Bürgenstock
The Bürgenstock is a mountain in Switzerland with an elevation of 1,128 m above sea level, situated beside Lake Lucerne. Since the late 19th century, the Bürgenstock is the site of a large hotel and conference centre, today known as Bürgenstock Resort, situated some 600 m above Lake Lucerne.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Oblic, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 1,128 metres
- Description: mountain with hotel complex on Lake Lucerne in Ennetbürgen and Stansstad in the canton of Nidwalden, Switzerland
- Also known as: “Buergenstock”, “Bürgenberg”, “Burgenstock”, and “Hammetschwand”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Hammetschwand Elevator and Hotel Villa Honegg.
Hammetschwand Elevator
Tower
Photo: Leiju, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Hammetschwand Elevator, near Lake Lucerne, Switzerland, is the highest and fastest outdoor elevator in Europe. It connects a lower station built inside Bürgenstock, a mountain beside Lake Lucerne, with an upper station at Hammetschwand, the peak of the mountain, traveling a distance of 153 m.
Hotel Villa Honegg
Hotel building
Photo: Roland Zumbuehl, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Hotel Villa Honegg is a hotel building.
Bürgenstock Resort
Hotel
Photo: Asurnipal, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Bürgenstock Resort Lake Lucerne is a Swiss luxury resort and tourism complex situated above Lake Lucerne in Canton of Nidwalden, Switzerland. The resort is located on the Bürgenberg and comprises a total of 30 buildings, including three hotels, residences, two spas, a conference centre and a number of leisure facilities.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ennetbürgen and Hertenstein.
Ennetbürgen
Village
Photo: Tschubby, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Ennetbürgen is a municipality in the canton of Nidwalden in Switzerland.
Buochs
Village
Photo: MauroRoncoroni, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Buochs is a municipality in the canton of Nidwalden in Switzerland.
Bürgenstock
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Lucerne, Lucerne District, Canton of Lucerne, Central Switzerland, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
47.00031° or 47° 0′ 1″ northLongitude
8.39833° or 8° 23′ 54″ eastElevation
1,128 metres (3,701 feet)United Nations Location Code
CH BSKOpen location code
8FVC292X+48OpenStreetMap ID
node 26863095OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peakGeoNames ID
2661320Wikidata ID
Q43246
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Bürgenstock” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بورغينستوك”
- Catalan: “Bürgenstock”
- Cebuano: “Bürgenstock”
- Chinese: “比尔根山”
- Czech: “Bürgenstock”
- Dutch: “Burgenstock”
- Dutch: “Bürgenstock”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل بورجينستوك”
- Esperanto: “Bürgenstock”
- French: “Bürgenstock”
- German: “Bürgenstock”
- Greek: “Μπούγκενστοκ”
- Japanese: “ビュルゲンシュトック”
- Korean: “뷔르겐슈토크”
- Ladin: “Bürgenstock”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bürgenstock”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Bürgenstock”
- Persian: “بورگناشتوک”
- Persian: “بورگنستوک”
- Spanish: “Bürgenstock”
- Swedish: “Bürgenstock”
- Swiss German: “Bürgenstock”
- Swiss German: “Bürgestock”
- Thai: “เบือร์เกินชต็อค”
- Ukrainian: “Бюрґеншток”
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Notable Places Nearby
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Bürgenstock”. Photo: Oblic, CC BY-SA 3.0.