Horw

Horw is a municipality in the district of Lucerne in the canton of Lucerne in . Horw has about 12,600 residents.
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  • Type: Town with 12,600 residents
  • Description: municipality in the canton of Lucerne, Switzerland
  • Also known as: “Horw LU”
  • Postal code: 6048
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include St. Katharina Parish Church and Horw railway station.

Church
Photo: Roland Zumbuehl, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Railway station
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is a railway station in the municipality of Horw in the . It is on the Brünig line of the Zentralbahn railway company, which links and , and is also used by trains of the Luzern–Stans–Engelberg line.

Stadium
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, formerly known as Swissporarena, is a multi-use in , , 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 Kastanienbaum and Kriens.

Village
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is a village.

Town
Photo: Tilman-AB, Public domain.
is a city and a municipality in the district of Lucerne in the canton of Lucerne in . The municipality lies at the foot of the mountain , and is a western suburb of . is situated 3 km northwest of Horw.

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is a beautiful small city which sits on the shores of Lake in the heartland of . is a popular destination for the city itself and the accessible outings around the lake and local Alps that it offers.

Horw

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)
United Nations Location Code
CH HRW
Open location code
8FVC2896+C8
Open­Street­Map ID
node 240037485
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2660298
Wiki­data ID
Q14570
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Satellite Map

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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 (munisipyo)”
  • Cebuano: “Horw”
  • Chinese: “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”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Horw”
  • Turkish: “Horw”
  • Ukrainian: “Горв”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Horw”
  • Uzbek: “Horw”
  • Venetian: “Horw”
  • Volapük: “Horw”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Horw”
  • Welsh: “Horw”
  • “Horw”

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