Zugora

Church and monastery

Kirche St. Verena

Risch · 441 m above sea level

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St. Verena's Church
Photo: Paebi, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons · Photo · CC BY-SA 3.0

The parish church of St. Verena stands on a hill spur above Lake Zug; earlier buildings go back to the 8th or 9th century, and the church is first mentioned in 1159. The present building dates from 1680 to 1684, the tower from 1310.

Facts

  • First mentioned in 1159
  • Present building 1680–1684, consecrated in 1684
  • Tower from 1310
  • Charnel house (now cemetery chapel), mentioned in 1598

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More information

Coordinates (LV95): 2,677,999 / 1,220,843

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  • 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.
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  • 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.