Buchs SG
| SG is the abbreviation for the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland and is used to avoid confusion with other entries in the name Buch . |
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 Canton of St. Gallen (SG)
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| Constituency : | Werdenberg |
| BFS no. : | 3271 |
| Postal code : | 9470 |
| UN / LOCODE : | CH BUC |
| Coordinates : | 753 749 / 225 954 |
| Height : | 448 m above sea level M. |
| Height range : | 438–2230 m above sea level M. |
| Area : | 15.95 km² |
| Residents: | 12,661 (December 31, 2018) |
| Population density : | 794 inhabitants per km² |
| Website: | www.buchs-sg.ch |
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Buchs is a city and a municipality in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland . It is the district capital of the Werdenberg district and belongs to the Werdenberg constituency . It is a center of the Upper St. Gallen Rhine Valley .
geography
In the east the municipality borders on the Principality of Liechtenstein , the Rhine is the municipality and state border . It is connected to the Liechtenstein community of Schaan by a road and a railway bridge over the Alpine Rhine . Buchs also borders the communities of Grabs , Gams , Sevelen and Sennwald , and in the Principality of Liechtenstein it also borders the communities of Eschen and Vaduz . The lowest point is 441 m above sea level. M. and the highest point is on the Glannachopf with 2232 m above sea level. M.
As one of the largest urban centers between Chur and Lake Constance, Buchs is a popular shopping location and, thanks to the NTB Buchs Interstate University of Technology, a regional educational center. Thanks to the border station for international passenger and freight traffic with a marshalling yard , Buchs is also known nationwide. Buchs is located on main roads 13 and 16 and has a motorway slip road on the A13 .
population
| year | 1831 | 1850 | 1900 | 1950 | 2000 | 2010 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2019 |
| Residents | 1,781 | 2,015 | 3,851 | 5,204 | 10,399 | 11'242 | 12,048 | 12,414 | 12,531 | 12,740 |
politics
The city of Buchs has a city council that consists of 7 members. The current composition is as follows: City President Daniel Gut (SP), Vice-City President Katrin Frick (FDP) and City Councilors Ludwig Altenburger (SP), Hans Peter Schwendener (FDP), Jules Strub (SVP), Hansruedi Bucher (CVP) and Heinz Rothenberger (independent).
In the 2019 Swiss parliamentary elections, the share of the vote in Buchs was: SVP 29.3%, FDP 19.5% , SP 17.0%, CVP 11.0%, Greens 9.1%, glp 6.3%, EPP 4, 0%, EDU 1.7%, non-party SG 1.1 %.
history
Buchs was first mentioned as Pogio in the will of the Chur bishop Tello from the year 765. Later the place was called Bucas, Bugu, Bougu, Puges and in 1484 finally Bux . In the 9th century one finds a church of St. Jörgen mentioned in a document. Buchs originally belonged to the Old Rhaeto-Romanic language area of Unterrätiens. Alemannic, however, displaced the Rhaeto-Romanic language between the 8th and 12th centuries.
In the Middle Ages, the place belonged to the county of Werdenberg . From 1404 to 1483 the Werdenberg landscape belonged to the Counts of Montfort-Tettnang . In 1517 Glarus bought the area. In 1526, Bailiff Jost Tschudi introduced the Reformation to Buchs . In 1798 the community came to the canton of Linth within the Helvetic Republic and in 1803 to the canton of St. Gallen.
On the night of October 12th to 13th, 1839, a fire raged in the center of the village of Buchs. The flames spread rapidly as a result of a foehn storm . 36 houses and 30 stables were burned and 40 families were left homeless.
With the construction of the railway bridge over the Rhine and the opening of the train connection to Feldkirch in Vorarlberg, Buchs became a border station in 1872. Thanks to the connection to the Arlberg Railway a few years later, Buchs was henceforth on the international rail link from Vienna to Paris and became an international storage and transshipment point.
Since 2015 the political municipality of Buchs has been called the «City of Buchs». The amendment of the municipal code was decided unanimously at a citizens' meeting.
coat of arms
Description of coat of arms : The Buchs coat of arms shows a silver pole in green, covered with a three-lobed black church flag with golden rings and fringes.
Attractions
The former council and court house on St. Gallerstrasse, an elegant, neo-baroque building, impresses not only with its exterior, the interior also still bears the marks of the era. Directly behind it is a smaller building of the same style, once a police house and prison.
The Reformed Church was built in 1931/32. The Catholic Church of the Heart of Jesus was built between 1964 and 1965 by the architect Justus Dahinden .
The castle with the town of Werdenberg in the Grabser municipality is a special attraction for Buchs. When the canton of St. Gallen was founded, the municipality of Grabs gave the castle with the town of Werdenberg and the municipality of Buchs the Werdenbergersee.
Another attraction is the birds of prey park on the southern outskirts, in which over 60 species of birds from all over the world can be seen; on weekends there are «air shows» with the birds of prey.
Buchs as seen from Werdenberg Castle
Buchs seen from Egerta
Ref. Parish church
Notary's office and district court Werdenberg
District building - once a police house and prison
Buchs - district building - the interior
The view of the castle and the town of Werdenberg
Personalities
- Simon Schwendener (1829–1919), botanist and university professor
- Jakob Vetsch (1886–1944), Werdenberg district administrator
- Gallus Berger (1903–1982), social democratic national councilor and trade unionist
- Walter R. Kramer (1914–1995), American badminton player
- Heinrich Rohrer (1933–2013), physicist and Nobel Prize winner
- Otmar Bucher (* 1935), graphic artist and designer
- Florian Vetsch (* 1960), author, translator and editor
Web links
- Official website of the city of Buchs
- Valentin Vincenz: Buchs (SG). In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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 .
- ^ Federal Statistical Office : NR - Results parties (municipalities) (INT1). In: Federal Elections 2019 | opendata.swiss. August 8, 2019, accessed August 1, 2020 .
- ↑ Renewal election of the National Council. Retrieved August 3, 2020 .
- ^ Valentin Vincenz: Buchs (SG). In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland. August 31, 2004, accessed August 9, 2020 .
- ↑ Hansruedi Rohrer: The fight against the "red rooster" in Buchs even earlier. In: current book. Stadt Buchs, April 2009, pp. 53–54 , accessed on August 10, 2020 .
- ^ Hanna Rauber: The history of Buchser Bahnhofstrasse. Werdenberger Jahrbuch, 2018, accessed on August 8, 2020 .
