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{{Infobox Swiss town
 | subject_name= Glarus
 | municipality_type= municipality and town
 | image_photo          = Landsgemeinde Glarus, 2009.jpg
 | imagepath_flag= Flagge Gemeinde Glarus.svg
 | imagepath_coa= CHE Glarus COA.svg
 | pixel_coa=
 | canton= Glarus
 | iso-code-region= CH-GL
 | district= n.a.
 |coordinates = {{coord|47|02|N|9|04|E|display=inline,title}}
 | postal_code= 8750, 8754, 8755
 | municipality_code= 1632
 | area= 103.6
 | elevation= 472
 | elevation_description= Stadtkirche Glarus
 | population= {{Swiss populations NC|CH-GL|1632}} | populationof = {{Swiss populations YM|CH-GL}} |  popofyear = {{Swiss populations Y|CH-GL}}
 | website= www.gemeinde.glarus.ch
 | mayor= |mayor_asof=|mayor_party=
 | mayor_title= |list_of_mayors=
 | places= Glarus, [[Netstal]], [[Ennetbühls]], [[Ennenda]], [[Riedern]], [[Hinter-Klöntal]], [[Richisau]], [[Klöntal]]
 | demonym= {{langx|de|Glarner(in)}}
 | neighboring_municipalities= [[Glarus Nord]], [[Glarus Süd]], [[Muotathal]] (SZ), [[Innerthal]] (SZ)
 | twintowns= [[Wiesbaden-Biebrich]] (Germany)
||image_caption=''[[Landsgemeinde]]'' in Glarus, 2009}}

'''Glarus''' ({{IPA|de-CH|ˈɡlaːrʊs|lang|De-Glarus.ogg}}; {{langx|gsw|Glaris}}; {{langx|fr|Glaris}} {{IPA|fr|ɡlaʁis|}}; {{langx|it|Glarona}}; {{langx|rm|Glaruna}}) is the capital of the [[canton of Glarus]] in [[Switzerland]]. Since 1 January 2011, the municipality of Glarus incorporates the former municipalities of [[Ennenda]], [[Netstal]] and [[Riedern]].<ref name=Fusion>[http://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/portal/de/index/infothek/nomenklaturen/blank/blank/gem_liste/03.html Amtliches Gemeindeverzeichnis der Schweiz] published by the Swiss Federal Statistical Office {{in lang|de}} accessed 18 February 2011</ref>

Glarus lies on the river [[Linth]] between the foot of the [[Glärnisch]] (part of the [[Schwyzer Alps]]) to the west and the [[Schilt]] ([[Glarus Alps]]) to the east. Very few buildings built before the fire of 1861 remain. Wood, textile, and plastics, as well as printing, are the dominant industries. The symbol of the city is the neo-Romanesque city church.

==History==
[[File:Glarus Stadtkirche Friedhof.jpg|thumb|right|upright|Church of Glarus, built in 1861 after a fire destroyed the old church and much of the town of Glarus]]
[[File:Glarus Stadtkirche Langhaus.jpg|thumb|right|The aisle of the church]]

Glarus is first mentioned in the early 9th century in [[Latin]] as ''Clarona''. In 1178 it was first mentioned in German as ''Glarus''.<ref name=HDS/>

On 10 February 878, the Emperor [[Charles the Fat]] gave his wife Richgard or Richardis the monasteries of [[Säckingen Abbey|Säckingen]], of St. Felix and of Regula in [[Zürich]] as a royal estate. This land grant included extensive political rights and a large estate. This estate covered land in the Rhine and [[Fricktal|Frick]] valleys, the southern [[Hotzenwald]], land in Zürich, along [[Walensee|Lake Walen]] and the valley of Glarus. 
Glarus remained under the Säckingen Abbey until 1395 (intermittently under the overlordship of either the [[Counts of Lenzburg]] and [[Counts of Kyburg|Kyburg]] and/or [[Raetia Curiensis]]<ref>{{HLS|8094|Raetia Curiensis|author= Lothar Deplazes}}</ref>), when the Glarus valley broke away from the abbey and became independent.<ref name=Sackingen>{{HDS|7106|Säckingen}}</ref>

