Schattenhalb

The landscape around Schattenhalb is steep and forested above the Hasli valley, which has shaped both its dispersed settlement pattern and tourism economy. The municipality lies in the upper valley of the Aare near Meiringen, with the Reichenbach Falls descending from the mountainside. The falls became internationally known through Arthur Conan Doyle’s 1893 Sherlock Holmes story “The Final Problem,” which stages Holmes’s struggle with Professor Moriarty at the cascade. A funicular carries visitors toward the falls, while the wider Bernese Oberland places Schattenhalb within an Alpine region of passes, valleys and resort towns. Discover how Schattenhalb belongs to the Hasli valley by browsing webcams across the Bernese Oberland.

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