Luzern

Luzern: see Lucerne, Switzerland.

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Lucerne

 German Luzern

City (pop., 2000: 59,496), central Switzerland. Located southwest of Zürich, on Lake Lucerne and its Reuss River outlet, it developed around an 8th-century monastery. It joined the Swiss Confederation in 1332. A stronghold of Catholicism during the Reformation, it later took part in the Sonderbund war. It is a tourist centre, with its medieval walls, towers, and covered bridges. Among its many monuments is the famous Lion of Lucerne, carved in rock, which commemorates the Swiss Guards slain while defending the Tuileries Palace in Paris in 1792.

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Luzern 

a city in Switzerland, on the Lake of Luzern (Vier-waldstätter See); the administrative center of the canton of Luzern. Population, 75,100 (1970). An important transportation junction, Luzern is the site of enterprises of the textile, printing, and machine-building industries. It is also a climatic resort and a center of foreign tourism. There are architectural monuments from the 12th to 17th centuries in Luzern, and international music weeks have been held here since 1938.