Bad Ragaz

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Bad Ragaz
Bad Ragaz coat of arms
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Canton of St. GallenCanton of St. Gallen Canton of St. Gallen (SG)
Constituency : Sarganserlandw
BFS no. : 3291i1 f3 f4
Postal code : 7310
UN / LOCODE : CH BRZ
Coordinates : 756 792  /  207729 coordinates: 47 ° 0 '7 "  N , 9 ° 30' 2"  O ; CH1903:  seven hundred fifty-six thousand seven hundred ninety-two  /  207729
Height : 516  m above sea level M.
Height range : 486–2688 m above sea level M.
Area : 25.40  km²
Residents: 6102 (December 31, 2018)
Population density : 240 inhabitants per km²
Website: www.badragaz.ch
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Bad Ragaz (until 1937 Ragaz ) is a municipality in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland . The name Ragaz is stressed on the second syllable. The place has been known as a glamorous health resort since the late 19th century, and with the ruins of Freudenberg Castle , it also has a sight from the first half of the 13th century.

geography

Bad Ragaz lies at the end of the Tamina valley and on the western edge of the Rhine plain. The village forms the tourist center of the Sarganserland .

In the east, the municipality border coincides with the canton border with the canton of Graubünden, which runs in the Rhine ; the neighboring communities in Graubünden are Landquart , Maienfeld and Fläsch ; the neighboring communities of St. Gallen are Pfäfers in the south, Mels in the west and Vilters-Wang in the north-west .

On the mountain massif in the west are the large alpine areas Halde, Rafigen, Pardiel, Valplona and Hochpardiel. A section of the Wildsehorn mountain range in the Pizol area belongs to the municipality of Bad Ragaz .

Climate table

The annual mean temperature is 10.1 ° C, with the coldest monthly temperatures in January at 0.5 ° C and the warmest monthly mean temperatures in July at 19.2 ° C. On average, around 87 frost days and 17 ice days can be expected here. There are an annual average of around 50 summer days , while an average of 8.7 hot days are recorded. The MeteoSwiss weather station is located at an altitude of 496  m above sea level. M.

Bad Ragaz, 1981-2010
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Average monthly temperatures and precipitation for Bad Ragaz, 1981–2010
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Max. Temperature ( ° C ) 3.9 5.4 10.5 14.9 19.8 22.3 24.5 23.8 20.0 15.9 8.9 4.8 O 14.6
Min. Temperature (° C) −3.0 −2.1 1.6 4.8 9.3 12.2 14.2 14.0 10.7 6.9 1.8 −1.6 O 5.8
Temperature (° C) 0.5 1.6 6.0 9.8 14.4 17.1 19.2 18.7 15.1 11.2 5.3 1.7 O 10.1
Precipitation ( mm ) 69 68 83 73 92 121 133 144 103 70 82 76 Σ 1,114
Rainy days ( d ) 9.1 7.8 10.7 9.9 11.8 12.9 12.8 13.5 9.5 8.4 9.7 9.6 Σ 125.7
Humidity ( % ) 77 75 71 68 69 71 72 73 75 76 78 78 O 73.6
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population

Population development

year 1800 1850 1900 1950 1960 1970 1980
Residents 954 1366 1860 2584 2685 3713 3721
year 1990 2000 2005 2010 2011 2012 2013
Residents 4466 4861 5082 5349 5528 5590 5681

Further statistical information on Bad Ragaz for 2011:

Religions - denominations

Denomination Catholic evangelical without or other
number 3014 1129 1385

Origin - nationality

The proportion of foreigners is 27.5%. These are divided between the following nations:

origin Portugal Germany Serbia Italy Bosnia and Herzegovina Croatia Austria Rest Total
number 318 296 170 135 123 76 68 335 1521

age structure

Age 0-20 21-40 41-60 61-80 81 and older
number 1058 1481 1674 1088 227
Proportion of (%) 19.1 26.8 30.3 19.7 4.1

history

Historical aerial photo from 300 m by Walter Mittelholzer from 1922
Obligation of the AG der Bad- und Kuranstalten Ragaz-Pfäfers dated June 19, 1912

Ragaz was originally a farming village. The place gained importance through the construction of the Palais Hof Ragaz . In the 19th century, the spring water from Bad Pfäfers in the Tamina Gorge was directed to Ragaz, and the community has been known as a health resort ever since. In 1937 the place was renamed Bad Ragaz. Today Bad Ragaz enjoys a good reputation among the world's health resorts and has made a name for itself in international tourism thanks to its grand hotels .

