Gimmelwald
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Gimmelwald is a small village in the Bernese Oberland in Switzerland, halfway up the mountain between Stechelberg and Mürren. The Schilthorn cable car stops in Gimmelwald.
In addition to a shop that sells fresh cheeses, Gimmelwald also possesses its own school, a phone booth and several cows.
The population of Gimmelwald is 130, most of whom have one of three family names: von Allmen, Feuz, or Brunner. There are 150 hotel beds for tourists. 50 of these belong to the Gimmelwald Mountain Hostel.
[edit] Traffic and accessibility
Lacking connection to the main road system, the main transportation to Gimmelwald is the Luftseilbahn Stechelberg-Mürren-Schilthorn (LSMS) aerial tramway. The tram travels down from Gimmelwald to Stechelberg on the floor of the Lauterbrunnen valley, where there are bus and train connections to the rest of Switzerland, and up to the town of Mürren and the Schilthorn.
[edit] Politics
Gimmelwald, together with Wengen, Muerren, Isenfluh, Stechelberg, and Lauterbrunnen, belongs to the municipality of Lauterbrunnen. The parish, or Kirchgemeinde, covers the entire valley.
