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.

History [ edit ]

Three Polish romantic poets, Adam Mickiewicz , Zygmunt Krasi?ski and Antoni Edward Odyniec stayed here overnight on August 27/28, 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 Muller
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  Brunnen and Rigi Hochflue from the south-east, c. 1880. Hand-coloured etching by Heinrich Muller
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  Brunnen, Mythen and Morschach (right) from the west, c. 1870. Heinrich Muller

People [ edit ]

• 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

References [ edit ]

External links [ edit ]

• 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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