Niederurnen is a former

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

in the canton of

Glarus , neighboring_municipalities= Glarus Nord, Glarus Süd, Muotathal (SZ), Innerthal (SZ) , twintowns= Wiesbaden-Biebrich (Germany) } Glarus (; gsw, Glaris; french: Glaris; it, Glarona; rm, Glaruna) is the capital of the canton of Glarus in S ...

Switzerland ). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...

. Effective from 1 January 2011, Niederurnen is part of the municipality of

Glarus Nord Glarus Nord is one of three municipalities of the canton of Glarus, Switzerland (the others being Glarus and Glarus Süd). Effective from 1 January 2011, Glarus Nord incorporates the former municipalities of Bilten, Filzbach, Mollis, Mühle ...

History

Niederurnen is first mentioned either before 1045 or between 1077 and 1101 as ''Niter Urnnen''.

Geography

Niederurnen has an area, , of . Of this area, 37.2% is used for agricultural purposes, while 45.9% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 10.6% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (6.4%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains). Niederurnen is located in the ''Glarner Unterland'' at the mouth of the ''Niederurnertal'' or ''Alpental'' valley. It consists of the village of Niederurnen and the industrial park of

Ziegelbrücke Ziegelbrücke is a village in Switzerland. Ziegelbrücke is shared by the municipalities of Niederurnen in the canton of Glarus and Schänis in the canton of St. Gallen. Geography and political situation The village of Ziegelbrücke is divided ...

, which is separated from the rest of the municipality by the A3 highway.

Demographics

Niederurnen has a population (as of 2010) of 3,928. , 24.0% of the population was made up of foreign nationals.Canton Glarus population growth
accessed 9 September 2009 Over the last 10 years the population has grown at a rate of 7.4%. Most of the population () speaks German (83.1%), with Italian being second most common ( 5.6%) and Albanian being third ( 2.8%).
accessed 14-Sep-2009 In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the

SPS SPS may refer to: Law and government * Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures of the WTO * NATO Science for Peace and Security * Single Payment Scheme, an EU agricultural subsidy * The Standard Procurement System, fo ...

which received 61.9% of the vote. Most of the rest of the votes went to the SVP with 31.9% of the vote. In Niederurnen about 59.4% of the population (between age 25-64) have completed either non-mandatory upper secondary education or additional higher education (either University or a ''

Fachhochschule A ''Fachhochschule'' (; plural ''Fachhochschulen''), abbreviated FH, is a university of applied sciences (UAS), in other words a German tertiary education institution that provides professional education in many applied sciences and applied arts ...

''). Niederurnen has an unemployment rate of 1.53%. , there were 65 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 24 businesses involved in this sector. 798 people are employed in the

secondary sector In macroeconomics, the secondary sector of the economy is an economic sector in the three-sector theory that describes the role of manufacturing. It encompasses industries that produce a finished, usable product or are involved in construction. ...

and there are 47 businesses in this sector. 1,145 people are employed in the

tertiary sector The tertiary sector of the economy, generally known as the service sector, is the third of the three economic sectors in the three-sector model (also known as the economic cycle). The others are the primary sector (raw materials) and the second ...

, with 161 businesses in this sector. The historical population is given in the following table:

Transport

Nieder- und Oberurnen railway station Nieder- and Oberurnen railway station (german: Bahnhof Nieder- und Oberurnen) is a railway station in the municipality of Glarus Nord in the Swiss canton of Glarus. It is an intermediate stop on the Ziegelbrücke–Linthal line of Swiss Feder ...

is on the Weesen to Linthal railway line. It is served by the

Zürich S-Bahn The Zürich S-Bahn (german: S-Bahn Zürich) system is a network of rail lines that has been incrementally expanded to cover the ZVV area, which comprises the entire canton of Zürich and portions of neighbouring cantons (Aargau, Glarus, ...

service S25 between Linthal and Zurich, and by the St. Gallen S-Bahn service S6 between

Rapperswil Rapperswil ( Swiss German: or ;Andres Kristol, ''Rapperswil SG (See)'' in: ''Dictionnaire toponymique des communes suisses – Lexikon der schweizerischen Gemeindenamen – Dizionario toponomastico dei comuni svizzeri (DTS, LSG)'', Centre de dia ...

and Schwanden. Both services operate once per hour, combining to provide two trains per hour between

and Schwanden. Niederurnen is located on the A3 motorway.

References

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