Ass forest

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Arschwald is a field name that is used for two forests in Switzerland :

• The Arschwald in Amden , Canton St. Gallen , at an altitude of around 1300  m above sea level. M. can be reached via a road from Starkenbach .
• The Arschwald in Glarus Nord , Canton Glarus , above Näfels , at an altitude of around 1000  m above sea level. M. , can be reached via the road into the Oberseetal .

The field name is of Rhaeto-Romanic origin and comes from the Latin arsus 'burned' . It goes back to an original fire clearance.

literature

• Christoph Landolt et al .: Asswald exit. The somewhat different Swiss place directory. Orell Füssli, Zurich 2016, ISBN 978-3-280-05625-7 .
• National map 1: 50,000, sheet 5015 Toggenburg-Sarganserland , 2018, ISBN 978-3-302-05015-7 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Swiss national coordinates 735,550 / 226,650
2. ↑ Swiss national coordinates 721,550 / 217,450
3. ↑ Heinrich Schmid : On the western border of the Rhaeto-Romanic: Disguised witnesses of former Romanism in the Linth area and neighboring parts of Central Switzerland. Vox Romanica, Vol. 39 (1980), pp. 120-182.
4. ↑ Christoph Landolt et al .: exit Arschwald. The somewhat different Swiss place directory. Orell Füssli, Zurich 2016, ISBN 978-3-280-05625-7 , p. 7.