Mauensee
Mauesee is a lake in the canton of Lucerne, Switzerland, near the town Mauensee. Mauensee Castle is built on an islet in the 0.55 km2 large lake. It was built in 1605 for the Pfyffer family.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Lake
- Description: lake in Canton of Lucerne, Switzerland
- Also known as: “Lake of Mauen”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mauensee Château and Sursee railway station.
Sursee railway station
Railway station
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Sursee railway station is a railway station in the municipality of Sursee, in the Swiss canton of Lucerne. It is an intermediate stop on the standard gauge Olten–Lucerne line of Swiss Federal Railways.
St. Erhard-Knutwil railway station
Railway stop
St. Erhard-Knutwil railway station is a railway station in the municipality of Knutwil, in the Swiss canton of Lucerne. It is an intermediate stop on the standard gauge Olten–Lucerne line of Swiss Federal Railways.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mauensee and Sursee.
Mauensee
Village
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Mauensee is a municipality in the district of Sursee in the canton of Lucerne in Switzerland.
Sursee
Town
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Sursee is a municipality in the district of Sursee in the canton of Lucerne, Switzerland. Sursee is located at the northern end of Lake Sempach, not far from where the Sure stream exits the lake, hence the name "Sursee".
Kottwil
Village
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Kottwil is a village, which is situated 2½ km southwest of Mauensee.
Mauensee
- Category: body of water
- Location: Canton of Lucerne, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Swedish—“Mauensee” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Mauensee”
- Cebuano: “Mauensee (lanaw)”
- Cebuano: “Mauensee”
- Chinese: “毛恩湖”
- Dutch: “Mauensee”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بحيره ماوينسى”
- French: “lac de Mauensee”
- French: “Lac de Mauensee”
- French: “Mauensee”
- German: “Mauensee”
- German: “Mauesee”
- Macedonian: “Мауензе (езеро)”
- Macedonian: “Мауензе”
- Malay: “Mauensee”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mauensee”
- Portuguese: “Lago Mauensee”
- Russian: “Мауэнзе (озеро)”
- Russian: “Мауэнзе”
- Swedish: “Mauensee”
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