Gelmersee
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Gelmersee (or Lake Gelmer) is a reservoir in Bernese Oberland, Switzerland. The hydroelectric reservoir was completed in 1932, at about the same time as the Grimselsee reservoir, and both are operated by Kraftwerke Oberhasli. The reservoir's volume is and its surface area .
Key facts
- Body of water.name
- Gelmersee
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- Gelmersee1.jpg
- Body of water.location
- Grimsel, Bernese Oberland
- Body of water.type
- reservoir
- Body of water.basin_countries
- Switzerland
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- Canton of Bern#Switzerland#Alps
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- bottom
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- yes
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- 14
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- reservoir
- Country
- Switzerland
- Located in
- Canton of Berne
- Area
- 64.5
- Elevation
- 1849
- Image
- Gelmersee1.jpg
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- Commons category
- Gelmersee
- mountain range
- Alps
- watershed area
- 16
- basin country
- Switzerland
- volume as quantity
- 14
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Encyclopedic overview
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Gelmersee (or Lake Gelmer) is a reservoir in Bernese Oberland, Switzerland. The hydroelectric reservoir was completed in 1932, at about the same time as the Grimselsee reservoir, and both are operated by Kraftwerke Oberhasli. The reservoir's volume is and its surface area .
The reservoir may be reached by the Gelmerbahn from Handegg, Guttannen at . The funicular's track with a length of has a maximum inclination of 106%.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gelmersee” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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