Krummenau SG

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Krummenau
Krummenau coat of arms
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Canton of St. GallenCanton of St. Gallen Canton of St. Gallen (SG)
Constituency : Toggenburg
Political community : Nesslaui2
Postal code : 9643
Coordinates : 731 008  /  234476 coordinates: 47 ° 14 '54 "  N , 9 ° 10' 9"  O ; CH1903:  731,008  /  234476
Height : 713  m above sea level M.
Area : 42.28  km²
Residents: 472 (December 31, 2004)
Population density : 11 inhabitants per km²
Krummenau SG

Krummenau SG

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Krummenau is a village in the political municipality of Nesslau in Toggenburg in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland . From 1803 to 2004 Krummenau formed an independent political municipality, which merged in 2005 with the former municipality of Nesslau to Nesslau-Krummenau . Since the merger of Nesslau-Krummenaus with Stein in 2013, Krummenau has been part of the new municipality of Nesslau .

geography

Located on the right side of the Thursday , the municipal territory of Krummenau extended from the Silberplatten in the Säntis massif over the top of the Schwägalp to the Mistelegg area. It enclosed the Schlatt, an exclave of Nesslau, and included the villages of Krummenau, Neu St. Johann and Ennetbühl as well as the outlying areas of Aemelsberg and Beieregg.

history

The place was first mentioned in 1266 as Crumbenow . The area was colonized in the 12th century by court disciples of the Counts of Toggenburg and church people from St. Gallen Abbey . Aemelsberg, Sidwald and Ennetbühl were counts' fiefdoms . In 1468 goods and rights came into the possession of the prince abbey of St. Gallen through purchase, which assigned all areas to the Thurtal court. From the 16th century, Sidwald (Neu St. Johann) developed into a cattle and goods market.

Parish before the merger in 2005

The church in the village of Krummenau, which was supplied from Wattwil, is documented in 1260. Krummenau has had its own parish since 1437 . The Reformation was introduced from 1524 to 1528. Prince Abbot Bernhard Müller had an altar built for the Catholics in the Reformed Church of Krummenau in 1622 ( Church Simultaneum ). After a fire in 1626, the Benedictine monastery of St. Johann , a priory of the prince abbey since 1555 , was relocated to Sidwald, for which the name Neu St. Johann (in contrast to the previous location Alt St. Johann) became naturalized. Jodokus Metzler and Pietro Andreota designed the complex , an important link between post-Gothic and early Baroque architecture, Alberto Barbieri continued it and Daniel Glattburger completed it in 1680.

After the abolition of the priory as a result of the secularization of the prince abbey of St. Gallen, the monastery church and part of the convent building were handed over to the newly established parish of St. Johann in 1806, which united the Catholics of the political communities Krummenau and Nesslau. The convent building now serves as a curative education center under the name Johanneum. The Reformed Ennetbühls were partly in Krummenau and partly in Nesslau, until their own parish was founded in 1755.

The Rietbad sulfur spring near Ennetbühl was already known in the Middle Ages . Krummenau and Nesslau have had a rail connection since 1912. Dairy and livestock farming, smaller textile companies (colored weaving), trade and tourism determine the economic structure. The natural bridge over the Thur collapsed in 1976.

  • Krummenau village

  • Krummenau around 1870

  • The train station and part of the village Trempel in an aerial photo by Walter Mittelholzer between 1918 and 1937

  • "Adler" inn and butcher's shop

  • Hauptstrasse 16 near Krummenau

  • Trempel hydropower plant near Krummenau, but already in the municipality of Ebnat-Kappel

population

Population development Krummenau
year 1827 1850 1900 1950 2000 2004
Residents 1400 1563 1419 1825 1664 1493
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traffic

Krummenau is located on the main road 16 Wil – Wildhaus – Buchs and has a train station on the Wattwil – Nesslau-Neu St. Johann line of the Südostbahn .

The chairlift Krummenau-Wolzenalp is located on the left side of the Thur and thus was always on Nesslauer municipality.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nesslau in numbers. On the website of the municipality of Nesslau, December 31, 2019
  2. ↑
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Hans Büchler : Krummenau. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
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