Ziegelbrücke is a village situated on both sides of theLinth Channel inSwitzerland. Ziegelbrücke is shared by themunicipalities ofNiederurnen in thecanton ofGlarus andSchänis in thecanton of St. Gallen, with the Linth forming the boundary between these municipalities.

The name refers to a bridge (German:Brücke) covered by a roof with tiles (German:Ziegel). The presence of such a bridge was first documented in 1532.^[1]

This bridge was located approximately where the current bridge over the Linth Channel is nowadays. However, prior to thetaming of the Linth (1807–1823), the River Linth ran west ofLake Walen (Walensee), and where the Linth Channel is today, there used to be a small river, the Maag, flowing out of Lake Walen and into the former River Linth. The old bridge was over the Maag.

The village of Ziegelbrücke is divided by theLinth Channel into two parts: The northern part, includingZiegelbrücke railway station, is located in the municipality ofSchänis in the canton of St. Gallen. The southern part, on the other side of the Linth, is located in the canton of Glarus in the municipality ofGlarus Nord.

At the formerRomantariff station, near the Maag and Linth rivers betweenLake Walen (Walensee) andLake Zürich (Zürichsee), aMercury statue was found. The center of the village is situated on the territory of the canton of Glarus aroundFritz & Caspar Jenny AG, a spinning and weaving factoring established in 1833, and which is part of theInventory of Swiss Heritage Sites. Thevocational school of Glarus is also situated in the Glarus part of Ziegelbrücke. On the side of the canton of St. Gallen, Ziegelbrücke railway station is located; around 70 people are living and working there.

Ziegelbrücke railway station, located north of the Linth Channel in the canton of St. Gallen, is anodal point on theLake Zürich left bank line, theZiegelbrücke–Sargans line and theRapperswil–Ziegelbrücke line. The station is served by theInterRegio (IR35) line betweenZürich HB/Bern andChur,named trainAare Linth operated bySwiss Federal Railways (SBB CFF FFS) andSüdostbahn (SOB), andS-Bahn lines toZürich,Sargans,Rapperswil/Toggenburg and the Linth Valley in the canton of Glarus.

The station is the terminus of theZürich S-Bahn lineS2 toZürich Flughafen, and an intermediate stop of theS25 service toLinthal (viaGlarus) and Zürich HB. Ziegelbrücke is also an intermediate station of theS4 ofSt. Gallen S-Bahn (operated by SOB), acircle route around theAlpstein that runs betweenSt. Gallen,Sargans andUznach in both clockwise and counter-clockwise directions. Another regional train, theS6 of St. Gallen S-Bahn (operated by SOB) connects Ziegelbrücke withSchwanden/Linthal (via Glarus) andRapperswil (via Uznach). The peak hour serviceS27, which does not belong to any S-Bahn network, operates between Ziegelbrücke andSiebnen-Wangen.^[2][3]

In addition, thePostauto and localAutobetrieb Weesen-Amden [de]bus lines connect the communities in theSee-GasterWahlkreis and the municipalities ofBilten andNiederurnen.^[4]

• Niederurnen official website(in German)
• Schänis official website(in German)