Winkelriedskapelle (Drachenkapelle) dedicated to Winkelried (1828 etching). The building depicted here replaces an earlier chapel, constructed in 1893 but destroyed in 1798 in the French invasion of Switzerland. The 1672 building may in turn have built on the site of an older chapel. [1]
Heinrich von Winkelried (d. after 1303), known as Schrutan or Strut "the giant", was a medieval knight in what is now Central Switzerland.
As Strut von Winkelried he became the subject of a legend which makes him a dragonslayer.
The legendary Strut is placed a generation before the historical character, with a flouruit in the 1240s, and his death due to poisoning by dragon-blood recorded for 1250.
^Odermatt, St. Magnus- oder Winkelriedskapelle auf Allweg in Nidwalden, Geschichtsfreund d. V Orte, 1887, p. 42.
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