It became the capital of the Linth valley in 1419. In the 18th and 19th centuries, the valley began to be industrialized.
[[Huldrych Zwingli]] a leader of the [[Reformation in Switzerland]] served in his first, [[Roman Catholic]], ecclesiastical post in Glarus, starting around 1506. He served there for ten years. It was in Glarus, whose soldiers were used as mercenaries in Europe, that Zwingli became involved in politics. The Swiss Confederation was embroiled in various campaigns with its neighbours: the French, the Habsburgs, and the Papal States. Zwingli placed himself solidly on the side of the [[Holy See]]. In return, [[Pope Julius II]] honoured Zwingli by providing him with an annual pension. He took the role of chaplain in several campaigns in Italy, including the [[Battle of Novara (1513)|Battle of Novara]] in 1513. However, the decisive defeat of the Swiss in the [[Battle of Marignano]] caused a shift in mood in Glarus in favour of the French rather than the pope. Zwingli, the papal partisan, found himself in a difficult position and he decided to retreat to [[Einsiedeln, Switzerland|Einsiedeln]] in the [[canton of Schwyz]]. While he was not a reformer at Glarus, there he began to develop the ideas that would lead to the break with the Catholic Church in [[Zürich]].

In 1528 the Reformation gained a foothold in Glarus, directed by Zwingli in Zürich. Even though he had preached in Glarus for 10 years, the town remained strongly Catholic. However, following the [[Second war of Kappel]] in 1531 both the Catholic and Protestant residents were given the right to worship in town. This led to both religious groups using the town church simultaneously, an arrangement that caused numerous problems. By the 18th century both the groups shared the church but had separate organs. In 1697 there were two financially and theologically independent parishes meeting in the city church.<ref>{{HDS|766<!--Section 3-1-->|Glarus from the High Middle Ages until the 18th Century-Churches}}</ref>

Following the [[Campaigns of 1798 in the French Revolutionary Wars|French invasion]] in 1798, Glarus became the capital of the [[Canton of Linth]] in the [[Helvetic Republic]]. The administration of the Canton moved into Glarus. However, the new administrators had difficulties in establishing and enforcing any new regulations. As an aftermath of the [[Battle of Glarus (1799)]], French troops forced Alexander Suvorov's force to withdraw [[Suvorov's Swiss campaign|from Switzerland]]. In August 1802 the administrators of the new Canton left Glarus for [[Rapperswil]] due to the difficulties they had faced in Glarus. In 1803, with the [[Act of Mediation]], the Canton of Linth was dissolved and Glarus became the capital of the smaller Canton of Glarus.<ref>{{HDS|766<!--Section 3-6-->|Glarus in the 19. and 20. Centuries-Political and administrative development}}</ref>

In 1859, the railway reached Glarus from [[Weesen, Switzerland|Weesen]]. The extension to [[Schwanden, Glarus|Schwanden]] and [[Linthal, Glarus|Linthal]] opened in 1879.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.heimatschutz.ch/index.php?id=779&tx_wfqbe_pi1%5Buid%5D=54 |publisher=Schweizer Heimatschutz.ch |title=Güterschuppen 8750 Glarus |language=de |access-date=22 May 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131230234151/http://www.heimatschutz.ch/index.php?id=779&tx_wfqbe_pi1%5Buid%5D=54 |archive-date=30 December 2013}}</ref>

The town created the Emigration Society and sent Judge Niklaus Dürst and blacksmith Fridolin Streif to search for land to settle in North America in 1845.  Later that year, 131 colonists from Glarus settled [[New Glarus, Wisconsin]], a town which still holds onto its Swiss roots and enjoys a strong relationship with Glarus.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.swisshistoricalvillage.org/new-glarus-history-timeline |publisher=New Glarus Historical Society |title=New Glarus History/Timeline|language=en |access-date=28 July 2021}}</ref>

On the 10/11 May 1861, the town was devastated by a fire that was fanned by a violent [[Föhn]] or south wind, rushing down from the high mountains through the natural funnel formed by the Linth valley. The total loss is estimated at half a million sterling, of which about £100,000 were made up by subscriptions that poured in from every side. About two-thirds of Glarus (593 buildings) were destroyed in the big fire. After this incident, Glarus was rebuilt in block fashion according to construction plans by Bernhard Simon and Johann Caspar Wolff.<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle=Glarus (capital)}}</ref>

