Leuggelbach

State :

Switzerland

Canton :

Glarus (GL)

District :

No district division

Political community :

Glarus South

Postal code :

8774

former BFS no. :

1612

Coordinates :

722 218 / 204 155 coordinates: 46 ° 58 '38 " N , 9 ° 2' 42" O ; CH1903: 722,218 / two hundred and four thousand one hundred fifty-five

Height :

561 m above sea level M.

Residents:

171 (December 31, 2005)

View over Leuggelbach to Tödi , 3,614 m

map

Parish before the merger on July 1, 2006

Leuggelbach is a village that has belonged to the municipality of Glarus Süd in the Swiss canton of Glarus since January 1, 2011 . Until July 1, 2006, Leuggelbach formed an independent local parish , after which it was part of the local parish Haslen for four and a half years .

geography

The village developed mainly along the main road, on the left side of the Glarus valley between Luchsingen and Nidfurn . The Leuggelbach flows, coming from the Leuggelstock, over a waterfall to the valley floor. There a moor area arose in the Guetli , the only one in the valley level of the Glarnerland. Of the former municipality area, 39.4% is agricultural land, 50.9% is forest, 4.6% is settlement area and 5.1% is unproductive.

population

Population development
year	1837	1870	1900	1950	2000	2003	2005
Residents	203	262	199	194	184	174	171

politics

The SP had 65.1% of the vote, 38.5% of the votes went to other parties (as of October 2005).

history

Leuggelbach was first mentioned in 1359 as Löckelbach .

Until 1772, Leuggelbach was part of the church in Schwanden , later partly in Luchsingen. It was not until the partition agreement of 1868 that Leuggelbach became an independent local community.

From the middle of the 19th century there was an economic boom in Leuggelbach when Daniel Jenny-Oertli set up a weaving mill on Leuggelbach. In 1864 the Mollis company Gallatin & Cie. the area and built a printing factory. Since 1933, their properties have housed a paint and varnish factory.

On July 1, 2006, the local community Leuggelbach, together with the local community Nidfurn, was merged with the local community Haslen . Since the beginning of 2011, all of these localities have belonged to the newly formed municipality of Glarus Süd .

Linth bridge between Leuggelbach and Haslen
Railway line at Leuggelbach
historical aerial photo (between 1918 and 1937) taken by Walter Mittelholzer

Web links

Commons : Leuggelbach - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Karin Marti-Weissenbach: Leuggelbach. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Leuggelbach on the Glarus Süd website