Meiringen

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Coordinates: 46°44′N 8°11′E

Meiringen
Image:Oberhasli.jpg
Canton Berne
District Oberhasli
Coordinates  46°44′N 8°11′E
Population 4740   (December 2004)
Area 40.7 km²
Elevation 595 m
Postal code 3860
SFOS number 0785
Website www.meiringen.ch
Location on map of Switzerland
Meiringen
Statue of Holmes outside the English Church
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Statue of Holmes outside the English Church

Meiringen (46°43′N 8°10′E, 595 m; population 4,740 as of 2004) is a town in the Bernese Oberland of Switzerland, the administrative capital of the Oberhasli district of the canton of Bern. It is famous as the setting for the fictional death of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's character Sherlock Holmes, and as the place that claims to have invented meringue.

A museum dedicated to Holmes is located in the basement of the deconsecrated English Church, located in what has now been named Conan Doyle Place.

Street sign outside museum
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Street sign outside museum

Meiringen is also one terminus of the Meiringen-Innertkirchen Bahn narrow-gauge railway.


Coat of Arms of the Canton of Bern
Municipalities in the district of Oberhasli, Switzerland

Gadmen | Guttannen | Hasliberg | Innertkirchen | Meiringen | Schattenhalb

Canton of Bern | Districts of Canton Bern | Municipalities of the canton of Berne

 
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