Identifier: switzerlanditaly00karl (find matches)
Title: Switzerland and the adjacent portions of Italy, Savoy, and Tyrol. Handbook for travellers
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Karl Baedeker (Firm)
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Publisher: Leipsic : K. Baedeker
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t (Nordosihahn) to Glarus (43 M.) in I2/3-2V2 hrs. (7 fr. 20,5 fr. 5, 3 fr. 60 c.); from Glarus to Linthal (10 M.) in 40-50 min. (1 fr.60, 1 fr. 15, 80 c). (From Weeoen to Glarus, 71/2 M., in 25 min.; 1 fr. 25,90, 65 c.) Carriages are usually changed at Glarus. To (^36 M.) Ziegelbriicke, see pp. 46-48. We cross the LinthCanal (p. 49); on the right, the Wiggis and Glarnisch (p. 73). 37 M.Nieder- and Ober-Urnen; 39 M. Ndfels - Mollis, junction for(11/4 M.) W€esen(j>. 49). Nafels (1434; 2450inhab.; *Sehwert; Scliutzenhof; National;LandoWs liesiaurant, near the station) and Ober-Urnen are the onlyRoman Catholic villages in Canton Glarus. The church is the finestin the canton. The well-preserved Freuler Palace, now a poor-house,contains some interesting Renaissance rooms; and on the ground-floor is a Collection of Antiquities made by the local historical so-ciety (adm. 50 c). On 9th April, 1388, the natives here shook offthe Austrian yoke. In the Rautifelder, where eleven attacks took
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GLARUS. /. Route 21. 73 place, stand eleven memorial stones (monument in the Sandlen).The peasants of the district make a pilgrimage to the spot on thefirst Thurs. in April. — On the right bank of the Escher Canal liesMollis (1470; Bar, Lowe, moderate; *Pens. Haltli), an industrialvillage. (Over the Kerenzenberg to Milhlehorn, see p. 50.) ExcuKSioNS (guide, M. Bauser), The Rautispitz (7493), the summitof the Wiggis Chain, is ascended from Nafels in 5-5V2 hrs. (interesting;no difficulty; guide 10 fr.). On the right bank of the Rautibach, with itsnumerous falls, we ascend in zigzags, crossing the Trankibach, to (1 hr.)Brand (2510). Hence a road leads through wood and past the Ilaslen-See(2460) to the (^4 hr.) small Curham Oberseethal (^iib•, pens. 31/2 fr.) and tothe (20 min.) charming Obersee (8225). We skirt this lake to the left,and ascend through wood to the Grappli-Alp (4730) and (2 hrs.) Rauti-Alp(5401); shelter-hut), and in I/z hr. more to the top, which slopes gradu-ally on

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