Isleten
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 Uri (UR)
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| District : | No district division | |
| Residential municipality : | To build | |
| Postal code : | 6466 | |
| Coordinates : | 687 972 / 197 159 | |
| Height : | 436 m above sea level M. | |
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The small town of Isleten (locally called the Isleten ) is part of the municipality of Bauen in the canton of Uri in Switzerland on Lake Uri . The settlement is located at the entrance to the Isental on the delta of the Isitaler Bach .
Traffic routes
In 1901 the road to Isenthal was put into operation. The waterway was the main connection to the rest of the canton of Uri until the 1950s. The road from Seedorf via Isleten to Bauen was only built between 1954 and 1956. Isleten has a landing stage for regular passenger traffic with steamboats .
Industrial history
Isleten has long been an important industrial location and is considered the starting point for Uri's industrialization . As early as the 16th century, the Madran family used the iron ore deposits and the abundance of wood in the Isental valley and built a plant for the extraction of iron on the Isleten. It was probably abandoned in the early 17th century.
In the buildings of a paper mill opened in 1853, Alfred Nobel founded an explosives factory in 1873. This is where the dynamite invented by Nobel was made, especially for the Gotthard railway tunnel . From 1997 the Swiss Sprengstoff AG Cheddite reduced the production of explosives significantly and limited itself to the manufacture of special products.
During the Second World War , the Isleten artillery plant was built to protect the access axis to the Gotthard fortresses .
tourism
Isleten is on the Swiss Path that leads around Lake Uri. Thanks to good wind conditions and thermals , it is a popular spot with surfers .
Isleten on the road to Bauen
Bathing place on the Isitalerbach delta
Jetty
Attractions
literature
- Hansjakob Burkhardt. Dynamite on the Gotthard - Explosives in Switzerland: A history of the explosives industry in Switzerland using the example of Isleten on Lake Uri. Baden: Hier + Jetzt , 2012. ISBN 978-3-03919-248-9 .
