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13-410: Hergiswil is first mentioned around 1303-09 as ze Hergenswile . Hergiswil has an area, as of 2006, of 14.2 square kilometers (5.5 sq mi). Of this area, 29.3% is used for agricultural purposes, while 44.4% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 9.7% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (16.6%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains). The municipality is located between

26-413: A popular route for tourists — involves taking a boat from Lucerne across Lake Lucerne to Alpnachstad, going up on the cogwheel railway, coming down on the aerial cableways and panorama gondolas, and taking a trolleybus back to Lucerne. A few different local legends about the origin of the name exist. One claims that Pilatus was named so because Pontius Pilate was buried there. However, a similar legend

39-404: Is located about 1.3 km (0.81 mi) to the southeast of the top cable car and cog railway station. Two other peaks, closer to the stations are called Esel ( Donkey , 2,118 m [6,949 ft]), which lies just east over the railway station, the one on the west side is called Oberhaupt ( Head-Leader , 2,105 m [6,906 ft]). During the summer, the "Golden Round Trip" —

52-603: Is told of Monte Vettore in Italy. Another is that the mountain looks like the belly of a large man, Pilate, lying on his back and was thus named for him. The name may also be derived from "pileatus", meaning "cloud-topped." Numbered amongst those who have reached its summit are Conrad Gessner , Theodore Roosevelt , Arthur Schopenhauer (1804), Queen Victoria and Julia Ward Howe (1867). The cog railway opened in 1889. That same year, Leonardo Torres Quevedo presented his innovative cable car project for public transport, but it

65-613: The tertiary sector , with 382 businesses in this sector. The historical population is given in the following table: Hergiswil is served by Hergiswil station and Hergiswil Matt station on the Brünig railway line , and the linked Luzern–Stans–Engelberg line . The Lucerne S-Bahn services S4 and S5 combine to provide four trains per hour at each station. Hergiswil station is also served by hourly InterRegio trains between Lucerne and Interlaken , and between Lucerne and Engelberg. The main sights of Hergiswil are: an old clergy house,

78-471: The church, the chapel Maria zum guten Rat , old mansion Thumigerhaus , and a glazier 's workshop with museum. The workshop was established in 1817, burning down on one occasion, but is still working. Pilatus (mountain) Pilatus , also often referred to as Mount Pilatus , is a mountain massif overlooking Lucerne in Central Switzerland . It is composed of several peaks, of which

91-402: The foot of Mount Pilatus and Lake Lucerne . Hergiswil has a population (as of 31 December 2020) of 5,863. As of 2007, 14.5% of the population was made up of foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years the population has grown at a rate of 11.5%. Most of the population (as of 2000) speaks German (91.0%), with Italian being second most common ( 2.0%) and French being third ( 1.1%). As of 2008

104-523: The gender distribution of the population was 52.2% male and 47.8% female. As of 2000 there are 2,216 households, of which 1,627 households (or about 73.4%) contain only one or two individuals. 91 or about 4.1% are large households, with at least five members. In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the FDP which received 89.1% of the vote. Most of the rest of the votes went to local small right-wing parties (9.3%). In Hergiswil about 77.7% of

117-602: The highest (2,128.5 m [6,983 ft]) is named Tomlishorn . The whole mountain range stretches at least from the Lopper just opposite from Stansstad to the east as far as at least to the Mittaggüpfi (1,917 m [6,289 ft]) and the Risetestock (1,759 m [5,771 ft]) to the west on the border between LU and OW. The highest peak, Tomlishorn (2,128.5 m [6,983 ft]), and

130-515: The massif is divided between the cantons of Obwalden (OW) , Nidwalden (NW) , and Lucerne (LU) . The main peaks are right on the border between Obwalden and Nidwalden. The top can be reached with the Pilatus Railway , the world's steepest cogwheel railway , from Alpnachstad , operating from May to November (depending on snow conditions) and the whole year with the aerial panorama gondolas and aerial cableways from Kriens . Tomlishorn

143-629: The other peaks, such as Widderfeld (2,076 m [6,811 ft]) even further west than the Tomlishorn on the border between LU and OW, Matthorn (2,040 m [6,690 ft]) to the south, the Klimsenhorn (1,906 m [6,253 ft]) to the north (NW), and Rosegg (1,974 m [6,476 ft]) and Windegg (1,673 m [5,489 ft]) to the east, both on the border of NW and OW, should only be approached with appropriate Alpine hiking equipment. Jurisdiction over

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156-471: The population (between age 25-64) have completed either non-mandatory upper secondary education or additional higher education (either university or a Fachhochschule ). Hergiswil has an unemployment rate of 1.24%. As of 2005, there were 89 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 35 businesses involved in this sector. 666 people are employed in the secondary sector and there are 72 businesses in this sector. 2,091 people are employed in

169-684: Was dismissed by the country's authorities. The mountain has fortified radar (part of the Swiss FLORAKO system) and weather stations on the Oberhaupt summit, not open to the public view and used all year round. In The Chalet School Does It Again . (1955) Elinor Brent-Dyer retells the Pilate burial place legend. Mount Pilatus plays a pivotal role in the conclusion of Brad Thor 's fiction novel Lions of Lucerne . Canton of Obwalden Too Many Requests If you report this error to

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