Kirchberg SG

SG is the abbreviation for the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland and is used to avoid confusion with other entries in the name Kirchberg .

Kirchberg

State :	Switzerland Switzerland
Canton :	Canton of St. Gallen Canton of St. Gallen (SG)
Constituency :	Toggenburgw
BFS no. :	3392i1 f3 f4
Postal code :	9533 Dietschwil 9533 Kirchberg 9534 Gähwil 9602 Bazenheid 9602 Müselbach
UN / LOCODE :	CH KRG
Coordinates :	720 376 / 251132 coordinates: 47 ° 24 '0 " N , 9 ° 2' 0" O ; CH1903: seven hundred twenty thousand three hundred seventy-six / 25113247.400001 9.033339 735
Height :	735 m above sea level M.
Height range :	521–966 m above sea level M.
Area :	42.54 km²
Residents:	9073 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	213 inhabitants per km²
Website:	www.kirchberg.ch
Kirchberg SG
Location of the municipality
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Kirchberg is a town and a municipality in the Swiss canton of St. Gallen . In addition to the main town of the same name, the villages of Bazenheid an der Thur and Gähwil also belong to the municipality that belongs to the Toggenburg constituency .

geography

The municipality, located in the extreme northwest of Toggenburg , borders on the canton of Thurgau to the west and the Thur to the east . It consists of the village of Kirchberg, which is centrally located on a high plateau, the village of Gähwil south of it and the street village of Bazenheid on a terrace above the Thur, the villages of Müselbach and Dietschwil and the hamlets of Ötwil, Nuetenwil, Rupperswil, Bräägg, Schalkhusen, Wolfikon, Lütenriet , Buomberg, Bäbikon and Husen.

The neighboring communities are Rickenbach , Wilen , Sirnach and Fischingen in the canton of Thurgau and Mosnang , Lütisburg and Jonschwil in the canton of St. Gallen.

history

Second Church, 1404–1748

Parish and pilgrimage church of St. Peter and Paul (Holy Cross Church), construction of which began in 1785

Aerial photo by Walter Mittelholzer from 1929

A possibly Iron Age fortification is located at Unterbazenheid. Bazenheid was mentioned in a document in 778/789, and the name Kilchberc first appeared in 1222 . In the area, which was sparsely populated from the 8th century onwards, servants of the St. Gallen monastery and the Counts of Toggenburg as well as some free people lived in permanent places. 17 castle sticks of the lower service nobility could be proven, among others in Bazenheid and Ötwil. Between the monastery of St. Gallen and the Counts of Toggenburg, who had their first headquarters on the Alt-Toggenburg , there was a power struggle for colonization by serfs . In 1445 the battle near Kirchberg took place in the municipality . 1468 the whole municipality went through purchase at the Abbey of St. Gall on which the individual courts the courts Schwarzenbach and Bazenheid and the outdoors the outdoor court Thurlinden to. In 1803, the political community and the local community Kirchberg were formed, which belonged to the Alttoggenburg district from 1831 to 2002 .

A church in Kirchberg is mentioned for the first time in 1215, which was initially a branch of Rickenbach , but later became its own parish . In 1359 the parish of Kirchberg was incorporated into the St. Gallen monastery , and Rickenbach in turn appeared as a branch of Kirchberg. The 1527 Reformation was only successful for a short time; In 1531 the majority of the population returned to Catholicism. From 1541 to 1954 - i.e. until the reformed church was built - the original church was used equally . The Reformed of Kirchberg formed a parish with Lütisburg from 1559 to 1856 . In 1764 Gähwil was replaced by Bazenheid in 1900 as an independent Catholic parish. In 1784 a fire destroyed the church and 40 buildings in the village of Kirchberg, whereupon Johann Ferdinand Beer built the baroque parish and pilgrimage church of St. Peter and Paul . In 1863 Kirchberg suffered another fire in the village.

Most of the farmers worked as a sideline in embroidery . After 1800, cotton manufacturing experienced an upswing. From 1897 to 1914 there was an embroidery school in the village of Kirchberg. The home-based embroidery came to a standstill in the 1930s. As part of the Wil region , Kirchberg experienced an industrial and commercial boom after 1960. In 2000, around half of the workforce was employed in the second economic sector and a third in the service sector. Conversely, the number of farms has fallen from over 400 to 170 since then. Nevertheless, Kirchberg still has the largest livestock in the canton of St. Gallen.

→ see also section history in article Bazenheid
→ see also section history in article Gähwil

Infrastructure

Parish hall

The municipality is located on the SBB line Wil – Bazenheid – Wattwil and is also covered by bus routes. The Bazenheid bypass was completed in 2009. The community is directly adjacent to the A1 motorway slip road in Wil.

→ see also sections infrastructure and traffic in the article Bazenheid
→ see also sections traffic in the article Gähwil

population

Ceiling frescoes in the Holy Cross Church

Population development
year	1827	1850	1900	1950	1980	2000	2010
Residents	2550	4194	5025	5619	6398	7904	8149
source

Attractions

Catholic parish and pilgrimage church of St. Peter and Paul (Heiligkreuzkirche)
Lampertswilerweiher and Turpenriet, which are under nature protection.

Personalities

Augustin Egger (1833–1906), Bishop of St. Gallen
Eduard Spelterini (1852–1931), aviation pioneer and balloon captain
Viktor Hälg (1906–1975), Abbot Bishop of Ndanda / Mtwara in Tanzania
Jakob Häne (1913–1978), painter
Paul Huber (1918–2001), composer
Jakob Schönenberger (1931–2018), politician (CVP), mayor 1961–1976
Toni Calzaferri (1947–1999), sculptor, object artist and draftsman
Christine Stückelberger (* 1947), dressage rider, Olympic champion
Andrea Gmür-Schönenberger (* 1964), Lucerne National Councilor (CVP)

photos

Kirchberg, in front the hamlet draw
Protestant church
Typical Toggenburg house
Toggenburg houses

Web links

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

Official website of the Kirchberg SG community

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 .

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Hans Büchler : Kirchberg (SG). In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
These sections are largely based on the entry in the Historical Lexicon of Switzerland (HLS), which, according to the HLS's usage information, is under the Creative Commons license - Attribution - Distribution under the same conditions 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0).

^ Hans Büchler : Bazenheid. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

^ Martin Illi: Old Zurich War. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

^ History at www.kirchberg.ch, accessed on October 20, 2017

↑ Permanent and non-permanent resident population by institutional structure, place of birth and nationality. On: bfs.admin.ch. Federal Statistical Office (FSO), accessed on June 18, 2020.

[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 .