Kriens

Kriens is a town of about 28,000 inhabitants in the district of Lucerne in the canton of Lucerne, Switzerland, lying at the foot of the mountain Pilatus as a western suburb of Lucerne. In the oldest documents of the Benedictine Monastery of Lucerne, Chrientes is listed as one of its 16 properties, an area between Mount Pilatus and the Lake of Lucerne that the monastery received as a gift from two noble sisters in a document of about 840. The Habsburgs acquired the municipality in 1291 and kept it until the Battle of Sempach, and the city of Lucerne took over in 1392. Kriens, along with Horw and Eigenthal, belonged to the Vogtei of Horw-Kriens from 1421 until 1798. In 1653 the local peasants revolted under the leadership of Hans Spengler, and it was part of the District of Lucerne until 1803.