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GRINDELWALD , a valley in the Bernese Oberland, and one of the See also:

chief resorts of tourists in See also:Switzerland. It is shut in on the See also:south by the precipices of the Wetterhorn, Mettenberg and Eiger, between which two famous glaciers flow down. On the See also:north it is sheltered by the Faulhorn range, while on the See also:east the See also:Great Scheidegg Pass leads over to See also:Meiringen; and on the south-See also:west the Little Scheidegg or Wengern See also:Alp (railway 111m. across) divides it from Lauterbrunnen. The See also:main See also:village is connected with See also:Interlaken by a See also:rack railway (13 M.). The valley is very See also:green, and possesses excellent pastures, as well as See also:fruit trees, though little See also:corn is grown. It is watered by the See also:Black Liitschine, a tributary of the See also:Aar. The height of the See also:parish See also:church above the See also:sea-level is 3468 ft. The See also:population in Igloo was 3346,practically all See also:Protestant and See also:German-speaking, and living in 558 houses. The See also:glacier guides are among the best in the See also:Alps. The valley was originally inhabited by the See also:serfs of various great lords in summer for the See also:sake of pasturage. A See also:chapel in a See also:cave was superseded about 1146 by a wooden church, replaced about 118o by a See also:stone church, which was pulled down in 1793 to erect the See also:present See also:building. Gradually the See also:Austin canons of Interlaken bought out all the other owners in the valley, but when that See also:house was suppressed in 1528 by the See also:town of Berta the inhabitants gained their freedom.

The houses near the hotel See also:

Adler See also:bear the name of Gydisdorf, but there is no village of Grindelwald properly speaking, though that name is usually given to the assemblage of hotels and shops between Gydisdorf and the railway station. Grindelwald is now very much frequented by visitors in See also:winter. See W. A. B. Coolidge, Walks and Excursions in the Valley of Grindelwald (also in See also:French and German) (Grindelwald, 1900) ; See also:Emmanuel Friedli, Bdrnd'atsch als Spiegel bernischen Volkstums, vol. ii. (Grindelwald, See also:Bern, 1908); E. F. von Miilinen, Beitrage zur Heimatkunde See also:des Kantons Bern, deutschen Teils, vol. i. (Bern, 1579), pp. 24-26; G. Strasser, Der Gletschermann (Grindelwald, 1888–189o). Scattered notices may be found in the edition (See also:London, 1899) of the " See also:General Introduction " (entitled " Hints and Notes for Travellers in the Alps ") to See also:John See also:Ball's Alpine See also:Guide.

(W. A. B.

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