Kriens
Kriens is a city and a municipality in the district of Lucerne in the canton of Lucerne in Switzerland. The municipality lies at the foot of the mountain Pilatus, and is a western suburb of Lucerne.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Museum im Bellpark and Schauensee Castle.
Museum im Bellpark
Museum
The Museum im Bellpark is a forum for photography, history, and art in Kriens, Switzerland. It has existed since 1991. The Museum maintains an archive that documents the development of Kriens from a village to an conurbation, and is building up a collection of Swiss drawings.
Schauensee Castle
Castle
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Schauensee Castle is a castle in the municipality of Kriens of the Canton of Lucerne in Switzerland.
Swissporarena
Stadium
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Swissporarena is a multi-use stadium in Lucerne, Switzerland, completed in 2011. It is used mostly for football matches and hosts the home matches of FC Luzern of the Swiss Super League.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Littau and Lucerne.
Littau
Suburb
Photo: DidiWeidmann, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Littau is a former municipality, and now part of the city of Lucerne, in the district of Lucerne in the canton of Lucerne in Switzerland. On 1 January 2010 the municipality of Littau merged into the municipality of Lucerne.
Lucerne
Photo: Ikiwaner, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Lucerne is a beautiful small city which sits on the shores of Lake Lucerne in the heartland of Switzerland. Lucerne is a popular destination for the city itself and the accessible outings around the lake and local Alps that it offers.
Horw
Town
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Horw is a municipality in the district of Lucerne in the canton of Lucerne in Switzerland. Horw is situated 3 km southeast of Kriens.
Kriens
- Categories: Municipality of Switzerland, city of Switzerland, and locality
- Location: Kriens, Lucerne-Land District, Canton of Lucerne, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
47.03415° or 47° 2′ 3″ northLongitude
8.2808° or 8° 16′ 51″ eastPopulation
25,900Elevation
476 metres (1,562 feet)United Nations Location Code
CH KRSOpen location code
8FVC27MJ+M8OpenStreetMap ID
node 240104288OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Welsh—“Kriens” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Kriens”
- Albanian: “Kriens”
- Arabic: “كرينز”
- Basque: “Kriens”
- Breton: “Kriens”
- Bulgarian: “Кринс”
- Catalan: “Kriens”
- Cebuano: “Kriens (munisipyo)”
- Cebuano: “Kriens”
- Chinese: “Kriens”
- Chinese: “克林斯”
- Czech: “Kriens”
- Danish: “Kriens”
- Dutch: “Kriens”
- Esperanto: “Kriens”
- Faroese: “Kriens”
- Finnish: “Kriens”
- French: “Kriens”
- German: “Kriens LU”
- German: “Kriens”
- Hungarian: “Kriens”
- Irish: “Kriens”
- Italian: “Kriens”
- Japanese: “クリーンス”
- Kazakh: “Кринс”
- Korean: “크린스”
- Kurdish: “Kriens”
- Lithuanian: “Krynsas”
- Lombard: “Kriens”
- Malay: “Kriens”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Kriens”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kriens”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kriens”
- Norwegian: “Kriens”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Kriens”
- Persian: “کریئن”
- Piemontese: “Kriens”
- Polish: “Kriens”
- Portuguese: “Kriens”
- Russian: “Кринс”
- Slovak: “Kriens”
- South Azerbaijani: “کریئن”
- Spanish: “Kriens”
- Swedish: “Kriens”
- Swiss German: “Chriens”
- Tosk Albanian: “Kriens”
- Turkish: “Kriens”
- Ukrainian: “Крієнс”
- Upper Sorbian: “Kriens”
- Uzbek: “Kriens”
- Venetian: “Kriens”
- Volapük: “Kriens”
- Waray (Philippines): “Kriens”
- Welsh: “Kriens”
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