Blausee
Blausee is a lake in Bernese Oberland, Kandergrund, Switzerland. It is located near the Kander river. The lake has an elevation of 887 metres and an area of 0.64 hectares.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Body of water
- Description: small lake in the Kander valley above Kandergrund at 887 m
- Also known as: “Blausee (Bern)”, “Blauseeli”, and “Lac Bleu”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Felsenburg and Elsighorn.
Felsenburg
Castle
Photo: Ba-glauchau, Public domain.
Felsenburg Castle is a ruined castle in the municipality of Kandergrund of the Canton of Bern in Switzerland. It is a Swiss heritage site of national significance.
Elsighorn
Peak
Photo: VincensvonBibra, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Elsighorn is a mountain in the Bernese Alps, overlooking Kandergrund in the Bernese Oberland.
Kandergrund power station
Industrial building
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kandergrund power station is an industrial building.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mitholz and Kandersteg.
Mitholz
Hamlet
Photo: Draemmli, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Mitholz or Blausee-Mitholz is a village in Kandergrund municipality in the canton of Bern in Switzerland, with 170 inhabitants as of 2020. Blausee-Mitholz is a station on the Lötschberg railway line.
Kandersteg
Kandersteg is a village in the Bernese Highlands in Switzerland. Located in the heart of the Alps, Kandersteg is the perfect location to explore the mountains and observe the traditional Swiss alpine lifestyle and it is also on the edge of the Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch UNESCO world heritage site.
Frutigen
Photo: Chriusha, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Frutigen is a town of 6,900 people in the Swiss Canton of Berne and the site of the northern portal of the Lötschberg-Base-Tunnel that opened for railway traffic in 2007.
Blausee
- Category: lake
- Location: Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
46.53245° or 46° 31′ 57″ northLongitude
7.66485° or 7° 39′ 53″ eastElevation
905 metres (2,969 feet)Open location code
8FR9GMJ7+XWOpenStreetMap ID
way 131711222OpenStreetMap feature
natural=water
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Venetian—“Blausee” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بلاوسي”
- Bulgarian: “Блаузе”
- Bulgarian: “Блаузее”
- Cebuano: “Blausee”
- Chinese: “布勞湖”
- Dutch: “Blausee”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بحيره بلاوسى”
- French: “Blausee”
- German: “Blausee (Berner Oberland)”
- German: “Blausee”
- Italian: “Blausee”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Blausee”
- Portuguese: “Lago Blausee”
- Spanish: “Blausee”
- Swedish: “Blausee”
- Venetian: “Blausee”
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