Horw
Horw is a municipality in the district of Lucerne in the canton of Lucerne in Switzerland. Horw has about 12,600 residents.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Chrisaliv, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Chrisaliv, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Horw railway station and St. Katharina Parish Church.
Horw railway station
Railway station
Photo: Moliva, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Horw railway station is a Swiss railway station in the municipality of Horw in the canton of Lucerne. It is on the Brünig line of the Zentralbahn railway company, which links Lucerne and Interlaken, and is also used by trains of the Luzern–Stans–Engelberg line.
Swissporarena
Stadium
Photo: Chrisaliv, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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 Kastanienbaum and Kriens.
Kriens
Town
Photo: Tilman-AB, Public domain.
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. Kriens is situated 3 km northwest of Horw.
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
- 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″ northLongitude
8.31078° or 8° 18′ 39″ eastPopulation
12,600Elevation
441 metres (1,447 feet)United Nations Location Code
CH HRWOpen location code
8FVC2896+C8OpenStreetMap ID
node 240037485OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Welsh—“Horw” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “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”
- 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”
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