Meiringen (, 595 m; population 4,740 as of 2004) is a town in the Bernese Oberland of Switzerland, the administrative capital of the Oberhasli district of the canton of Bern. It is famous as the setting for the fictional death of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's character Sherlock Holmes, and as the place that claims to have invented meringue.
Meiringen is also one terminus of the Meiringen-Innertkirchen Bahn narrow-gauge railway.
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