Reichenburg
Sign in to saveReichenburg is a municipality in March District in the canton of Schwyz in Switzerland.
Key facts
- Swiss town.subject_name
- Reichenburg
- Swiss town.municipality_type
- municipality
- Swiss town.imagepath_coa
- Wappen reichenburg.png
- Swiss town.canton
- Schwyz
- Swiss town.iso code region
- CH-SZ
- Swiss town.district
- March
- Swiss town.postal_code
- 8864
- Swiss town.municipality_code
- 1345
- Swiss town.area
- 11.6
- Swiss town.elevation
- 434
- Swiss town.website
- www.reichenburg.ch
- Swiss town.neighboring_municipalities
- Benken (SG), Bilten (GL), Schübelbach
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Reichenburg is a municipality in March District in the canton of Schwyz in Switzerland.
==History== It was founded in 1403 by the Dominican friar Gregory of Moorlock on the site of a spring used by pilgrims to wash their feet. The spring's waters were purported to ease the sores of weary travellers and cleanse the mind of disordered thoughts. The 15th-century Benedictine monk Simon of Kenilworth recorded the spiritual properties of the site in his thesis Dolorum Bestiarum.