Glarus South

Glarus South

State :	Switzerland Switzerland
Canton :	Canton of Glarus Glarus (GL)
District :	No district division
BFS no. :	1631i1 f3 f4
Postal code :	8756 Mitlödi 8762 Schwändi b. Schwanden 8762 Schwanden GL 8762 Sool 8765 Engi 8766 Matt 8767 Elm 8772 Nidfurn 8773 Haslen GL 8774 Leuggelbach 8775 Hätzingen 8775 Luchsingen 8777 Diesbach GL 8777 Betschwanden 8782 Rüti GL 8783 Linthal 8784 Braunwald
Coordinates :	724 397 / 206 116 coordinates: 46 ° 59 '40 " N , 9 ° 4' 27" O ; CH1903: seven hundred and twenty-four thousand three hundred ninety-seven / 20611646.994436 9.074165 521
Height :	521 m above sea level M.
Height range :	476–3610 m above sea level M.
Area :	430.03 km²
Residents:	9494 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	22 inhabitants per km²
Mayor :	Mathias Vögeli ( BDP )
Website:	www.glarus-sued.ch
View from the Klausenpassstrasse over Linthal to the Glarus Alps
Location of the municipality
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Glarus Süd has been a political municipality ( unitary municipality ) in the Swiss canton of Glarus since January 1, 2011 .

It was created as part of the Glarus community reform through the merger of the previous communities Betschwanden , Braunwald , Elm , Engi , Haslen , Linthal , Luchsingen , Matt , Mitlödi , Rüti (GL) , Schwanden (GL) , Schwändi and Sool .

geography

The municipality of Glarus Süd includes the rear Linthtal , also called Grosstal, and the entire Sernftal , also called Kleintal. With an area of 430 km² , it was the largest political municipality in Switzerland from the beginning of 2011 to the end of 2014, and from January 2015 the second largest after Scuol (439 km²). The community extends from a height of 504 m above sea level. M. in Mitlödi in the north up to the summit of Tödi with a height of 3614 m above sea level. M. in the south.

traffic

The community is accessed through the Klausenpassstrasse from Glarus to Altdorf UR . When the Klausen Pass is closed in the winter months, the valley can only be reached from the north via Glarus. The connection to public transport is provided by the railway line to Linthal, the bus services in Sernftal, as well as numerous bus and post bus lines and various cable cars.

Attractions

Personalities

Fridolin Brunner (1498–1570), Protestant pastor and reformer 1532–1555 in Betschwanden
Samuel Zopfy (1804–1890), doctor and pioneer of homeopathy , lived and worked in Schwanden
Oswald Heer (1809–1883), Swiss palaeontologist, botanist and entomologist, living in Matt from 1817
Caspar Schiesser (1812–1839), poet from Schwändi
Hilarius Knobel (1830–1891), architect from Schwändi
Gottfried Heer (1843–1921), Protestant Reformed pastor in Betschwanden 1866–1906, Council of States 1906–1914 and local historian
Jacques Schiesser (* 1848 in Linthal; † August 18, 1913 in Bern), entrepreneur
Jakob Hefti (1873–1951), politician and writer from Luchsingen
Hans Comiotto (1906–1972), teacher and painter from Schwanden
Emil Brunner (1908–1995), Swiss photographer, lived in Braunwald from 1948 to 1995
Anton Stadler (1920–2016), politician (CVP) from Luchsingen
Willi Aberer (1927–2007), Austrian politician from Mitlödi
Jürgen Moser (1928–1999), German-American-Swiss mathematician, was buried in the air near Braunwald
Kaspar Rhyner (* 1932), FDP politician, councilor and mayor of the Canton of Glarus from Elm
Jakob Hefti (* 1947), a horn player and chamber musician from Schwanden
Kurt Albert (* 1952), conductor of the country band Echo vom Tödi from Linthal
Fritz Schiesser (* 1954), politician (FDP), President of the Council of States, President of the ETH Board from Haslen
Hanspeter Hofmann (* 1960), painter from Mitlödi
Vreni Schneider (* 1964), ski racer from Elm
Rico Elmer (* 1969), ski mountaineer from Elm
Jürg Grünenfelder (* 1974), ski racer from Elm
Corina Grünenfelder (* 1975), ski racer from Elm
Tobias Grünenfelder (* 1977), ski racer from Elm
Markus Rhyner (* 1982), SP politician and court clerk from Elm
Mathias Zopfi (* 1983), politician of the Greens and Council of States from Engi
André Reithebuch (* 1986), Mister Switzerland 2009 from Linthal

Web links

Commons : Glarus Süd - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Website of the municipality of Glarus Süd

Individual evidence

↑ Permanent and non-permanent resident population by year, canton, district, municipality, population type and gender (permanent resident population). In: bfs. admin.ch . Federal Statistical Office (FSO), August 31, 2019, accessed on December 22, 2019 .
↑ Numbers and facts , Glarus Süd website, accessed on June 8, 2011.

[1] Permanent and non-permanent resident population by year, canton, district, municipality, population type and gender (permanent resident population). In: bfs. admin.ch . Federal Statistical Office (FSO), August 31, 2019, accessed on December 22, 2019 .

[2] Numbers and facts , Glarus Süd website, accessed on June 8, 2011.