Canton of Schwyz
Schwyz District
Arth

Goldau

Goldau is part of the official commune Arth-Goldau, a merger of the Goldau with nearby Arth in the canton of Schwyz in . Goldau is home to a key train station junction for the Swiss Railway network, and one of the two main access points for the Rigibahn and the nearby mountain called .
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  • Type: Town with 5,440 residents
  • Description: village in Arth in the canton of Schwyz, Switzerland
  • Postal code: 6410

Places of Interest

Highlights include Arth-Goldau railway station and Arth–Rigi railway line.

Railway station
Photo: Roland Zumbuehl, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a railway station in the and . The station is located in the centre of the village of Goldau, which forms part of Arth.

Railway station
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The is a Swiss standard gauge rack railway that runs from Arth-Goldau RB to . It was built by the eponymous Arth-Rigi-Bahn between 1873–1875 and operated by that company until its merger with the Vitznau-Rigi-Bahn in 1992 to form Rigi Railways.

Museum
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Places in the Area

Nearby places include Arth and Steinerberg.

Town
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is a village, a town, and a municipality in in the in . The municipality consists of the villages , Oberarth, and Goldau.

Village
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is a municipality in in the in .

Village
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is a village and municipality in the of the in . It adjoins .

Goldau

Latitude
47.0512° or 47° 3′ 4″ north
Longitude
8.5508° or 8° 33′ 3″ east
Population
5,440
Elevation
517 metres (1,696 feet)
United Nations Location Code
CH GOL
Open location code
8FVC3H22+F8
Open­Street­Map ID
node 240121302
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2660573
Wiki­data ID
Q474619
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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Western Panjabi—“Goldau” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Goldau”
  • Chinese: “戈爾道”
  • Dutch: “Goldau”
  • Esperanto: “Goldau SZ”
  • French: “Goldau”
  • German: “Goldau”
  • Italian: “Goldau”
  • Korean: “골다우”
  • Portuguese: “Goldau”
  • Russian: “Гольдау”
  • Swedish: “Goldau”
  • Swiss German: “Goldau”
  • Ukrainian: “Гольдау”
  • Uzbek: “Goldau”
  • Western Panjabi: “گولڈاؤ”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Goldau”. Photo: Tschubby, CC BY-SA 3.0.