Gimmelwald
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 104 residents
- Description: village in Lauterbrunnen in the canton of Bern, Switzerland
- Postal code: 3826
Places of Interest
Highlights include Schwarzmönch and Trümmelbach Falls.
Schwarzmönch
Peak
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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.
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.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mürren and Stechelberg.
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.
Stechelberg
Village
Photo: Thisisbossi, CC BY-SA 2.5.
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.
Birg
Locality
Photo: Yesuitus2001, CC BY-SA 2.5.
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.
Gimmelwald
- Categories: car-free place and locality
- Location: Lauterbrunnen, Interlaken-Oberhasli, Canton of Bern, Bernese Highlands, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
46.5469° or 46° 32′ 49″ northLongitude
7.894° or 7° 53′ 38″ eastPopulation
104Elevation
1,380 metres (4,528 feet)Open location code
8FR9GVWV+PJOpenStreetMap ID
node 240031223OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2660611Wikidata ID
Q1524782
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Vietnamese—“Gimmelwald” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Gimmelwald”
- Chinese: “金美尔瓦尔德”
- Dutch: “Gimmelwald”
- French: “Gimmelwald”
- German: “Gimmelwald”
- Italian: “Gimmelwald”
- Japanese: “ギンメルヴァルト”
- Korean: “김멜발트”
- Persian: “گیملوالد”
- Russian: “Гиммельвальд”
- Spanish: “Gimmelwald”
- Swedish: “Gimmelwald”
- Vietnamese: “Gimmelwald”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Gimmelwald”. Photo: Chensiyuan, CC BY-SA 4.0.