Meiringen

Meiringen is a municipality inside the Interlaken-Oberhasli administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. Besides the village of Meiringen, the municipality includes the settlements of Balm, Brunigen, Eisenbolgen, Hausen, Prasti, Sand, Stein, Unterbach, Unterheidon, Wylerli and Zaun.Meiringen is famous for the close by Reichenbach Falls, a incredible waterfall that changed into the placing for the final showdown among Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional detective Sherlock Holmes and his nemesis Professor Moriarty. The village is likewise recognised for its claim to had been the area in which the meringue changed into first created.

The municipal coat of palms shows a black eagle in a yellow field Or an Eagle displayed Sable crowned, beaked, langued and membered of the first. Formerly the coat of hands of the complete Oberhasli Talschaft, this layout keeps the imperial coat of arms. Meiringen is placed inside the japanese Bernese Oberland location, within the Haslital on the higher reaches of the river Aare, upstream of Lake Brienz. It lies on the foot of numerous mountain passes, including the Brunig Pass to the valley of the Sarner Aa and as a result central Switzerland, the Joch Pass to Engelberg, the Susten Pass to the top valley of the Reuss, the Grimsel Pass to the valley of the Rhone and subsequently southern Switzerland, and the Grosse Scheidegg Pass to Grindelwald.