Chressbrunnen

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Chressbrunnen or earlier Kressbrunnen is a place between Haslenmühle and Isenhammer southwest of Gossau in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland . The place belongs to the municipality of Gossau and is located directly below the Espel biotope at Dorfbach Gossau on the cantonal road to Flawil .

The place is first mentioned in 1453 as Kresbronnen . There are four single-family houses and one house with three apartments in Chressbrunnen.

In Chressbrunnen there was a former mill , the Kressbrunnenmühle. Such a site was first mentioned in 1545. In the middle of the 19th century, the mill was bought by Johann Eberle from Häggenschwil. Whose sons they took over in 1888. The brothers Eberle built to operate the mill in Smooth Tobel the dam Buchholz with a crest length of 48 meters. It is considered to be the second oldest dam in Switzerland. In 1902 the older son moved to Rickenbach, his brother took over the mill, which from then on Victor Eberle Mühle Kressbrunnen Electrischer Kraftbetrieb Gossau-St. Gallen was called. But a fire put an end to the mill operation in 1909 and after a second fire ten years later the history of the Kressbrunnenmühle was over.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dufour map from 1854 to 1900: Kressbrunnen ; Dufour map from 1905 to 1924 and Siegfried map from first edition in 1883: Kressbrunn ; Siegfried map from 1923 issue: Kressbrunnen ; National map of Switzerland since first edition in 1953: Chressbrunnen .
  2. ↑ swissNAMES3D, Geographical names of the national survey of the Federal Office of Topography swisstopo
  3. ↑ City archives City archives of the local citizens' community of St. Gallen (ed.): Regesta Sangallensia 1412–1463 . Jan Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2013, ISBN 978-3-7995-6065-8 . Aggregated in the place name database ortsnames.ch (keyword Chressbrunnen )
  4. ↑ Information in accordance with the Federal Building and Housing Register GWR. Federal Statistical Office . ( map.geo.admin.ch )
  5. ↑ The used Glatt . In: Glatt-Kommission (Ed.): Glatt-Blatt . 2010, p. 4–7 ( ueseriglatt.ch [PDF]).

Coordinates: 47 ° 25 '  N , 9 ° 13'  E ; CH1903:  seven hundred thirty-four thousand six hundred and ninety-nine  /  252552