Lucerne
Lucerne is a beautiful small city which sits on the shores of Lake Lucerne in the heartland of Switzerland. Lucerne is a popular destination for the city itself and the accessible outings around the lake and local Alps that it offers.Photo: W. Bulach, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Ikiwaner, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: City with 81,300 residents
- Description: city at Lake Lucerne, in central Switzerland
- Also known as: “Lucerne LU”, “Lucerne, Switzerland”, “Luzern”, and “Stadt Luzern”
- Postal codes: 6000, 6003-6006, and 6014
Places of Interest
Highlights include Kapellbrücke and Lucerne railway station.
Kapellbrücke
The Kapellbrücke is a covered wooden footbridge spanning the river Reuss diagonally in the city of Lucerne in central Switzerland. Named after the nearby St.
Lucerne railway station
Railway station
Lucerne railway station is a major hub of the rail network of Switzerland, in the city of Lucerne in the canton of Lucerne. It is a terminal station serving domestic and international traffic on several rail lines, and is situated in a city centre and waterfront location on the south side of Lake Lucerne.
Lion Monument
Work of art
Photo: Bertel Thorvaldsen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Lion Monument, or the Lion of Lucerne, is a rock relief in Lucerne, Switzerland, designed by Bertel Thorvaldsen and hewn in 1820–21 by Lukas Ahorn.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kriens and Emmen.
Kriens
Town
Photo: Tilman-AB, Public domain.
Kriens is a city and a municipality in the district of Lucerne in the canton of Lucerne in Switzerland. The municipality lies at the foot of the mountain Pilatus, and is a western suburb of Lucerne.
Emmen
Town
Photo: Gürkan Sengün, Public domain.
Emmen is a village and municipality in the district of Hochdorf in the canton of Lucerne in Switzerland. The municipality Emmen consists of the village Emmen, the town Emmenbrücke, and several hamlets.
Littau
Suburb
Photo: DidiWeidmann, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Littau is a former municipality, and now part of the city of Lucerne, in the district of Lucerne in the canton of Lucerne in Switzerland. On 1 January 2010 the municipality of Littau merged into the municipality of Lucerne.
Lucerne
Latitude
47.0521° or 47° 3′ 8″ northLongitude
8.3058° or 8° 18′ 21″ eastPopulation
81,300Elevation
437 metres (1,434 feet)United Nations Location Code
CH LUCOpen location code
8FVC3824+V8OpenStreetMap ID
node 560719199OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Lucerne” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Luzern”
- Albanian: “Lucerni”
- Amharic: “ሉሴርን”
- Arabic: “لوسرن”
- Armenian: “Լյուցեռն”
- Armenian: “Լյուցերն”
- Arpitan: “Lutsèrna”
- Azerbaijani: “Lüsern”
- Azerbaijani: “Lütsern”
- Azerbaijani: “Lyutsern”
- Basque: “Luzerna”
- Belarusian: “Люцэрн”
- Bengali: “লুসার্ন”
- Bosnian: “Lucern”
- Bosnian: “Luzern”
- Breton: “Luzern”
- Bulgarian: “Луцерн”
- Bulgarian: “Люцерн”
- Catalan: “Lucerna”
- Cebuano: “Luzern”
- Chechen: “Луьцерн”
- Chechen: “Люцерн”
- Chinese: “Luzern”
- Chinese: “卢塞恩”
- Chinese: “琉森”
- Chinese: “盧塞恩”
- Chuvash: “Люцерн”
- Croatian: “Luzern”
- Czech: “Lucern”
- Danish: “Luzern”
- Dutch: “Luzern”
- Egyptian Arabic: “لوسرن”
- Esperanto: “Lucerno”
- Estonian: “Luzern”
- Faroese: “Luzern”
- Finnish: “Luzern”
- French: “Lucerne”
- Galician: “Lucerna”
- Galician: “Lucerne”
- Galician: “Luzern”
- Georgian: “ლუცერნი”
- German: “Luzern”
- German: “Stadt Luzern”
- Greek: “Λουκέρνη”
- Hausa: “Lucerne”
- Hebrew: “לוצרן”
- Hindi: “लूसर्न”
- Hindi: “ल्यूसर्न”
- Hungarian: “Luzern”
- Icelandic: “Luzern”
- Iloko: “Lucerna”
- Indonesian: “Lucerne”
- Indonesian: “Luzern”
- Interlingua: “Lucerna”
- Interlingue: “Luzern”
- Irish: “Luzern”
- Italian: “Lucerna”
- Japanese: “ルツェルン”
- Javanese: “Canton Lucerne”
- Kazakh: “Люцерн”
- Kirghiz: “Люцерн”
- Korean: “루체른”
- Kurdish: “Lucerne”
- Latin: “Lucerna”
- Latvian: “Lucerna”
- Lithuanian: “Liucerna”
- Lombard: “Lüzerna”
- Low German: “Luzern”
- Luxembourgish: “Luzern”
- Malay: “Lucerne”
- Malay: “Luzern”
- Marathi: “लुत्सर्न”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Luzern”
- Mingrelian: “ლუცერნი”
- Moksha: “Люцэрн”
- Nauru: “Luzern”
- Northern Frisian: “Luzern”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Luzern”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Luzern”
- Norwegian: “Luzern”
- Novial: “Lucerne”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Lucèrna”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Lucerne”
- Oromo: “Lucerne”
- Ossetian: “Люцерн”
- Panjabi: “ਲੁਸਰਨ”
- Persian: “لوسرن”
- Piemontese: “Lucerna”
- Polish: “Lucerna”
- Portuguese: “Lucerna”
- Portuguese: “Luzern, Lucerna”
- Pushto: “لوزرن”
- Pushto: “لوسرن”
- Quechua: “Luzern”
- Romanian: “Lucerna”
- Romansh: “Lucerna.”
- Romansh: “Lucerna”
- Russian: “Люцерн”
- Scots: “Lucerne”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Luzern”
- Serbian: “Луцерн”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Lucerne”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Luzern”
- Sicilian: “Lucerna”
- Silesian: “Luzern”
- Slovak: “Luzern”
- Slovenian: “Luzern”
- Somali: “Lucerne”
- South Azerbaijani: “ار، سوئیس”
- Spanish: “Lucerna”
- Swahili: “Lucerne”
- Swahili: “Luzern”
- Swedish: “Luzern”
- Swiss German: “Lozärn”
- Tajik: “Люсерн”
- Tajik: “Люцерн”
- Tamil: “லூசெர்ன்”
- Tatar: “Люцерн”
- Thai: “ลูเซิร์น”
- Tibetan: “ལུ་ཛེར་ན།”
- Tosk Albanian: “Luzern”
- Turkish: “Lucerna”
- Turkish: “Lucerne LU”
- Turkish: “Lucerne”
- Turkish: “Luzern”
- Ukrainian: “Люцерн”
- Upper Sorbian: “Lucerne”
- Urdu: “لوتسیرن”
- Urdu: “لوسرن”
- Uzbek: “Luzern”
- Uzbek: “Lyutsen”
- Venetian: “Łuxerna”
- Venetian: “Luzerna”
- Vietnamese: “Lucerne”
- Vietnamese: “Luzern”
- Volapük: “Luzern”
- Waray (Philippines): “Lucerne”
- Welsh: “Lucerne”
- Wu Chinese: “卢塞恩”
- Yiddish: “לוצערן”
- Yue Chinese: “盧塞恩”
- “Lucern”
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