Zugora

Nature and landscape

Baarburg

Baar · 675 m above sea level

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Baarburg
Photo: Stefan Schuler - schulerst, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons · Photo · CC BY-SA 3.0

The Baarburg is a densely wooded, free-standing hill east of Baar with a summit plateau of about 13 hectares at 683 m above sea level. Excavations from 1994 to 1999 found traces of settlement from the Middle Bronze Age to the early Middle Ages.

Facts

  • Elevation 683 m above sea level
  • First mentioned in 1348 as «Barreburg»
  • Traces of seven settlements (from about 1550 BC to around AD 700)

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More information

Coordinates (LV95): 2,684,572 / 1,228,820

Sources and rights

  • Terrain, relief, municipal boundaries, buildings and hiking trails: © swisstopo
  • Playgrounds and family places: © OpenStreetMap contributors, Open Database License (ODbL); the derived database of places (JSON file to download) is also available under the ODbL.
  • Photos of the places of interest: Wikimedia Commons, author and licence with each photo.
  • Position of the sun after the NOAA formulas; shade values from swissSURFACE3D and swissALTI3D (calculated by the zug-family project).
  • Tips link to Zug Tourismus; only name and location are taken over.