In 1864, the first European labor law to protect workers was introduced in Glarus, prohibiting workers from working more than 12 hours a day.{{citation needed|date=May 2013}}

==Geography==
[[File:Glarus Panorama.jpg|thumb|right|Panorama of the City of Glarus]]
[[File:ETH-BIB-Glarus v. S. aus 1000 m-Inlandflüge-LBS MH01-003490.tif|thumb|right|Aerial view from 1000&nbsp;m by [[Walter Mittelholzer]] (1923)]]
The town is located in the ''Glarner Mittelland'' on a broad valley floor between the [[Glärnisch]] and the [[Linth]].

The municipality Glarus before 2011 had an area of {{convert|69.2|km2|abbr=on}}. Of this area, 23% was used for agricultural purposes, while 31.4% was forested; of the rest of the land, 2.7% was settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (42.9%) was non-productive (2006 figures).<ref name=SFSO/>

With the incorporation of [[Ennenda]], [[Netstal]] and [[Riedern]] in 2011, the municipality Glarus now has an area of {{Swiss area|1632|mi=on}}.{{Swiss area data|1632|QUELLE}}  Based on the 2004/09 survey, about 26.3% of the total area is used for agricultural purposes, while 34.3% is forested.  Of the rest of the land, 4.1% is settled (buildings or roads) and 35.2% is unproductive land.  Over the past two decades (1979/85-2004/09) the amount of land that is settled has increased by {{convert|42|ha|acre|abbr=on}} and the agricultural land has decreased by {{convert|60|ha|acre|abbr=on}}.<ref name=SFSO2016>[http://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/portal/en/index/regionen/02/key.html Swiss Federal Statistical Office - Regional portraits] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160105172441/http://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/portal/en/index/regionen/02/key.html |date=5 January 2016 }} accessed 2 May 2016</ref>

==Demographics==
Glarus has a population ({{as of|{{Swiss populations YM|CH-GL}}|lc=on}}) of {{Swiss populations|CH-GL|1632}}.{{Swiss populations ref|CH-GL}}  {{as of|2013}}, 24.9% of the population are resident foreign nationals.  Over the last 3 years (2010–2013) the population has changed at a rate of 2.07%.  The [[birth rate]] in the municipality, in 2013, was 9.8 while the [[death rate]] was 8.4 per thousand residents.<ref name=SFSO2016/>

{{as of|2013}}, children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 20.6% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) are 61.1% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 18.3%.<ref name=SFSO2016/>

Most of the population ({{as of|2000|lc=on}}) speaks German (86.0%), with Italian being second most common (4.8%) and Albanian being third (2.6%).<ref name=SFSO>[http://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/portal/en/index/regionen/02/key.html Swiss Federal Statistical Office] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160105172441/http://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/portal/en/index/regionen/02/key.html |date=5 January 2016 }} accessed 10-Sep-2009</ref>

==Historical population==
The historical population is given in the following table:<ref name=HDS>{{HDS|766|Glarus}}</ref>
{| class="wikitable" style="margin:1em auto;"
|-
! year
! population
! Swiss Citizens
! % German Speaking
! % [[Protestantism|Protestant]]
! % Roman Catholic
|-
| 1554 || align="center" | ca. 1,550 || || || ||
|-
| 1682 || align="center" | ca. 1,200 || || || ||
|-
| 1777 || align="center" | ca. 2,400 || || || ||
|-
| 1837 || align="center" | 4,094 || || || ||
|-
| 1850 || align="center" | 4,082 || align="center" | 3,960|| align="center" | || align="center" | 86.0% || align="center" | 14.0%
|-
| 1870 || align="center" | 5,485 || align="center" | 5,204|| align="center" | || align="center" | 77.7% || align="center" | 22.6%
|-
| 1888 || align="center" | 5,357 || align="center" | 4,968|| align="center" | 98.1% || align="center" | 71.6% || align="center" | 28.0%
|-
| 1900 || align="center" | 4,877 || align="center" | 4,424|| align="center" | 97.5% || align="center" | 74.2% || align="center" | 25.6%
|-
| 1910 || align="center" | 5,123 || align="center" | 4,471|| align="center" | 94.8% || align="center" | 70.8% || align="center" | 28.7%
|-
| 1930 || align="center" | 5,269 || align="center" | 4,858|| align="center" | 97.7% || align="center" | 70.5% || align="center" | 29.2%
|-
| 1950 || align="center" | 5,724 || align="center" | 5,376|| align="center" | 96.2% || align="center" | 68.0% || align="center" | 31.4%
|-
| 1970 || align="center" | 6,189 || align="center" | 5,215|| align="center" | 86.9% || align="center" | 60.5% || align="center" | 38.9%
|-
| 1990 || align="center" | 5,728 || align="center" | 4,723|| align="center" | 86.1% || align="center" | 51.9% || align="center" | 42.4%
|-
| 2000 || align="center" | 5,556 || align="center" | 4,379|| align="center" | 86.0% || align="center" | 45.4% || align="center" | 37.7%
|-
|}

