Ebikon

Ebikon is a municipality within the constituency Luzern-Land of the canton of Lucerne in Switzerland. In 853 Ludwig the German donated good sized lands to the Fraumunster convent in Zurich, wherein his daughter Hildegard presided as abbess. This included, amongst others, the place of ​​today's municipality Ebikon. The marcha abinchova changed into at first the land of the Alemannic settler Ebo and his extended family. From marcha abinchova have become in the neighborhood dialect Ebinkofen or Ebinkon. In the 14th century Ebikon become under the guideline of Habsburg- Austria. The town of Lucerne extended an increasing number of and from 1415 she formally set up a bailiff in Ebikon.

In 1417 Ebikon acquired the German Emperor Sigismund, an occasion of which the Sigismundkreuz nevertheless bears witness these days. Between 1472 and 1848 Ebikon changed into below the sovereignty of Lucerne. In 1805 the first schoolhouse become constructed and in 1819 the first municipal council turned into elected. During the Sonderbundskrieg Ebikon 1847 became occupied militarily. In 1863, the brand new schoolhouse was built, which nowadays still houses the college services. In the district Rathausen a Cistercian monastery turned into built in 1245, which turned into abolished in 1848 inside the path of secularization.