page_title: Oberried am Brienzersee
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Oberried am Brienzersee / Geography
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Brienzersee, Oberried, Schweiz English: Lake Brienz, Oberried, Switzerland Camera location46°&#160;42′&#160;42.8″&#160;N, 7°&#160;57′&#160;08.1″&#160;E&#160;&#160;&#160;View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap - Google Earth
context_page_description: Oberried am Brienzersee is a municipality and village in the Interlaken-Oberhasli administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. Besides Oberried itself, the municipality includes the settlements of Dörfli and Ebligen.
context_section_description: Oberried am Brienzersee is located in the Bernese Oberland at the north shore of Lake Brienz. The highest mountain in the municipality is the Tannhorn (2,221 m (7,287 ft)).  It includes the sections of Dörfli, Mehrendorf and Ebligen on the shore of the lake and then rises into the alps. In addition to the Tannhorn, the Augstmatthorn and Riederengrat as well as peaks around the Riederengrat are part of the municipality.
  The municipality has an area of 20.14 km² (7.78 sq mi).  Of this area, 7.69 km² (2.97 sq mi) or 38.2% is used for agricultural purposes, while 8.72 km² (3.37 sq mi) or 43.3% is forested.   Of the rest of the land, 0.48 km² (0.19 sq mi) or 2.4% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.09 km² (22 acres) or 0.4% is either rivers or lakes and 3.06 km² (1.18 sq mi) or 15.2% is unproductive land.
  Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 1.0% and transportation infrastructure made up 1.1%.  Out of the forested land, 37.8% of the total land area is heavily forested and 3.0% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees.  Of the agricultural land, 4.1% is pastures and 33.9% is used for alpine pastures.  All the water in the municipality is flowing water.  Of the unproductive areas, 10.4% is unproductive vegetation and 4.8% is too rocky for vegetation.
  On 31 December 2009 Amtsbezirk Interlaken, the municipality's former district, was dissolved.  On the following day, 1 January 2010, it joined the newly created Verwaltungskreis Interlaken-Oberhasli.
caption: Oberried village and the surrounding lake and mountains
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