Gonten

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Gonten
Gonten coat of arms
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Canton of Appenzell InnerrhodenCanton of Appenzell Innerrhoden Appenzell Innerrhoden (AI)
BFS no. : 3102i1 f3 f4
Postal code : 9108
Coordinates : 744 223  /  243 701 coordinates: 47 ° 19 '42 "  N , 9 ° 20' 48"  O ; CH1903:  744,223  /  two hundred and forty-three thousand seven hundred and one
Height : 902  m above sea level M.
Height range : 740–1662 m above sea level M.
Area : 24.73  km²
Residents: 1462 (December 31, 2018)
Population density : 59 inhabitants per km²
Proportion of foreigners :
(residents without
citizenship ) 		4.7% (December 31, 2018)
Website: www.gonten.ch
Gonten

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Gonten is a district in the canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden in eastern Switzerland .

Gonten, Restaurant Krone

history

Historic aerial photo of Jakobsbad by Walter Mittelholzer from 1933

The name Gonten comes from "Gumbton" (12th century): "Puddle of water because of the nearby peat bog". A gonte still refers to a puddle in the Appenzell dialect . The district of Gonten was created in 1872 from a merger of the Rhode Gonten with the half- testes Stechlenegg and parts of Rinkenbach . Today Gonten includes Jakobsbad to Gontenbad and Rapisau . The best-known elevation is the Kronberg ( 1662  m above sea level ).

population

On December 31, 2014, the district had 1,439 inhabitants. 83.25% were Roman Catholic , 10.08% Protestant Reformed , 2.31% belonged to another religion or Christian denomination and 4.36% gave no information or were non-denominational. 120 pupils attended primary school and 30 children attended kindergarten.

Attractions

The Catholic parish church of St. Verena was built in 1863 in a neo-Gothic style. On the left side altar is a statue of the Madonna from the 17th century. In the sacristy there is a processional cross from 1595 with a crucifix created around 1320 .

The Roothuus takes its name from the formerly red paint. It was built in the 18th century as a four-story town house. There are wall paintings in one of the rooms.

economy

An important local employer is Goba AG (formerly Mineralquelle Gontenbad), which among other things fills the lemonade Flauder .

tourism

There are several tourist attractions in Gonten, such as the Kronberg bobsleigh run and the rope park, which opened on June 16, 2007, the golf course, the Jakobsbad – Kronberg cable car , the 5 km long barefoot path from Jakobsbad to Gontenbad, the winter hiking trail , the cross-country ski trail, the Nordic Walking Center, the Gontenbad natural moor bath and the Studen, Alpsteinblick and Lauftegg ski lifts.

literature

  • Rainald Fischer: The art monuments of the canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden . The Inner Land: Gonten, Gontenbad . Birkhäuser AG, Basel 1984, ISBN 3-7643-1629-2 . (= Die Kunstdenkmäler der Schweiz , Volume 74.) pp. 403–419, 491.
  • Rainald Fischer: The art monuments of the canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden . The Inner Land: Jacobsbad . Pp. 431-435.

Web links

Commons : Gonten  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  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. ↑ Our Inner Rhodes in numbers. (PDF; 1.61 MB) Cantonal Administration of Appenzell Innerrhoden, p. 2 , accessed on December 22, 2019 (population data according to the residents' registration of the canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden).
  3. ^ Gonten - Portrait - Numbers. Gonten district, accessed November 7, 2015 .