Oberurnen

Upper urns is a former municipality in the canton of Glarus in Switzerland.

The village was merged on 1 January 2011 as part of the Glarus municipality reform with the communities Bilten, Filzbach, Mollis, mill Horn, Naefels, Lower urns and fruit Alden to the new unified community Glarus Nord.

• 3.1 Schools, Colleges
• 3.2 Attractions
• 3.3 images

Geography

Top boxes in the lower part of the canton of Glarus. A bypass highway prevents the traffic to Glarus runs through the village. The neighboring communities are low- urns to the north, Mollis in the east, Naefels in the south and the Schwyzer communities Inner valley in the southwest and Schübelbach in the northwest.

Population

Languages

The language predominantly spoken is Swiss German.

Confessions

How Naefels also joined the community Oberurnen not the Reformation. Therefore, the majority of the population are Roman Catholics.

Traffic

Upper urns is well connected to public transport. The village is accessible by train on the Lower and Upper urns station SBB or by bus from brick bridge.

Not far away the motorway A 3, which offers more than the low urns port ( 44) good connections to Zurich and Basel and Chur and Graubünden.

Schools, colleges

The municipality has a kindergarten, a primary school and a special education day school.

Attractions

The outer ward of Upper urns is to visit the old castle ruins, which is worth

Pictures

Coming entrance to the village of Upper urns of low urns ago