Central Switzerland
Canton of Obwalden
Obwalden

Sarnen

Sarnen is the capital of the canton of Obwalden and sits on the shore of Lake Sarnen. Sarnen is an ideal starting point for numerous excursions by train, car or bike; a variety of sports can be practised here or in the immediate vicinity.
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  • Type: Town with 10,200 residents
  • Description: town in, and capital of, the Swiss canton of Obwalden
  • Also known as: “Sarnen OW”
  • Postal code: 6060

Places of Interest

Highlights include Sarnen railway station and Hexenturm.

Railway station
Photo: JoachimKohlerBremen, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a railway station on the Brünig line, owned by the Zentralbahn, that links and . The station is in the municipality of Sarnen in the canton of Obwalden.

Castle
Photo: Roland Zumbuehl, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The is a stone tower in the municipality of Sarnen in the canton of in . It is a Swiss heritage site of national significance.

Castle
Photo: Roland Zumbuehl, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a ruined castle atop a hill in the municipality of Sarnen in the canton of in . In the 18th century an armory and firing range were built on the site.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kerns and Sachseln.

Village
Photo: Roland Zumbuehl, CC BY 3.0.
is a village in the canton of Obwalden in .

Village
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is a and municipality in the canton of in . Besides the village of , the municipality includes the hamlets of Edisried, Ewil and Flüeli-Ranft.

Hamlet
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is a hamlet.

Sarnen

Latitude
46.8957° or 46° 53′ 44″ north
Longitude
8.2461° or 8° 14′ 46″ east
Population
10,200
Elevation
473 metres (1,552 feet)
IATA airport code
ZKC
United Nations Location Code
CH SNN
Open location code
8FRCV6WW+7F
Open­Street­Map ID
node 240110029
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2658786
Wiki­data ID
Q63964
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Wu Chinese—“Sarnen” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Sarnen”
  • Arabic: “سارنين”
  • Armenian: “Զարնեն”
  • Basque: “Sarnen”
  • Belarusian: “Зарнен”
  • Belarusian: “Зарнэн”
  • Breton: “Sarnen”
  • Bulgarian: “Зарнен”
  • Catalan: “Sarnen”
  • Cebuano: “Sarnen (munisipyo)”
  • Cebuano: “Sarnen”
  • Chechen: “Зарнен”
  • Chinese: “萨尔嫩”
  • Chinese: “薩爾嫩”
  • Chuvash: “Зарнен”
  • Croatian: “Sarnen”
  • Czech: “Sarnen”
  • Danish: “Sarnen”
  • Dutch: “Sarnen”
  • Esperanto: “Sarnen”
  • Esperanto: “Sarno OW”
  • Esperanto: “Sarno”
  • Finnish: “Sarnen”
  • French: “Sarnen”
  • Galician: “Sarnen”
  • German: “Kägiswil”
  • German: “Ramersberg”
  • German: “Sarnen OW”
  • German: “Sarnen”
  • German: “Stalden”
  • German: “Wilen”
  • Hebrew: “זארנן”
  • Hebrew: “סרנן”
  • Hungarian: “Sarnen”
  • Indonesian: “Sarnen”
  • Irish: “Sarnen”
  • Italian: “Sarnen OW”
  • Italian: “Sarnen”
  • Japanese: “ザルネン”
  • Kazakh: “Зарнен”
  • Korean: “자르넨”
  • Kurdish: “Sarnen”
  • Latin: “Sarnen”
  • Lithuanian: “Zarnenas”
  • Lombard: “Sarnen”
  • Macedonian: “Зарнен”
  • Northern Frisian: “Sarnen”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sarnen”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sarnen”
  • Norwegian: “Sarnen”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Sarnen”
  • Persian: “سرنان”
  • Piemontese: “Sarnen”
  • Polish: “Sarnen”
  • Portuguese: “Sarnen”
  • Romanian: “Sarnen”
  • Russian: “Зарнен”
  • Scots: “Sarnen”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Sarnen”
  • Serbian: “Sarnen”
  • Serbian: “Зарнен”
  • Serbian: “Сарнен”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Sarnen”
  • Slovak: “Sarnen”
  • Slovenian: “Sarnen”
  • Spanish: “Sarnen”
  • Swedish: “Sarnen”
  • Swiss German: “Saarne”
  • Thai: “ซาร์เนิน”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Sarnen”
  • Turkish: “Sarnen”
  • Ukrainian: “Зарнен”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Sarnen”
  • Urdu: “زارنن”
  • Venetian: “Sarnen”
  • Volapük: “Sarnen”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Sarnen”
  • Welsh: “Sarnen”
  • Western Panjabi: “سرنین”
  • Wu Chinese: “萨尔嫩”

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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 “Sarnen”. Photo: pyraniton, CC BY 3.0.