Brunnen

Brunnen is a resort on Lake Lucerne in Switzerland, part of the municipality Ingenbohl (Canton of Schwyz), at 46°59′44″N 8°36′17″E / 46.99556°N 8.60472°E / 46.99556; 8.60472.

Brunnen railway station, on the Gotthard railway, is served by hourly InterRegio trains, and by lines S2 of the Stadtbahn Zug, which operates hourly between Zug, Arth-Goldau and Erstfeld, and S3 of the S-Bahn Luzern, which operates hourly to Lucerne.

Brunnen also has a cablecar that goes to the Urmiberg, a part of the Rigi offering views of Lake Lucerne and the Alps.

Three Polish romantic poets, Adam Mickiewicz, Zygmunt Krasiński and Antoni Edward Odyniec stayed here overnight on 27/28 August 1830.^[1]

Winston Churchill spent his honeymoon in Brunnen.^[2] J. M. W. Turner painted several views from Brunnen, among his late watercolours, in the 1840s.^[3]

In 1947, the Swiss League for the Protection of Nature organised an international conference on the protection of nature in Brunnen.^[4] It resulted in the creation of the International Union for Conservation of Nature in 1948.^[4]

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  The river Muota, Brunnen, Lake Lucerne and Uri Rotstock from the north, c. 1870/80. Oil sketch (6.5 × 10 cm) by Heinrich Müller
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  Brunnen and Rigi Hochflue from the south-east, c. 1880. Hand-coloured etching by Heinrich Müller
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  Brunnen, Mythen and Morschach (right) from the west, c. 1870. Heinrich Müller

• Ugo Rondinone, a Swiss artist, was born in Brunnen
• Maria Theresia Scherer, nun of the convent Ingenbohl died in Brunnen
• Othmar Schoeck, a Swiss composer was born in Brunnen

• www.brunnen.ch - Portal of the municipality of Ingenbohl-Brunnen
• Brunnen in German, French and Italian in the online Historical Dictionary of Switzerland.
• Brunnen Tourist Office

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