Kandersteg
Sign in to saveKandersteg () is a municipality in the Frutigen-Niedersimmental administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. It is located along the valley of the River Kander, west of the Jungfrau massif. It is noted for its spectacular mountain scenery and sylvan alpine landscapes. Tourism is a very significant part of its economic life today. It offers outdoor activities year-round, with hiking trails and mountain climbing as well as downhill and cross-country skiing. Kandersteg hosted the ski jumping and Nordic combined parts of the 2018 Nordic Junior World Ski Championships.
Key facts
- Swiss town.lowest_m
- 1150
- Swiss town.population
- 1231
- Swiss town.populationof
- Dec 2010
- Swiss town.popofyear
- 2010
- Swiss town.website
- www.kandersteg.ch
- Swiss town.neighboring_municipalities
- Adelboden, Blatten (Lötschen) (VS), Ferden (VS), Frutigen, Kandergrund, Kippel (VS), Lauterbrunnen, Leukerbad (VS), Reichenbach im Kandertal, Wiler (Lötschen) (VS)
- Swiss town.subject_name
- Kandersteg
- Swiss town.image_photo
- Kandersteg Church.jpg
- Swiss town.image_caption
- Kandersteg center with reformed church
- Swiss town.municipality_type
- municipality
- Swiss town.imagepath_flag
- CHE Kandersteg Flag.svg
- Swiss town.imagepath_coa
- CHE_Kandersteg_COA.svg
- Swiss town.canton
- Bern
- Swiss town.iso code region
- CH-BE
- Swiss town.district
- Frutigen-Niedersimmental
- Swiss town.postal_code
- 3718
- Swiss town.municipality_code
- 0565
- Swiss town.area
- 133.9
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- See also
- References
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Kandersteg () is a municipality in the Frutigen-Niedersimmental administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. It is located along the valley of the River Kander, west of the Jungfrau massif. It is noted for its spectacular mountain scenery and sylvan alpine landscapes. Tourism is a very significant part of its economic life today. It offers outdoor activities year-round, with hiking trails and mountain climbing as well as downhill and cross-country skiing. Kandersteg hosted the ski jumping and Nordic combined parts of the 2018 Nordic Junior World Ski Championships.
==Recent landslide risk== There has been a heightened landslide threat in Kandersteg since 2018, when paragliders noticed that Spitzer Stein, a nearby rocky peak, was losing height and that bits of it had broken off. Historically, there have been landslides in the Oeschinen Lake and Kander river valley region. The area's seismic activity calmed down about 3000 years ago, but has now reactivated, and thawing permafrost has weakened rock structures that were previously frozen solid.