Göschenen
Göschenen is a village and municipality in the canton of Uri in Switzerland. It sits at the northern end of the Gotthard tunnel. The Göschenen riots saw Urner troops opening fire on Italian miners demonstrating for better working conditions and wages on the tunnel's construction site.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Göschenen railway station and Andermatt railway station.
Göschenen railway station
Railway station
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Göschenen railway station is a railway station in the Swiss canton of Uri and municipality of Göschenen. Situated on the original line of the Gotthard railway, at the northern mouth of the Gotthard Tunnel, the station is also the junction point with the Schöllenenbahn.
Andermatt railway station
Railway station
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Andermatt railway station is a railway station and junction on the metre gauge Furka Oberalp Bahn, serving the town and municipality of Andermatt, in the canton of Uri, Switzerland. Andermatt railway station is situated 3½ km south of Göschenen.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Andermatt and Wassen.
Andermatt
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Andermatt is a town and ski resort in the canton of Uri, Switzerland. It is located at a crossroad in the Alps with great historical importance. Before the opening of the Gotthard car and train tunnels, a big part of the north–south traffic had to pass through here.
Wassen
Village
Wassen is a village and municipality in the canton of Uri in Switzerland. Wassen is situated 4½ km north of Göschenen.
Hospental
Village
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Hospental is a municipality in the canton of Uri in Switzerland. Hospental is situated 6 km south of Göschenen.
Göschenen
- Categories: Municipality of Switzerland and locality
- Location: Uri, Canton of Uri, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
46.6676° or 46° 40′ 4″ northLongitude
8.5887° or 8° 35′ 19″ eastPopulation
440Elevation
2,430 metres (7,972 feet)Open location code
8FRCMH9Q+3FOpenStreetMap ID
node 240085924OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
7285944Wikidata ID
Q69639
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Western Panjabi—“Göschenen” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Göschenen”
- Armenian: “Գյոշենեն”
- Basque: “Göschenen”
- Breton: “Göschenen”
- Catalan: “Göschenen”
- Cebuano: “Göschenen (munisipyo)”
- Cebuano: “Göschenen”
- Chinese: “格捨嫩”
- Chinese: “格申嫩”
- Chinese: “格申恩”
- Chinese: “格舍嫩”
- Chinese: “歌薛能”
- Chuvash: “Гёшенен”
- Czech: “Göschenen”
- Dutch: “Goeschenen”
- Dutch: “Goschenen”
- Dutch: “Göschenen”
- Esperanto: “Abfrutt”
- Esperanto: “Goeschenen”
- Esperanto: “Göschenen”
- Esperanto: “Gwüest”
- Esperanto: “Wiggen”
- Finnish: “Göschenen”
- French: “Goschenen”
- French: “Göschenen”
- Georgian: “გეშენენი”
- German: “Göschenen”
- Hungarian: “Göschenen”
- Irish: “Göschenen”
- Italian: “Göschenen”
- Japanese: “ゲシェネン”
- Kazakh: “Гёшенен”
- Korean: “괴세넨”
- Korean: “괴셰넨”
- Lombard: “Göschenen”
- Luxembourgish: “Göschenen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Göschenen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Göschenen”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Göschenen”
- Persian: “گاشنن”
- Piemontese: “Göschenen”
- Polish: “Göschenen”
- Portuguese: “Göschenen”
- Romansh: “Caschanutta”
- Romansh: “Göschenen”
- Russian: “Гешенен”
- Russian: “Гёшенен”
- Spanish: “Goschenen”
- Spanish: “Göschenen”
- Swedish: “Göschenen”
- Swiss German: “Geschenä”
- Swiss German: “Göschenen”
- Tosk Albanian: “Göschenen”
- Turkish: “Göschenen”
- Ukrainian: “Гошенен”
- Upper Sorbian: “Göschenen”
- Uzbek: “Goschenen”
- Uzbek: “Göschenen”
- Uzbek: “Gyoshenen”
- Uzbek: “Гёшенен”
- Venetian: “Göschenen”
- Volapük: “Göschenen”
- Waray (Philippines): “Göschenen”
- Welsh: “Göschenen”
- Western Panjabi: “گوشنن”
- “Göschenen”
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