Lauterbrunnen

Lauterbrunnen is a village in the Bernese Oberland of Switzerland, with a population of 2290 in 2018. It lies in a dramatic sheer-sided U-shaped valley, with scores of waterfalls - its name means "clear springs" but is often rendered as "loud springs" for their roar in spate.
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  • Type: Village with 2,320 residents
  • Description: municipality in the canton of Bern, Switzerland
  • Also known as: “CH0584” and “Lauterbrunnen BE”
  • Neighbors: and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Staubbach Falls and Grütschalp railway station.

Waterfall
Photo: Parpan05, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a waterfall in , located just west of Lauterbrunnen in the Bernese Highlands. The waterfall drops 297 metres from a hanging valley that ends in overhanging cliffs above the Weisse Lütschine.

Railway station
Photo: Roland Zumbühl, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Grütschalp is a railway station on the Bergbahn Lauterbrunnen-Mürren, a hybrid cable car and rail link that connects the villages of Lauterbrunnen and in the region of .

Railway station
Photo: Andrewrabbott, Public domain.
Wengen is a railway station in the car free resort of in the region of . The station is on the Wengernalpbahn, whose trains operate from Lauterbrunnen to via Wengen.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Wengen and Mürren.

Photo: Nikolai Karaneschev, CC BY 3.0.
is an Alpine resort in the of Switzerland. It's at 1,274 m above sea level, reached by cog railway and with no vehicle access, on the route up towards the Eiger and Jungfrau.

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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.

Village
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is a hamlet in , north of the road from to Lauterbrunnen. It is first mentioned in 1319 as Ysenfluo and in 1401 people from the started to settle in the small hamlet.

Lauterbrunnen

Latitude
46.5939° or 46° 35′ 38″ north
Longitude
7.9078° or 7° 54′ 28″ east
Population
2,320
Elevation
1,407 metres (4,616 feet)
Open location code
8FR9HWV5+H4
Open­Street­Map ID
node 240072007
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
7286285
Wiki­data ID
Q64011
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Waray—“Lauterbrunnen” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Lauterbrunnen”
  • Azerbaijani: “Lauterbrunnen”
  • Basque: “Lauterbrunnen”
  • Belarusian: “Лаўтэрбрунен”
  • Breton: “Lauterbrunnen”
  • Bulgarian: “Лаутербрюнска долина”
  • Catalan: “Lauterbrunnen”
  • Cebuano: “Lauterbrunnen”
  • Chinese: “劳特布伦嫩”
  • Chuvash: “Лаутербруннен”
  • Czech: “Lauterbrunnen”
  • Dutch: “Lauterbrunnen”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “لاوتيربرونين”
  • Esperanto: “Gimmelwald”
  • Esperanto: “Isenfluh”
  • Esperanto: “Lauterbrunnen”
  • Esperanto: “Mürren”
  • Esperanto: “Stechelberg”
  • Esperanto: “Wengen”
  • Finnish: “Lauterbrunnen”
  • French: “Lauterbrunnen”
  • German: “Lauterbrunnen”
  • German: “Mürrenflue”
  • German: “Mürrenfluh”
  • German: “Staldenfluh”
  • Greek: “Λάουτερμπρουννεν”
  • Hebrew: “לאוטרברונן”
  • Hungarian: “Lauterbrunnen”
  • Indonesian: “Lauterbrunnen”
  • Irish: “Lauterbrunnen”
  • Italian: “Lauterbrunnen”
  • Italian: “Lauterbrunnental”
  • Japanese: “ラウターブルンネン”
  • Kazakh: “Лаутербруннен”
  • Korean: “라우터브루넨”
  • Lithuanian: “Lauterbrunenas”
  • Lombard: “Lauterbrunnen”
  • Luxembourgish: “Lauterbrunnen”
  • Malay: “Lauterbrunnen”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Lauterbrunnen”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lauterbrunnen”
  • Norwegian: “Lauterbrunnen”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Lauterbrunnen”
  • Ossetian: “Лаутербруннен”
  • Persian: “لاوتربرونن”
  • Piemontese: “Lauterbrunnen”
  • Polish: “Lauterbrunnen”
  • Portuguese: “Lauterbrunnen”
  • Pushto: “لاوټربرونېن”
  • Romanian: “Lauterbrunnen”
  • Romansh: “Lauterbrunnen”
  • Russian: “Лаутербруннен”
  • Spanish: “Lauterbrunnen”
  • Swedish: “Lauterbrunnen”
  • Swiss German: “Luuterbrunne”
  • Thai: “เลาเทอร์บรุนเนิน”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Lauterbrunnen”
  • Turkish: “Lauterbrunnen”
  • Ukrainian: “Лаутербруннен”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Lauterbrunnen”
  • Urdu: “لاؤٹر برونن”
  • Venetian: “Lauterbrunnen”
  • Vietnamese: “Lauterbrunnen”
  • Volapük: “Lauterbrunnen”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Lauterbrunnen”

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