Handeck

Handeck (Handegg) is a village on the Grimsel pass road in the municipality of Guttannen, Switzerland.

[1] The village is located near the lake Gelmersee, which may be reached by Gelmerbahn from Handeck.

The road to Grimsel Pass summit goes right by a pair of short tunnels to Handeck.

[5] Part of the permanent collection at the Cleveland Museum of Art is an oil painting by French painter Jean-Léon Gérôme which depicts the beauty of this locale still today, as it was during his world travels in the 1850s.

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