Nesslau

Nesslau

State :	Switzerland Switzerland
Canton :	Canton of St. Gallen Canton of St. Gallen (SG)
Constituency :	Toggenburg
BFS no. :	3360i1 f3 f4
Postal code :	9643 Krummenau 9650 Dicken (Nesslau) 9650 Nesslau 9651 Ennetbühl 9651 Rietbad 9652 Neu St. Johann 9655 Stein
UN / LOCODE :	CH NES (Nesslau)
Coordinates :	733 391 / 231949 coordinates: 47 ° 13 '30 " N , 9 ° 12' 0" O ; CH1903: 733,391 / 23194947.225 9.200004 759
Height :	759 m above sea level M.
Height range :	702–2184 m above sea level M.
Area :	92.70 km²
Residents:	3578 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	39 inhabitants per km²
Mayor :	Kilian Looser
Website:	www.nesslau.ch
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Nesslau is a town and a municipality in the Swiss canton of St. Gallen . The community is in the Toggenburg constituency . The new community was created on January 1, 2013 from the existing communities of Nesslau-Krummenau and Stein .

A community of Nesslau had already existed up to December 31, 2004, when Krummenau and Stein each formed their own political communities.

geography

Cherchplatzstobe in Nesslau

The villages of Krummenau , Neu St. Johann , Nesslau and Stein are in the upper Thur Valley and Ennetbühl and Rietbad in the Luterental on the Schwägalp pass road. Part of the highest Nagelfluh mountain in Europe, the Speer (1950 m above sea level ), and part of the Alpstein belong to the community . The municipality extends east to the top of the Schwägalp pass, which forms the border with the canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden . The highest mountain in the municipality is the Silberplatten in Alpstein near Säntis at 2158 m . The Thur and the Luteren flow through the municipality. The two rivers are shown in the coat of arms as two silver wavy bars. The Wissthur also flows through the former municipality of Stein .

The original municipality of Nesslau included the village of the same name and the farms and hamlets Lutenwil, Krümmenschwil, Büel, Schneit, Laad and Schlatt (until 2004 an exclave in Krummenau), which lie on both sides of the Thur between Speer and Stockberg.

history

Aerial photo by Werner Friedli, 1949

From the 12th century the area was colonized by the Counts of Toggenburg and the Prince Abbey of St. Gallen . Nesslau was mentioned in 1178 as Mezellouo , in 1261 Nesselove and ze dem Wassere and Lutenwil as early as 912 as Lutherraheimara . Nesslau was probably created through the merging of the two farms Nesslau and Zum Wasser. The village of Nesslau formed with Lutenwil and Riet the judicial district Zum Wasser, the community area to the left of the Thur was subordinate to the Thurtal court. In 1261 the knight Heinrich von Kempten sold extensive real estate and jurisdiction over Nesslau to the Alt St. Johann monastery . In 1555 the monastery was incorporated into the prince abbey of St. Gallen , which was already owned by the Thurtal court. The residents of the judicial district of Zum Wasser thus received the same rights as the other people in the church. After the founding of the canton of St. Gallen, the political municipality of Nesslau was founded in 1803. Nesslau belonged to the Obertoggenburg district from 1831 to 2002 and was the seat of the district office. In the middle of the 19th century, Yenish families were naturalized in Neu St. Johann due to the “Law to Combat Homelessness” .

Reformed Church of Nesslau

A chapel in Nesslau is mentioned in 1178, the church in 1261 and its incorporation into the Alt St. Johann monastery in 1513. In 1528 Nesslau accepted the Reformation , but in 1595 Catholic worship was reintroduced. After initial resistance, the simultaneous relationship solidified in 1602 and lasted until 1806, when the Catholics from Nesslau and Krummenau were assigned to the newly founded parish of Neu St. Johann.

