Lake Brienz
Lake Brienz is a lake just north of the Alps, in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. It has a length of about 14 kilometres, a width of 2.8 kilometres and a maximum depth of 260 metres.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Tourist attraction
- Description: lake in the Berne Canton, Switzerland
- Also known as: “Brienzersee” and “Lake of Brienz”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Oberried am Brienzersee railway station and Giessbach.
Oberried am Brienzersee railway station
Railway station
Oberried am Brienzersee railway station is a Swiss railway station in the village and municipality of Oberried am Brienzersee and the canton of Bern. Oberried is a stop on the Brünig line, owned by the Zentralbahn, that operates between Interlaken and Lucerne.
Giessbach
Waterfall
Photo: Gürbetaler, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Giessbach is a waterfall, which is situated 3½ km east of Lake Brienz.
Seeburg
Rehabilitation center
Photo: Fanny88 und Sheepy86, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Seeburg is a rehabilitation center.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Oberried am Brienzersee and Iseltwald.
Oberried am Brienzersee
Village
Photo: Parpan05, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Oberried am Brienzersee is a municipality and village in the Interlaken-Oberhasli administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. Besides Oberried itself, the municipality includes the settlements of Dörfli and Ebligen.
Iseltwald
Village
Photo: Thisisbossi, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Iseltwald is a village and municipality on the southern shore of Lake Brienz in the Bernese Oberland region of Switzerland. Politically, the municipality is located in the Interlaken-Oberhasli administrative district of the canton of Bern. Iseltwald is situated 2½ km southwest of Lake Brienz.
Axalp
Village
Photo: Hadi, Public domain.
Axalp is a high alpine pasture in the Bernese Oberland, on the northern slope of Axalphorn, overlooking Lake Brienz, today part of Brienz municipality. Axalp is situated 4½ km east of Lake Brienz.
Lake Brienz
- Categories: lake, area not part of a municipality of Switzerland, and tourism
- Location: Canton of Bern, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
46.72947° or 46° 43′ 46″ northLongitude
7.98067° or 7° 58′ 50″ eastElevation
564 metres (1,850 feet)Open location code
8FR9PXHJ+Q7OpenStreetMap ID
node 8863671718OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attraction
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Lake Brienz” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بحيرة برينز”
- Armenian: “Բրիենց լիճ”
- Basque: “Brienz aintzira”
- Bulgarian: “Бриензерсе”
- Bulgarian: “Бриенцко езеро”
- Catalan: “llac de Brienz”
- Catalan: “Llac de Brienz”
- Cebuano: “Brienzersee”
- Chinese: “布里恩茨湖”
- Chuvash: “Бриенц кӳлли”
- Chuvash: “Бриенц”
- Czech: “Brienzské jezero”
- Dutch: “Meer van Brienz”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بحيره برينز”
- Esperanto: “Lago de Brienz”
- Estonian: “Brienzi järv”
- Finnish: “Brienzjärvi”
- French: “lac de Brienz”
- French: “Lac de Brienz”
- Georgian: “ბრიენცის ტბა”
- German: “Brienzer See”
- German: “Brienzersee”
- Hebrew: “אגם ברינץ”
- Hungarian: “Brienzi-tó”
- Indonesian: “Danau Brienz”
- Italian: “lago di Brienz”
- Italian: “Lago di Brienz”
- Japanese: “ブリエンツ湖”
- Korean: “브리엔츠호”
- Latin: “Lacus Briensis”
- Latvian: “Briencas ezers”
- Lithuanian: “Brynco ežeras”
- Macedonian: “Бриенчко Езеро”
- Mingrelian: “ბრიენციშ ტობა”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Brienzersjøen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Brienzsjøen”
- Norwegian: “Brienzersjøen”
- Polish: “Brienz”
- Polish: “Brienzersee”
- Portuguese: “Lago de Brienz”
- Romanian: “Lacul Brienz”
- Romansh: “Lai da Brienz”
- Russian: “Бриенцское озеро”
- Slovenian: “Brienško jezero”
- Spanish: “Lago de Brienz”
- Swedish: “Brienzsjön”
- Swiss German: “Brienzersee”
- Tosk Albanian: “Brienzersee”
- Turkish: “Brienz Gölü”
- Turkish: “Brienzersee”
- Ukrainian: “Бріенц”
- Ukrainian: “Брієнцьке озеро”
- Venetian: “Łago de Brienz”
- Welsh: “Llyn Brienz”
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