Zugora

Church and monastery

Kapelle St. German

Risch · 429 m above sea level

Translation This English text is a draft translation of the German original and has not been reviewed yet.

St. German chapel
Photo: Beni Wattenhofer, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons · Photo · CC BY-SA 3.0

The chapel of St. German stands in Buonas above the boat station and the inn. It was largely completed around 1635 and consecrated in 1662. The main altarpiece is considered the first realistic depiction of Lake Zug and its surroundings.

Facts

  • Completed around 1635, consecrated in 1662
  • Restored in 1992/1993
  • Main donor: the judicial lord Johann Martin Schwytzer

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More information

Coordinates (LV95): 2,677,239 / 1,221,620

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.