Honau
Honau is a former municipality in the district of Lucerne in the canton of Lucerne in Switzerland. On 1 January 2025 the former municipality of Honau merged into the municipality of Root.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village with 380 residents
- Description: village and former municipality in Root in the canton of Lucerne, Switzerland
- Also known as: “Honau LU” and “Honau, Switzerland”
- Postal code: 6038
Places of Interest
Highlights include Gisikon-Root railway station and Rotkreuz railway station.
Gisikon-Root railway station
Railway station
Gisikon-Root railway station is a railway station in the municipality of Root, in the Swiss canton of Lucerne. It is an intermediate stop on the standard gauge Zug–Lucerne line of Swiss Federal Railways.
Rotkreuz railway station
Railway station
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Rotkreuz railway station is a railway station in the municipality of Risch-Rotkreuz, in the Swiss canton of Zug. It is located at the junction of the standard gauge Rupperswil–Immensee and Zug–Lucerne lines of Swiss Federal Railways.
Rooterberg
Peak
The Rooterberg is a mountain north of the Alps, located between Root and Udligenswil in the canton of Lucerne. The mountain lies north of Lake Lucerne and west of Lake Zug, at the foothills of the Alps.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Gisikon and Rotkreuz.
Gisikon
Village
Photo: DidiWeidmann, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Gisikon is a municipality in the district of Lucerne in the canton of Lucerne in Switzerland.
Dietwil
Village
Photo: DidiWeidmann, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Dietwil is a municipality in the district of Muri in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland.
Honau
- Categories: municipality of Switzerland, former municipality of Switzerland, and locality
- Location: Root, Lucerne-Land District, Canton of Lucerne, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
47.13076° or 47° 7′ 51″ northLongitude
8.4066° or 8° 24′ 24″ eastPopulation
380Elevation
463 metres (1,519 feet)United Nations Location Code
CH HNUOpen location code
8FVC4CJ4+8JOpenStreetMap ID
node 240079448OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Welsh—“Honau” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Honau”
- Basque: “Honau”
- Breton: “Honau”
- Bulgarian: “Хонау”
- Catalan: “Honau LU”
- Cebuano: “Honau”
- Chinese: “霍瑙”
- Dutch: “Honau”
- Esperanto: “Honau LU”
- French: “Honau”
- German: “Honau LU”
- German: “Honau”
- Hungarian: “Honau”
- Irish: “Honau”
- Italian: “Honau”
- Kazakh: “Хонау”
- Lombard: “Honau”
- Malay: “Honau, Switzerland”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Honau”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Honau”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Honau LU”
- Piemontese: “Honau”
- Polish: “Honau (Szwajcaria)”
- Polish: “Honau”
- Portuguese: “Honau”
- Russian: “Хонау”
- Spanish: “Honau”
- Swedish: “Honau”
- Swiss German: “Honau LU”
- Tosk Albanian: “Honau LU”
- Turkish: “Honau”
- Ukrainian: “Гонау”
- Upper Sorbian: “Honau”
- Uzbek: “Honau”
- Venetian: “Honau”
- Vietnamese: “Honau”
- Volapük: “Honau”
- Waray (Philippines): “Honau, Swiza”
- Welsh: “Honau”
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