Sursee

Sursee is a municipality in the district of Sursee in the canton of Lucerne, Switzerland, at the northern end of Lake Sempach near where the Sure stream leaves the lake, which gives the town its name. The shores of the lake have been inhabited since the Neolithic, and in the Roman era there was a vicus just west of the town. A wooden church of the eighth century became the nucleus of a village that grew into a small town in the thirteenth century and was granted city rights by the Dukes of Austria in 1299. Lucerne conquered it in 1415 but it kept those rights. The municipality covers 5.9 square kilometres and had 10,361 residents at the end of 2020.