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Sachseln, Switzerland

Wissibach and railway station

Wissibach and railway station

Kitchen and living room

Kitchen and living room

Living room

Living room

Living room

Living room

Balcony

Balcony

Bedroom

Bedroom

Bathroom

Bathroom

Shower and toilet

Shower and toilet

Sachseln

Sachseln

Center of the village

Center of the village

Railway Station

Railway Station

Pax Montana, Flüeli

Pax Montana, Flüeli

Roundtrip Pilatus

Roundtrip Pilatus

Luzern

Luzern

Pilatus

Pilatus

Stanserhorn

Stanserhorn

Titlis

Titlis

Near Sachseln

Near Sachseln

Älggialp

Älggialp

Arnigrat

Arnigrat

Lake of Sarnen with Sarnen and Sachseln

Lake of Sarnen with Sarnen and Sachseln

Fluonalp

Fluonalp

Lake of Sarnen and lake of Lungern

Lake of Sarnen and lake of Lungern

Obwald from the Stanserhorn

Obwald from the Stanserhorn

Ranft

Ranft

Ernst, Enja and Dolores

Ernst, Enja and Dolores

In Sardinia 2022

In Sardinia 2022

Albania, 2015

Albania, 2015

With my son, 2015

With my son, 2015

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Flat in Sachseln, Switzerland

Sachseln is a quiet village in the middle of Switzerland with about 5500 inhabitants. We live in a apartment in the centre of the village, only two minutes from the railway station, 150 from the lake and you have a nice view to the mountains and over the lake of Sarnen. It's a 35 minutes car drive to Luzern and 25 by train.
Despite its size, Sachseln offers a varied palette of leisure activities that involve the surrounding mountains and the lake: surfing, rowing, hiking, biking, mountain-biking, in-line skating, mini-golfing, and playing tennis or badminton.
The village itself offers several pleasant restaurants. Because of Sachseln’s central location, there are many excursion possibilities.

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Our Family

  • 2 Adults
  • 0 Children
  • 16 Exchanges made

Occupation

  • retired teacher
  • retired teacher

Our Home

  • House Type: Flat
  • Floor: 3
  • Environment: In the country
  • Bedrooms: 2
  • Bathrooms: 2
  • Sleeping Capacity: 4
  • Living Area: 130 m2
  • Total Area: 130 m2

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In my house

  • Pets - Not allowed
  • Small children - Allowed

Exchange Types

  • Long-term exchange wanted
  • Non-simultaneous exchange
  • Home exchange

Indoor

  • Free internet access
  • Computer available
  • Hot tub or jacuzzi
  • Central heating
  • Toys and games
  • Washing machine
  • Dishwasher
  • Clothes dryer
  • Television

Outdoor

  • Balcony
  • Park / playground
  • Garage
  • Bicycles: 2

Facilities

  • No smoking
  • Lift/Elevator
  • Suitable for disabled people
  • Use of boat

Our Destination Wish List

  • Lorraine, France
  • Denmark
  • Germany
  • Finland
  • Sweden
  • England, UK
  • Norway
  • French Basque Country, France
  • Autonomous Province of Bolzano – South Tyrol, Italy
  • Ardèche, France

Spoken Languages

  • English
  • Français
  • Deutsch

Our Neighbourhood

  • shopping Denner Supermarket (0.2 km)
  • lake Lake of Sarnen (0.1 km)
  • mountains Stucklichrüz (9.1 km)
  • forest Schwandenwald (4.8 km)
  • beach swimming (0.2 km)

Highlights

  • Geographic middle of Switzerland
  • Idyllic location on the shores of Lake Sarnen, lakeside beach
  • Rich in tradition
  • Pilgrims' church Sachseln with Holy Brother Klaus' tomb
  • Museum dedicated to the life and times of Holy Brother Klaus
  • In the middle of prealpine landscapes
  • Sports paradise

The Älggi Alp is the very middle of Switzerland. It can be reached via Sachseln by car, on foot or by mountain bike.
On the occasion of its 150th anniversary in 1988, the Federal Office for National Topography, swisstopo, used the Swiss national boundaries that had just been digitised to calculate the centre of gravity of the country. If you stuck a map of Switzerland on a piece of card and cut round the borders, this is the point where it would balance on the tip of a needle.
In reality, this point is on top of a cliff to the west of Chli Älggi (the community of Sachseln). That's why the point was shifted 500 m to the south-east, to an easily accessible and extremely scenic location. The point is now well-signposted in the area.
The Älggi Alp is ideal for a walk with the family or a hike. At 1650 m, the scene is one of attractive meadows and pastureland, forests and cliffs, a mountain restaurant, a little lake and various little waterfalls.

The highest mountain is the Hochstollen (2481 m.a.s.l.) where you can walk on a foothpath from the Ällgi Alp or from Meiringen-Hasliberg.

The nearby mountain areas of Melchsee-Frutt, Meiringen-Hasliberg and Engelberg offer everything hikers, bikers, mountain-bikers, skiers, fishermen and mountain climbers could wish for.

www.melchsee-frutt.ch
www.meiringen-hasliberg.ch
www.engelberg.ch
www.titlis.ch
www.sachseln.ch
www.obwalden-tourismus.ch
www.zentralbahn.ch

Interlaken (www.interlaken.ch) in the beautiful tourist aera of the Berner Oberland with several mountains over 4000 m high is reachable by train in 1 3/4 h or a 3/4 h car ride.

Others:
http://www.haslital.ch/en/page.cfm/Welcome
http://www.pilatus.ch/en/

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Occupation

  • retired teacher
  • retired teacher

Children

  • No children will be traveling with us.

Pets

  • We do not have pets.

References

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