Innertkirchen

Innertkirchen
State :	Switzerland
Canton :	Bern (BE)
Administrative district :	Interlaken-Oberhasli
BFS no. :	0784
Postal code :	3862 Innertkirchen 3863 Gadmen
Coordinates :	660 441  /  173058 coordinates: 46 ° 42 '22 "  N , 8 ° 13' 44"  O ; CH1903:  660 441  /  173058
Height :	625  m above sea level M.
Height range :	609–3702 m above sea level M.
Area :	236.59  km²
Residents:	1063 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	4 inhabitants per km²
Website:	www.innertkirchen.ch
Innertkirchen
Location of the municipality

Innertkirchen is a municipality in the Interlaken-Oberhasli administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland .

geography

Aerial photo (1956)

The village is located in the Haslital in the Bernese Oberland , six kilometers southeast of Meiringen , separated from it by the Aare Gorge and is an important traffic junction. The Aare flows through the municipality and begins in the neighboring municipality of Guttannen to the south . Innertkirchen is the starting point for the Trift Glacier (Gadmen) near Gadmen and Rosenlauigletscher via Meiringen or via the mountain path to the Dossenhütte . Innertkirchen also includes the Gental , at the end of which is the Engstlenalp with the Engstlensee .

From Innertkirchen the road also leads to Understock and into the Urbachtal , from where you can continue to the Gauligletscher , the Dossenhütte and the Engelhornhütte.

economy

The lowest stage of the Grimsel hydropower plant operated by Kraftwerke Oberhasli AG (KWO for short) is located in Innertkirchen .

traffic

From Innertkirchen you can get over the Grimsel Pass to Gletsch in the canton of Valais and over the Susten pass to Wassen in the canton of Uri. Innertkirchen is known for tourism in addition to these two passes through the Aare Gorge . Innertkirchen is the end point of the Meiringen-Innertkirchen railway .

tourism

In Innertkirchen there are five hotels with 196 beds, a bed and breakfast with 20 beds, 26 holiday apartments with 147 beds and four group accommodations with 194 beds. There are also four tent sites that are used by families, hikers and cyclists in summer. Innertkirchen has three restaurants (seasonal operations).

Nearby attractions are the Aare Gorge , the Urbachtal , the Reichenbach Falls , the Ballenberg open-air museum and the Hasliberg .

population

Population development
year	1764	1850	1880	1900	1930	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990	2000	2012
Residents	656	1,375	1,438	1,105	1,074	1,194	1'230	1,064	966	998	936	915

Attractions

See also : List of cultural assets in Innertkirchen

Impressions

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  Engstlenalp with hotel

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  Engstlensee

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  Meiringen-Innertkirchen-Bahn railcars at the main intersection of Innertkirchen

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  Reformed Church Innertkirchen

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  Village center

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  Aare

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  Haslital residential building

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  Typical house and kindergarten

literature

• Daniel Wolf, Jost von Allmen: Ernst E. Anderegg . Selected buildings in the Interlaken-Oberhasli region. (Swiss Art Guide, No. 887/888, series 89). Ed.  Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Bern 2011, ISBN 978-3-85782-887-4 .

Web links

Commons : Innertkirchen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of the municipality of Innertkirchen
• Anne-Marie Dubler : Innertkirchen. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Permanent resident population from STAT-TAB of the BfS , municipalities see also regional portraits 2020 on bfs.admin.ch, accessed on May 29, 2020
2. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from March 31, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.