Brunnen is a resort on Lake LucerneinSwitzerland, 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 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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