Ballwil
Ballwil is a municipality in the district of Hochdorf in the canton of Lucerne in Switzerland.
Ballwil is a municipality in the district of Hochdorf in the canton of Lucerne in Switzerland.
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Worth seeing in and around Ballwil
One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Cistercian convent with parish church and mortuary chapel
Eschenbach Abbey is a community of Cistercian nuns in Eschenbach in Lucerne, Switzerland. The abbey was founded in about 1290 for Augustinian nuns, and became Cistercian in 1588.
1.9 km · monastery building and part of an architectural ensemble in Eschenbach in the canton of Lucerne, Switzerland · Wikipedia
Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Getting to Ballwil
- Airports
- Zürich (ZRH), 38 km · EuroAirport Basel–Mulhouse–Freiburg (BSL), 78 km · Bodensee Friedrichshafen (FDH), 107 km
- Stations
- Hochdorf Schönau railway station, 2.1 km · Ballwil railway station, 400 m · Eschenbach railway station, 2 km · Hochdorf railway station, 2.8 km
- Geneva → Ballwil197 km · quickest by road, 3h 54m · CHF27–36
- Bâle / Mulhouse → Ballwil99 km · quickest by road, 2h 25m · €13–18
- Friedrichshafen → Ballwil103 km · quickest by road, 3h 7m · €18–25
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Ballwil
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Ballwil. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inSchifffahrtsgesellschaft Vierwaldstättersee operates roughly hourly scheduled ferries to Schwyz, Flüelen, Weggis (for Rigi), and runs various themed dinner cruises etc all year around.
- Go nextRigi, the "Queen of Mountains", less than an hour away by ferry.
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Next door to Ballwil
Ballwil is 30 km from Zürich, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Hochdorfmunicipality in the canton of Lucerne, Switzerland2.8 km
- Inwilmunicipality in the canton of Lucerne, Switzerland4 km
- Eschenbachmunicipality in the canton of Lucerne, Switzerland1.9 km
- Hohenrainmunicipality in the canton of Lucerne, Switzerland3.4 km
- Huwylvillage in Switzerland3.7 km