Ingenbohl commune (Schwyz canton, Switzerland)

(with Brunnen fraction)

Last modified: 2026-02-21 by martin karner
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Ingenbohl

Per fess Gules a cross throughout Argent Azure a sailboat of the Second.
Christopher Southworth

The cross stands for the women's monastery in Ingenbohl, the boat for the fraction of Brunnen, which is on the Lake Lucerne (Vierwaldstättersee) and had an important role for the traffic to and from the Gotthard Pass. For about 640 years (since the opening of the pass via the "Devil's Bridge" around 1220) the national and international traffic of goods and passengers that crossed the Gotthard Pass had to be reloaded on ships between Brunnen SZ and Flüelen UR, because the banks of the Urnersee (That's how this part of Lake Lucerne is called too) were too steep and rocky to build a road. Not before 1865 a road could be carved into the eastern shore, the so-called Axenstrasse (photos).
Martin Karner