New St. Johann SG
SG is the abbreviation for the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland and is used to avoid confusion with other entries of the name Neu St. Johann . |
New St. Johann | ||
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State : | Switzerland | |
Canton : | Canton of St. Gallen (SG) | |
Constituency : | Toggenburg | |
Political community : | Nesslau | |
Postal code : | 9652 | |
Coordinates : | 732 909 / 232498 | |
Height : | 749 m above sea level M. | |
Residents: | 658 (December 31, 2019) | |
Neu St. Johann (left), Nesslau (right) |
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Neu St. Johann (formerly Sidwald) is a village in the municipality of Nesslau in the canton of St. Gallen , Switzerland. 658 inhabitants live in the village.
history
For a long time Sidwald was a marrow in the upper Toggenburg . A cattle and goods market existed from the 16th century.
In 1680 the Neu St. Johann monastery was founded; this was a re-establishment of the Benedictine monastery St. Johann in about ten kilometers up the valley (later called) Alt St. Johann , which was abandoned after a fire in 1626. It was the seat of a governor of the prince abbey of St. Gallen . The place Sidwald got the name Neu St. Johann over time . The monastery was the seat of a St. Gallen governor and existed until 1806. In the course of the secularization of the prince abbey of St. Gallen, the monastery became a parish and parts of the complex were later set up as the Johanneum curative education center , which today is the municipality's largest employer .
In 1857 the brothers Emil and Gustav Gnipper founded a textile company in Neu St. Johann that was later taken over by the Meyer-Mayor family and existed until 2018.
Until the end of 2004, the village belonged together with Krummenau , Ennetbühl and the outlying areas of Aemelsberg and Beieregg to the political municipality of Krummenau.
Geography and traffic
The Luteren and Thur flow past Neu St. Johann . The railway line with the train station in the neighboring town of Nesslau has existed since 1912. The town is on Hauptstrasse 16 .
Attractions
people
- Joseph Anton Dollmayr (1804–1840), German professor at the Solothurn college
- Frieda Hartmann , Swiss writer, was born on April 1st, 1893 on the Schlatt above Neu St. Johann.
literature
- Gottlieb Bösch: Nesslau, Neu St. Johann: old views; the transition from the 19th to the 20th century. Scherrer, Nesslau 1996, ISBN 3-9520154-4-X .
- Moritz Flury-Rova, Werner Kuster : A cycle of rural Renaissance paintings in Sidwald. New St. Johann in Toggenburg. (Swiss Art Guide, No. 812, Series 82). Ed. Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Bern 2007, ISBN 978-3-85782-812-6 .
Web links
- History of the former municipality of Krummenau on nesslau.ch
Individual evidence
- ↑ Nesslau in numbers. On the website of the municipality of Nesslau, December 31, 2019
- ↑ a b c Hans Büchler : Krummenau. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- ^ Johanneum Curative Education Center
- ^ New St. Johann: Farewell to Meyer-Mayor. In: St. Galler Tagblatt (online), May 11, 2018