Biberbrugg

Biberbrugg
Municipality
Location of Biberbrugg
Biberbrugg Biberbrugg
Coordinates: 47°9′N 8°43′E
Country	Switzerland
Canton	Schwyz
District	Einsiedeln, Höfe
Municipality	Einsiedeln and Feusisberg
Elevation	838 m (2,749 ft)
Time zone	UTC 01:00 (Central European Time)
• Summer (DST)	UTC 02:00 (Central European Summer Time)
Postal code(s)	8836
SFOS number	1321
ISO 3166 code	CH-SZ
Surrounded by	Einsiedeln, Feusisberg
Website	www.einsiedeln.ch SFSO statistics

Biberbrugg is a village in the canton of Schwyz in Switzerland. It is shared by the municipality and district of Einsiedeln and the municipality of Feusisberg in the district of Höfe.

History

For centuries, the village was a small hamlet with a bridge (Swiss German: Brugg) crossing the Biber river, just upstream of its confluence with the Alp river.

In 1877, a train station on the line Wädenswil–Einsiedeln railway was built, carrying the name of the village. Fourteen years later, the Südostbahn established the line Pfäffikon–Arth-Goldau railway line, and Biberbrugg became an important junction station. Around the train station, a settlement in the municipality of Einsiedeln was established on the southern side of the Biber river. Later, the motorway St. Gallen–Rapperswil–Schwyz–Ingenbohl on the western side of the river was built; this part of the village belongs to the municipality of Feusisberg.

Transport

Biberbrugg is a nodal point of the Südostbahn's Voralpen Express, an InterRegio train, and of the motorway between St. Gallen and Schwyz. The railway station is also an intermediate stop of Zürich S-Bahn lines S13 to Wädenswil and S40 to Rapperswil.

External links

• Feusisberg in German, French and Italian in the online Historical Dictionary of Switzerland.