Scheidegg (Rigi)

{{short description|Mountain in Switzerland}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2025}} {{Infobox mountain |name = Scheidegg |other_name = Rigi Scheidegg (cable car station) |image = Rigi-Scheidegg-from-Goldau-.jpg |image_caption = View from Goldau |topo = Swiss Federal Office of Topography swisstopo |elevation_m = 1659 |elevation_ref = <ref name=ST>{{cite map |publisher=Swiss Federal Office of Topography – swisstopo |location=Berne, Switzerland |date=2013 |title=No. 1151 Rigi |scale=1:25000 |series=National Map 1:25 000 |edition=2016 |url=https://shop.swisstopo.admin.ch/en/products/maps/national/lk25 |isbn=978-3-302-01151-6 |accessdate=2016-10-04}}</ref><ref name=swmap>{{cite map |publisher=Swiss Federal Office of Topography – swisstopo |location=Berne, Switzerland |date=28 February 2016 |title=Scheidegg (Rigi) |scale=1:10 000 |series=Landeskarte 1:10'000 (farbig) (Bundesamt für Landestopografie swisstopo) |edition=2016 |url=https://s.geo.admin.ch/6ebd1a6ce1 |accessdate=2016-10-04}}</ref> |prominence_m = 114 |prominence_ref = <ref>Retrieved from the Swisstopo topographic maps. The key col is the Hinder Dosse ({{cvt|1545|m|ft|disp=x| [|]}}).</ref> |parent_peak = Dosse |map = Switzerland#Canton of Schwyz |map_caption = Location in Switzerland##Location in the canton of Schwyz |region_type = Canton |region = Schwyz |country = Switzerland |range = Schwyzer Alps |coordinates = {{coord|47|01|39|N|08|31|12|E|region:CH-SZ_type:mountain|display=inline,title}} |coordinates_ref = <ref name=swmap/> |type = |age = |first_ascent = |easiest_route = }}

The '''Scheidegg''' ({{IPA|de-CH|ˈʃaɪdɛg}}; {{convert|1659|m|abbr=on|disp=or}}) is a mountain summit of the Rigi massif, overlooking Goldau in the canton of Schwyz on its north mountainside, and Gersau and the Gersau Bay ({{lang|de|Gersauerbecken}}) of Lake of Lucerne on its south side. The cable car station {{convert|160|m}} to the east of the summit is called '''Rigi Scheidegg'''.<ref name=ST/><ref name=swmap/>

==Transport== The summit is connected by two cable cars, one, the {{lang|de|Luftseilbahn Kräbel–Rigi Scheidegg}} (LKRS), on the north side connecting to the ''Kräbel'' station on the Arth-Rigi Bahn (ARB), and another one, the {{lang|de|Luftseilbahn Obergschwend–Rigi Burggeist}} (LORB), on the south side leading down to ''Obergschwend'' in the municipality of Gersau. The valley station of the LORB is linked via a bus line with Gersau and its landing stage served by the Lake Lucerne Navigation Company.

Alternatively it is possible to walk from Scheidegg to Rigi Kaltbad or Rigi Klösterli by a panoramic footpath on the eastern and western mountainside of the Rigi massif. Much of the path uses the trackbed of the former Rigi–Scheidegg railway that once linked Kaltbad and Scheidegg.<ref name=fr>{{cite web |url=https://www.rigi.ch/en/Places/Rigi-Kaltbad-First/Hiking-trails-from-Rigi-Kaltbad/Rigi-panorama-trail |title=Rigi Panorama Trail |publisher=RigiPlus AG/Rigi Bahnen AG |work=rigi.ch |accessdate=2016-10-06 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20161006153151/https://www.rigi.ch/en/Places/Rigi-Kaltbad-First/Hiking-trails-from-Rigi-Kaltbad/Rigi-panorama-trail |archivedate=2016-10-06 |url-status=live}}</ref>

==History== The summit of Scheidegg was once the site of a large hotel, built in 1830. The reduction in tourism due to World War I, and the subsequent change in tourism from overnight stays to day trips, resulted in the closure of the hotel and its eventual demolition in 1943/4.<ref name=HDS>{{cite web | url = http://www.hls-dhs-dss.ch/textes/d/D7449.php | title = Rigi | language = German | work = Historical Dictionary of Switzerland | date = 2012-01-03 | accessdate = 2016-10-05}}</ref>

The Cinema Museum in London has rare home movie footage of the town in 1946.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Cinema Museum Home Movie Database.xlsx|url=https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OJqSWnOFAn6RJ24jtwb21Z4Hv5svJjbp/edit?usp=embed_facebook|access-date=2021-09-12|website=Google Docs|language=en-US}}</ref>

<gallery mode="packed"> File:Rigi Scheidegg, the Hotel, Rigi, Switzerland-LCCN2001703163.jpg|Scheidegg in the 1890s, showing the hotel that once occupied the peak. File:Rigi Scheidegg, looking towards Oberland Alps, Rigi, Switzerland-LCCN2001703161.jpg|View from Scheidegg in the 1890s, looking towards the Oberland Alps. </gallery>

==References== {{Reflist|30em}}

==External links== *{{Commons category-inline|Rigi Scheidegg|Scheidegg}} *[http://www.hikr.org/dir/Rigi_Scheidegg_4132/ Rigi Scheidegg on Hikr]

Category:Mountains of the Alps Category:Mountains of the canton of Schwyz Category:Mountains of Switzerland