Wilderswil

Geschichte

Wilderswil is a village and a municipality in the Interlaken-Oberhasli administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.Wilderswil belongs to the Small Agglomeration Interlaken with 23,300 inhabitants (2014).GeographyThe village of Wilderswil is situated at the southern border of the Bödeli, the tongue of land between Lake Thun and Lake Brienz in the Bernese Oberland region. It lies at the entrance to the mountain valleys containing the Lütschine river and its tributary the Saxetenbach, and is some 4km south of Interlaken, the main town of the Bödeli.The municipality extends for some 8km from the village, along the west bank of the Lütschine river, and includes the flanks of the mountains that border that valley to the west. Its altitude ranges from some 580m, on the Bödeli plain, to 2413m, at the summit of Sulegg. It consists of the villages of Wilderswil, Mülenen and Gsteigallmend.Wilderswil has an area of. Of this area, 2.67km2 or 19.7% is used for agricultural purposes, while 7.77km2 or 57.4% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 1.35km2 or 10.0% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.18km2 or 1.3% is either rivers or lakes and 1.57km2 or 11.6% is unproductive land.