850-50 BC) and the Roman and Celtic-Roman time (from 50 BC) have been discovered.
The City of Zug � Kyburg Foundation
In around 600 AD, Alemannic families and tribes immigrated to the area of present day canton Zug. The name Blickensdorf, and place names with �- ikon� endings, prove this as the first Alemannic living space. The churches of Baar and Risch also date back to the early Middle Ages. The first written document on the area originates from the year 858, and refers to King Ludwig the German giving the farm �Chama� (Cham) to the Zurich Fraum�nster convent. At this time, the area of present day Zug belonged to completely different monastic and secular landlords, the most important of whom were the Habsburgs, and who, in 1264, inherited the Kyburg rights and remained a central political power until about 1400. In the course of the high medieval town construction, the settlement of Zug also received a city wall at some point after 1200. The city founders were probably the counts of Kyburg. In 1242, Zug was mentioned for the first time as �oppidum�, meaning �city�. Research shows that Zug was important as an administrative centre of the Kyburg and the Habsburg office, then as a local market place, and, thereafter, as a stage town for the transport of goods (particularly salt and iron) over the Hirzel hill towards Lucerne. In 1478, the building of a larger city wall began, which increased the city area six-fold - the same year as the building of the late gothic St. Oswald Church began. The building master of the new city wall was Hans Felder from Bavarian Swabia. The ground plan of the city wall is indicative of an ideal symmetric plan of the Renaissance period � something very rare at that time. The overall urban planning implemented in the small town of Zug was modern for its time.
The year 1352 - an episode
The alliance of the four forest cantons of Uri, Schwyz, Unterwalden and Lucerne with the city of Zurich in 1351
