St. Luzisteig Pass

Pass

The St. Luzisteig is a pass at 713 meters above sea level and connects in the canton of Graubünden as Hauptstrasse 28 wine-growing town of Maienfeld with the northern valley town of Balzers in Liechtenstein. The border runs south before Balzers, just a kilometer and about 20 meters altitude lying on its center. The road goes up there twice by the municipality of Maienfeld to that of the municipality vial whose own direct road link to the pass was created by the Army.

Name

The name of the pass goes back to the Holy Lucius of Churchill is said to have evangelized in this area and may have been originally buried here. It is often ( in dialect anyway ) also the name Luziensteig used.

Fortress

On the northern pass culmination is protected by an old ditch a historic fortress with a gate building from 1702, which is still used as barracks for the Swiss Army. The fort remained unchanged until 1855 and was under the supervision of Gottlieb Heinrich Legler ( 1823-1897 ) rebuilt. A stone tower called fortification tower is on the way to Guscha, which is however not a Malakoff Tower. On the site there is a military museum that will be remembered in the, among others, the role of the horse in the Swiss army. 40 years serving the area the "train recruits schools and troops ." The pass goes over the former drawbridge through the narrow gate, and then through the middle of the fortress.

Pass

With the pass next to an inn is the rising Church, which was first mentioned in 831. The present Gothic building with late Gothic choir was up to the beginning of the 15th century, the mother church of Maienfeld and vial. Inside, the church is equipped with wall paintings from the 14th and 15th centuries, some of which are only recognizable as fragments. Today, the small church is used as a church for weddings during the summer.

Pictures

The situation between Landquart and Luzisteig 1653, the Luziensteig at the bottom.

Fortress seen from St. Luzisteig way to the Guscha from

Fortress Luzisteig

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