Horw
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Horw (; Swiss German: Horb) is a municipality in the district of Lucerne in the canton of Lucerne in Switzerland.
Key facts
- Swiss town.subject_name
- Horw
- Swiss town.image_photo
- Horw 3.tiff
- Swiss town.municipality_type
- municipality
- Swiss town.imagepath_coa
- CHE Horw COA 2025.svg
- Swiss town.imagepath_flag
- CHE Horw Flag 2025.svg
- Swiss town.canton
- Lucerne
- Swiss town.iso code region
- CH-LU
- Swiss town.district
- Lucerne
- Swiss town.postal_code
- 6005 St. Niklausen6047 Kastanienbaum6048 Horw
- Swiss town.municipality_code
- 1058
- Swiss town.area
- 20.43
- Swiss town.elevation
- 441
- Swiss town.website
- www.horw.ch
- Swiss town.mayor
- Gaudenz Zemp
- Swiss town.mayor_asof
- 2020
- Swiss town.mayor_title
- Gemeindepräsident
- Swiss town.executive_name
- Gemeinderat
- Swiss town.executive_number_of_members
- 5
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Horw
- Country
- Switzerland
- Located in
- Luzern-Land Constituency
- Official language
- German
- Population
- 14243
- Area
- 12.86
- Elevation
- 441
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Body of water
- Lake Lucerne
- Shares border with
- Hergiswil
- Official website
- www.horw.ch
- Image
- Horw 3.tiff
- Dialing code
- 041
- Licence plate code
- LU
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- Commons category
- Horw
- postal code
- 6048
- twinned administrative body
- Bratsch
- external data available at URL
- geo.ld.admin.ch/boundaries/municipality/1058
- time of earliest written record
- 1251-00-00
Sources (10)
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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- History
- Geography
- Demographics
- Education
- Transport
- Notable people
- References
- External links
Horw (; Swiss German: Horb) is a municipality in the district of Lucerne in the canton of Lucerne in Switzerland.
==History== Horw is first mentioned in 1231 as Horwe.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Horw” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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