Vitznau
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Vitznau is a municipality in the district of Lucerne in the canton of Lucerne in Switzerland.
Key facts
- Swiss town.subject_name
- Vitznau
- Swiss town.image_photo
- Prise de vue de Vitznau 01 - Bürgenstock.jpg
- Swiss town.municipality_type
- Municipality
- Swiss town.imagepath_coa
- CHE Vitznau COA.svg
- Swiss town.canton
- Lucerne
- Swiss town.iso code region
- CH-LU
- Swiss town.district
- Lucerne
- Swiss town.postal_code
- 6354
- Swiss town.municipality_code
- 1068
- Swiss town.area
- 11.76
- Swiss town.elevation
- 438
- Swiss town.website
- www.vitznau.ch
- Swiss town.neighboring_municipalities
- Arth (SZ), Ennetbürgen (NW), Gersau (SZ), Weggis
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
Gemeinde Vitznau
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- Municipality of Switzerland
- Official name
- Vitznau
- Country
- Switzerland
- Located in
- Luzern-Land Constituency
- Official language
- German
- Population
- 1379
- Area
- 8.92
- Elevation
- 448
- Body of water
- Lake Lucerne
- Shares border with
- Ennetbürgen
- Official website
- www.vitznau.ch
- Image
- Prise de vue de Vitznau 01 - Bürgenstock.jpg
- Dialing code
- 041
- Licence plate code
- LU
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- Commons category
- Vitznau
- postal code
- 6354
- Commons gallery
- Vitznau
- P8168
- Black 'N Blue
- external data available at URL
- geo.ld.admin.ch/boundaries/municipality/1068
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- History
- Geography
- Demographics
- Transport
- References
- External links
Vitznau is a municipality in the district of Lucerne in the canton of Lucerne in Switzerland.
==History== thumb|left|Vitznau c. 1880, with rack railway (opened in 1871) and [[steamboat. Etching by Heinrich Müller]] Vitznau was first mentioned in 998. In the 19th century, it became a popular destination for tourism, especially from England; the imposing Park Hotel Vitznau west of the town dates from the 1900s.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Vitznau” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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