Sool is a village, and 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 municipality of Glarus Süd and

canton of Glarus The canton of Glarus (german: Kanton Glarus rm, Chantun Glaruna; french: Canton de Glaris; it, Canton Glarona) is a canton in east central Switzerland. The capital is Glarus. The population speaks a variety of Alemannic German. The majority of ...

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 ...

History

Sool is first mentioned between 1303-07 as ''soler tagwan''. On 1 January 2011, Sool became part of the new municipality of

Glarus Süd Glarus Süd is a municipality in the Swiss canton of Glarus. It comprises the upper Linth valley, and the entire Sernf valley, and includes the villages of Betschwanden, Braunwald, Diesbach, Elm, Engi, Haslen, Hätzingen, Leuggelbach, Lintha ...

Geography

The village of Sool is situated at an elevation of on a prehistoric landslide, between the valleys of the

Linth The Linth (pronounced "lint") is a Swiss river that rises near the village of Linthal in the mountains of the canton of Glarus, and eventually flows into the Obersee section of Lake Zurich. It is about in length. The water power of the Linth ...

and

Sernf The Sernftal or ''Kleintal'' is an alpine valley within Glarus Süd, in the canton of Glarus, Switzerland. It is formed by the Sernf, a right tributary of the Linth. Situated in the Sernftal are the villages of Elm (977 m) and Engi (812 m). T ...

rivers. The village of Schwanden lies below it, at the confluence of both rivers. Sool has an area, as defined by the former municipal boundaries in 2006, of , covering a considerable area to the north and east of the village. This area reaches up to the peak of the

Gufelstock The Gufelstock is a mountain of the Glarus Alps, overlooking Schwanden in the canton of Glarus. The border with the canton of St. Gallen , neighboring_municipalities = Eggersriet, Gaiserwald, Gossau, Herisau (AR), Mörschwil, Speicher (A ...

(). Of this area, 23.6% is used for agricultural purposes, while 42% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 1.2% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (33.2%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains).

Transport

The

Sernftalbus The Autobetrieb Sernftal AG is a bus operating company in the Swiss canton of Glarus. The company operates under the trading name of Sernftalbus. The company is the successor to the company that operated the Sernftal tramway between Schwanden and ...

operates a bus service linking Sool with

Schwanden railway station Schwanden railway station (german: Bahnhof Schwanden) is a railway station in the municipality of Glarus Süd in the Swiss canton of Glarus. It is an intermediate stop on the Weesen to Linthal railway line, and serves the village of Schwanden ...

, with several return journeys a day. At Schwanden railway station, a connecting railway service runs to the capital of the canton of Glarus, the town of Glarus.

Demographics

Sool has a population (as of ) of . , 3.5% 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 2.1%. Most of the population () speaks German (98.0%), with Russian being second most common ( 1.0%) and Rhaeto-Romance being third ( 0.3%).
accessed 14-Sep-2009 In the

2007 federal election This electoral calendar 2007 lists the national/federal direct elections held in 2007 in the de jure and de facto sovereign states and their dependent territories. Referendums are included, although they are not elections. By-elections are not i ...

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 80% of the vote. Most of the rest of the votes went to the SVP with 14.4% of the vote. In Sool about 72.9% 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 ...

''). Sool has an unemployment rate of 1.5%. , there were 15 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 9 businesses involved in this sector. 8 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 2 businesses in this sector. 10 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 4 businesses in this sector.

References

External links

*
''Sool''
from the Glarus Süd municipal web site (in German) *
{{Authority control Former municipalities of the canton of Glarus