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 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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) |
||
| map | ||
|
||
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