Schwändi GL

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

Schwändi

State :

Switzerland

Canton :

Glarus (GL)

District :

No district division

Political community :

Glarus South

Postal code :

8762

former BFS no. :

1628

Coordinates :

723 841 / 207464 coordinates: 47 ° 0 '24 " N , 9 ° 4' 2" O ; CH1903: seven hundred and twenty-three thousand eight hundred forty-one / 207464

Height :

701 m above sea level M.

Area :

3.48 km²

Residents:

476 (December 31, 2010)

Population density :

137 inhabitants per km²

map

Parish before the merger on January 1, 2011

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

The village was under the Glarner municipal reform on 1 January 2011, with the municipalities Betschwanden , Braunwald , Elm , Engi , Haslen , Linthal , Luchsingen , Matt , Mitlödi , Rüti (GL) , Schwanden (GL) and Sool merged to Glarus South merged.

coat of arms

The Schwändi coat of arms was designed by Ida Tschudi for the Landi in 1939 and accepted by the community assembly. It is based on the family coat of arms of the Schwend family in Zurich.

geography

Historical aerial photo from 400 m by Walter Mittelholzer from 1923

The municipality includes Oberschwändi, Unterschwändi and the hamlet of Lassingen. The municipality of Schwändi lies in the area of the demolition material of a prehistoric landslide. The landscape is strongly characterized by the rivers that come down from the Vorderglärnisch on both sides of the village. 4.0% of the community area is populated, 33.0% are used for agriculture, 27.6% are forested and 35.3% are unproductive.

population

Population development
year	Residents
1763	213
1869	843
1980	276
1990	369
1995	379
1999	415
2007	454
2009	487
2016	469

traffic

Schwändi has been connected to Schwanden by a bus line since 1960.

history

Field names indicate an Alemannic settlement.

Ober-Mitledin was first mentioned in the land register of the Säckingen monastery around 1300 . In the middle of the 14th century, Swendi appears in its place . As is known, 34 farmers and craftsmen lived in Schwändi in 1163. The inhabitants were originally church-dwelling after Glarus. After the church was built, they moved to Schwanden in 1349 . They converted to the Reformed faith in 1528.

There has been a school in the community since 1785, which was able to move into the primary school in 1835.

The road to Schwanden was completed in 1845, the one to Glarus in 1870.

Postbus road to Schwanden
Village center
Village entrance
View from Schwändi to the upper Linth valley and the Tödi

Personalities

Caspar Schiesser (1812–1839), poet
Hilarius Knobel (1830-1891), architect

Web links

Commons : Schwändi - collection of images, videos and audio files

Karin Marti-Weissenbach: Schwändi. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Community website. Retrieved July 4, 2014 .