<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>VILLAGE OF LIELI, CANTON LUCERNE, SWITZERLAND</strong></p>
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<p>This little village has a special, personal meaning to my entire family, back in 1996 one of my wife&#8217;s sisters, married to a Swiss, decided to emigrate from the USA back to Switzerland with their 3 children and settled in this little Village of 250 people.</p>
<p>After living in South Florida for many years, the move to Switzerland, and especially to this little village in the middle of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Switzerland">Central Switzerland</a></strong>, was an amazingly, gutsy move, for which I still admire them today.</p>
<p>My son spent many holidays in this village, during his summer and winter vacations he used to come to Switzerland to spend time with his cousins.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I decided to visit Lieli a few days ago with my son, we parked the car in the village and walked up the hill towards the ruins of <strong><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nünegg_Castle">Castle Nünegg</a></strong>, as my son was sitting in one of the windows of the ruins, reminiscing, how he used to play around the ruins of this castle with his cousins, I decided to explore the remains of this 13th century Castel.</p>
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				The way it looked in the 13th century
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				The ruins in the 14th century
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				Today&#8217;s look
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				The original plans
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<h5><strong>LOCATION</strong></h5>
<p>The village is located on the western slope of the Lindenberg &#8211; about 4.5 km north of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hochdorf,_Lucerne"><strong>Hochdor</strong>f</a>, (the nearest city of 10,000 people), in the Luzernian part of the <strong>Seevalley</strong>. The village is crossed by the <i>Scheidbach,</i> which flows into Lake <strong><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldeggersee">Baldeg</a>g.</strong></p>
<p>In addition to the main settlement, there are two groups of houses in the former municipal area, namely <i>Burghof</i> (720 m above sea level) and <i>Berghof</i> (784 m above sea level). Just above the village are the ruins of <strong><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nünegg_Castle"><i>Nünegg Castle</i>. </a></strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> <img loading="lazy" class="size-medium wp-image-4768 alignright" src="https://ulrichkoepf.website/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Map-257x300.png" alt="" width="257" height="300" /></span></p>
<h5><strong>POPULATION</strong></h5>
<p>The majority of the village area is used for agriculture, 68.6%. 27.6% are covered with forest and wood and only 3.8% of the settlement area.</p>
<p>The village has remained a small farming village due to its location to this day. The population decreased by 22.8% between 1860 and 1900 as a whole. Over the next two decades, it grew and then stabilized for a long time in the size of 190-200 people. It fell sharply in the 1960s and remained at this level until 1980. Since then, it has been growing slowly again, today its population is between 250 &#8211; 300 people.</p>
<h5><strong>HISTORY</strong></h5>
<p><i>Lieli or Lielae</i> (from the Old High German name for the forest vine) is first mentioned in 893 in an interest toboggan of the <strong><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraumünster">Fraumünster abbey</a></strong><a href="https://www.translatoruser-int.com/translate?&;from=de&;to=en&;csId=9b67e624-c401-4d0a-8954-ee49819d1283&;usId=164d4dd5-46df-40e1-87c7-69e73432b745&;dl=en&;ref=SERP_ct&;dt=2020%2f2%2f8%2011%3a50&;h=I0ykykJyKY4971aRUrDrThfKZ489XEDy&;a=https%3a%2f%2fde.wikipedia.org%2fwiki%2fFraum%25C3%25BCnster">.</a> The Beromünster Monastery and the Muri Monastery in the canton of Aargau also owned the property. Later, the dominion of the village passed to the <strong><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyburg_family">Counts of Kyburg b</a></strong>ack in Lieli, Kanton Luzern in whose name the <strong><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lieli_(Adelsgeschlecht)">Knights of Lieli</a></strong> ruled. When the Kyburgs died out, the<strong><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Habsburg"> Habsburgs</a></strong> inherited their rights. Nünegg Castle was destroyed by the People of Lucerne in January 1386. The heirs of the knights of Lieli, who died out in the 14th century – for the time being, the Alsatian noble family <i>of Schönau</i>, then the <strong><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grünenberg_family">lords of Grünenberg</a></strong> – had their property to be divested to the Lordship of <strong><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heidegg_Castle">Heidegg</a></strong> in 1431. The lordship of Heidegg belonged to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freie_Ämter">Free Offices</a> and did not come to the canton of Lucerne until 1803. Since then, Lieli has been at the <strong><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freie_Ämter">Hochdorf office</a>.</strong></p>
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