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Encyclopedia Britannica



STANS

This article appears in Volume V25, Page 783 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SOU-STE
STANS , the
capital
  of the eastern half (or Nidwalden) of the Swiss canton of Unterwalden. It stands amid orchards at a
height of 1493 ft. above the sea-level on a plain at the north foot of the conical Stanserhorn (6238 ft.). It is, by electric railway, about 2 M. from Stansstad, its port on the
south
  shore of the lake of Lucerne, and 12 M. from Engelberg (with its
great
 
Benedictine
  monastery, founded about 1120), now a much-frequented summer resort, while there is also an electric rail-way from Stans up the Stanserhorn. In 19oo Stans had a population of 2798, all German-speaking and Romanists. Stans was the
home
  of the
Winkelried
  family (q.v.) and has a modern monument to the memory of
Arnold
  von
Winkelried
 , the legendary hero of the battle of Sempach (1386). In 1481 the holy Nicholas von der Flue composed at Stans by his advice the strife between the Confederates, while in 1798 many persons were massacred here by the French. (W. A. B. C.)


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