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All Castles in the canton of Zug, Switzerland

All Castles in the canton of Zug, The Canton of Zug has six castles located in it: Zug Castle, Wildenburg Castle, Freudenberg Castle, Buonas Castle, Hünenberg Castle and St. Andreas Castle

Zug Castle

The first castle in Zug was probably a wooden manor house built around 1000 and owned by a ministerialis family. Zug Castle. The museum in the Castle of Zug tells the history of the city and the canton of Zug.

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Wildenburg castle

Wildenburg castle was founded in the 13th century by the Lords of Hünenberg, vassals of the counts of Kyburg and Habsburg. Wildenburg was destroyed after that

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St. Andreas Castle

St. Andreas Castle is a privately owned castle located in Cham. the chapel site was used by a ‘holy bishop without a name’ for Christian services.

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Hünenberg Castle

Hünenberg Castle was built in the 12th century and mentioned the first time in 1173. Rudolf von Hünenberg sold the ruined castle and its rights to the Bütler brothers.

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Buonas Castle

In 1478 the castle burned down and the reconstruction began in 1494. Buonas Castle. The New Castle was built next to the medieval one in 1877. Founded: 1494

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Freudenberg Castle

Freudenberg Castle is a castle in the municipality of Bad Ragaz of the Canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland. The castle was built by the Lords of Wildenberg. Built around 1200-1250

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Lucerne City Profile

Lucerne is a city in the canton of Lucerne, Switzerland, the most populous town in Central Switzerland, Lucerne City Profile, on the shores of Lake Lucerne

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Flag of Lucerne

The Flag of Lucerne is divided Horizontally into equal parts White and Blue. Luzern was a sovereign state within the Holy Roman Empire since 1241. Lucerne joined the Swiss Confederation in 1332. The first documented evidence of the blue-white flag is from 1386, and a seal of 1354 shows the blue-white arms divided vertically.

The vertical division of the coat of arms has been explained as due to a gonfalon type of banner used by Lucerne, hung from a horizontal crossbar, which was also used as a flagstaff so that the flag was turned by 90 degrees when carried in battle.

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10 Interesting Facts About Lake Constance

Facts About Lake Constance:

Lake Constance is the third-largest freshwater lake in Central and Western Europe in surface area and the second-largest in volume.
Lake Constance was formed by the Rhine Glacier during the ice age and is a zungenbecken lake.
The Roman geographer Pomponius Mela was the first to mention the lakes around 43 AD, calling the upper lake Lacus Venetus and the lower lake Lacus Acronius.
In Lake Constance, there are ten islands that are larger than 2,000 m². The largest is the island of Reichenau in the Untersee.
The lake lies where the countries of Austria, Germany, and Switzerland meet. There is no legally binding agreement as to where the borders lie between the three countries.
In late August 2005, heavy rain raised the level by more than 70 cm in a few days. The rains caused widespread flooding and washed out highways and railroads.
Around 45 species of fish live in Lake Constance.
Lake Constance refers to three bodies of water on the Rhine at the northern foot of the Alps: the Obersee or Upper Lake Constance, the Untersee or Lower Lake Constance, and a connecting stretch of the Rhine called the Seerhein.
The max length of Lake Constance is 39 miles, and the max width is 8.7 miles, with an average depth of 300 ft and max depth of 823 ft.
In 1963, the whole lake froze. This has not happened since then.

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Facts About Lake Constance:

Lake Constance is the third-largest freshwater lake in Central and Western Europe in surface area and the second-largest in volume.

Lake Constance was formed by the Rhine Glacier during the ice age and is a zungenbecken lake.

The Roman geographer Pomponius Mela was the first to mention the lakes around 43 AD, calling the upper lake Lacus Venetus and the lower lake Lacus Acronius.

In Lake Constance, there are ten islands that are larger than 2,000 m². The largest is the island of Reichenau in the Untersee.

The lake lies where the countries of Austria, Germany, and Switzerland meet. There is no legally binding agreement as to where the borders lie between the three countries.

In late August 2005, heavy rain raised the level by more than 70 cm in a few days. The rains caused widespread flooding and washed out highways and railroads.

Around 45 species of fish live in Lake Constance.

Lake Constance refers to three bodies of water on the Rhine at the northern foot of the Alps: the Obersee or Upper Lake Constance, the Untersee or Lower Lake Constance, and a connecting stretch of the Rhine called the Seerhein.

The max length of Lake Constance is 39 miles, and the max width is 8.7 miles, with an average depth of 300 ft and max depth of 823 ft.

In 1963, the whole lake froze. This has not happened since then.