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ENGELBERG , an Alpine See also:

village and valley in central Switzer- . See also:land, much frequented by visitors in summer and to some extent in See also:winter. It is 14 M. by electric railway from Stansstad, on the See also:Lake of See also:Lucerne, past See also:Stans. The village (3343 ft.) is in amountain See also:basin, shut in on all sides by lofty mountains (the highest is the Titlis, 10,627 ft. in the See also:south-See also:east), so that it is often hot in summer. It communicates by the Surenen Pass (7563 ft.) with Wassen, on the St Gotthard railway, and by the Joch Pass (7267 ft.) past the favourite summer resort of the Engstlen See also:Alp (6034 ft.), with See also:Meiringen in the Bernese Oberland.' The village has clustered See also:round the See also:great See also:Benedictine monastery which gives its name to the valley, from the See also:legend that its site was fixed by angels, so. that the spot was named " See also:Mons Angelorum." The monastery was foundellabout 1120 and still survives, though the buildings date only from the See also:early 18th See also:century. Its library suffered much at the hands of the See also:French in 1798. From 1462 onwards it was under the See also:protectorate of Lucerne, See also:Schwyz, See also:Unterwalden and See also:Uri. In 1798 the See also:abbot lost all his temporal See also:powers, and his domains were annexed to the Obwalden See also:division of Unterwalden, but in 1803 were transferred to the Nidwalden division. However, in 1816, in consequence of the desperate resistance made by the Nidwalden men to the new Federal Pact of 1815, they were punished by the fresh See also:transfer of the valley to Obwalden, See also:part of which it still forms. As the' pastures forming the upper portion of the Engelberg valley have for ages belonged to Uri, the actual valley itself is politically isolated between Uri and Nidwalden. The monastery is still directly dependent on the See also:pope. In 1900 the valley had 1973 inhabitants, practically all See also:German-speaking and Romanists. (W.

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