Goldach 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 Goldach . |
| Goldach | |
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 Canton of St. Gallen (SG)
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| Constituency : | Rorschach |
| BFS no. : | 3213 |
| Postal code : | 9403 |
| UN / LOCODE : | CH GLD |
| Coordinates : | 752 839 / 261 149 |
| Height : | 450 m above sea level M. |
| Height range : | 395–571 m above sea level M. |
| Area : | 4.71 km² |
| Residents: | 9269 (December 31, 2018) |
| Population density : | 1968 inhabitants per km² |
| Website: | www.goldach.ch |
_061.JPG) Center of Goldach |
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Goldach is a municipality in the canton of St. Gallen . It is located in the constituency of Rorschach .
geography
Goldach is located on Lake Constance west of Rorschach on the Rorschach – St. Gallen .
history
Goldach was first mentioned in a document in 790. Goldach emerged from an Alemannic settlement in the early Middle Ages.
coat of arms
Description: Two yellow wavy bars in blue .
Merger plans
In 2007, Rorschach , Rorschacherberg and Goldach examined a merger to form a “city on the lake” with around 25,000 inhabitants, which would have resulted in one of the largest cities in the canton of St. Gallen. After a merger in Goldach had proven to be politically unenforceable due to the lower tax rate , only a merger of Rorschach and Rorschacherberg was up for discussion, which was rejected by Rorschacherberg at the end of 2008. In Rorschach, however, the merger was strongly supported, as it would have resulted in strong tax cuts.
In 2014, another fundamental vote was carried out on the merger of the three municipalities to form the “City on the Lake”. The aim of this vote was to give the municipal councils an order for an in-depth examination and to carry out a definitive vote on the merger within 2 years. Like the previous ones, this basic vote was clearly rejected by the communities of Goldach and Rorschacherberg and accepted by the city of Rorschach with a clear lead.
population
| Population development | |
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| year | Residents |
| 1850 | 785 |
| 1900 | 2278 |
| 1950 | 3849 |
| 1980 | 7940 |
| 2000 | 8441 |
| 2005 | 8924 |
| 2010 | 9065 |
Goldach is the birthplace of the American Archbishop Sebastian Gebhard Messmer and the high school teacher and writer Max Allenspach .
traffic
Goldach has a train station on the Rorschach – St. Gallen .
religion
The Swiss secretariat of the Engelwerk and its related Schmid-Fehr-Verlag are located in Goldach.
Attractions
Architecturally interesting is the baroque St. Mauritius Church (1670), which was massively expanded in 1929 in a neo-baroque style.
Villa Wartegg
View of the church from the train
railway station
View from the train to the village and the church
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literature
- Johannes Huber: Swiss Art Guide GSK, Volume 533: St. Mauritius Church Goldach , Bern 1993, ISBN 3-85782-533-2
Web links
- Official website of the community of Goldach
- Peter Müller: Goldach. 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 .
- ↑ StiASG , Urk. I 108. Online at e-chartae , accessed on June 19, 2020.
- ^ Community merger : New town on Lake Constance? Retrieved June 10, 2012 .
- ↑ No merger in the Rorschach region, Tagblatt Online, article from May 18, 2014
- ↑ Heiner Boberski: The angel work. Theory and Practice of Opus Angelorum. Otto Müller Verlag, Salzburg 1993, pages 26 and 63. ISBN 3-7013-0854-3
- ↑ Johannes Huber: St. Mauritius Church Goldach. (Swiss Art Guide, No. 533). Ed. Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Bern 1993, ISBN 978-3-85782-533-0 .