Meiringen
Meiringen is a town in the Bernese Highlands of Switzerland. with a population in 2020 of 4666. It's a winter sports and mountain hiking resort, best known for the Reichenbach Falls, scene of the fictional death of Sherlock Holmes and his arch-enemy Professor Moriarty.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Thisisbossi, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Photo: Thisisbossi, CC BY-SA 2.5.
- Type: Village with 4,720 residents
- Description: municipality in the canton of Bern, Switzerland
- Also known as: “Meiringen BE”
- Postal code: 3860
- Neighbors: Brienz and Grindelwald
Places of Interest
Highlights include Reichenbach Falls and Meiringen railway station.
Reichenbach Falls
Waterfall
Photo: Paul Hermans, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Reichenbach Falls is a waterfall in the Bernese Oberland region of Switzerland, which drop a height of 250 metres. In literature, the upper Great Reichenbach Fall is the location of the final altercation between Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's hero Sherlock Holmes and his greatest foe, Professor Moriarty, in "The Final Problem".
Meiringen railway station
Railway station
Photo: Paebi, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Meiringen railway station is a railway station, in the town of Meiringen in the Swiss canton of Bern, and at the junction of two railway lines. The Brünig line of the Zentralbahn is an inter-regional metre gauge railway that links Interlaken and Lucerne, whilst the Meiringen–Innertkirchen line of the Meiringen-Innertkirchen-Bahn is a local railway that links to Innertkirchen and the Aare Gorge.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Schattenhalb and Innertkirchen.
Schattenhalb
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Schattenhalb is a municipality in the Interlaken-Oberhasli administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. The municipality includes the settlements of Willigen, Geissholz, Falcheren and Lüögen.
Innertkirchen
Village
Photo: Falk Lademann, CC BY 2.0.
Innertkirchen is a village and municipality in the Interlaken-Oberhasli administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. On 1 January 2014, the former municipality of Gadmen was merged into the municipality of Innertkirchen. Innertkirchen is situated 4 km southeast of Meiringen.
Meiringen
- Categories: Municipality of Switzerland and locality
- Location: Interlaken-Oberhasli, Canton of Bern, Bernese Highlands, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
46.7286° or 46° 43′ 43″ northLongitude
8.1871° or 8° 11′ 14″ eastPopulation
4,720Elevation
599 metres (1,965 feet)United Nations Location Code
CH MEIOpen location code
8FRCP5HP+CROpenStreetMap ID
node 60336653OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Welsh—“Meiringen” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Meiringen”
- Arabic: “ميرينغن (سويسرا)”
- Arabic: “ميرينغن”
- Armenian: “Մայրինգեն”
- Basque: “Meiringen”
- Belarusian: “Майрынген”
- Breton: “Meiringen”
- Catalan: “Meiringen”
- Cebuano: “Meiringen (munisipyo)”
- Cebuano: “Meiringen”
- Chinese: “迈林根”
- Chinese: “麦林根”
- Czech: “Meiringen”
- Danish: “Meiringen”
- Dutch: “Meiringen”
- Esperanto: “Meiringen”
- Estonian: “Meiringen”
- Finnish: “Meiringen”
- French: “Meiringen”
- German: “Meiringen”
- Hebrew: “מיירינגן”
- Hungarian: “Meiringen”
- Indonesian: “Meiringen”
- Irish: “Meiringen”
- Italian: “Meiringen”
- Japanese: “マイリンゲン”
- Kazakh: “Майринген”
- Korean: “마이링겐”
- Korean: “마이링엔”
- Latin: “Meiringen”
- Lombard: “Meiringen”
- Malay: “Meiringen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Meiringen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Meiringen”
- Norwegian: “Meiringen”
- Norwegian: “Meyringen”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Meiringen”
- Persian: “مرینگن”
- Piemontese: “Meiringen”
- Polish: “Meiringen”
- Portuguese: “Meiringen”
- Pushto: “مای رینګن”
- Romanian: “Meiringen”
- Romansh: “Meiringen”
- Russian: “Майринген”
- Russian: “Мейринген”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Meiringen”
- Silesian: “Meiringen”
- Spanish: “Meiringen”
- Swedish: “Meiringen”
- Swiss German: “Meiringe”
- Thai: “ไมริงเงิน”
- Tosk Albanian: “Meiringen”
- Turkish: “Meiringen”
- Ukrainian: “Майрінген”
- Upper Sorbian: “Meiringen”
- Venetian: “Meiringen”
- Vietnamese: “Meiringen”
- Volapük: “Meiringen”
- Waray (Philippines): “Meiringen”
- Welsh: “Meiringen”
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