Ballwil

Ballwil is a municipality inside the constituency of Hochdorf within the canton of Lucerne in Switzerland. As finds on the homestead Hochweid and in 1978 on the homestead Balletz occupy elements of the network had been already populated early. Germanic names give a demonstration of Alemannic settlement. For the primary time underneath the existing call, inside the shape Paldiwilare, the place is stated in the year 893 most of the possessions of the Fraumunster Abbey of Zurich. In 1210, a noble servant named Hartmann von Ballwil is called. This sex built a citadel and was as a nearby administrator for the time being for the Counts of Kyburg and after their extinction for the Habsburgsactive.

A Bruno von Ballwil died in 1315 in the Battle of Morgarten at the Austrian side. The sex died in 1381. Parts of the network belonged to the Habsburg Office Richensee - Others to also Habsburg Amt Rothenburg. Between 1385 and 1413 all districts came below the rule of thumb of the metropolis of Lucerne - and had been linked to 1798 the Landvogtei Rothenburg. After that they belonged to the district of Hochdorf till 1803. Subsequently, Mettenwil become the then newly created workplace Hochdorfslammed close. In Ballwil in 2006 a monstrous tooth became located, which is set 45000 years vintage.