==Economy==
{{as of|2012|In 2012}}, there were a total of 8,148 people employed in the municipality.  Of these, a total of 175 people worked in 63 businesses in the [[Primary sector of the economy|primary economic sector]].  The [[Secondary sector of the economy|secondary sector]] employed 2,479 workers in 200 separate businesses.  Finally, the [[Tertiary sector of the economy|tertiary sector]] provided 5,494 jobs in 923 businesses.  In 2013 a total of 2.% of the population received social assistance.<ref name=SFSO2016/>

==Politics==
In the [[2015 Swiss federal election|2015 federal election]] the most popular party was the BDP with 49.7% of the vote, followed by the [[Social Democratic Party of Switzerland|SP]] with 47.7%.  The remaining 2.6% went to unaffiliated or minor party candidates.  In the federal election, a total of 3,250 votes were cast, and the [[voter turnout]] was 41.1%.  The 2015 election saw a large change in the voting when compared to 2011.  The percentage of the vote received by the SP increased sharply from 28.9% in 2011 to 47.7% in 2015, while the percentage that the BDP dropped from 57.7% to 49.7%.<ref>[http://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/portal/de/index/themen/17/02/blank/data/07/03.html Swiss Federal Statistical Office - Nationalratswahlen 2015: Stärke der Parteien und Wahlbeteiligung nach Gemeinden] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160802003536/http://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/portal/de/index/themen/17/02/blank/data/07/03.html |date=2 August 2016 }} {{in lang|de}} accessed 18 July 2016</ref>

==Crime==
In 2014 the crime rate, of the over 200 crimes listed in the [[Strafgesetzbuch (Switzerland)|Swiss Criminal Code]] (running from murder, robbery and assault to accepting bribes and election fraud), in Glarus was 48.2 per thousand residents.  This rate is only 74.6% of the average rate in the entire country.  During the same period, the rate of drug crimes was 10.2 per thousand residents, which is similar to the rate in Glarus Süd, but about twice as high as the rate in Glarus Nord.<ref>[https://www.atlas.bfs.admin.ch/maps/13/de/11488_11587_3864_7266/19010.html Statistical Atlas of Switzerland] accessed 5 April 2016</ref>

==Education==
In Glarus about 71.3% of the population (between age 25–64) have completed either non-mandatory [[Education in Switzerland#Secondary|upper secondary education]] or additional higher education (either university or a ''[[Fachhochschule]]'').<ref name=SFSO/>

