Gaiserwald

Gaiserwald

State :	Switzerland Switzerland
Canton :	Canton of St. Gallen Canton of St. Gallen (SG)
Constituency :	St. Gallenw
BFS no. :	3442i1 f3 f4
Postal code :	9030 Abtwil 9030 St. Josefen 9032 Engelburg
Coordinates :	742.5 thousand / 255000 coordinates: 47 ° 25 '49 " N , 9 ° 19' 39" O ; CH1903: 742,500 / 25500047.430366 9.327563 650
Height :	650 m above sea level M.
Height range :	538–906 m above sea level M.
Area :	12.63 km²
Residents:	8363 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	662 inhabitants per km²
Website:	www.gaiserwald.ch
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Gaiserwald is a municipality in the north of the Swiss canton of St. Gallen .

It is made up of the villages of Abtwil , Engelburg and St. Josefen . The town hall is in Abtwil and each town has its own postcode. The community of Gaiserwald has around 8,000 inhabitants and every village has a church.

history

In 1200, Abtwil Appowila was first mentioned in a document, and in 1282 a Petrus de Gaiserwalt is mentioned. "Gaiserwald" was originally a field or forest name and means "forest of the Gaiser family".

Since this community only consisted of isolated farms and hamlets, it had no church for a long time. This changed in 1661 when the first church in St. Josefen was consecrated by the Abbot of St. Gallen. The patron saint was Saint Joseph, which is how the village got its name. For a long time St. Josefen was the center of civil and church life in the Gaiserwald community. In 1775 a new church was built in the Engelburg district, which was consecrated to the three guardian angels, from which the hamlet name also goes back.

Attractions

Personalities

Joseph Balmer (1828–1918), painter and author born in Abtwil
Regina Lampert (1854–1942), Austrian writer, lived temporarily in St. Josefen
Carl Stucki (1889–1963), diplomat born in Gaiserwald
Karl Wick (1891–1969), journalist and politician born in St. Josefen
Rudolf Hostettler (1919–1981), typographer and editor, died in Engelburg
Fritz Hofmann (1924–2005), Engelburg-born politician, member of the National Council and President of the Swiss People's Party
Georg Malin (* 1926), Liechtenstein sculptor with artistic work in the Church of St. Josefen
Max Koller (1933–2018), graphic artist and book designer, lived in Engelburg
Martin Gehrer (* 1957), politician, Gaiserwald municipal amman
Boris Tschirky (* 1965), politician, mayor of Gaiserwald
Susanne Vincenz-Stauffacher (* 1967), politician from Abtwil

Web links

Commons : Gaiserwald - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Official website of the community of Gaiserwald
Ernst Ziegler: Gaiserwald. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Ernst Ziegler: Abtwil (SG). In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Ernst Ziegler: Engelburg. 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 .
↑ See Karl Stucki : Place and field names of St. Gallen and the surrounding area. In: The city of St. Gallen and its surroundings. A local lore. Edited by the municipal teaching staff. Fehr, St. Gallen 1916, p. 284, according to which about Gaiser “the end of the Gais origin”.
↑ Lexicon of Swiss municipality names . Edited by the Center de Dialectologie at the University of Neuchâtel under the direction of Andres Kristol. Frauenfeld / Lausanne 2005, p. 375, according to which “forest of the Gaiser family”. The summary of the family names Gaiser and (still naturalized locally) Geser as variants, as it is done in the lexicon of Swiss community names, is uncertain; see Rätisches Namenbuch , founded by Robert von Planta and Andrea Schorta, Volume 3: The personal names of Graubünden. With views of neighboring areas, edit. and ed. von Konrad Huber, Bern 1986, p. 169, according to which "Geser" patronymic to Old High German Gesa "Gertrud", hence "descendant of Gertrud".

[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] See Karl Stucki : Place and field names of St. Gallen and the surrounding area. In: The city of St. Gallen and its surroundings. A local lore. Edited by the municipal teaching staff. Fehr, St. Gallen 1916, p. 284, according to which about Gaiser “the end of the Gais origin”.

[3] Lexicon of Swiss municipality names . Edited by the Center de Dialectologie at the University of Neuchâtel under the direction of Andres Kristol. Frauenfeld / Lausanne 2005, p. 375, according to which “forest of the Gaiser family”. The summary of the family names Gaiser and (still naturalized locally) Geser as variants, as it is done in the lexicon of Swiss community names, is uncertain; see Rätisches Namenbuch , founded by Robert von Planta and Andrea Schorta, Volume 3: The personal names of Graubünden. With views of neighboring areas, edit. and ed. von Konrad Huber, Bern 1986, p. 169, according to which "Geser" patronymic to Old High German Gesa "Gertrud", hence "descendant of Gertrud".