The history of the former farming village of Ragaz is closely linked to that of the Benedictine Abbey of Pfäfers . This owned the largest property and the most rights in the community. The prince- abbot's Palais Hof Ragaz was the governorship of the abbey . For centuries, Ragaz had a certain importance on an important north-south traffic axis between Germany and Italy. After the abbey was abolished in 1838, the canton of St. Gallen took over the monastery property and the thermal spring in the Tamina gorge.

The battle of Ragaz in the Old Zurich War on March 6, 1446 is one of the most important events over the centuries. The village was damaged by conflagrations and ravaged by floods several times. B. in the years 1750, 1762 and 1868.

In Bad Ragaz, Johanna Spyri wrote the Heidi story around 1880. Rainer Maria Rilke wrote the book Being here is glorious in Bad Ragaz .

tourism

Bad Ragaz - originally just called Ragaz - was a farming village. By finding the thermal spring in the nearby Tamina Gorge , Bad Ragaz became a world health resort.

The Old Bad Pfäfers, the oldest baroque bath building in Switzerland, is located in the Tamina Gorge . Where the spa doctor Paracelsus used to work, visitors can now study the history of the spa in Bad Ragaz and Pfäfers in the museum.

With the construction of the road to Bad Pfäfers (1838/39) and the draining of 36.5 ° C warm thermal water into the "Hof Ragaz", Ragaz became a spa resort. It was only after Bernhard Simon (1816-1900) of the World health resort, however Niederurnen ( GL made) in 1868 by the canton the domain Ragaz, ie the territory of Fürstabtei had Pfäfers purchased. Numerous hotels and guesthouses were built, and a number of different businesses were established in the up-and-coming health resort. In addition to the European and Russian nobility, personalities from politics, business, art and literature came to Ragaz.

In 1911 the public limited company of Bad- und Kuranstalten Ragaz-Pfäfers is founded.

In 1941, the Grandhotel Quellenhof was badly affected by a fire, which put a damper on tourism after the Second World War. It is thanks to ex- National Councilor Hans Albrecht that the Quellenhof was rebuilt.

The Pizolbahnen were completely modernized in 2007, and since then a new gondola lift has been running from Bad Ragaz to Alp Pardiel.

Bad Ragaz is - especially since the opening of the Heidiland motorway service station - as the gateway to the Grisons region .

coat of arms

The municipality's coat of arms shows a flying, silver, gold-armored dove with a red chip in its beak on a blue background. It ties in with the founding legend of the Pfäfers Monastery, which owned the basic rights over Pfäfers, according to which a pigeon, which was carrying away a bloody chip , is said to have shown the place where the monastery was founded to St. Pirmin where it was found after its flight.

Attractions

The neo-Gothic Evangelical Church of Bad Ragaz is located at the eastern entrance to the city .

On the north-western outskirts are the ruins of Freudenberg Castle .

At the cemetery is Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling , the main proponent of the philosophy of German Idealism , buried under a cenotaph.

traffic

Public transport

Bad Ragaz station is served by the S 12 ( S-Bahn St. Gallen ) and the RegioExpress on the St. Gallen – Chur route. From the station square, PostBus lines lead to the surrounding villages and to Bad Pfäfers in the Tamina Gorge .

Road traffic

Bad Ragaz is located on the A13 motorway between the Bad Ragaz and Maienfeld junctions.

Mountain railways

In 1953/54 the Pizol area was opened up by a gondola lift from Bad Ragaz. The then oldest cable car in Switzerland ceased operations in spring 2007 and was replaced by a new 8-seater gondola. The cable car leads to the middle station Pardiel at 1633  m . From there a 4-seater chairlift leads to Laufböden 2226  m . The Ragaz – Wartenstein cable car ceased operations in 1964.

air traffic

Bad Ragaz airfield is located about a kilometer northwest of the village center .