==Transport==
[[Glarus railway station]] is on the [[Ziegelbrücke-Linthal railway line|Ziegelbrücke to Linthal railway line]]. It is served by the [[Zürich S-Bahn]] service [[S25 (ZVV)|S25]] between [[Zürich]] and [[Linthal, Glarus|Linthal]], and by the [[St. Gallen S-Bahn]] service [[S6 (St. Gallen S-Bahn)|S6]] between [[Rapperswil]] and [[Schwanden, Glarus|Schwanden]]. {{As of|alt=As of the December 2023 timetable change|2023|12|post=,}} both services operate once per hour, combining to provide two trains per hour between [[Ziegelbrücke]] and Schwanden. The stations of [[Ennenda railway station|Ennenda]] and [[Netstal railway station|Netstal]] are also in the municipality, and served by the same trains.<ref name=zvv>{{cite web|url=https://www.zvv.ch/zvv-assets/fahrplan/pdf/sbahn.pdf |title=S-Bahn trains, buses and boats |publisher=ZVV |access-date=16 December 2023 | date=10 December 2023}}</ref><ref name=sgsbmap>{{cite web | url = https://www.thurbo.ch/fileadmin/user_upload/PDF/2024_Liniennetzplan_Zuerich_Ostschweiz_Bodensee.pdf | title = Zürcher S-Bahn /S-Bahn St.Gallen /S-Bahn Schaffhausen /S-Bahn Bodensee | publisher = [[THURBO]] | date=10 December 2023 | accessdate = 16 December 2023}}</ref><ref name=fpf736>{{cite web | url = https://www.öv-info.ch/sites/default/files/fap/2024/pdf/736.pdf| title = Ziegelbrücke - Linthal | publisher = Bundesamt für Verkehr | access-date = 16 December 2023 | date=15 September 2023}}</ref>

==Climate==
Between 1991 and 2020 Glarus had an average of 142.2 days of rain per year and on average received {{convert|1494|mm|abbr=on}} of [[Precipitation (meteorology)|precipitation]]. The wettest month was July during which time Glarus received an average of {{convert|193|mm|abbr=on}} of precipitation. During this month there was precipitation for an average of 14.8 days. The months with the most days of precipitation were June to August. The driest month of the year was February with an average of {{convert|80|mm|abbr=on}} of precipitation over 9.5 days.<ref name=MeteoSwiss/>

