Glion

This article describes the Vaudois village of Glion. For the locality in Graubünden with the Romansh name Glion, see Ilanz .

Montreux, Glion, Caux

View of Glion, postcard (around 1922)

Hotel Victoria in Glion 1878

Glion is a village that belongs to the political municipality of Montreux in the canton of Vaud ( Switzerland ).

Geography and traffic

Aerial photo (1948)

Glion is 700 m above sea level. M. on a terrace, 300 m above Montreux and Lake Geneva . The place is served by Territet with a funicular , inaugurated on August 19, 1883 . Every quarter of an hour, the funicular can transport around 30 people to Glion in four minutes from the shore of the lake all year round. The train does not require any drivers. A rack railway , completed in 1892, leads up to Caux and the Rochers de Naye . Both railways are operated by Transports Montreux – Vevey – Riviera .

The A9 motorway runs under the village in the 1350 m long Glion tunnel .

history

The village was mentioned as a tenth area as early as 1693. Glion used to belong to the municipality of Les Planches , which was incorporated into Montreux in 1953. In the second half of the 19th century, the village developed into a climatic health resort with several hotels and sanatoriums , similar to Caux, which is 350 m higher . It had its heyday in the first half of the 20th century. Then the largest hotels were converted into a hotel management school, a convalescence clinic and a private school. Carl Gustav Emil Mannerheim , Marshal of Finland, lived in the Valmont sanatorium until 1951 . Glion now also serves as a conference venue.

Max Frisch's novel Stiller is partly set in Glion. Frisch completed it in Glion in 1954.

Facilities

• The private Glion Institute of Higher Education (Glion Institute for Higher Education) has one of its three campuses here.

Attractions

See also : List of cultural assets in Montreux

See also

• Glion tunnel
• Transports Montreux-Vevey-Riviera

Personalities

• Giovanni Giacometti (1868–1933), painter

Web links

• Evelyne Lüthi-Graf: Glion. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Aerial views of Glion

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Philippe Mottu: Caux. From the "Belle époque" to moral armament . Caux-Verlag, Zurich 1970, p. 24.
2. ↑ 1820.01 Territet - Glion on standseilbahnen.ch, accessed on February 26, 2018.
3. ↑ Philippe Mottu: Caux. From the "Belle époque" to moral armament . Caux-Verlag, Zurich 1970, p. 25.
4. ↑ http://www.glion.edu/

Coordinates: 46 ° 25 '58 "  N , 6 ° 55' 33"  E ; CH1903:  560590  /  142520