Mühlehorn
village and former municipality in Glarus Nord, Switzerland
Mühlehorn is a former municipality in the canton of Glarus, Switzerland, located on Lake Walen (Walensee). Effective from 1 January 2011, Mühlehorn is part of the municipality of Glarus Nord.
History
Mühlehorn is first mentioned in 1551 as Mülihorn.
Geography
Mühlehorn has an area, as of 2006, of 7.8 km2 (3.0 sq mi). Of this area, 33.8% is used for agricultural purposes, while 52.4% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 3.9% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (9.9%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains).
Mühlehorn is located on the southern shore of the Walensee. It consists of the village of Mühlehorn and the hamlets of Vortobel, Tiefenwinkel and Mühletal which are on the north-east border of the canton. It lies north of the Mürtschenstock massif.
Demographics
Mühlehorn had a population (as of 2010) of 416.
“Mühlehorn” enters the record as village and former municipality in Glarus Nord, Switzerland. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Mühlehorn, village and former can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q661640. VIAF identifies the subject as 316740192. Authority coordinates are 47.118, 9.173. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2011, 1551, 2006 and 2010.
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This entry incorporates text from “Mühlehorn” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.