Brunnen

For town in Bavaria, see Brunnen, Bavaria.

Brunnen (foreground), Fronalpstock (right) and Mythen (left) Brunnen and Lake Lucerne (2010)

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

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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]

* The river Muota, Brunnen, Lake Lucerne and Uri Rotstock from the north, c. 1870/80. Oil sketch (6.5 × 10 cm) by Heinrich Müller

* Brunnen and Rigi Hochflue from the south-east, c. 1880. Hand-coloured etching by Heinrich Müller

* Brunnen, Mythen and Morschach (right) from the west, c. 1870. Heinrich Müller

## People

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* 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

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1. ^ Sudolski, Zbigniew (1997). Krasiński. Opowieść biograficzna. Warsaw. p. 106.`{{cite book}}`: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
2. ^ Bangs,Richard (2008) Quest for the Sublime: Finding Nature's Secret in Switzerland, Menasha Ridge Press, page 70
3. ^ Shanes, Eric (2012) The Life and Masterworks of J.M.W. Turner, Parkstone International, page 225
4. ^ a b (in French) "Les 10 succès de Pro Natura" (page visited on 26 July 2016).

## External links

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* 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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