Burgau SG
| Burgau SG | ||
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 Switzerland
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| Canton : |
 Canton of St. Gallen (SG)
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| Constituency : | Wil | |
| Political community : | Flawil | |
| Postal code : | 9230 | |
| UN / LOCODE : | CH FLW | |
| Coordinates : | 733 664 / 252 073 | |
 Old Town Hall |
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Burgau is a hamlet and belongs to the municipality of Flawil in the canton of St. Gallen . The hamlet has about 120 inhabitants and about 35 houses.
location
Burgau is two kilometers east of Flawil not far from the railway line to Gossau , 300 meters from the Glatt .
history
Burgau was first mentioned in a document in 964. In 1079 there was a first weir over the Glatt.
1166 began the rule of the Gielen von der Glattburg . With the so-called Burgauer Offnung , a legal book that recorded traditional customs, "in 1469 the members of the court at Burgau agreed with their court lord, the knight Rudolf IX Giel von Glattburg, on 114 provisions". The rule and jurisdiction went to the St. Gallen monastery in 1486 . At that time, 19 families lived in Burgau.
In 1632 the court house was built by Ammann Peter Moosberger, an ancestor of the current owner and the poet CF Meyer . In 1639 the courtroom was added. The canvas dealers Egli and Stadler from Burgau built the church in Oberglatt through donations in 1783 .
The mediation brought about the dissolution of the court in 1803. In 1825 the Burgau village corporation was formed. In 1890 a school merger with the school community of Flawil followed. The amalgamation of the Burgau village corporation with the political community took place in April 1953. In 1964, the hamlet's 1000th anniversary was celebrated with a village festival.
Gravel was extracted for structural and civil engineering directly near Burgau and on Burgauerfeld ⊙ . Herbag AG was last active here as the successor to Jakob Heer. Since 1995, the trenches have been filled with slag and ash from waste incineration by the Bazenheid waste disposal association (ZAB) and the Thurgau waste incineration association.
Attractions
As one of the few places in the canton, its core consists of historic wooden houses from the 17th and 18th centuries.
Web links
Short version of the Burgauer Chronik
- Portrait of Burgau . Flawil Municipality website, accessed December 5, 2019.
- Burgau official website . Burgau residents' association, website accessed on February 16, 2020
Individual evidence
- ^ Bernard Marks: 7.5 million francs for landfill. In: St. Galler Tagblatt. September 10, 2010, accessed December 10, 2019 .