Canton of Bern
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Lauterbrunnen

Wengen

Wengen 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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  • Type: Village with 1,120 residents
  • Description: village in the municipality of Lauterbrunnen in the canton of Bern, Switzerland
  • Also known as: “Wengen BE” and “Wengen, Switzerland”
  • Postal code: 3823

Places of Interest

Highlights include Staubbach Falls and Männlichen.

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

Peak
Photo: Dr john becker, CC BY-SA 2.0 de.
The is a 2,343-metre mountain in the located within the . It can be reached from Wengen by the , or from the new Grindelwald Terminal station using the Grindelwald–Männlichen gondola cableway.

Railway station
Photo: Andrewrabbott, Public domain.
Allmend is a request stop railway station in the municipality of in the . The station is on the Wengernalpbahn, whose trains operate from to via Wengen.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Isenfluh and Lütschental.

Village
Photo: Roland Zumbuehl, CC BY 3.0.
is a hamlet in , north of the road from to . It is first mentioned in 1319 as Ysenfluo and in 1401 people from the started to settle in the small hamlet.

Village
Photo: Thisisbossi, CC BY-SA 2.5.
is a village and a municipality in the in the canton of Bern in . is situated 4 km northeast of Wengen.

Wengen

Latitude
46.6054° or 46° 36′ 20″ north
Longitude
7.9217° or 7° 55′ 18″ east
Population
1,120
Elevation
1,272 metres (4,173 feet)
IATA airport code
ZLE
United Nations Location Code
CH WNG
Open location code
8FR9JW4C+5M
Open­Street­Map ID
node 240096898
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
2658020
Wiki­data ID
Q589968
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Wengen” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “وينجن”
  • Armenian: “Վենգեն”
  • Bulgarian: “Венген”
  • Catalan: “Wengen”
  • Cebuano: “Wengen”
  • Chinese: “文根”
  • Chinese: “溫根”
  • Croatian: “Wengen”
  • Czech: “Wengen”
  • Dutch: “Wengen”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “وينجن”
  • Estonian: “Wengen”
  • Finnish: “Wengen”
  • French: “Wengen”
  • German: “Wengen BE”
  • German: “Wengen”
  • Hungarian: “Wengen”
  • Italian: “Wengen”
  • Japanese: “ヴェンゲン”
  • Korean: “벵겐”
  • Korean: “벵엔”
  • Luxembourgish: “Wengen BE”
  • Luxembourgish: “Wengen”
  • Macedonian: “Венген”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Wengen”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Wengen”
  • Norwegian: “Wengen”
  • Persian: “ونگن (سوئیس)”
  • Persian: “ونگن”
  • Polish: “Wengen”
  • Romanian: “Wengen”
  • Russian: “Венген”
  • Serbian: “Венген”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Wengen”
  • Slovenian: “Wengen”
  • Spanish: “Wengen”
  • Swedish: “Wengen”
  • Swiss German: “Wenge”
  • Thai: “เว็งเงิน”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Wengen”
  • Turkish: “Wengen”
  • Ukrainian: “Венген”
  • Western Panjabi: “ونگن”
  • “Wengen BE”

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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 “Wengen”. Photo: Nikolai Karaneschev, CC BY 3.0.