{{Weather box
|location = Glarus, elevation {{convert|517|m|ft|abbr=on}}, (1991–2020)
|metric first = Yes
|single line = Yes
| Jan high C = 3.2
| Feb high C = 4.8
| Mar high C = 9.9
| Apr high C = 14.8
| May high C = 19.0
| Jun high C = 22.2
| Jul high C = 23.8
| Aug high C = 23.2
| Sep high C = 18.6
| Oct high C = 14.1
| Nov high C = 8.1
| Dec high C = 3.9
| year high C = 13.8
| Jan mean C = 0.0
| Feb mean C = 1.0
| Mar mean C = 5.2
| Apr mean C = 9.5
| May mean C = 13.5
| Jun mean C = 16.7
| Jul mean C = 18.3
| Aug mean C = 17.9
| Sep mean C = 14.0
| Oct mean C = 9.8
| Nov mean C = 4.6
| Dec mean C = 0.9
| year mean C = 9.3
| Jan low C = -3.0
| Feb low C = -2.4
| Mar low C = 1.0
| Apr low C = 4.4
| May low C = 8.4
| Jun low C = 11.9
| Jul low C = 13.6
| Aug low C = 13.5
| Sep low C = 10.0
| Oct low C = 6.1
| Nov low C = 1.5
| Dec low C = -1.9
| year low C = 5.3
|precipitation colour = green
|Jan precipitation mm = 91.8
|Feb precipitation mm = 80.0
|Mar precipitation mm = 99.2
|Apr precipitation mm = 92.7
|May precipitation mm = 132.3
|Jun precipitation mm = 166.8
|Jul precipitation mm = 193.1
|Aug precipitation mm = 192.5
|Sep precipitation mm = 131.3
|Oct precipitation mm = 104.2
|Nov precipitation mm = 100.6
|Dec precipitation mm = 109.5
|year precipitation mm = 1494.0
| unit precipitation days = 1.0 mm
| Jan precipitation days = 10.7
| Feb precipitation days = 9.5
| Mar precipitation days = 11.3
| Apr precipitation days = 11.2
| May precipitation days = 13.5
| Jun precipitation days = 14.3
| Jul precipitation days = 14.8
| Aug precipitation days = 14.3
| Sep precipitation days = 11.6
| Oct precipitation days = 10.0
| Nov precipitation days = 10.2
| Dec precipitation days = 10.8
| year precipitation days = 142.2
| Jan snow cm = 32.7
| Feb snow cm = 29.9
| Mar snow cm = 14.4
| Apr snow cm = 0.5
| May snow cm = 0.0
| Jun snow cm = 0.0
| Jul snow cm = 0.0
| Aug snow cm = 0.0
| Sep snow cm = 0.0
| Oct snow cm = 0.7
| Nov snow cm = 10.9
| Dec snow cm = 31.5
| year snow cm = 120.6
| unit snow days = 1.0 cm
| Jan snow days = 5.7
| Feb snow days = 4.9
| Mar snow days = 3.7
| Apr snow days = 0.3
| May snow days = 0.0
| Jun snow days = 0.0
| Jul snow days = 0.0
| Aug snow days = 0.0
| Sep snow days = 0.0
| Oct snow days = 0.1
| Nov snow days = 1.8
| Dec snow days = 5.1
| year snow days = 21.6
| Jan humidity = 82
| Feb humidity = 77
| Mar humidity = 72
| Apr humidity = 67
| May humidity = 71
| Jun humidity = 74
| Jul humidity = 76
| Aug humidity = 78
| Sep humidity = 81
| Oct humidity = 82
| Nov humidity = 82
| Dec humidity = 83
| year humidity = 77
|Jan sun = 62.4
|Feb sun = 71.2
|Mar sun = 95.6
|Apr sun = 137.1
|May sun = 155.5
|Jun sun = 163.6
|Jul sun = 174.7
|Aug sun = 162.7
|Sep sun = 108.6
|Oct sun = 86.1
|Nov sun = 59.6
|Dec sun = 53.5
|year sun = 1330.6
| Jan percentsun = 44
| Feb percentsun = 48
| Mar percentsun = 50
| Apr percentsun = 49
| May percentsun = 45
| Jun percentsun = 46
| Jul percentsun = 49
| Aug percentsun = 51
| Sep percentsun = 53
| Oct percentsun = 50
| Nov percentsun = 42
| Dec percentsun = 39
| year percentsun = 48
| source 1 = [[National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration|NOAA]]<ref name=NOAA1>{{cite web
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20241211100328/https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/data/oceans/archive/arc0216/0253808/5.5/data/0-data/Region-6-WMO-Normals-9120/Switzerland/CSV/Glarus_06685.csv
| archive-date = 11 December 2024
| url = https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/data/oceans/archive/arc0216/0253808/5.5/data/0-data/Region-6-WMO-Normals-9120/Switzerland/CSV/Glarus_06685.csv
| title = World Meteorological Organization Climate Normals for 1991–2020
| work = World Meteorological Organization Climatological Standard Normals (1991–2020)
| publisher = National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
| access-date = 11 December 2024}}</ref>
|source 2 = [[MeteoSwiss]] (snow 1981–2010)<ref name=MeteoSwiss>{{cite web
| url = https://www.meteoswiss.admin.ch/product/output/climate-data/climate-diagrams-normal-values-station-processing/GLA/climsheet_GLA_np9120_e.pdf
| title = Climate Normals Glarus (Reference period 1991−2020) 
| publisher = Swiss Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology, MeteoSwiss 
| date = 20 January 2022 
| access-date = 20 January 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.meteoswiss.admin.ch/product/output/climate-data/climate-diagrams-normal-values-station-processing/GLA/climsheet_GLA_np8110_e.pdf
|title=Climate normals Glarus (Reference period 1981−2010) |publisher=Swiss Federal Office of Metreology and Climatology, MeteoSwiss |location=Zurich-Airport, Switzerland |date=2 July 2014 |access-date=21 February 2016}}</ref>
|date=July 2014
}}

==Gallery==

<gallery>
File:Glarus.jpg|Town center of Glarus
File:Glarus rathaus 2005-07-22.jpg|Kantonsparlement
File:Picswiss GL-13-05.jpg|Landsgemeindeplatz
File:Glarus-Glärnisch.jpg|Glärnisch
File:Bahnhof Glarus.JPG|Glarus railway station
</gallery>

==International relations==
{{See also|List of twin towns and sister cities in Switzerland}}

===Twin towns – sister cities===
Glarus is [[Twin towns and sister cities|twinned]] with:<ref>[https://www.gemeinde.glarus.ch/portraet/staedtepartnerschaft-biebrich.html/2960 Gemeinde Glarus website, Städtepartnerschaft Biebrich] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190922152158/https://www.gemeinde.glarus.ch/portraet/staedtepartnerschaft-biebrich.html/2960 |date=22 September 2019 }} retrieved 10 February 2019</ref>

