Gams SG
| SG is the abbreviation for the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland and is used to avoid confusion with other entries of the name Gams . |
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 Canton of St. Gallen (SG)
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| Constituency : | Werdenberg |
| BFS no. : | 3272 |
| Postal code : | 9473 |
| Coordinates : | 751726 / 230 044 |
| Height : | 478 m above sea level M. |
| Height range : | 436–2121 m above sea level M. |
| Area : | 22.27 km² |
| Residents: | 3471 (December 31, 2018) |
| Population density : | 156 inhabitants per km² |
| Website: | www.gams.ch |
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Gams is a municipality in the St. Gallen Rhine Valley cultural landscape in the Werdenberg electoral district in the canton of St. Gallen , Switzerland .
geography
Gams is located in the Rhine Valley on main road 16 before the pass road to Wildhaus , at the foot of the Alpstein, at 478 meters above sea level. The municipality extends from Brennersfeld at 440 meters above sea level to the summit of Mutschen at 2121 meters. The municipality covers 22.26 square kilometers, which are spread over fields and meadows in the plain of the Rhine Valley, forests and meadows on the slopes above the village and an alpine zone with various Alps and mountain peaks.
population
| Population development | |
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| year | Residents |
| 1850 | 1783 |
| 1900 | 2156 |
| 1950 | 2025 |
| 1980 | 2246 |
| 2000 | 2867 |
| 2010 | 3104 |
history
The first traces of settlement could be found in Martinsacker. The prehistoric axes were probably stored there as a Bronze Age weapon depot and are believed to date from around 2000 BC. Come from BC.
In a deed of donation from the year 835 AD, the place name is mentioned for the first time as Campesias . With this document, Berengar and his wife Imma bequeathed their property to the St. Gallen monastery.
After the possessions of the Einsiedeln Abbey and the Disentis Abbey in the Gams were documented in the 10th century, the village then came into the possession of the Barons of Hohensax . The rule of Hohensax was then taken over by the Habsburgs at the end of the 14th century. Gams later came under the rule of the Zurich lords of Bonstetten .
During the Old Zurich War , a bloody battle broke out in Gams in 1446 when Appenzell and Toggenburg were repulsed by Austrian troops. In 1497 the Gamser finally bought themselves free and came under federal rule of the places Glarus and Schwyz. Gams was thus affiliated to the Bailiwick of Gaster.
Attractions
Worth seeing in Gams are the old mill , the parish church St. Michael , the chapel Gasenzen and the castle Hohensax in the neighboring community Sennwald.
The Catholic Church of St. Michael
View from Michaelsberg to the village center
Old Mill
Personalities
- Markus Dürr (born May 1, 1947 in Gams), veterinarian and politician, Government Councilor of the Canton of Lucerne
Web links
- Official website of the municipality of Gams
- Wolfgang Göldi: Gams. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- The legal sources of the Werdenberg region: County Werdenberg and Herrschaft Wartau, Freiherrschaft Sax-Forstegg and Herrschaft Hohensax-Gams [1]
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 .
- ↑ StiASG , Urk. II 122. Online at e-chartae , accessed on June 19, 2020.
