Baar, Switzerland

Baar is a municipality of about 24,700 inhabitants in the canton of Zug, Switzerland, first mentioned in 1045 as Barra. It lies in the northern part of the flood plain of the Lorze river and was originally a linear village along the road between Lake Zug and Lake Zurich; since the 1960s it has grown rapidly, and the population rose by about 21 percent in the ten years to 2020. The municipality consists of the village of Baar and the former hamlets of Allenwinden, Blickensdorf and Inwil, together with the farmhouses of Deinikon, and covers about 24.9 square kilometres, half of it farmland and a quarter forest. Baar is home to the International School of Zug and Luzern, an independent co-educational non-profit day school from pre-school to grade 12 that serves the international community of Central Switzerland. The municipal stadium, the Waldmannhalle, has fixed seating for 1,200 people that can be extended to 3,000.