Lungern
Sign in to saveLungern () 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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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.