Events

Since 2000, the Swiss Triennial of Sculpture has been taking place in Bad Ragaz under the title Bad RagARTz every three years, an open-air art exhibition, in 2018 for the seventh time. The exhibition also extends to the streets and squares in the capital Vaduz of the neighboring Principality of Liechtenstein .

Also every three years, for the first time in 2006, the international music festival Classics in the Streets takes place in Bad Ragaz and the surrounding area. For a week, performers of classical styles play music outdoors. As part of the final at the end of the week, a renowned jury will choose the winner. The festival is under the patronage of the conductor and pianist Vladimir Ashkenazy .

Bad Ragaz is also the namesake of the Maienfeld Bad Ragaz International Horse Race, which takes place annually in October in neighboring Maienfeld . A well-attended international chess tournament has been held in Bad Ragaz every Easter since 2006. Every year in June, the Quellrock Open Air takes place on the Freudenberg castle ruins .

photos

  • Ragaz 1863

  • railway station

  • Hotel Bristol, built in 1905

  • The pre-Christmas mood in Bad Ragaz

  • restored historic village bath from 1866/67

  • Bartholoméplatz

  • town hall

  • Catholic Church

  • reformed Church

  • St. Leonhard

Personalities

literature

  • Erwin Rothenhäusler, Dora Fanny Rittmeyer, Benedikt Frei: The Art Monuments of the Canton of St. Gallen, Volume I: Sargans District. (= Art Monuments of Switzerland. Volume 25). Edited by the Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Bern 1951. DNB 750089172 .
  • Christian Lutz, Joel Tettamanti (photos), Erwin Koch; Walter Lendi (Ed.): Power of the water. 36.5 ° - Grand Resort Bad Ragaz. From the source to the spa. 1st edition, Benteli, Sulgen 2010. ISBN 978-3-7165-1595-2 .
  • Esther and Rolf Hohmeister, Magdalena Abakanowicz: Bad Ragartz [84 artists from 17 countries are exhibiting their works: Belgium, Denmark, Germany, France, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Liechtenstein, Monaco, the Netherlands, Austria, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland , Spain, USA, Vietnam] / 3rd Swiss Triennial of Sculpture in Bad Ragaz and Vaduz, [20. May to the end of October 2006]. Self-published by Hohmeister, Bad Ragaz [Grossfeldstr. 10] 2006 (without ISBN ).
  • Silvia and Werner Fetzer (photos), Susi Senti: Bad Ragaz . Schuler, Bad Ragaz / Chur 2006. ISBN 3-85894-013-5 (texts in German and English).
  • Peter Röllin: The changing baths of Pfäfers-Ragaz. Refinement of the 750 year old thermal bath culture in the Sarganserland. In: Art + Architecture in Switzerland , 49th year 1998, Issue 1, published by the Society for Swiss Art History .
  • Collection of Swiss Legal Sources, XIV. Department: The Legal Sources of the Canton of St. Gallen, Part Three: The Landscapes and Country Cities, Volume 2: The Legal Sources of the Sarganserland by Sibylle Malamud and Pascale Sutter, Basel 2013 [1] .

Movie

  • Bad Ragaz - the source of the good life. Documentary, Germany, 2011, 43 min., Written and directed by Monika Kirschner, production: Tag / Traum, ZDF , arte , first broadcast: June 1, 2012 on arte, series: Kur Royal (5/5), film information from arte.

Web links

Commons : Bad Ragaz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikivoyage: Bad Ragaz  - travel guide

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Permanent and non-permanent resident population by year, canton, district, municipality, population type and gender (permanent resident population). In: bfs. admin.ch . Federal Statistical Office (FSO), August 31, 2019, accessed on December 22, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Climate table. In: meteoschweiz.admin.ch. meteoschweiz, accessed on April 5, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Timeline of Bad Ragaz's history (1900 - 2003). Retrieved April 8, 2018 .
  4. ↑ ( page no longer available , search in web archives: without page title )@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.strassenklassik.com
  5. ↑ ( page no longer available , search in web archives: without page title )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.schach.li