Mosnang

Mosnang

State :	Switzerland Switzerland
Canton :	Canton of St. Gallen Canton of St. Gallen (SG)
Constituency :	Toggenburgw
BFS no. :	3394i1 f3 f4
Postal code :	9607 (Mosnang) 9613 (Mühlrüti) 9614 (Libingen) 9612 (Dreien)
Coordinates :	720 965 / 246 918 coordinates: 47 ° 21 '43 " N , 9 ° 2' 24" O ; CH1903: seven hundred twenty thousand nine hundred and sixty-five / two hundred forty-six thousand nine hundred and eighteen47.362 9.04 735
Height :	735 m above sea level M.
Height range :	566–1314 m above sea level M.
Area :	50.51 km²
Residents:	2881 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	57 inhabitants per km²
Website:	www.mosnang.ch
Mosnang village square with linden tree, “Bären” restaurant and the old “Krone” (from left to right)
Location of the municipality
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Mosnang (locally called Moslig ) is a village and a political municipality in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland . It is located in the Toggenburg constituency outside of the main traffic axes.

geography

Mosnang lies northeast of the Hulftegg , over which a pass road opened in 1867 leads into the Tösstal in the canton of Zurich .

The villages Mosnang, Mühlrüti and Libingen as well as the hamlets Dreien and Wiesen belong to the municipality of Mosnang . The Murg , one of the largest tributaries of the Thur , has its source in the southwest of Mühlrüti . The neighboring communities are Kirchberg , Fischingen TG , Fischenthal ZH , Eschenbach , Wattwil , Bütschwil-Ganterschwil and Lütisburg .

The 87-kilometer Toggenburger Höhenweg runs through Mühlrüti . It leads in five stages from Wildhaus via Arvenbüel and Chrüzegg (above Atzmännig ) to Wil .

history

Mosnang was first mentioned as Masinang in 854 . A folk priest is mentioned for the first time in 1217 and a parish in 1275 . The tower and parts of the parish church of St. Georg and Theodul date from around 1200.

Boundaries of the old Mosnang court, which is divided into three parts and belongs to the Tannegg lordship. The outside these limits lying area Mosnangs with the villages Mühlrüti and Libingen belonged to fürstäbtischen Lower Court Bazenheid.

Aerial photo by Werner Friedli from 1955

As part of the Tannegg office, the village of Mosnang was subordinate to the Bishop of Constance , from 1693 to Fischingen Monastery , which from 1697 also owned the Kollatur . The high level of jurisdiction lay with the Counts of Toggenburg , and after 1468 with the Prince Abbey of St. Gallen . During the first great plague in Toggenburg from 1564 to 1569, 80% of the population died. After the introduction of the Reformation in 1528, Mosnang returned almost completely to the old faith in 1531.

In 1751 Libingen and in 1764 Mühlrüti separated from the parish of Mosnang. In 1803 the villages of Libingen and Mühlrüti , which had previously belonged to the Bazenheider court, were combined with Mosnang to form a local and a political community . From 1831 to 1861, Mosnang was the meeting place of the Alttoggenburg district community in the context of the St. Gallen constitutional struggles . In 1886 a fire destroyed parts of the Mosnang village center.

Despite the strong industrialization of Toggenburg in the 19th century, Mosnang remained a farming village. In 1985 a high school was opened, before the secondary school students attended classes in Bütschwil. The cantonal prison Bitzi emerged from the forced labor facility founded in 1871 in 1987 , and is now operated as the Bitzi Action Center.The foothills of the Tössstock area and the source area of the Murg have been registered in the federal inventory of landscapes of national importance since 1996 .

→ see also section history in article Libingen
→ see also section history in article Mühlrüti

population

Population development
year	Residents
1850	3005
1900	2670
1950	2638
1980	2280
2000	2894
2010	2881

Distribution to villages and hamlets
As of December 31, 2018
Mosnang village	1113
Courtyards around Mosnang	641
Dreien meadows	422
Mühlrüti	392
Libingen	293
Total	2861

View of the village of Mosnang from the Evasberg

Mosnang church tower

Of the total of 2,681 inhabitants in 2018, 1251 were local citizens and 112 had foreign citizenship. 2179 were Roman Catholic and 356 were Reformed.

With 2920 inhabitants in 2007 Mosnang almost reached the population of 1860 with 3077 inhabitants.

Attractions

The village of Mosnang is best known for its parish church St. Georg and Theodul with the church tower. This was originally built and used as a watchtower and later converted into a church tower. Mosnang also has a small ski lift, which is mainly used by locals. At this ski lift, Maria Walliser , a former Swiss ski racer, learned to “stand on the boards”.

photos

Mosnang cemetery
Primary school Mosnang
Old "Krone" in Mosnang
Toggenburg house in Spilhusen
Church of Mühlrüti in the municipality of Mosnang
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traffic

Mosnang is on the state road Bütschwil - Mühlrüti - Hulftegg - Steg . The from the station Bütschwil at the Toggenburgerbahn outgoing post bus line 765 branches into Mosnang by threes-Mühlrüti and Libingen .

Sport and culture

In addition to a ski lift, the community has two internationally successful clubs: the Mosnang rope pulling club and the RMV Mosnang (cycling and motoring club Mosnang), which plays cycling.

In 2017, 300 volunteers built the world's largest Advent wreath with a diameter of 120 meters in Mosnang .

Personalities

Johann Georg Müller (* 1822 in Mosnang, † 1849 in Vienna), architect
Josef Hagmann (* 1871 in Mosnang, † 1926 in Innsbruck), Catholic clergyman, abbot of St. Georgenberg-Fiecht
Joseph Meile (* 1891 in Mosnang, † 1957 in St. Gallen), Catholic Bishop of St. Gallen
Ernst Pfiffner (* 1922 in Mosnang; † 2011), composer, organist and cantor
Maria Walliser (* 1963 in Mosnang), ski racer
Ivo Rüthemann (* 1976 in Mosnang), ice hockey player
Selina Büchel (* 1991 in Mosnang), track and field athlete

Web links

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

Website of the community of Mosnang

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 Hans Büchler : Mosnang. 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 - Share under the same conditions 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0).

↑ ^a ^b population. On the website of the municipality of Mosnang

↑ Mosnang rope pulling club, welcome. In: tugofwar-mosnang.ch. Retrieved October 26, 2012 .

^ RMV Mosnang - Swiss championship title of the RMV Mosnang. In: rmv-mosnang.ch. Retrieved October 26, 2012 .

↑ Hannah Göldi: The largest Advent wreath in the world is in Mosnang. In: St. Galler Tagblatt (online), December 1, 2017

[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 .