Lungern

Also known as Lungern OW

Lungern () is a municipality in the canton of Obwalden in Switzerland. It encompasses Lake Lungern and, besides the village of Lungern, the settlements of Bürglen, Kaiserstuhl and Obsee.

Key facts

Swiss town.subject_name: Lungern
Swiss town.municipality_type: municipality
Swiss town.image_photo: Lungerersee from Brünigpass.jpg
Swiss town.imagepath_coa: CHE Lungern COA.svg
Swiss town.canton: Obwalden
Swiss town.iso code region: CH-OW
Swiss town.district: n.a.
Swiss town.postal_code: 6078
Swiss town.municipality_code: 1405
Swiss town.area: 44.99
Swiss town.elevation: 715
Swiss town.website: www.lungern.ch
Swiss town.neighboring_municipalities: Brienzwiler (BE), Giswil, Hasliberg (BE), Hofstetten bei Brienz (BE), Kerns, Meiringen (BE), Sachseln

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Official website

Lungern

Auf dieser Seite finden Sie alles Wissenswerte über die Gemeinde Lungern. Ausserdem können Sie am Online-Schalter Dienstleistungen in Anspruch nehmen.

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Encyclopedic overview

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Contents

Geography
History
Population and economy
Demographics
Economy
Historic population
Weather
Churches
Tourist sights
Transport
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Lungern () is a municipality in the canton of Obwalden in Switzerland. It encompasses Lake Lungern and, besides the village of Lungern, the settlements of Bürglen, Kaiserstuhl and Obsee.

==Geography== thumb|left|Village of Lungern thumb|Aerial view from 1800 m by Walter Mittelholzer (1926) The village of Lungern lies above sea level in the highest part of the canton of Obwalden, on the eastern shore of the Lake of Lungern and at the foot of the Brünig Pass. It is the highest village of the Sarneraa-Valley, in a basin open only to the north and surrounded on all other sides by steep and woody inclinations and rocks.

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