Grindelwald
Grindelwald is a mountain village in the Bernese Oberland of Switzerland. It's in the valley from Interlaken up to the pass of Grosse Scheidegg, a traditional cattle trail, and in Old High German grintil walt meant "barrier forest".| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: W. Bulach, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Village with 4,020 residents
- Description: village and municipality in the canton of Bern, Switzerland
- Also known as: “CH0576” and “Grindelwald BE”
- Neighbors: Brienz, Lauterbrunnen, and Meiringen
Photo: Misaochan, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: W. Bulach, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: W. Bulach, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Thisisbossi, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Grindelwald Grund railway station and Bruderklausen Church.
Grindelwald Grund railway station
Railway station
Photo: Andrewrabbott, Public domain.
Grindelwald Grund is a railway station in the village and municipality of Grindelwald in the Swiss canton of Bern. The station is served by the Wengernalpbahn, whose trains operate from Grindelwald to Kleine Scheidegg.
Brandegg railway station
Railway station
Photo: SalomonCeb, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Brandegg is a request stop railway station in the municipality of Grindelwald in the Swiss canton of Bern. The station is served by the Wengernalpbahn, whose trains operate from Grindelwald to Kleine Scheidegg.
Grindelwald
- Categories: Municipality of Switzerland and locality
- Location: Interlaken-Oberhasli, Canton of Bern, Bernese Highlands, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
46.6243° or 46° 37′ 27″ northLongitude
8.0367° or 8° 2′ 12″ eastPopulation
4,020Elevation
1,142 metres (3,747 feet)Open location code
8FRCJ2FP+PMOpenStreetMap ID
node 21311918OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
7285984Wikidata ID
Q64004
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Western Panjabi—“Grindelwald” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Grindelwald”
- Arabic: “جريندلفالد”
- Armenian: “Գրինդեվալդ”
- Basque: “Grindelwald”
- Breton: “Grindelwald”
- Bulgarian: “Гринделвалд”
- Catalan: “Grindelwald”
- Cebuano: “Grindelwald”
- Chinese: “格林德尔瓦尔德”
- Chinese: “格林德瓦”
- Chuvash: “Гриндельвальд”
- Czech: “Grindelwald”
- Danish: “Grindelwald”
- Dutch: “Grindelwald”
- Dutch: “Grindelwalt”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جرينديلوالد”
- Esperanto: “Grindelwald”
- Finnish: “Grindelwald”
- French: “Grindelwald”
- German: “Grindelwald BE”
- German: “Grindelwald”
- Hebrew: “גרינדלוולד”
- Hungarian: “Grindelwald”
- Indonesian: “Grindelwald”
- Irish: “Grindelwald”
- Italian: “Grindelwald”
- Japanese: “グリンデルヴァルト”
- Japanese: “グリンデルワルト”
- Kazakh: “Гриндельвальд”
- Korean: “그린델발트”
- Latin: “Grindelwald”
- Lithuanian: “Grindelvaldas”
- Lombard: “Grindelwald”
- Luxembourgish: “Grindelwald”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Grindelwald”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Grindelwald”
- Norwegian: “Grindelwald”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Grindelwald”
- Persian: “گریندلوالد”
- Piemontese: “Grindelwald”
- Polish: “Grindelwald”
- Portuguese: “Grindelwald”
- Romansh: “Grindelwald”
- Russian: “Гриндельвальд”
- Spanish: “Grindelwald”
- Swedish: “Grindelwald”
- Swiss German: “Grindelwald”
- Thai: “กรินเดิลวัลท์”
- Tosk Albanian: “Grindelwald”
- Turkish: “Grindelwald”
- Ukrainian: “Гріндельвальд”
- Ukrainian: “Ґріндельвальд”
- Upper Sorbian: “Grindelwald”
- Urdu: “گرنڈل والڈ”
- Venetian: “Grindelwald”
- Vietnamese: “Grindelwald”
- Volapük: “Grindelwald”
- Waray (Philippines): “Grindelwald”
- Welsh: “Grindelwald”
- Western Panjabi: “گراینڈلوالڈ”
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