Grosswangen
Grosswangen is a municipality in the district of Sursee in the canton of Lucerne in Switzerland.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village with 2,950 residents
- Description: municipality in the canton of Lucerne, Switzerland
- Also known as: “CH1086” and “Grosswangen LU”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Wyher Castle and Weiermoos.
Wyher Castle
Castle
Photo: Roland Zumbuehl, CC BY 3.0.
Wyher Castle is a moated castle, which lies south of the village center of Ettiswil in the Canton of Lucerne in Switzerland. It was first mentioned in 1304 as the home of the Freiherr von Wediswil.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Willisau and Ettiswil.
Willisau
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Willisau is a municipality in the district of Willisau in the Lucerne canton of Switzerland. It was formed on 1 January 2006 from the municipalities of Willisau Land and Willisau Stadt. On 1 January 2021 the former municipality of Gettnau merged into Willisau. Willisau is situated 4 km west of Grosswangen.
Ettiswil
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Ettiswil is a municipality in the district of Willisau in the canton of Lucerne in Switzerland. On January 1, 2006 the municipality of Kottwil, lying several kilometres to the northeast, was incorporated into Ettiswil.
Buttisholz
Village
Photo: Chrisaliv, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Buttisholz is a municipality located in the Sursee district of Lucerne, Switzerland. Buttisholz is situated 4 km southeast of Grosswangen.
Grosswangen
- Categories: Municipality of Switzerland and locality
- Location: Sursee District, Canton of Lucerne, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
47.1323° or 47° 7′ 56″ northLongitude
8.0491° or 8° 2′ 57″ eastPopulation
2,950Elevation
542 metres (1,778 feet)Open location code
8FVC42JX+WJOpenStreetMap ID
node 240119969OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
7285993Wikidata ID
Q7133
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Waray—“Grosswangen” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Grosswangen”
- Basque: “Grosswangen”
- Belarusian: “Гросванген”
- Breton: “Grosswangen”
- Catalan: “Grosswangen”
- Cebuano: “Grosswangen (munisipyo)”
- Cebuano: “Grosswangen”
- Chinese: “大旺根”
- Chuvash: “Гросванген”
- Danish: “Grosswangen”
- Dutch: “Grosswangen”
- Esperanto: “Grosswangen”
- French: “Grosswangen”
- German: “Grosswangen”
- Hungarian: “Grosswangen”
- Irish: “Grosswangen”
- Italian: “Grosswangen”
- Kazakh: “Гросванген”
- Lombard: “Grosswangen”
- Macedonian: “Гросванген”
- Malay: “Grosswangen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Grosswangen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Grosswangen”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Grosswangen”
- Piemontese: “Grosswangen”
- Polish: “Grosswangen”
- Portuguese: “Grosswangen”
- Romansh: “Grosswangen”
- Russian: “Гросванген”
- Spanish: “Grosswangen”
- Swedish: “Grosswangen”
- Swiss German: “Grosswangen”
- Tosk Albanian: “Grosswangen”
- Turkish: “Grosswangen”
- Ukrainian: “Гроссванген”
- Upper Sorbian: “Grosswangen”
- Uzbek: “Grosswangen”
- Venetian: “Grosswangen”
- Volapük: “Grosswangen”
- Waray (Philippines): “Grosswangen”
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