Ziegelbrücke

View to the eastern part of brick bridge at Linthkanal

Brick bridge is a place in the cantons of Glarus and St. Gallen in Switzerland.

Political relations

Brick bridge is divided by the Linthkanal, which also marks the cantonal border, into two halves. The northeastern part of the mainline railway station is located in the municipality of GeopathSchänis in the canton of St. Gallen and the southwest portion on the other side of the Linth in the canton of Glarus in the village of Lower urns (municipality of Glarus Nord).

Traffic

On the part of the St. Gallen is home to around 70 people, whose main employer is the SBB. The brick bridge station is a railway junction at the SBB- Lines from Zurich to Chur and the regional line of Rapperswil SG to Linthal. In addition, the postal bus lines and the Weesen- Amden connect the station to Weesen -Amden, with the municipalities in the country and gaster with the two communities Bilten and low polls.

Economy

The actual village is situated on the Glarus side and consists mostly of the spinning - twisting - weaving Fritz & Caspar Jenny AG, founded in 1833. This company, with its prime complete industrial ensemble as a special case and is in the inventory of estimable townscapes Switzerland ( ISOS ) as a system of national importance listed.

It includes production and warehouses, administration buildings, workshops, farm estate, factory reservoirs and canal system before the correction reveals the course of Linth, power plant and factory chimney. At the associated residential social class to read: the industrialist's villa in the park, the good bourgeois home and the double villa for the directors, the double family homes for the foreman and the Built in 1861 by architect Hilary Knobel powerful Kosthaus with the planting places for the workers.

On the Jenny - site is currently under construction (2012 ) is a global fungierendes coordination center of the Danish brewery Carlsberg, which should be approximately 200 employees from mid-2013 fully functional.

The cantonal vocational school Glarus Glarus is also in part of brick bridge.

Waters

The said channel system is formed at the confluence of the Lower urns village stream and the Rauti and is fed by this water. The excess water flows into the Linthkanal.

History

Since time immemorial is the most erstwhile confluence of Linth and the Walenseeausfluss Maag Located Ziegelbruecke important trading hub and found here a Roman Bronze statue of the god Mercury. Earlier came the village as a toll station on the waterway whales city Zurich to great importance.