- Sempach
Infobox Swiss town
subject_name = Sempach
municipality_name = Sempach
municipality_type = city
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languages = German
canton = Lucerne
iso-code-region = CH-LU
district = Sursee
lat_d=47|lat_m=8|lat_NS=N|long_d=8|long_m=12|long_EW=E
postal_code = 6204
municipality_code = 1102
area = 11.68
elevation = 513|elevation_description=
population = 3670|populationof = December 2003 | popofyear = 2003
website = www.sempach.ch
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neighboring_municipalities= Eich,Hildisrieden , Neudorf,Neuenkirch ,Nottwil
twintowns = |Sempach is a municipality in the district of Sursee in the canton of Lucerne in
Switzerland .It is built above the eastern shore of
Lake Sempach , and about 2 m. by road north of the Sempach railway station (9 m. N.W. ofLucerne ) on the main line betweenLucerne andOlten . In 1900 it had about 1,000 inhabitants, German-speaking and Romanists; in 2005 it had 3,764.It has retained some traces of its medieval appearance, especially the main gateway, beneath a watch tower, and reached by a bridge over the old moat. About half an hour distant to the north-east, on the hillside, is the site of the famous
battle of Sempach (9 July 1386 ), in which the Swiss defeated the Austrians, whose leader, Duke Leopold, lost his life. The legendary deed ofArnold of Winkelried is associated with this victory. The spot is now marked by an ancient and picturesque Battle Chapel (restored in 1886) and by a modern monument to Winkelried.Some miles north of Sempach is the quaint village of
Beromünster (973 inhabitants in 1900), with a collegiate church founded in the l0th century and dating, in parts, from the 11th and 12th centuries (fine 17th-century choir stalls and altar frontals), the chapter of secular canons now consisting of invalided priests of the canton of Lucerne: it was in Beromünster that the first dated book was printed (1470) in Switzerland, by care of the canons, while thence cameGering who introduced printing into France.Steinibühlweiher is located above the town.References
*1911
**See Th. von Liebenau. "Die Schlacht bei Sempach" (Lucerne, 1886).External links
*http://www.sempach.ch
* Statistical data is available from http://www.lu.ch/download/fd/afs/pdf/jbkt/profile/gp_1102.pdf
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