page_title: Innertkirchen
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Innertkirchen / Geography
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Blick auf die alte Triftbrücke und Triftgletscher, Gadmen, Schweiz. English: View of the Trift Bridge and the Trift Glacier, Gadmen, Switzerland. Français&#160;: En regardant le pont et glacier de Trift, Gadmen, Suisse. Italiano: Guardando verso il ponte e ghiacciaio del Trift, Gadmen, Svizzera. This is a retouched picture, which means that it has been digitally altered from its original version. Modifications: The stitch uses a portion of area copied over from 6081-6083 located in the center-horizonal and top-half-vertical. I also filled in sky above that portion..
context_page_description: Innertkirchen is a village and municipality in the Interlaken-Oberhasli administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. On 1 January 2014 the former municipality of Gadmen merged into the municipality of Innertkirchen.
context_section_description: After the merger Innertkirchen has an area of 236.61 km² (91.36 sq mi).  Before the merger it had an area of 120.05 square kilometers (46.35 sq mi).  As of 2012, a total of 18.77 km² (7.25 sq mi) or 15.6% is used for agricultural purposes, while 24.15 km² (9.32 sq mi) or 20.1% is forested.   The rest of the municipality is 0.92 km² (0.36 sq mi) or 0.8% is settled (buildings or roads), 1.97 km² (0.76 sq mi) or 1.6% is either rivers or lakes and 74.18 km² (28.64 sq mi) or 61.8% is unproductive land.
  During the same year, housing and buildings made up 0.3% and transportation infrastructure made up 0.3%.  All of the forested land area is covered with heavy forests.  Of the agricultural land, 2.4% is pasturage and 13.2% is used for alpine pastures.  Of the water in the municipality, 0.8% is in lakes and 0.8% is in rivers and streams.  Of the unproductive areas, 11.5% is unproductive vegetation, 29.0% is too rocky for vegetation and 21.3% of the land is covered by glaciers.
  The large alpine municipality is located at the confluence of the Urbach and Gadmer streams into the Aare river.  It includes the Urbach valley, the Gadmen valley, the Gen valley, the Wetterhorn mountain and the Gauli Glacier.  Innertkirchen was created out of the Bäuerten (farming communities) of Grund, Bottigen, Wyler-Schattseite, Wyler-Sonnseite and the agricultural cooperative of Äppigen in 1834.  The merger with Gadmen almost doubled the size the municipality.  Gadmen lies in the Bernese Oberland with the Susten Pass on the eastern border of the former municipality.  The municipal borders stretch from the valley floor, with an elevation of 850–1,250 m (2,790–4,100 ft), up to the nearby mountain peaks at about 3,500 m (11,500 ft).  It is located on the border of the Canton of Bern with the Cantons of Obwalden, Nidwalden, Uri and Valais.
  The municipality of Gadmen merged on 1 January 2014 into the municipality of Innertkirchen.
  On 31 December 2009 Amtsbezirk Oberhasli, the municipality's former district, was dissolved.  On the following day, 1 January 2010, it joined the newly created Verwaltungskreis Interlaken-Oberhasli.
caption: Trift Glacier and lake in Gadmen
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