Gersau
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Gersau is a municipality and district in the canton of Schwyz in Switzerland, on the shores of Lake Lucerne. Gersau was for many centuries an independent micro-state in permanent alliance with the Swiss Confederation.
Key facts
- Swiss town.subject_name
- Gersau
- Swiss town.municipality_type
- municipality
- Swiss town.image_photo
- Gersau mit Schiffslände und Kirche MG 0934.jpg
- Swiss town.imagepath_flag
- CHE Gersau Flag.svg
- Swiss town.imagepath_coa
- Wappen Gersau.svg
- Swiss town.canton
- Schwyz
- Swiss town.iso code region
- CH-SZ
- Swiss town.district
- Gersau
- Swiss town.postal_code
- 6442
- Swiss town.municipality_code
- 1311
- Swiss town.area
- 23.70
- Swiss town.elevation
- 435
- Swiss town.website
- www.gersau.ch
- Swiss town.neighboring_municipalities
- Arth, Beckenried (NW), Buochs (NW), Emmetten (NW), Ennetbürgen (NW), Ingenbohl, Lauerz, Vitznau (LU)
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Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Gersau
- Population
- 2462
- Area
- 14.35
- Elevation
- 435
- Official website
- www.gersau.ch
- Image
- Picswiss SZ-22-04.jpg
- Dialing code
- 041
- Licence plate code
- SZ
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- Commons category
- Gersau
- postal code
- 6442
- inception
- 1433-00-00
- P8168
- Black and Blue
- external data available at URL
- geo.ld.admin.ch/boundaries/municipality/1311
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12 sectionsContents
- History
- Geography
- Demographics
- Heritage sites of national significance
- Economy
- Cuisine
- Famous people
- Born in Gersau
- Notes
- References
- Further reading
- External links
Gersau is a municipality and district in the canton of Schwyz in Switzerland, on the shores of Lake Lucerne. Gersau was for many centuries an independent micro-state in permanent alliance with the Swiss Confederation.
==History== thumb|Aerial view from 200 m by Walter Mittelholzer (1919) Gersau is first mentioned in 1064 as Gersouwe. The estates of Gersau gradually came into the hands of the Habsburgs, but in 1333, under dukes Albert II and Otto IV the Merry of Austria, the jurisdiction and rights over Gersau fell into the hands of Lucerne nobility. On 1359, Gersau allied with the Old Swiss Confederacy as a protectorate of the Confederacy, for its protection and to gain arms from the confederates. On 9 July 1386, the citizens of Gersau fought with the Swiss for the first time, on the battlefield of Sempach, where the banner of Count Rudolf of Hohenzollern was captured.
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