Höhematte Park
Open meadow protected from building since 1864, framing a clear view of the Jungfrau from the hotel row.
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This guide to the Höhematte in Interlaken goes back to the eighteen-sixties, when grand hotels were rising along the Höheweg and the meadow in front of them still belonged to the canton of Bern. It follows Peter Ober and a group of thirty-seven townspeople, most of them hoteliers, and the offer they took to the canton in the winter of eighteen sixty-four. Along the way come tennis courts, a car park and a century and a half of quarrels over the grass. Best heard standing on the meadow, facing the Jungfrau.
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