*{{flagicon|GER}} [[Wiesbaden-Biebrich]]<ref name="auto">{{cite web |url=http://www.wiesbaden.de/leben-in-wiesbaden/stadtportrait/partnerstaedte/index.php |title=Wiesbaden's international city relations |publisher=City of Wiesbaden |access-date=24 December 2012}}</ref>
*{{flagicon|USA}} [[New Glarus, Wisconsin|New Glarus]], [[Wisconsin]]<ref name="auto"/>

== Notable people ==
[[File:Hossli Heinrich (1784-1864).jpg|140px|thumb|Heinrich Hossli]]
[[File:NR Werner Marti.jpg|140px|thumb|Werner Marti]]
[[File:Fritz Kunzli.jpg|140px|thumb|Fritz Kunzli, 2004]]
* [[Anna Göldi]] (1734 – 1782 in Glarus) the last person to be executed in Europe for [[witchcraft]] 
* [[Heinrich Hössli]] (1784 in Glarus – 1864 in Winterthur) a Swiss hatter and author
* [[Johann Jakob von Tschudi]] (1818 in Glarus – 1889) a Swiss naturalist, explorer and diplomat
* [[Johann Jakob Blumer]] (1819 in Glarus – 1875) a Swiss statesman<ref>{{Cite NIE|wstitle=Blumer,_Johann_Jakob |short=x}}</ref>
* [[Franz Joseph Untersee]] (1858 in Glarus - 1927) a Swiss-American architect who designed many Roman Catholic churches in the US
* [[Roslï Näf]] (1911 in Glarus – 1996) a Swiss Red Cross nurse during the Holocaust
* [[Rudi Schmid]] (1922 in Glarus – 2007) an American medical researcher specializing in [[hepatology]]
* [[Bernhard Hoesli]] (1923 in Glarus – 1984) a Swiss architect and collage artist
* [[Erwin C. Dietrich]] (1930 in Glarus – 2018) film director, producer, actor and cinematographers<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0226244/   IMDb Database] retrieved 10 February 2019</ref> 
* [[Eveline Hasler]] (born 1933 in Glarus) a Swiss writer
* [[Marianne Horak]] (born 1944 in Glarus) a Swiss-Australian entomologist who specialises in Australian [[lepidoptera]]
* [[Giaco Schiesser]] (born 1953 in Glarus) professor for cultural theory and media theory at [[Zurich University of the Arts]]
* [[Werner Marti]] (born 1957 in Glarus) a Swiss lawyer and politician 
* [[Ruedi Noser]] (born 1961 in Glarus) a Swiss businessman and politician
* [[Tim Krohn]] (born 1965) an author of Swiss literature, grew up in Glarus

=== Sport ===
* [[Paul Fischli]] (born 1945 in Glarus) a Swiss former football player and manager
* [[Fritz Künzli]] (1946 in Glarus – 2019) a retired Swiss football striker.
* [[Ekkehard Fasser]] (1952 in Glarus – 2021) a bobsledder who competed in the [[1988 Winter Olympics]]
* [[René Botteron]] (born 1954 in Glarus) a Swiss former football midfielder, over 330 club caps
* [[Urs Sonderegger]] (born 1964 in Glarus) a Swiss entrepreneur and racing driver
* [[Valeria Spälty]] (born 1983 in Glarus) a Swiss curler, silver medallist at the [[2006 Winter Olympics]] 
* [[Jan Hauser]] (born 1985 in Glarus) a Swiss curler, competed in the [[2010 Winter Olympics]]
* [[Colin Stüssi]] (born 1993 in Glarus) a Swiss cyclist

==References==
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==External links==
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* {{cite EB1911|wstitle=Glarus (capital) |last= Coolidge |first= William Augustus Brevoort |author-link= W. A. B. Coolidge| volume= 12 |pages =78-79|short=1 }}
*[http://www.gemeinde.glarus.ch Official Web site] {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20121205160102/http://www.gemeinde.glarus.ch/ |date=5 December 2012 }} {{in lang|de}}
*{{HDS|766|Glarus (municipality)}}

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