Rotschuo

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Rotschuo or Rotschue , formerly also Rotschuh , is a hamlet in the municipality of Gersau in the canton of Schwyz , Switzerland .

The hamlet is located on the road from Gersau to Vitznau at the southern foot of the Vitznauerstock near the Obere Nase protruding into Lake Lucerne . In 1906 Rotschuo consisted of 15 houses with 96 inhabitants.

According to the Schwyzer name book , the interpretation of the name is difficult. The color is "probably due to reddish rock", one of the rock formations on the lake could have been seen as a "red shoe". According to the «Kindlimordage», the name comes from the red shoe of a girl who was killed by her irascible and alcoholic father and washed up on the bank. According to the name book, this legend is an attempt to explain the "strange name".

There is a hotel and a youth hostel in Rotschuo. In 2011 the Unia union sold the hotel to the former Chairman of the Hero Board of Directors , Rudolf Stump. Rotschuo has had a shipping pier for extra trips since 1962, but the ships of the Lake Lucerne Shipping Company (SGV) did not dock in Rotschuo until 1998. From May 23, 1998, after the construction of a new landing stage, Rotschuo was also a regular station in the SGV timetable. Since the 2010 timetable period, the Rotschuo boat station no longer appears in the timetable.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Viktor Weibel: Schwyzer name book . tape 4 . Triner, Schwyz 2012, ISBN 978-3-908572-56-5 , p. 346 .
  2. ^ A b c Charles Knapp, Maurice Borel, Victor Attinger, Heinrich Brunner, Société neuchâteloise de geographie (editor): Geographical Lexicon of Switzerland . Volume 4: Plessur - Switzerland . Verlag Gebrüder Attinger, Neuchâtel 1906, p. 260, keyword Rotschuh   ( scan of the lexicon page ).
  3. ^ Fritz Ineichen: Land and people of Gersau . Murbacher-Verlag, Lucerne, p. 15 (n.d. [1973]).
  4. ↑ http://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/wirtschaft/unternehmen-und-konjendung/Die-Gewerkschaft-als-Hoteliere/story/28158126
  5. ^ Josef Gwerder: The ship stations on Lake Lucerne . Verlag Die Region, Emmenbrücke 2007, ISBN 978-3-906365-39-8 , p. 108 .

Coordinates: 47 ° 0 '  N , 8 ° 29'  E ; CH1903:  679744  /  205,324