The town of Sursee is located at a geographical crossroads at the north-western end of Lake Sempach. The Sure - a tributary of the Aare - flows through the town. To the north lies the Surseewald forest, which takes up a fifth of the municipal area. The small, nature-protected Gamma Island is located on the municipal territory on Lake Sempach. The quay area offers a wonderful view of the Alps. The rest of the lakeshore is protected. A third of the area is used for agriculture and almost half is residential land. The small town lies 504 m above sea level. The name Sursee probably comes from the small river Sure (Suhre) and the lake (now Lake Sempach). The Suhre leaves the town to the north and then flows through the Surental valley to the Aare. Around the middle of the 13th century, the small town of Sursee developed on the basis of an older village settlement from the 8th century. In the late Middle Ages, Sursee developed into a community that expressed its importance as a stopover and market town on the old Gotthard route, as an administrative center for important monasteries and through lively crafts and trade. For around a hundred years, an important complex of schools and other educational institutions has been established in Sursee.
With over 10,000 inhabitants, Sursee is a small town on the lake. Together with the municipalities of Oberkirch, Schenkon and Mauensee, the municipality of the canton of Lucerne forms a contiguous settlement area with around 19,000 inhabitants. Founded in 1871, the Sursee stove factory (later AG Ofenfabrik und Therma-Werke) developed into the largest industrial company, employing around 350 workers in its heyday. In those decades, the old town became a modern municipality, which in 1831 was divided into a residents' and citizens' municipality (merged in 2000) and a corporate municipality. As the official capital, Sursee is home to various cantonal offices. Thanks to the high number of 14,000 jobs, the modern, small-town Sursee is of economic importance today. New service companies, shopping centers and an industrial area in the north of the town have emerged. Numerous schools in Sursee ensure that the Sursee-Mittelland economic region has sufficient young talent.
The Sursee municipal area is located in the quadrangle of Lake Sempach, the A2 highway, Surseerwald (in the northwest) and the Lucerne-Olten railroad line. The Allmend area north of the A2 and some streets west of the railroad line are the exception. Sursee railroad station is a stop on the long-distance Lucerne-Zofingen-Olten line and the starting point of the Sursee-Triengen railroad. Sursee is also the starting point for various bus routes to the surrounding area: Sursee-Triengen-Schöftland, Sursee-Buchs LU-Uffikon, Sursee-Schenkon-Beromünster, Sursee-Schlierbach-Etzelwil, Sursee-Ettiswil-Willisau and Sursee-Buttisholz-Wolhusen Spital and Sursee-Eich-Sempach Station. Thanks to the good public transport connections, getting to schools in Sursee from the surrounding area is easy and uncomplicated.
The town of Sursee lies on the old Lucerne-Zofingen (Basel) road. Other important road connections are Sursee-Willisau (takes about a quarter of an hour), Sursee-Schöftland (about twenty minutes), Sursee-Sempach (about ten minutes), Sursee-Neuenkirch (about a quarter of an hour), and Sursee-Beromünster (about twenty minutes). Thanks to numerous parking facilities, schools in Sursee can be easily reached by private transport.
In addition to the primary and secondary schools, Sursee is home to the cantonal school, curative education school, three vocational training centers (business, IT and technology, health and social affairs and nature and nutrition), a further education center, special schools, day schools, private schools, music schools, vocational schools, vocational schools, sports schools and language schools. The schools in Sursee have an important supra-regional significance for the Sursee-Mittelland region.
Restaurants in Sursee spoil guests with delicacies of all kinds. Other catering options include cafés, canteens and take-aways. Typical Sursee specialties include Ramseier apple juice, recipes with Sbrinz, beef cutlet with pasta, cooked pot products (organic store), Birnenweggen, Surseerli (made with Felchlin Grand Cru couvertures) and Surseer Honiggans (traditional pastry with honey-hazelnut dough and almond filling).
Sursee has a historic old town with a famous late Gothic town hall and market house and is beautifully situated on Lake Sempach. The town church of St. George, the ossuary chapel and the three monastery courtyards, as well as the lower gate with the old Schützenhaus and the thieves' tower, have been carefully restored over the past four decades. A diverse cultural life and traditional customs, such as the carnival with masquerade and jesters' run, St. Martin's Day (11 November) and the traditional custom of "Gansabhauet", a remnant of a once widespread rural game, enrich the life of the small town and the traditional Älplerchilbi. The town theater attracts visitors with guest performances and the operettas and musicals that are performed almost every year. After school in Sursee, there are numerous sights and historical attractions from more than 700 years of history to discover:
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