above sea level. M. at the Pilatus mountain range near Lucerne in the canton of Lucerne in Switzerland . Today there is a raised bog with open water on the site .

situation

The lake lies between the peaks of Mount Pilatus ( 2128  m above sea level ) and the Mittaggüpfi ( 1917  m above sea level ) further west , north of the ridge between the two mountains. It is located on the Oberalp around 200 meters east of the alpine hut in the municipality of Schwarzenberg . In 1594 an attempt was made to dry the lake, but only partially succeeded. Since then, a raised bog has emerged from the former lake. The construction of a wooden main dam and a secondary dam in 1980 resulted in a bog lake lined with beak sedge and peat moss with bulges and gullies in the more distant bank areas. In 2014, rehabilitation of the damaged main dam was initiated, which was completed by 2016.

The Eigental and thus also the former Pilatussee have been under protection since 1967, and since 1991 it has been protected as a raised bog of national importance.

The legend of Pontius Pilate

The name of the mountain range probably comes from Mons pileatus , d. H. the mountain interspersed with rock pillars (from Latin mons 'mountain' and Latin pila 'pillar, strut'). It was only later that the already existing name Pilatus was associated with Pontius Pilatus , the prefect of Rome in Jerusalem. So the legend developed that the body of Pontius Pilatus was sunk in the mountain lake. He must not be disturbed there in order not to conjure up storms. Therefore, the city council of Lucerne had banned walking on the mountain and access to the lake until the 16th century. In 1387, six clergymen from Lucerne were thrown into prison for attempted ascent. In 1518 Duke Ulrich von Württemberg and in 1555 the famous Swiss naturalist Conrad Gessner were only allowed to go up under supervision and with the promise not to throw anything into the lake.

In 1585, the then dean and pastor Magister Johann Müller and the then town clerk Renward Cysat took the initiative and went to the lake with the magistrate and citizens to refute the legend. They threw stones into the Pilatussee, waded through the water and churned it up. Since no storm then occurred, the superstition was refuted. To be on the safe side, the Lucerne Council decided in 1594 to drain the lake through excavations. The supposed threat was soon forgotten. In contrast, in 1842 pilgrims traveled from Rome to Lucerne to visit this lake and the mountain.

Access

The area near the Oberalp

The Oberalp with the former Pilatussee can only be reached on foot. Hiking trails lead from the Pilatus mountain station (demanding summit path with traverses), from the Fräkmüntegg station of the cable car, from Alp Lütoldsmatt , from Alpnach and from the Eigental to the Oberalp.

literature

  • Hugo Nünlist : Pilate and his secrets. Edited with the participation of the Swiss Alpine Club. Theo Wiesmann (pictures), Volume 315, Swiss Youth Writings, Zurich 1948.
  • Hans Pfister: Pilatus, sagas and stories. Eugen Haag publishing house, Lucerne 1991.
  • PX Weber: Pilatus and its history. Eugen Haag publishing house, Lucerne 1913.
  • Peter A. Meyer: Pilate between mysticism and tourism - Festschrift. LIGRA-Verlag, Lucerne 1995.

Web links

Commons : Pilatussee  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Magical Pilatussee , collection of legends and texts about Pilatussee, on heilige-quellen.de

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Ordinance for the Protection of the Eigenals Valley (PDF), dated October 12, 1967, as of January 1, 2014.
  2. ↑ Agriculture and Forests - lawa.lu.ch: 19.08.2016 - dam at the former Pilatussee renovated - raised bog of national importance preserved , accessed on 7 November 2017
  3. ↑ Ordinance on the protection of raised and transitional moors of national importance (raised moors ordinance) of January 21, 1991 (as of July 12, 2005)
  4. ↑ Chratzerengrat and Schijen - mountains and their names create Swiss identity. ( Memento from December 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Elard Hugo Meyer: About the Pilatussee. In: Mythology of the Teutons. Strasbourg 1903, see web link Magical Lake Pilatus
  6. ↑ Radka Laubacher: "Renward Cysat was insatiable curious". April 23, 2014, accessed March 7, 2017 .
  7. ^ D. Moriz Anton Cappeler: Historia Montis Pilati , 1767. The anecdote about Johann Müller contained there is quoted in: Joseph Maria Businger: The city of Lucerne and its surroundings: In topographical, historical and statistical terms. Xaver Meyer Verlag, Lucerne 1811, pp. 260f. Online at Google Books
  8. ↑ Notes on Lake Pilatus , see web link Magical Lake Pilatus

Coordinates: 46 ° 58 '20.9 "  N , 8 ° 12' 19.6"  E ; CH1903:  six hundred and fifty-eight thousand three hundred and fifty-one  /  202661