Netstal

The center

Netstal is a former municipality in the canton of Glarus in Switzerland. The municipality has 2898 inhabitants.

It was merged as part of the Glarus municipality reform on 1 January 2011 with the communities Ennenda, Glarus and Riedern the new municipality of Glarus.

Geography

The place Netstal is on 458 m above sea. M. The territory has been inhabited only on the western ( left) side of the main valley. Parts of the village are but on both sides of the coming forth from Klöntal Löntsch. The village is characterized by four hills, which originate from a prehistoric landslide from Glärnisch.

History

The oldest written mention of Netstal dated to the year 1289th It is unclear whether the name is interpreted as a stable of farmers Net, on the Old High German word " network " (meaning source) or other origin is traced.

In Tagwen Netstal settlements Leuzingen, Löntschen and a part of the vanished Tagwen Turserron have risen to the 16th century. Until around 1900 and the Klöntal was considered as belonging to the community.

The village suffered major damage in 1799 in the course of the second coalition war. A Russian cannon ball and the inscription 1799 in the Restaurant Sternen remember the fierce fighting between the French and Russians in and around Netstal.

Coat of arms

1421 donated one of the richest Swiss of his time, old Landammann Mathias Netstalerstrasse, a chapel. Still today the municipal coat of arms to that of the previous family Netstalerstrasse. Instead of it now leads but three stars which symbolize three of the community affiliated hamlet.

Religion

Netstal church belonged to the parish of Glarus. Only in 1777 was the replacement of the right to vote by the community. 1876 ​​Netstal was raised to the independent Catholic parish. The present Catholic church was built in 1933-34 by Otto Linder and inaugurated in 1935. Between 1624 and 1837, the Catholic rural community met 77 times in the alders, on the border with Naefels, and the Catholic Council of the Canton Glarus to 1742 in the still existing inn Ravens, then until 1798 at this restaurant to the old town hall.

1697 a first Protestant church was built on the site of the present cemetery. 1810/13 it came to the construction of the present house of worship by the church comrades in forced labor.

Economy

In the 16th century there were in the village population about 500 souls. By the appearance of the plague in the years 1611 and 1629 have been decimated. Price increases and famine forced the Netstalerstrasse to services in foreign armies and to emigrate all over the world. After all favored the water power in the 16th century, the emergence of trade. 1548 the first mill, in 1651 appears in the written sources for the first time a tailed grinder. Be the first Heinrich Weber- Walcher (1654-1722) had operated a paper mill at the foot of the village stream. During this time we acted more with firewood and timber from Klöntal. From the force exerted in France during the summer of Nets thalers Wattemacherei also a vast straw hat trade developed. During the Helvetic Republic Netstal has been allocated to the district Glarus.

The industrialization in the 19th century, applied particularly to the area of ​​textiles. 1857 also made ​​the foundation of the later to become Netstal -Maschinen AG, today headquartered in Naefels, and in 1859 the connection to the railway network by the opening of the railway line Weesen - Linthal. Between 1820 and 1875, many people emigrated Netstalerstrasse professionals, particularly cheese, from Russia.

At the turn of the 20th century, some people still existing factories for paper, metal and plastic products ( Stöckli, since 1878 ) for lime ( Chalchi / Kalkfabrik Netstal KFN, since 1900) and Precision Gears ( Sauter, Bachmann AG, since 1922). Many manufacturers villas are witnesses to this development. The population nearly doubled Netstal 1799-1870 (an increase of 1,350 to 2,600 people). A museum documents (since 1981), among others, the construction of the Löntschwerks ( 1905-1908 ) with the dam in Klöntal. Since 1862 until its completion had won there in grand style ice.

Train

Already in 1725 a schoolroom, the first schoolmaster was in a farmhouse for the first time established in 1737 elected. On June 6, 1877, the Netstalerstrasse inaugurated a municipal school building, the 1936 secondary and 1959 primary school were annexed. Since 1867 there is also a kindergarten.

Monuments

  • What is striking is the Stählihaus, one of the few timber-framed buildings in the canton. The house built in 1728.
  • The legendary leader of the Battle of Glarus Naefels, Mathias Ambühl, immortalized on a blackboard Ambühlhaus.
  • On December 15, 1941, below Netstal a mortar accident in which four armed men from the headquarters company of the cantonal Füsilierbataillons 85 lost their lives occurred. At this tragedy a memorial stone on which a guard of honor each year Glarus lies down on the Näfelser ride a wreath.

Pictures

Entrance to the village of Naefels Coming

Reformed Church

Personalities

  • Ludwig Hohl (1904-1980), writer
  • Johann Melchior Kubli (1730-1835), politician
  • Marcel Schwander (1929-2010), journalist, writer and translator
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