Glarus Süd

Glarus Süd is a municipality of about 9,500 inhabitants in the Swiss canton of Glarus, one of its three municipalities beside Glarus and Glarus Nord. It comprises the upper Linth valley and the entire Sernf valley and includes the villages of Betschwanden, Braunwald, Diesbach, Elm, Engi, Haslen, Hätzingen, Leuggelbach, Linthal, Luchsingen, Matt, Mitlödi, Nidfurn, Rüti, Schwanden, Schwändi and Sool. It was created on 1 January 2011 by merging thirteen former municipalities, and at its creation it was the largest Swiss municipality by area, until it was overtaken on 1 January 2015 by the expanded municipality of Scuol in Graubünden. It takes in the whole valley of the Linth from Mitlödi, just upstream of the town of Glarus, to the source, together with the valley of the Sernf that joins the Linth at Schwanden and the mountain ranges that flank and separate them. Apart from the resort village of Braunwald, all its centres of population lie in one or other valley.