Lake Sempach

Lake Sempach is a in the , . Its area is about 14.5 km2 and its maximum depth is 87 m. A 50-metre-large island named Gamma Insel is located east of .
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  • Type: Lake
  • Description: lake in Switzerland
  • Also known as: Sempachersee

Places of Interest

Highlights include Catholic Church of St. Lawrence and Nottwil railway station.

Church

Railway stop
Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.
is a railway station in the municipality of , in the canton of . It is an intermediate stop on the standard gauge Olten–Lucerne line of Swiss Federal Railways.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Eich and Nottwil.

Village
is a municipality in the district of Sursee in the canton of Lucerne in .

Village
is a municipality in the district of Sursee in the canton of Lucerne in .

Hamlet
is a hamlet, which is situated 2½ km east of Lake Sempach.

Lake Sempach

Latitude
47.1441° or 47° 8′ 39″ north
Longitude
8.15527° or 8° 9′ 19″ east
Elevation
500 metres (1,640 feet)
Open location code
8FVC45V4+J4
Geo­Names ID
2658630
Wiki­data ID
Q14459
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Satellite Map

Discover Lake Sempach from above in high-definition satellite imagery.

In Other Languages

From Albanian to Welsh—“Lake Sempach” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: Sempach
  • Bulgarian: Семпачерсе
  • Catalan: Llac Sempach
  • Cebuano: Sempachersee
  • Chinese: 森帕赫湖
  • Chuvash: Земпах кӳлли
  • Czech: Sempachersee
  • Dutch: Meer van Sempach
  • Egyptian Arabic: سيمپاتش
  • Esperanto: Lago de Sempach
  • Finnish: Sempachersee
  • French: lac de Sempach
  • French: Lac de Sempach
  • Galician: Lago Sempach
  • German: Sempachersee
  • Hebrew: אגם סמפאך
  • Italian: lago di Sempach
  • Italian: Lago di Sempach
  • Japanese: ゼンパハ湖
  • Korean: 젬파흐 호수
  • Latvian: Zempahas ezers
  • Lithuanian: Zempacho ežeras
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Sempachsjøen
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Sempachsjøen
  • Persian: دریاچه زمپاخ
  • Polish: Sempachersee
  • Portuguese: Lago Sempach
  • Romansh: Lai da Sempach
  • Russian: Земпахское озеро
  • Serbo-Croatian: Sempach (jezero)
  • Serbo-Croatian: Sempach
  • Spanish: Lago de Sempach
  • Spanish: Sempach
  • Swedish: Sempachersee
  • Swiss German: Sempachersee
  • Tosk Albanian: Sempachersee
  • Turkish: Sempach Gölü
  • Ukrainian: Земпахське озеро
  • Venetian: lago de Sempach
  • Welsh: Llyn Sempach

Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Schweizer Paraplegiker Zentrum, Nottwil and Rathausmuseum Sempach.

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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Lake Sempach”. Photo: Carsten Steger, CC BY-SA 4.0.