Simme

Simmenfälle at steering

The Simme is a 55 km long river in the Bernese Oberland with a catchment area of 594 km ², in Switzerland. With an average discharge of about 21 m³ / s it is the most important tributary of the point at the mouth only slightly larger Kander.

Name

The river name Simme probably goes back to the form Sumina what is a derivative of the Indo-European word water, so si ( drip, trickle, wet) is.

Course

The Simme originates in Seven Springs, a crevice with seven sources on the Rezlialp on the western foot of the Wildstrubel in the Bernese Alps. Still on the Rezlialp takes the Simme from left to Trüebbach on, fed by the Glacier de la Plaine Morte glacier at the ridge between the Simmental and the Rhone Valley.

Below the Rezlialp the river forms the Simmenfälle, overcoming cascade a height of about 200 m. South of steering reaches the Simme the flat valley floor and now flows in a north- northwesterly direction usually straightened by the top Simmental. At St. Stephen's, the river turns to the north. In the wide basin of Zweisimmen joins from the west, the Small Simme, an approximately 10 km long creek which has its headwaters in the pass Saanenmöser. Then the two-sided hanging back together again, and with a valley slopes, the Simmental is south of Gstaad achieved. Here the Simme gradually moved toward the east; in the north it is now accompanied by the gantrisch and the Stockhornkette. The villages lie here not in the narrow valley floor but on a sunny terrace on the northern side of the valley. In Latterbach joins from the south, the Diemtigtal. The lower ( eastern ) completion of the low- Simmental is the "Port", a narrow rock breakdown between the Stockhornkette and sneezing. Below Brodhüsi opens the Simme in the Kander, and this flows a few kilometers between Thun and Spiez at Lake Thun.

Simme Gallery

Simme - flood 2