Sempach
Sign in to saveSempach () is a municipality in the district of Sursee in the canton of Lucerne in Switzerland.
Key facts
- Swiss town.subject_name
- Sempach
- Swiss town.image_photo
- Sempach Sempachersee.jpg
- Swiss town.municipality_type
- city
- Swiss town.imagepath_coa
- CHE Sempach COA.png
- Swiss town.canton
- Lucerne
- Swiss town.iso code region
- CH-LU
- Swiss town.district
- Sursee
- Swiss town.postal_code
- 6204
- Swiss town.municipality_code
- 1102
- Swiss town.area
- 8.95
- Swiss town.elevation
- 513
- Swiss town.population
- 4159
- Swiss town.populationof
- Dec 2015
- Swiss town.popofyear
- 2015
- Swiss town.website
- www.sempach.ch
- Swiss town.neighboring_municipalities
- Eich, Hildisrieden, Neudorf, Neuenkirch, Nottwil
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Sempach () is a municipality in the district of Sursee in the canton of Lucerne in Switzerland.
==History== thumb|left|Arnold von Winkelried at the [[Battle of Sempach]] thumb|left|A 1654 print of Sempach from Topographia Helvetiae, Rhaetiae et Valesiae It has retained some traces of its medieval appearance, especially the main gateway, beneath a watch tower, and reached by a bridge over the old moat. About half an hour distant to the north-east, on the hillside, is the site of the famous Battle of Sempach (9 July 1386), in which the Swiss defeated the Austrians, whose leader, Duke Leopold, lost his life. The legendary deed of Arnold of Winkelried is associated with this victory. The spot is now marked by an ancient and picturesque Battle Chapel (restored in 1886) and by a modern monument to Winkelried.