Krinau

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Krinau
Krinau coat of arms
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Canton of St. GallenCanton of St. Gallen Canton of St. Gallen (SG)
Constituency : Toggenburgw
Political community : Wattwili2
Postal code : 9622
former BFS no. : 3373
Coordinates : 721 824  /  241894 coordinates: 47 ° 19 '0 "  N , 9 ° 3' 0"  O ; CH1903:  721,824  /  241894
Height : 803  m above sea level M.
Area : 7.23  km²
Residents: 254 (December 31, 2012)
Population density : 35 inhabitants per km²
Website: www.krinau.ch
Krinau

Krinau

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Krinau is a former political municipality and a village in the municipality of Wattwil in Toggenburg in eastern Switzerland .

geography

The village is at an altitude of 800 m and is located around four kilometers as the crow flies northwest of Wattwil in a western transverse valley of the Thur and bordered by the foothills of the Chrüzegg ridge. The community consisted of the village of the same name and the hamlets of Altschwil, Au, Dreischlatt, Gurtberg, Schuflenberg, Krinäuli, Niederberg, Kapf and Gruben. The neighboring communities were Wattwil, Bütschwil and Mosnang .

history

The place was first mentioned in 1357 as Krinnow . The court and bailiwick were owned by the Counts of Toggenburg and were acquired by the Prince Abbey of St. Gallen in 1468 . In 1510 Krinau bought himself free from all feudal burdens . From then on, the village exercised the lower jurisdiction itself as a free municipality and made its decisions in its own rural municipality . In a high judicial relationship, it was still subject to the Prince Abbey of St. Gallen. During the Helvetic Republic, Krinau was first assigned to the municipality of Lichtensteig , then to Oberhelfenschwil . When the canton of St. Gallen was founded in 1803, it became independent again under the new municipal legislation.

reformed Church
Parish before the merger in 2013

After the Reformation from 1524 to 1531, only a small number of Catholic families lived in Krinau. Both the Catholics and the Reformed came to Bütschwil , where the pastor of Mogelsberg looked after the Reformed. In 1724 the reformed church was built in Krinau; however, the reformed reformed from the mother church did not take place until 1775. Since 1992 the Catholics belong to the parish in Lichtensteig. In 1736 a free school was opened and in 1828 the primary school was built.

In the 18th and 19th centuries, hand and colored weaving flourished. At the beginning of the 21st century, the population of Krinau lived from dairy farming, cattle breeding, forestry, little business and tourism. It suffers from migration and, in some cases, from a housing shortage, as the old structure is rented to holiday guests. Krinau was numerically the smallest municipality in the canton. The village image is of national importance. There are a few stately farmhouses in the scattered settlement. In 2005 the school community Krinau merged with that of Wattwil.

Until December 31, 2012, Krinau was an independent political municipality in the Neutoggenburg district or the Toggenburg constituency . In a referendum, the citizens of Krinau decided to merge with the neighboring municipality of Wattwil on January 1, 2013. At the time of integration into the municipality of Wattwil, Krinau was the smallest municipality in the canton of St. Gallen with 254 inhabitants.

population

Population development
year 1789 1850 1900 1950 1980 1990 2000 2010 2012
Residents 180 452 381 320 240 266 278 255 254
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Älpli wind farm

The planned Älpli wind farm is planned directly next to the BLN-protected landscape (yellow).

Above Krinau and Libingen , a wind farm with three large systems with masts 120 to 160 meters high and rotors with a diameter of 110 to 140 meters is planned. The construction of the wind energy plants would also require the construction of an access road. In the best-case scenario, the initiators expect construction to start in 2022. The three systems would be built right next to the protected landscape Hörnli- Bergland listed in the Federal Inventory of Landscapes and Natural Monuments of National Importance (BLN) .

The opponents fear interference with the landscape, harmful effects from infrasound and the lack of distance to the eyrie of a pair of eagles on the Kreuzegg. The Federal Office for Civil Aviation determined that the Zurich-Holberg radar was seriously disrupted by the Krinau systems. An opinion from the opponents expects excessive noise and calls into question the profitability of the system.

Sightseeing and tourism

  • Interior of the reformed church

  • Toggenburg House "Quelle"

  • House "Chrinäuli" with incomparable adhesive roof supports

Web links

Commons : Krinau  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Hans Büchler : Krinau. 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).
  2. ↑ Martin Knoepfel: Will there soon be three wind turbines in the Älpli above Krinau? In St. Galler Tagblatt (online), January 22, 2018
  3. ↑ Martin Knoepfel: Resistance to the planned wind park in Älpli is growing - opponents found an association. In: St. Galler Tagblatt (online), April 9, 2018
  4. ↑ Ruben Schönenberger: The wind farm in Älpli near Krinau polarizes. In: St. Galler Tagblatt (online), April 10, 2019
  5. ↑ Ruben Schönenberger: Too loud and not economical: Association wants to prevent wind turbines above Krinau with its own report. In: St. Galler Tagblatt (online), November 1, 2019