In addition to agriculture, which is still important today, the embroidery industry flourished until the First World War. In 1859 the secondary school Nesslau-Krummenau was opened. The terminus of the Bodensee-Toggenburg Railway has been in Nesslau since 1912 . In 1919 the horse mail from Nesslau to Wildhaus was replaced by postbuses. The Nesslau-Neu St. Johann terminus , which serves these villages, thus became an important hub for goods and people, and tourism in Obertoggenburg experienced an upswing. Various projects to continue the train via Wildhaus to Buchs or as a cogwheel train via Unterwasser to the Säntis summit failed. Agriculture, alpine and forestry as well as small businesses determine the economic structure. Today Altherr Nutzfahrzeuge AG is one of the larger employers in the municipality.

After the population of both communities had clearly agreed, the political communities of Nesslau and Krummenau merged on January 1, 2005 to form the community of Nesslau-Krummenau. After a further, mutually undisputed vote, Nesslau-Krummenau and Stein merged on January 1, 2013 to form the municipality of Nesslau.

See also

→ Sections history in the articles Krummenau SG , Neu St. Johann SG and Stein SG

On March 29, 1947, 35 buildings were destroyed in the Stein village fire, the last major village fire in Switzerland.
→ Main article: Section village fire from 1947 in article Stein SG

population

Guest houses in Neu St. Johann

Population development
year	1827	1850	1900	1950	2000	2018
Nesslau community	2700	2374	2137	2073	2001	3578
Municipality of Krummenau	1400	1563	1419	1825	1664
Stein parish	717	605	611	588	398

Transport and tourism

The community is accessed from Hauptstrasse 16 Wil - Wildhaus - Buchs and from the railway line of the Südostbahn from Wattwil with the stations in Krummenau and Nesslau-Neu St. Johann station . Nesslau-Neu St. Johann station is the end of the St. Gallen S-Bahn line S2 Altstätten – St. Gallen – Wattwil – Nesslau. From Nesslau the post bus lines lead to Stein – Wildhaus – Buchs on the one hand and via Schwägalp to Urnäsch on the other.

The valley station of the Wolzenalp lifts, which lead to the Wolzenalp and open up the skiing and hiking area of the same name, is located near the village of Krummenau. The 60 kilometer long Thurweg , a hiking trail that runs along the Thur from Wil to Wildhaus , runs through the municipality . Nesslau has an indoor swimming pool and since 1997 a local museum.

Attractions

Panorama New St. Johann and Nesslau

Personalities

Seth Abderhalden (1926–1960), mountaineer and extreme climber
Jörg Abderhalden (* 1979), three-time wrestling king from Nesslau
Rea Brändle (1953–2019), journalist and writer
Herbert Cerutti (* 1943), journalist, writer and freelance publicist
Simone Kuhn (* 1980), beach volleyball player from Nesslau
Heinrich Scherrer (1847–1919), politician
Willi Valotti (* 1949), composer and accordion player

literature

H. Büchler, The Toggenburg in old views from the 17th to the 19th century, 1975.
W. Vogler, The St. Johann monastery in the Thurtal, 1985.

Web links

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

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 ^h Hans Büchler : Nesslau. 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).
↑ Sabine Schmid: Stein: Föhn robs 90 people of their shelter. In: Werdenberger & Obertoggenburger (Online) from May 3, 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 July 5, 2020.
^ Hans Büchler: Krummenau. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
^ Hans Büchler: Stein (SG). In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

[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 .

[HLS-2] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Hans Büchler : Nesslau. 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).

[3] Sabine Schmid: Stein: Föhn robs 90 people of their shelter. In: Werdenberger & Obertoggenburger (Online) from May 3, 2017.

[BFS-4] Permanent and non-permanent resident population by institutional structure, place of birth and nationality. On: bfs.admin.ch. Federal Statistical Office (FSO), accessed on July 5, 2020.

[5] Hans Büchler: Krummenau. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

[6] Hans Büchler: Stein (SG). In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .