Gimmelwald 4K🇨🇭Beautiful Mountain Village in the Swiss Alps-Switzerland HDR

📌 Place: Gimmelwald,Switzerland
Recorded : 9 May 2024 Thursday
Weather : ⛅ 25 °C | 77 °F 🌡
📢 𝗣𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝗦𝘂𝗯𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗯𝗲! 📢 ‪@FloriTravel‬
Watch in 4K for best experience! HDR

This is a spectacular walking tour in Gimmelwald, a picturesque Swiss village nestled in the heart of the Swiss Alps. This walking tour takes you on a captivating journey through the village as raindrops gently cascade from the sky, adding a touch of enchantment to the already stunning landscapes. Immerse yourself in the tranquility as you wander along winding streets lined with charming chalets and vibrant flower gardens. Experience the refreshing scent of rain and the soothing sound of raindrops falling on the Jungfrau Region.

Gimmelwald is a Swiss village with fantastic Jungfrau views in the heart of the Swiss Alps. It's the sister village Mürren and in close vicinity of Swiss villages Lauterbrunnen, Grindelwald and Wengen.

Gimmelwald is a small traffic free village in the Bernese Oberland in the Canton of Bern, Switzerland, and is located between Stechelberg and Mürren, at an elevation of 1363 meters (4472 feet). The village is at the foot of the UNESCO World Heritage site the Jungfrau-Aletsch Protected Area. Gimmelwald is an allemanic linear village and a walser settlement first mentioned in a bill of sale in 1346. Because of its very typical and exceptional townscape, Gimmelwald is part of the inventory of Swiss heritage.
Gimmelwald is one of the few traffic-free villages in Switzerland where access by car is not possible due to a missing road connection. The Schilthorn cable car stops in Gimmelwald, where it is possible to board another cable car which runs between Gimmelwald and Mürren. Farming and tourism are the main source of income today. Farmers raise hay on tiny plots of land to feed small herds of cows. In winter, farmers often work as well for the Schilthorn cable car by performing jobs like running ski lifts or ski-slope grooming.
In the year 2003 the population of Gimmelwald was 130. The local school closed in 2010 due to the small number of students and students now attend the school in Lauterbrunnen. The school building was bought in 2019 by a cooperative to convert the school building into flats and to prevent it from being used as a holiday flat.

The rustic village of Gimmelwald, hanging on a cliff high above Switzerland's Lauterbrunnen Valley, is just this side of heaven.

When told you're visiting Gimmelwald, Swiss people assume you mean the famous resort in the next valley, Grindelwald. When assured that Gimmelwald is your target, they lean forward, widen their eyes, and — with their sing-songy Swiss-German accent — ask, "Und how do you know about Gimmelvald?"

Clever travelers know to seek out the offbeat places, skipping the resorts and focusing instead on gems like Gimmelwald. This traffic-free village hangs nonchalantly on the edge of a cliff, high above the Lauterbrunnen Valley, 30 minutes south of Interlaken by car or train.

This sleepy village has more cow troughs than mailboxes. Here, white-bearded, elfish old men smoke hand-carved pipes while overseeing the occasional farmer chugging by on a mini-truck towing a wobbly wagonload of hay. Stones called Schindles sit like heavy checkers on old rooftops, awaiting nature's next move. While these stones protect the slate from violent winter winds, in summer it's so quiet you can hear the cows ripping tufts of grass. Only a vast sea of mountain air separates Gimmelwald from cliff faces that rise up from the other side of the valley. Small avalanches across the valley look and sound like distant, momentary waterfalls. Kick a soccer ball wrong and it ends up on the valley floor, a quarter-mile below you.

Each year, the people of Gimmelwald systematically harvest the steep hillside outside their windows. Entire families cut and gather every inch of hay. After harvesting what the scythe can reach, they pull hay from nooks and crannies by hand. Half a day is spent on steep rocks harvesting what a machine can cut in two minutes on a flat field. But it's tradition. It's like breathing. And there's only one right way to do it.

From the center of Gimmelwald, the cable car takes you either down to the valley floor (where connecting buses await), or up to the Schilthorn, a nearly 10,000-foot peak capped by the revolving Piz Gloria restaurant. The ride to the top goes twice hourly, involves two transfers, and takes 30 minutes. Watch as the altitude meter goes up, up, up. On a clear morning, get up early, hop one of the first connections to the summit, and eat breakfast with a thrilling 360-degree view. Sip your coffee slowly to enjoy one complete spin of the restaurant, watching paragliders methodically set up before jumping int