Sarnen
Sarnen is the capital of the canton of Obwalden and sits on the shore of Lake Sarnen. Sarnen is an ideal starting point for numerous excursions by train, car or bike; a variety of sports can be practised here or in the immediate vicinity.Photo: Roland Zumbühl, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Town with 10,200 residents
- Description: town in, and capital of, the Swiss canton of Obwalden
- Postal code: 6060
Notable Places in the Area
Sarnen railway station
Photo: JoachimKohlerBremen, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Sarnen railway station is a Swiss railway station on the Brünig line, owned by the Zentralbahn, that links Lucerne and Interlaken.
Hexenturm
Photo: Roland Zumbuehl, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Hexenturm is a stone tower in the municipality of Sarnen in the canton of Obwalden in Switzerland.
Landenberg Castle
Photo: Roland Zumbuehl, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Landenberg Castle is a ruined castle atop a hill in the municipality of Sarnen in the canton of Obwalden in Switzerland.
Localities in the Area
Kerns
Photo: Roland Zumbuehl, CC BY 3.0.
Kerns is a village in the canton of Obwalden in Switzerland.
Sachseln
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sachseln is a village and municipality in the canton of Obwalden in Switzerland.
Sarnen
Latitude
46.8957° or 46° 53' 44" northLongitude
8.2461° or 8° 14' 46" eastPopulation
10,200Elevation
473 metres (1,552 feet)IATA airport code
ZKCUnited Nations Location Code
CH SNNOpen Location Code
8FRCV6WW+7FOpenStreetMap ID
node 240110029OpenStreetMap Feature
place=townGeoNames ID
2658786Wikidata ID
Q63964Sarnen Satellite Map
© OpenStreetMap, Mapbox and Maxar
Also Known As
- Albanian: Sarnen
- Arabic: Sarnen
- Arabic: سارنين
- Armenian: Զարնեն
- Basque: Sarnen
- Belarusian: Зарнен
- Belarusian: Зарнэн
- Breton: Sarnen
- Bulgarian: Зарнен
- Catalan: Sarnen
- Cebuano: Sarnen (munisipyo)
- Cebuano: Sarnen
- Chechen: Зарнен
- Chinese: 萨尔嫩
- Chinese: 薩爾嫩
- Chuvash: Зарнен
- Croatian: Sarnen
- Czech: Sarnen
- Danish: Sarnen
- Dutch: Sarnen
- English: Sarnen OW
- Esperanto: Sarnen
- Esperanto: Sarno
- Esperanto: Sarno OW
- Finnish: Sarnen
- French: Sarnen
- Galician: Sarnen
- German: Kägiswil
- German: Ramersberg
- German: Sarnen
- German: Sarnen OW
- German: Stalden
- German: Wilen
- Hebrew: סרנן
- Hungarian: Sarnen
- Indonesian: Sarnen
- Irish: Sarnen
- Italian: Sarnen
- Italian: Sarnen OW
- Japanese: ザルネン
- Kazakh: Зарнен
- Korean: 자르넨
- Kurdish: Sarnen
- Latin: Sarnen
- Lithuanian: Zarnenas
- Lombard: Sarnen
- Macedonian: Зарнен
- Norwegian: Sarnen
- Norwegian Bokmål: Sarnen
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Sarnen
- Occitan (post 1500): Sarnen
- Persian: سرنان
- Piemontese: Sarnen
- Polish: Sarnen
- Portuguese: Sarnen
- Romanian: Sarnen
- Russian: Зарнен
- Scots: Sarnen
- Scottish Gaelic: Sarnen
- Serbian: Sarnen
- Serbian: Зарнен
- Serbian: Сарнен
- Serbo-Croatian: Sarnen
- Slovak: Sarnen
- Spanish: Sarnen
- Swedish: Sarnen
- Swiss German: Saarne
- Thai: ซาร์เนิน
- Tosk Albanian: Sarnen
- Turkish: Sarnen
- Ukrainian: Зарнен
- Upper Sorbian: Sarnen
- Urdu: زارنن
- Venetian: Sarnen
- Volapük: Sarnen
- Waray (Philippines): Sarnen
- Welsh: Sarnen
- Western Panjabi: سرنین
- Wu Chinese: 萨尔嫩
Other Places Named Sarnen
In the Area
- BergLocality
- StückiLocality
- UnterrütiLocality
- HostettLocality
- RamersbergHamlet
- SummerweidLocality
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Sarnen. Photo: pyraniton, CC BY 3.0.