Gehrihorn

The Gehrihorn is a mountain of the Bernese Alps, overlooking Frutigen in the Bernese Oberland. It lies at the northern end of the range between the Kandertal and the Kiental.

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Type: Peak with an elevation of 2,130 metres
Description: mountain in Switzerland
Also known as: “Gehrihore”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Tellenburg Castle and Frutigen railway station.

Tellenburg Castle

Castle

Tellenburg Castle

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Tellenburg Castle is a ruined castle in the municipality of Frutigen in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. Tellenburg Castle is situated 3 km west of Gehrihorn.

Frutigen railway station

Railway station

Frutigen railway station

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Frutigen is a railway station in the Swiss canton of Bern and municipality of Frutigen. The station is located on the Lötschberg line of the BLS AG, and is the junction point where the routes via the older Lötschberg tunnel and the more recent Lötschberg base tunnel diverge. Frutigen railway station is situated 3½ km northwest of Gehrihorn.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Mitholz and Mülenen.

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. Mitholz is situated 5 km south of Gehrihorn.

Mülenen

Village

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Mülenen is a village in the Frutigen-Niedersimmental administrative district of the Swiss canton of Bern. The village is divided between the municipalities of Reichenbach im Kandertal and Aeschi bei Spiez. Mülenen station, on the Lötschberg railway line, and… Mülenen is situated 7 km north of Gehrihorn.

Aeschiried

Neighborhood

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Aeschiried is a neighborhood, which is situated 8 km north of Gehrihorn.

Gehrihorn

Categories: mountain and landform
Location: Frutigen, Frutigen-Niedersimmental, Canton of Bern, Bernese Highlands, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude

46.57381° or 46° 34′ 26″ north

Longitude

7.69195° or 7° 41′ 31″ east

Elevation

2,130 metres (6,988 feet)

Open location code

8FR9HMFR+GQ

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Wikidata ID

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Swedish—“Gehrihorn” goes by many names.

Arabic: “غيريورن”
Bulgarian: “Гехрихорн”
Cebuano: “Gehrihorn”
Chinese: “蓋里山”
Dutch: “Gehrihorn”
Egyptian Arabic: “جبل جيريورن”
German: “Gehrihorn”
Ladin: “Gehrihorn”
Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gehrihorn”
Persian: “جهریورن”
Swedish: “Gehrihorn”

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