Riedern GL

GL is the abbreviation for the canton of Glarus in Switzerland and is used to avoid confusion with other entries of the name Riedern .

Riedern

State :

Switzerland

Canton :

Glarus (GL)

District :

No district division

Political community :

Glarus

Postal code :

8750

former BFS no. :

1625

Coordinates :

722.56 thousand / 212 225 coordinates: 47 ° 2 '59 " N , 9 ° 3' 6" O ; CH1903: 722,560 / two hundred twelve thousand two hundred twenty-five

Height :

529 m above sea level M.

Area :

1.51 km²

Residents:

734 (December 31, 2010)

Population density :

486 inhabitants per km²

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Parish before the merger on January 1, 2011

Riedern is a former political municipality in the canton of Glarus in Switzerland .

The village was merged with the municipalities of Ennenda , Glarus and Netstal to form the new municipality of Glarus on January 1, 2011 as part of the Glarus municipal reform .

geography

Historical aerial photo from 1500 m by Walter Mittelholzer from 1925

Riedern was the smallest municipality in the canton in terms of area. The district is at the foot of the Klöntal, where the Klöntalersee is located.

history

Riedern split politically in 1630 from the neighboring municipality of Glarus . The Evangelical Reformed and Roman Catholic parishes as well as the school community still form Riedern together with Glarus.

On October 2, 1799, the Russian Field Marshal Suvorov and his army stopped here for two days during the Second Coalition War before retreating over the Panixer Pass.

Personalities

Valeria Spälty (* 1983): The silver medalist at the 2006 Olympic Games in Turin has lived in Riedern since she was born in 1983. There she attended primary school before she went to secondary school and then to grammar school in Glarus. After the Olympic Games, a street in the center of the village was renamed in her honor and is now called Valeria-Spälty-Strasse .

Schoolhouse Riedern with a mountain backdrop

Web links

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

Karin Marti-Weissenbach: Riedern. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .