Horw
Horw is a municipality in the district of Lucerne in the canton of Lucerne in Switzerland. Horw has about 12,600 residents.
Places of Interest
Highlights: St. Katharina Parish Church and Horw railway station.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kastanienbaum and Kriens.
Kriens
Town
Photo: Tilman-AB, Public domain.
Horw
- Categories: municipality of Switzerland, city of Switzerland, and locality
- Location: Horw, Lucerne-Land District, Canton of Lucerne, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
47.0185° or 47° 1′ 7″ north
Longitude
8.31078° or 8° 18′ 39″ east
Population
12,600
Elevation
441 metres (1,447 feet)
UN/LOCODE
CH HRW
Open location code
8FVC2896+C8
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Welsh—“Horw” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Horw”
- Aragonese: “Horw”
- Basque: “Horw”
- Breton: “Horw”
- Bulgarian: “Хорв”
- Catalan: “Horw”
- Cebuano: “Horw”
- Chinese: “霍尔夫”
- Chinese: “霍爾夫”
- Czech: “Horw”
- Dutch: “Horw”
- Esperanto: “Horw”
- Finnish: “Horw”
- French: “Horw”
- German: “Horw”
- Hungarian: “Horw”
- Irish: “Horw”
- Italian: “Horw”
- Japanese: “ホル”
- Kazakh: “Хорв”
- Korean: “호르브”
- Kurdish: “Horw”
- Lombard: “Horw”
- Luxembourgish: “Horw”
- Malay: “Horw”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Horw”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Horw”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Horw”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Horw”
- Persian: “ار، سوئیس”
- Persian: “هورب”
- Piemontese: “Horw”
- Polish: “Horw”
- Portuguese: “Horw”
- Russian: “Хорв”
- Spanish: “Horw”
- Swedish: “Horw”
- Swiss German: “horb”
- Swiss German: “Horw”
- Turkish: “Horw”
- Ukrainian: “Горв”
- Upper Sorbian: “Horw”
- Uzbek: “Horw”
- Venetian: “Horw”
- Volapük: “Horw”
- Waray (Philippines): “Horw”
- Welsh: “Horw”
- “Horw”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Gemeindehausplatz and Felsenegg.
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Highlights: Polizeiposten Horw and Gemeindehaus.
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