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Gersau is the sole municipality in the canton of Schwyz in Switzerland, sitting on the shores of Lake Lucerne History: The estates of Gersau gradually came into the hands of the Habsburgs, but in 1333, under dukes Albert II and Otto IV "the Merry" of Austria, the jurisdiction and rights over Gersau fell into the hands of Lucerne nobility. On 1359, Gersau allied with the Old Swiss Confederacy as a protectorate of the Confederacy, for its protection and to gain arms from the confederates. On July 9 1386, the citizens of Gersau fought with the Swiss for the first time, on the battlefield of Sempach, where the banner of Count Rudolf of Hohenzollern was captured. Gersau purchased its liberty from the counts of Habsburg in 1390 for the sum of 690 pfennigs. The fate of the "Vogtei" and whether or not the municipality pledged to the Confederacy was then in the hands of Lucerners John, Peter and Agnes von Moos; as a result, the jurisdiction, "Vogtei" and tax rights went to the courtiers of ... Read more about Gersau on Wikipedia

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