Horw

Horw is a municipality inside the Swiss canton of Lucerne. It is positioned inside the constituency of Lucerne-Land. The settlement records of Horw is considerably longer than referred to in historical writings. In the municipality place finds from prehistoric intervals had been recovered. The first written mention of the vicinity dates from 1231. Horw is a secondary agreement call that is going again to a field call: Old High German horo, within the locative dative horwe, supposed "marsh". The metropolis became a part of the possessions of the Hofklosters to Lucerne. The call is first referred to inside the shape of Horwe in 1231, while Walther von Hochdorf and his wife Berta bequeath their goods to the court docket monastery.

In 1291 the Habsburgs have become the brand new masters. After the Battle of Sempachthe metropolis of Lucerne took over the high jurisdiction in 1395, also the lower one in 1425. Horw is obliged to pay a large amount of cash because in 1653 it confronted the town of Lucerne in the course of the Peasants' War . At the attitude there was a war between the rebellious peasants and the troops of the city. When the French conquered Switzerland in 1798, troops were quartered and charged with subjugating the rebellious Nidwalden. Until this year Horw changed into managed as a part of the Landvogtei Kriens. Until 1803 it belonged to the district of Lucerne, on the grounds that then to the Office of Lucerne. In the years 1844 and 1847 in turn troops were stationed in Horw.