Stechelberg
Stechelberg is a small village in Switzerland located at the base of the Schwarzmönch mountain in the Bernese Alps, part of the district of Lauterbrunnen.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 255 residents
- Description: village in the Bernese Oberland in Switzerland
- Postal code: 3824
Places of Interest
Highlights include Trümmelbach Falls and Schwarzmönch.
Trümmelbach Falls
Photo: Simisa, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Trümmelbach Falls in Bernese Oberland, Switzerland, are a series of ten glacier-fed waterfalls inside the mountain made accessible by the tunnel lift, stairs, and illumination. Trümmelbach Falls is situated 3 km north of Stechelberg.
Schwarzmönch
Peak
Photo: Simisa, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Schwarzmönch is a mountain of the Bernese Alps, overlooking Lauterbrunnen in the Bernese Oberland. It forms a huge buttress on the north-west side of the Jungfrau, to which it is connected by the ridge named Ufem Schwarzen Grat.
Silberhorn
Peak
Photo: Bgvr, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Silberhorn is a pyramid-shaped mountain of the Bernese Alps, to the northwest of the Jungfrau of which it is a satellite peak. A first attempt to reach the summit of the Silberhorn was made in June 1863 by M. v. Silberhorn is situated 3½ km east of Stechelberg.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Gimmelwald and Mürren.
Gimmelwald
Photo: Chensiyuan, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Gimmelwald is a picturesque hamlet in the Bernese Oberland of Switzerland. It's perched on a cliff edge looking down into the Weisse Lütschine valley towards Lauterbrunnen, and in 2020 had a population of 130.
Mürren
Photo: Thisisbossi, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Mürren is a mountain village in the Bernese Oberland of Switzerland, with a resident population of 155 but hundreds of seasonal workers and 2000 hotel guests.
Birg
Locality
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Birg is a summit of the Bernese Alps, overlooking the valley of Lauterbrunnen in the canton of Bern. It lies on the east flank of the Schilthorn, above the village of Mürren. Birg is situated 4 km northwest of Stechelberg.
Stechelberg
- Category: locality
- Location: Lauterbrunnen, Interlaken-Oberhasli, Canton of Bern, Bernese Highlands, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
46.54502° or 46° 32′ 42″ northLongitude
7.9022° or 7° 54′ 8″ eastPopulation
255Elevation
918 metres (3,012 feet)Open location code
8FR9GWW2+2VOpenStreetMap ID
node 240089080OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2658496Wikidata ID
Q679832
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In Other Languages
From Bulgarian to Swedish—“Stechelberg” goes by many names.
- Bulgarian: “Стечелберг”
- Cebuano: “Stechelberg”
- Chinese: “施泰谢尔贝格”
- Dutch: “Stechelberg”
- French: “Stechelberg”
- German: “Stechelberg”
- Italian: “Stechelberg”
- Japanese: “シュテッヘルベルク”
- Korean: “슈테헬베르크”
- Polish: “Stechelberg”
- Russian: “Штехельберг”
- Swedish: “Stechelberg”
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