Schenkon
Sign in to saveSchenkon is a municipality in the district of Sursee in the canton of Lucerne in Switzerland.
Key facts
- Swiss town.subject_name
- Schenkon
- Swiss town.municipality_type
- municipality
- Swiss town.imagepath_coa
- Coat of arms of Schenkon.svg
- Swiss town.canton
- Lucerne
- Swiss town.iso code region
- CH-LU
- Swiss town.district
- Sursee
- Swiss town.postal_code
- 6214
- Swiss town.municipality_code
- 1099
- Swiss town.area
- 6.76
- Swiss town.elevation
- 522
- Swiss town.website
- www.schenkon.ch
- Swiss town.neighboring_municipalities
- Eich, Geuensee, Gunzwil, Oberkirch, Sursee
- Swiss town.twintowns
- Schenkenzell (Germany)
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Schenkon is a municipality in the district of Sursee in the canton of Lucerne in Switzerland.
==Geography== Schenkon has an area of . Of this area, 67.8% is used for agricultural purposes, while 17% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 14.8% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (0.4%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains). , 17.01% of the total land area was forested. Of the agricultural land, 61.39% is used for farming or pastures, while 6.51% is used for orchards or vine crops. Of the settled areas, 7.84% is covered with buildings, 0.74% is industrial, 0.59% is classed as special developments, 0.44% is parks or greenbelts and 5.18% is transportation infrastructure. Of the unproductive areas, 0.15% is unproductive flowing water (rivers) and 0.15% is other unproductive land.