With 20,000 liters of water per second melting from the surrounding four-thousand-meter glaciers and a catchment area of 24 square kilometers, ten impressive waterfalls are created. The UNESCO World Natural Heritage area is of international importance. The waterfalls inside the mountain are particularly impressive. The old lift that leads to the individual platforms is also a highlight.
Lauterbrunnen and Grindelwald
When the Haslital people once sent scouts into the valleys, they are said to have reported: "There are lots of springs and a Grindel forest there!" The amount of water and the closed area full of forest made an impression even then.
The Lötscher Bell
In earlier times, feuds between the inhabitants of two valleys were common. Sometimes one of them would march to the neighbour, armed and armed, and take with them whatever they could get their hands on, such as livestock or property, and blood was often shed.
The people of Lauterbrunnen had no intention of crossing the high border mountains and attacking the Valais people.
When they had finished their church, the bells were missing; they could not make them themselves and they would have cost the most of their scarce money.
At that time, the Wetterlücke, the wide saddle between the Breithorn and Tschingelhorn, was not yet glaciated as it is today.
The valley people had been at war with the Lötschers for a long time, and dozens of Kernenfesters from the Bernese side crossed over and put the Lötschers to the sword in their valley. On the way home over the high mountains, the Lauterbrunnen people took two Lötscher bells with them on scaffolding. They carried them both up to the Wetterlücke. It was already late autumn; they thought they had won. Then the foehn suddenly made them wear tight shoes. It roared in the cliffs and whipped the weather around their ears so hard that they had to leave a Tregi up there. But they were lucky enough to bring the larger bell back to the valley.
A harsh winter descended with them into the ground. During the Ustages and even in the following summer, the gap in the weather was no longer free of snow and has never been so since. The second bell remained up there and is now buried deep in the glacier ice.
The larger one still hangs in the tower of the valley church in Lauterbrunnen and is called the Lötscher bell. Much later, the people of Valais wanted to buy it back with money, but the people of Lauterbrunnen were not willing to give up the bell that their forefathers had acquired in such a strange way.
(from Hans Michel's Kratts full of Lauterbrunnen legends)
Access
After the town of Lauterbrunnen, you reach the Trümmelbach Falls after about 3 km. The entrance fee is 14 francs.
