Gonzen

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Gonzen
The Gonzen above Sargans Castle

The Gonzen above Sargans Castle

height 1830  m above sea level M.
location Canton of St. Gallen , Switzerland
Mountains Appenzell Alps
Dominance 1.1 km →  Tschugga
Notch height 162 m ↓  Folla
Coordinates 751 546  /  214838 coordinates: 47 ° 4 '2 "  N , 9 ° 26' 2"  O ; CH1903:  seven hundred and fifty-one thousand five hundred forty-six  /  214838
Gonzen (Canton of St. Gallen)
Gonzen
On the top

The Gonzen is a mountain peak in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland at 1,830  m above sea level. M. It stands at the south-eastern end of the Alvier group in the north of Sargans like a wedge between the Seez and Rhine valleys, which are each at the same height, and is therefore an exposed summit with a view. To the north, the Gonzen runs in the plateau, which lies on the west side in front of the chain of peaks from Gauschla to Gamsberg , and is only 160 meters apart, which means easy access.

On Gonzen earlier were iron and manganese ores mined, the Gonzen Mine is now a show mine .

literature

  • Paul Hugger: The Gonzen, 2000 years of mining, The book of memories . Kant. Lehrmittelverlag SG, Rorschach 1991
  • Ulrich Ritter: The iron mine at Gonzen near Sargans. In: Mitteilungen der Geographisch-Ethnographische Gesellschaft Zürich , Volume 21, 192–-1921, pp. 5–34. ( Digitized version )
  • Hans Fehlmann: Swiss iron production, its history and economic importance. Publishing house Huber, Bern 1932.
  • Edmund Scheibener: The iron mine on Gonzen. In: Rorschacher Neujahrsblatt , Rorschach 1920. pp. 47–66.
  • W. Epprecht: 2000 years of Gonzen iron mine, Sargans. Sargans 1987.
  • Pro Gonzenbergwerk (ed.): The Gonzen iron mine. Sargans 1984.
  • N. Lang: The Gonzen mine electric gyro locomotive. Sargans 1994.
  • EGAG (ed.): On the history of Gonzen. 1939.
  • EGAG (Hrsg.): The ore deposit on Gonzen. 1939.
  • Swiss Geotechnical Commission (Ed.): The mineral raw materials of Switzerland. Zurich 1997.

Web links

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