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Municipality in Lucerne, Switzerland

Hohenrain

Hohenrain is a municipality in the district of Hochdorf in the canton of Lucerne in Switzerland.

Hohenrain
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The place

Hohenrain is a municipality in the district of Hochdorf in the canton of Lucerne in Switzerland. Since January 1, 2007, Lieli has been part of the municipality.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Hohenrain

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.

  1. 01
    Medieval castle ruin Nünegg

    Nünegg Castle is a ruined castle in the municipality of Hohenrain of the Canton of Lucerne in Switzerland. It is a Swiss heritage site of national significance.

    3 km · castle ruin in Lieli 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.

Go there

Getting to Hohenrain

Airports
Zürich (ZRH), 35 km · EuroAirport Basel–Mulhouse–Freiburg (BSL), 76 km · Bodensee Friedrichshafen (FDH), 105 km
Stations
Hochdorf Schönau railway station, 2.5 km · Ballwil railway station, 3.3 km · Hochdorf railway station, 2.8 km · Baldegg Kloster railway station, 2.7 km · Baldegg railway station, 2.8 km
  • Geneva → Hohenrain
    198 km · quickest by road, 3h 55m · CHF27–36
  • Bâle / Mulhouse → Hohenrain
    97 km · quickest by road, 2h 26m · €13–18
  • Friedrichshafen → Hohenrain
    102 km · quickest by road, 3h 7m · €18–25
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Hohenrain

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 Hohenrain. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

From Wikivoyage: Lucerne, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    136 km
  2. 02
    Cinque TerreIT

    7 ways of moving, 22 sources

    357 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    717 km
  4. 04
    HvarHR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    781 km
  5. 05
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    803 km

If you know how people move in Hohenrain – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Hohenrain

Hohenrain is 27 km from Zürich, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Abtwilmunicipality in the canton Aargau in Switzerland3 km
  • Hochdorfmunicipality in the canton of Lucerne, Switzerland2.8 km
  • Ballwilmunicipality in the canton of Lucerne, Switzerland3.7 km
  • Huwylvillage in Switzerland3.6 km