Handeck is a village in the municipality of

Guttannen Guttannen is a municipality in the Interlaken-Oberhasli administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. Origin of the name Guttannen is the name of a meadow, which became the name of the municipality. It comes from the phrase '' ...

, Switzerland. The village is located near the lake Gelmersee, which may be reached by Gelmerbahn from Handeck. There is a hotel and bridge at the village.

Geography

Handeck is located approximately east of Bern and northwest of

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. The trail is primarily used for hiking and walking. It has an elevation of 1,423 meters. The road to

Grimsel Pass The Grimsel Pass (german: Grimselpass; french: Col du Grimsel; it, Passo del Grimsel) is a mountain pass in Switzerland, crossing the Bernese Alps at an elevation of . The pass connects the Haslital, the upper valley of the river Aare, with t ...

summit goes right by a pair of short tunnels to Handeck.

Places

Handeck has a hotel and a bridge named "Suspension Bridge". It also has a waterfall. There is also a chalet, the first-halting place, which is beautiful. The village's cascade surpasses all others in Switzerland.

Culture

Part of the permanent collection at the

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is an oil painting by French painter

Jean-Léon Gérôme Jean-Léon Gérôme (11 May 1824 – 10 January 1904) was a French painter and sculptor in the style now known as academicism. His paintings were so widely reproduced that he was "arguably the world's most famous living artist by 1880." The ra ...

which depicts the beauty of this locale still today, as it was during his world travels in the 1850s.

References

Villages in the canton of Bern {{berne-geo-stub