Rosenlaui Glacier

The Rosenlaui is located at the northeastern end of the Bernese Alps south of Meiringen, in the Canton of Bern, Switzerland. It has a length of 4.5 km with an average width of 1 km and covers an area of about 6 square kilometers. You can reach it on foot from Rosenlaui.

His starting point takes the Rosenlaui in Weather boiler on the northeast flank of the Wetterhorn at an altitude of about 2800-3500 m above sea level. M. To the south is the glacier on the one hand connected via firnbedeckte combs with the Gauligletscher, on the other hand, to the Upper Grindelwald Glacier. The Rosenlaui flows in a 600 m high ice fall from the boiler to the north- north-east weather. In the West he is flanked ( 3192 m above sea level. M. ) and the little corrugated horn ( 2701 m above sea level. M. ) from the ridge of the corrugated horn, to the east by Dossen ( 3138 m above sea level. M. ). The glacier is currently at an altitude of 2000 m above sea level. M. Here arises the white brook, which falls steeply with waterfalls into the valley and empties into the Reichenbach after Rosenlaui Glacier Gorge. This carries the water over the famous Reichenbach Falls by Reichenbach to Aare.

In his High Stadium during the Little Ice Age in the mid- 19th century informed the Gletscherhubel, a rock below the present tongue, these two ends. Today, he is accessible. The right end of the tongue passed the west walls of the rear Engelhörner and ended at about 1700 m. ü. M.. , The significantly larger left tongue end handed over the steep rocky slope below the present tongue down and ended in the Rosenlaui Gorge, at about 1460 m above sea level. M.

The glacier level of 1828 is reproduced exactly in the painting of Samuel Birman: The Rosenlaui Glacier. Another painting from the hand of the painter Johann Heinrich Schilbach entitled The Rosenlaui from 1835 is located in the catalog for an exhibition " Magic of the Moment" at the Museum Giersch, Frankfurt / Main from the years 2009/2010.

On the ridge east of the glacier, the Dosse Hut of the Swiss Alpine Club SAC is at 2663 m above sea level. M.

Rosenlaui

Seen from the glacier climb to the Dossen

46.6648611111118.1609444444444Koordinaten: 46 ° 39 ' 53.5 " N, 8 ° 9' 39.4 " E; CH1903: 655279/168435

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