Schwanden

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Schwanden

Total population

2,392

Elevation561 m

Coordinates47.00°, 9.07°

Demographic figures from Swiss Federal Statistical Office. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

Overview

Schwanden is a village, and former municipality, in the municipality of Glarus Süd and canton of Glarus in Switzerland.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Notable people from here

J

Jakob Klaesi

psychiatrist (1883-1980)

Fritz Schiesser

Swiss politician

B

Betty Wehrli-Knobel

Swiss author (1904-1998)

David Baumgartner

Swiss politician (1908-1999)

D

David Legler

Swiss politician (1849-1920)

D

Dietrich Stauffacher

Swiss politician (1907-1979)

Albert Schmidt

Swiss non-fiction writer and painter

E

Emil Brunner

Swiss photographer (1908-1995)

J

Jakob Hefti

Swiss politician and writer (1873-1951)

L

Leonhard Blumer

Swiss politician (1844-1905)

M

Melchior Hefti

Swiss politician (1879-1965)

Rudolf Gisler

Swiss politician (1942-2004)

T

Thomas Legler

Swiss officer

A

Attilio Salvadè

Swiss football player (1882-1944)

M

Marco Huser

Swiss snowboarder

Johann Heinrich Speich

(1813-1891)

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Nearby places in Glarus

• Schwändi
  0.7 mi away · pop. 476
• Sool
  0.7 mi away · pop. 296
• Nidfurn
  1 mi away · pop. 258
• Mitlödi
  1.2 mi away · pop. 1,000
• Haslen
  1.3 mi away · pop. 999
• Leuggelbach
  1.7 mi away · pop. 171
• Luchsingen
  2.6 mi away · pop. 1,119
• Ennenda
  2.7 mi away · pop. 2,726
• Hätzingen
  2.9 mi away · pop. 359
• Glarus
  3.2 mi away · pop. 5,500
• Diesbach
  3.5 mi away · pop. 200
• Engi
  3.9 mi away · pop. 609

Browse all places in Glarus →

Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Books about Schwanden

Search results from Open Library.

Official Identifiers