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Encyclopedia Britannica



MEIRINGEN

This article appears in Volume V18, Page 84 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: MEC-MIC
MEIRINGEN , the
principal
 
village
  on the Hasle (or the upper Aar) valley in the Swiss
canton
  of Bern. It is built at a height of 1969 ft. on the right bank of the Aar and on the level floor of the valley, but is much exposed to the
south
  wind (or Fohn), and has several times been in
great
  part destroyed by fire (1632, 1879 and 1891). It has 3077 inhabitants, all German-speaking and Protestants. The parish
church
  is ancient, and above it are the ruins of the medieval castle of Resti. Meiringen is frequented by travellers in summer, as it is the
meeting
 -point of many routes: from Interlaken by the lake of Brienz and Brienz, from Lucerne by the Brunig railway (28 m.), from Engelberg by the Joch Pass (7267 ft.), from the upper
Valais
  by the Grimsel Pass (7100 ft.), and from Grindelwald by the
Great
  Scheidegg Pass (6434 ft.). Many waterfalls descend the hill-sides, the best known being the
Reichenbach
  and the Alpbach, while the great gorge pierced by the Aar through the limestone barrier of the Kirchet is remarkable. The
village
  and valley belonged of old to the emperor, who in 1234 gave the
advowson
  to the Knights of St Lazarus, by whom it was sold in 1272 to the Austin Canons of Interlaken, on the suppression of whom in 1528 it passed to the state. In 1310 the emperor mortgaged the valley to the lords of Weissenburg, who sold it in 1334 to the town of Bern. (W. A. B. C.)


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