The popular summer resort of Brunnen has a magnificent situation at the right-angled bend in Lake Lucerne formed by the Urner See (Lake Uri) and the Gersauer Becken (Gersau basin), at the beginning of the Axenstrasse (opened 1865), on the road over the St Gotthard. Since the construction of a bypass
road it is a pleasantly quiet resort, with splendid views of the lake, the Seelisberg (with the Rütli Meadow) and the Bürgenstock. Above the wide Muota valley rise the two characteristically shaped horns of the Mythen; above the deep rocky trough of the Urner See towers the massive Urirotstock, almost 3,000 m/9,843ft high; and to the rear of the Gersau basin is Pilatus, rising to over 2,000 m/6,562ft. The first reference to the town is in the Einsiedeln chronicles in 1217, but its traditions go much further back.
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