Above Fischbach in the moraine landscape of the Reuss glacier, the Fischbacher Mösli, as the villagers affectionately call it, has formed. The raised bog is one of the areas of national importance and is an idyllic retreat from everyday life.
After peat mining in the 20th century, the originally much more extensive landscape was reduced to a small area around the Moosweiher. The lake is around 300 metres long and 100 metres wide, is only a maximum of three metres deep and was formed from the dead ice of the Reuss glacier.
The area is a reserve with numerous trails and a lively habitat for birds and amphibians.
The Fizzibirli tree
On the forest hill on the way to Fischbach above the Reuss stood the gallows house; the Fizzibirli tree used to be visible there and everyone made a shy detour around this three-branched pear tree. When the strict judges of the Reuss town of Bremgarten had sentenced a criminal to a shameful death on the gallows, the condemned man was led over the wooden bridge to the gallows house. On this long torture path, the executioner's assistant beat the bare back with rough rods and the criminal came to the mighty pear tree in this "fizzed" state. Then the painful fizzing with the rod stopped and so the people simply called the tree the Fizzibirli tree. The badly beaten person was led to the gallows, made a bad acquaintance with the rope maker's rope and the dead man then hung on the gallows for a few days, much to the disgust of the citizens.
Directions
From the village of Fischbach, the Fischbacher Moos can be reached quite quickly on foot uphill.
