Isenthal (Historical Dictionary of Switzerland)
Polit. According UR, with village at the junction of upper and Kleintal and widely scattered hamlets. Yseltal before 1280. Secluded, long poorly-serviced mountain valley. 1 698 150 inhabitants, 1743 176, 1799 360; 1850 502, 1900 595 1950 550, 2000 539th her settlement probably from before the turn of the century lake, village education SpätMA, later also in a large developing country and Kleintal. Besides Baeuerle. Own, there was Klösterl. Property, including by Muri and Lazariterhauses Seedorf, possibly the Fraumünster Zurich. I was part of the country's parish from 1591 to Altdorf and Seedorf, from where it had been earlier pastoral care. 1621 was the Abkurung. The chapel is St. Theodul 1409 shows the same current church was built in 1819-20. The tallüt of Iseltal already emerged in 1407 as Gem, 1774 was a village including the village court clerk employed. Together with Seelisberg and Construction was the tenth I. Uri Genossame and sent a representative to the District. I have decreed in 1500 for many grain fields and fruit orchards. The Alps and forests have been shared with Seelisberg and Construction, the forestry sector was the main source of income. In the 16th and 17 Century, built from the Fam Madran in the valley iron. In the 19th Century were Seidenkämmelei and weaving at home. At the Isleten settled commercial and industrial enterprises from 1853. From the end of the 19th Century itself has developed a modest tourism. Basis for further Built in 1900-01 was the development road to driving Isleten and their continuation to Seedorf 1949-51. The power plants I and Kleintal created 1954-55 and 1957th 1984 was the foundation of a home workers workshop. I. In 1971 at the District School Seed Association for the elementary school grades. The corporate community citizens constituted 1944th Since 1946, there is a special church tax, the elimination of the parish took place, however until 1996. 2000, the first Sector is still a good two-fifths of the jobs in the community.
literature
- Kdm UR 2, 1986, 269-316
- H. Small-Aschwanden, I.,
21 988 - M. Walker I, through the ages from 1840 to 1990, 1991
Author: Hans Stadler
In the picture we see the Uri and on the other side of the village at the mouth of Sisikon Riemenstaldental.
The dominant peak is Fronalpstock that is easily accessible via the Stoos-rail systems from Muotathal and Morschach.