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Lake Brienz (German: Brienzersee) is a lake just north of the Alps, in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.It has a length of about 14 kilometres (8.7 mi), a width of 2.8 kilometres (1.7 mi) and a maximum depth of 260 metres (850 ft).
Brienz (US: / b r i ˈ ɛ n t s / bree-ENTS, [3] [4] German:, [5] Alemannic German pronunciation: [b̥riə̯nts]) [6] is a village and municipality on the northern shore of Lake Brienz, at the foot of the Brienzer Rothorn mountain, and in the Bernese Oberland region of Switzerland.
The Brienz Rothorn Railway (German: Brienz Rothorn Bahn, BRB) is a tourist rack railway in Switzerland, which climbs from Brienz, at the eastern end of Lake Brienz, to the summit of the Brienzer Rothorn. The railway is 7.6 kilometres (4.7 mi) long, is built to 800 mm gauge (2 ft 7 + 1 ⁄ 2 in gauge), and uses the Abt double lamella rack system.
Iseltwalt on Lake Brienz Aerial view by Walter Mittelholzer (1926). The village of Iseltwalt lies on a delta at the south bank of Lake Brienz. It is 14 km (8.7 mi) from Interlaken, the road mostly running along Lake Brienz.
On its south side it overlooks Lake Brienz, whilst to the north it looks out over the Waldemme valley. [3] Administratively, the summit is shared by the municipalities of Brienz, to the south-west, Schwanden bei Brienz, to the south-east, Giswil to the north-east, and Flühli, to the north-west.
Lake Thun and Lake Brienz are both close to the town, and the Aare flows east to west through the town. Boat trips operate on both lakes, serving various lakeside towns. One of these, Brienz, is the starting point for one of Switzerland's last remaining steam operated mountain railway, the Brienz Rothorn Railway .