Niesen
Template:Short description Template:Infobox mountain The Niesen is a mountain peak of the Bernese Alps in the Canton of Bern, Switzerland. The summit of the mountain is 2,362 metres (7,749 ft) in elevation.
It overlooks Lake Thun, in the Bernese Oberland region, and forms the northern end of a ridge that stretches north from the Albristhorn and Mannliflue, separating the Simmental and Kandertal valleys.[1]
Geography
Administratively, the summit is shared between the municipalities of Reichenbach im Kandertal to the southeast, and Wimmis to the west and north. Both municipalities are in the canton of Bern.[1]
The summit can be reached easily by using the Niesenbahn funicular from Mülenen (near Reichenbach). The construction of the funicular was completed in 1910.
Alongside the funicular is the longest stairway in the world, with 11,674 steps. It is only open to the public once a year for a stair run event.[1][2][3]
Originally the mountains name was Yesen. «An Yesen» transformed to Niesen. Yesen is yellow gentian and still flowers on the Niesen to this day. [4] Because of its shape, the Niesen is often called the Swiss Pyramid.[5][6] The Niesen may have influenced some modernist paintings by Paul Klee, in which an abstracted pyramidal form is seen.[7]
See also
References
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- ^ a b c Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.map.geo.admin.ch (Map). Swiss Confederation. Retrieved 2014-11-03.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Niesen Funicular Info". Niesenbahn. Retrieved 23 August 2017.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Niesenlauf" [Niesen Stair Run]. niesenlauf.ch (in German). Archived from the original on 24 August 2017. Retrieved 23 August 2017.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link) - ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Der Niesen" (in German). Niesenbahn. Retrieved 28 March 2020.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link) - ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."The Niesen – Switzerland's highest pyramid". houseofswitzerland.org. 2022-04-27. Retrieved 2025-10-28.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Christmann, Stefan (2021-08-15). "Swiss pyramid / Amazing views from the Niesen mountain". The Passenger. Retrieved 2025-10-28.
- ^ Rosenthal, Mark. “The Prototypical Triangle of Paul Klee.” The Art Bulletin, vol. 64, no. 2, [Taylor & Francis, Ltd., College Art Association], 1982, pp. 299–310, https://doi.org/10.2307/3050222. “The title Niesen makes explicit another identity of the triangle besides the Egyptian pyramid. "Niesen" is the name of a pyramidally shaped mountain in the Bernese Alps on Lake Thun, not far from Klee's childhood home near Bern. The area was a favorite of Klee's for hiking and vacationing; in 1915 he spent several days with his friend Louis Millet in the town of Gunten, which faces the Niesen from directly across the lake. Klee's study of the mountain from a dramatic vantage point recalls his affirmation, six years earlier, that Cézanne was "the teacher par excellence." As in Cézanne's Mont Ste.-Victoire paintings (Fig. 2), Klee, in Niesen, contrasts the strength of the mountain stretching to the skies with a patchy landscape below.”
External links
- Niesen.ch: Niesen News website—Template:In lang
- Nesen-funicular.ch: Niesen Funicular website—Template:In lang
- Hikr.org: Niesen
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