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![[Flag of Ingenbohl]](../images/c/ch-sz019.gif)
image by Pascal Gross
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 (article with photos).
Martin Karner
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