Lütschine

Of 1905 from the Geographical Dictionary of Switzerland

White Lütschinen at Stechelberg

The Lütschinen is a river in the Bernese Oberland in Switzerland.

The name comes from the Celtic name Lütschinen leucos, leuca what "white" or " bright, shiny " means.

Course

Your two sources, the 12.3 km long Black Lütschinen from Grindelwald and the 13.1 km long white Lütschinen from the Lauterbrunnen Valley unite in Zweilütschinen. From there, the 8.6 -kilometer united Lütschinen flows through the gorge-like Lütschinental to Wilderswil and the Bödeli continue to Bönigen where it flows into Lake Brienz.

The Black Lütschinen drains the Upper Grindelwald Glacier and the Lower Grindelwald Glacier, where the outflow of the latter is also called White Lütschinen and ends about a kilometer after leaving the glacier gorge in the Black Lütschinen.

The White Lütschinen has several tributaries, the plunge into high waterfalls on the steep cliffs into the Lauterbrunnen valley, including the Staubbachfall that Trümmelbachfälle and Schmadribachfall. The Mürrenbach applies to 417 -meter drop height as the highest waterfall in Switzerland.

The Lütschinen containment

The coming of the valleys of Grindelwald and Lauterbrunnen Lütschinen is a bed load and schwebstoffreicher mountain river, formerly at extreme floods broke out again and the whole Bödeli flooded with it lying villages and the provost Interlaken. It is likely that the Lütschinen already at the time when the Augustinian canons settled around 1130 in Bödeli, flowed into Lake Brienz and not, as is often claimed, was diverted from these there. It has merely installed one of their estuaries, which ran along the direction Änderbergs Bönigen with a left-bank longitudinal dam. The monastery of Interlaken people played an important role. For centuries, translated generations of the population affected a lot of time and money for one to have the raging mountain water in his place.

A small portion of the water was diverted in the Middle Ages also for versatile use. The narrow channel Spülibächli headed Lütschinen water to the monastery of Interlaken, where it drive various mills and has been used for cleaning purposes.

1831, the Lütschinen shortly after the mouth of the Saxetenbachs in Wilderswil and poured through this village on the Bödeli by mats and Interlaken. The result was about a meter thick overbank, whose traces are to be seen in some old houses today. A contemporary report noted this: "... the Saxetenbach united ( with the Lütschinen ) breached the dam came down on all field, the inhabitants of mats brought to emigrate to some extent "

The last time the Lütschinen 2005 broke out and flooded the lower part of the village of Wilderswil, as well as large parts of the Bödeli. The water flowed after the motorway incision was filled with mats and to Interlaken in the Aare.

Pictures

The Black Lütschinen in Grindelwald-Grund

White Lütschinen in Lauterbrunnen