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Grindelwald is a municipality in the Interlaken-Oberhasli administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. The village is located at above sea level in the Bernese Alps.

Winter sports

Long famed as a winter tourist destination with slopes for beginners, intermediates and the challenges of the Eiger glacier for the experienced, there are activities for the non-skiers, from tobogganing to groomed winter hiking tracks. It is the usual starting point for ascents of the Eiger and the Wetterhorn. Nowadays Grindelwald is also a popular summer activity resort with many miles of hiking trails across the Alps.

Geography

Grindelwald has an area, , of . Of this area, or 28.9% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 16.4% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 1.8% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.8% is either rivers or lakes and or 52.1% is unproductive land.

Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 1.0% and transportation infrastructure made up 0.6%. 12.9% of the total land area is heavily forested and 2.3% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 5.1% is pastures and 23.8% is used for alpine pastures. All the water in the municipality is in rivers and streams. Of the unproductive areas, 6.6% is unproductive vegetation, 24.0% is too rocky for vegetation and 21.6% of the land is covered by glaciers.

The municipality is quite large and is divided into seven mountain communities. However the municipality is dominated by the large village and tourist center of Grindelwald.

History

Grindelwald is first mentioned in 1146 as Grindelwalt.

Demographics

Grindelwald has a population (as of ) of . , 15.8% of the population was made up of foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years the population has decreased by 3.4%. Most of the population () speaks German (86.8%), with Portuguese being second most common (4.5%) and French being third (1.7%).

In the 2007 election the most popular party was the SVP which received 54.8% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the FDP (14.2%), the Green Party (10.1%) and the SPS (8.6%).

The age distribution of the population () is children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 21.1% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 62.6% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 16.3%. The entire Swiss population is generally well educated. In Grindelwald about 66.8% of the population (between age 25-64) have completed either non-mandatory upper secondary education or additional higher education (either University or a Fachhochschule).

Grindelwald has an unemployment rate of 2.66%. , there were 365 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 138 businesses involved in this sector. 378 people are employed in the secondary sector and there are 53 businesses in this sector. 1,961 people are employed in the tertiary sector, with 225 businesses in this sector.

The historical population is given in the following table:

year	population
1764	1,816
1850	2,924
1900	3,346
1920	2,998
1950	3,053
2000	4,069

Transportation

Grindelwald can be reached by train (Berner Oberland Bahn) from Interlaken.

The Wengernalpbahn connects Grindelwald to the Kleine Scheidegg from where the Jungfraubahn ascends inside the Eiger to the Jungfraujoch and trains descend to Wengen.

The Gondelbahn Grindelwald-Männlichen connects Grindelwald with the Männlichen and with onward travel on the Luftseilbahn Wengen-Männlichen offers an alternative route to Wengen.

The minor summit of First is accessible by ski lift from Grindelwald.

In the media

Many scenes of the documentary film The Alps were shot in the region of Grindelwald, particularly on the north face of the Eiger. The James Bond film, On Her Majesty's Secret Service includes a chase through a skating rink and Christmas festival in Grindelwald. Grindelwald's mountains were used as the basis for the view of Alderaan in Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. Some of the action scenes in The Golden Compass were also shot in Grindelwald.JK Rowling is said to have used the name of 'Grindelwald' in the creation of her character; Gellert Grindelwald, in the Harry Potter novels. There is a poster for Grindelwald on the gym wall in the Hogan's Heroes episode 'How's the Weather?" Grindelwald was a track in Gran Turismo 2.