Gelfingen
Gelfingen is a former municipality in the district of Hochdorf in the canton of Lucerne in Switzerland. On 1 January 2009 it became part of the municipality of Hitzkirch.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 980 residents
- Description: village and former municipality in Hitzkirch in the canton of Lucerne, Switzerland
- Also known as: “Gelfingen LU”
- Postal code: 6284
Places of Interest
Highlights include Gelfingen railway station and Heidegg Castle.
Gelfingen railway station
Railway stop
Gelfingen railway station is a railway station in the municipality of Hitzkirch, in the Swiss canton of Lucerne. It is an intermediate stop on the standard gauge Seetal line of Swiss Federal Railways.
Heidegg Castle
Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Heidegg Castle is a castle in the municipality of Hitzkirch of the Canton of Lucerne in Switzerland. It is a Swiss heritage site of national significance.
Hitzkirch railway station
Railway station
Photo: Roland Zumbuehl, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Hitzkirch railway station is a railway station in the municipality of Hitzkirch, in the Swiss canton of Lucerne. It is an intermediate stop on the standard gauge Seetal line of Swiss Federal Railways.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Hitzkirch and Richensee.
Hitzkirch
Village
Photo: MRB, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Hitzkirch is a municipality in the district of Hochdorf in the canton of Lucerne in Switzerland. On 1 January 2009, Gelfingen, Hämikon, Mosen, Müswangen, Retschwil and Sulz joined Hitzkirch. On 1 January 2021, Altwis merged into Hitzkirch.
Sulz
Village
Sulz is a former municipality in the district of Hochdorf in the canton of Lucerne in Switzerland. On 1 January 2009, Sulz together with Gelfingen, Hämikon, Mosen, Müswangen, and Retschwil joined Hitzkirch.
Gelfingen
- Categories: former municipality of Switzerland and locality
- Location: Römerswil, Hochdorf District, Canton of Lucerne, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
47.21441° or 47° 12′ 52″ northLongitude
8.26618° or 8° 15′ 58″ eastPopulation
980Elevation
471 metres (1,545 feet)Open location code
8FVC6778+QFOpenStreetMap ID
node 240069454OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2660658Wikidata ID
Q669306
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Bulgarian to Volapük—“Gelfingen” goes by many names.
- Bulgarian: “Гелфинген”
- Cebuano: “Gelfingen”
- Chuvash: “Гельфинген”
- Dutch: “Gelfingen”
- French: “Gelfingen”
- German: “Gelfingen LU”
- German: “Gelfingen”
- Irish: “Gelfingen”
- Italian: “Gelfingen”
- Kazakh: “Gelʹfïngen”
- Kazakh: “Гельфинген”
- Kazakh: “گەلفىينگەن”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Gelfingen”
- Piemontese: “Gelfingen”
- Portuguese: “Gelfingen”
- Russian: “Гельфинген”
- Swedish: “Gelfingen”
- Turkish: “Gelfingen”
- Upper Sorbian: “Gelfingen”
- Uzbek: “Gelfingen”
- Uzbek: “Гелфинген”
- Volapük: “Gelfingen”
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