Northeast Quarter (St. Gallen)
| Northeast Quarter | |
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| State : |
 Switzerland
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| Canton : |
 Canton of St. Gallen (SG)
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| Constituency : | St. Gallen |
| Political community : | St. Gallen |
| Postal code : | 9000 |
| former BFS no. : | 3203025 |
| Coordinates : | 746550 / 254980 |
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The Nordost- or St. Jakob-Quartier is a district of the city of St. Gallen
in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland . The quarter group corresponds to the statistical quarter St. Jakob. The quarter is best known in the region for the OLMA and OFFA trade fairs and the annual fair that takes place during both exhibitions, which take place here every October and April. The fair takes up almost the entire area of the quarter south of St. Jakobstrasse and is a considerable burden for the residents.
Geography and traffic
The north-east district borders in the west on the northern old town and the Rosenberg district , in the north on St. Jakobstrasse on Rotmonten , in the east on St. Fiden and the Langgass- Heiligkreuz district, with which it works in the joint district association, and in the south on the south-east district , where the two quarters in the Museum Quarter (which is not an official St. Gallen quarter) merge and are perceived as an urban unit. This also corresponds to the historical facts, since the development of this area between Rorschacherstrasse and Sonnenstrasse was planned and implemented jointly in the 19th century.
In terms of transport, the district is connected to the city center by bus lines 3, 4 and 6 and various PostBus courses that run on the important St. Jakobstrasse / Langgasse axis leading towards Arbon and Romanshorn . The area between St. Jakobsstrasse and Museumsstrasse is known as Brüel or Brühl (the former city gate that led to the area was also called 'Brühltor'), which referred to a marshy, level meadow with trees. At the border with St. Fidenquartier there is also a motorway connection to the A1 , which can be reached from Sonnenstrasse. Between Sonnenstrasse and Notkerstrasse there is also the only larger above-ground park near the city center, Spelteriniplatz , on which most of the vehicles are built during the annual markets.
From 1856 to 1913, the railway line from St. Fiden to St. Gallen train station also ran along today's Sonnenstrasse through the district and crossed St. Jakobstrasse via the Blumenau Bridge.
The whole quarter is on the north side of the Steinach Valley . Significant areas are dominated by buildings from the early 20th century and a large number of schools and public buildings define the quarter.
population
According to statistics from August 2017, the district had a resident population of 3604 people. According to the district portrait, the age groups of St. Jakob and Heiligkreuz are very close to the urban average; the proportion of Swiss is four points lower than the urban average at 66%, and that of EU / EFTA foreigners at 21%, four points higher than the urban average.
Schools and major public institutions.
At the western end of the district, at the so-called Brühl, there is a building belonging to the canton school at Brühl (the former Talhof secondary school, built 1891–92) and the Blumenau secondary school, the district's oldest schoolhouse, which was built as a girls' school in 1867–70. The neo-baroque Tonhalle St. Gallen from 1909, the concert hall of the city's symphony orchestra, is located on Museumsstrasse opposite the St. Gallen Theater . A little further to the northeast, on Notkerstrasse, follow the second building of the canton school at Brühl (formerly 'Verkehrsschule'), the canton library (Vadiana) and the Bürgli secondary school .
To the north of the canton library is the Spelterini primary school and a little to the east of this is the St. Gallen University of Education (PHSG), which was built from 1905 to 1907 as the 'Hadwig School' and was in operation as such until the 1990s. The PHSG was opened in 1995 after a renovation in the building. To the north-east of the Bürgli secondary school is the “ Athletics Center St. Gallen ” sports facility and a little to the east is the main building of the fire brigade and the St. Gallen civil defense. To the north and east of this are the halls of the Olma Messen St. Gallen . These are to be expanded with an ambitious project for which a concrete cover is to be built over the motorway east of the tunnel portal of the Rosenberg tunnel and the site is to be reclaimed as construction area, although this area would belong to the Langgass-Heiligkreuz district.
history
Like the Southeast Quarter, the St. Jakob / Northeast Quarter was part of the urban area of St. Gallen even before the city was merged. The area off the main road towards Arbon was almost undeveloped until 1880 and before 1860 only the cavalry barracks and the St. Jakob penal institution were built there on larger structures. The Zuber map from 1828 shows that there, too, large areas of Brühl were used to bleach the linen tracks, as in many places outside the old city walls, which is also suggested by the old field name Brühlbleiche. The serious development began based on plans from the 1870s (see adjacent plan from 1874). Stone houses were stipulated, which, according to the building regulations in force at the time, were to be built “within the boundaries of beauty and harmony”, referring to the area adjacent to the city park and the museum district of the south-east quarter.
The area between the last residential buildings in the Museum Quarter and the border with the municipality of Tablat served as building land, where the growing city erected public buildings for the infrastructure, some of which have since disappeared.
The St. Jakob penal institution was built from 1835 to 1839 on the current OLMA site on St. Jakobstrasse. It was expanded in 1886 and served as a prison for the canton of St. Gallen until 1956. In 1956 its demolition began and in 1958 it was blown up by air raids. The new OLMA buildings took their place in 1960. In this context, the field name 'Schellenacker', which referred to an area south of the OLMA area, which is still reminiscent of the adjacent 'Äussere Schellenstrasse', is worth mentioning. These names refer to the shackles that prisoners in the prison who worked here had to wear.
In the immediate vicinity of the prison was the slaughterhouse on the Schellenacker, which was built to replace the slaughterhouse on the Steinach between 1892 and 1895 and was demolished in 1976 after the new slaughterhouse in Winkel was opened.
In 1897 a power station was opened on Steinachstrasse, which now serves as a substation for the municipal utilities. There was also a gas works in the area and previously a VBSG depot.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ St. Galler Tagblatt AG, Switzerland: Much more than culture and parking spaces . In: St.Galler Tagblatt . ( tagblatt.ch [accessed October 4, 2017]).
- ^ Hans Stricker: My city of St. Gallen . Ed .: School administration of the city of St. Gallen. St. Gallen 1970, p. 295 .
- ↑ City archive of the local citizens' community of St.Gallen. Retrieved October 5, 2017 .
- ↑ Administration of the City of St. Gallen: Population status of the City of St. Gallen, August 2017. Department for Statistics Canton St. Gallen, August 2017, accessed on October 4, 2017 .
- ^ Office for social issues , neighborhood work: short portraits of the 18 quarters of the city of St.Gallen. May 21, 2015, p. 32 , accessed October 4, 2017 .
- ↑ Edited by Maria Hufenus with the help of Monika Rüegger and Ernst Ziegler: DATA ON THE BUILDING HISTORY OF THE CITY OF ST.GALLEN FROM THE BEGINNING TO 2000. Vadiana City Archives, 2004, pp. 20, 24 , accessed on October 4, 2017 .
- ↑ St. Gallen city parliament says yes to the motorway cover for the Olma. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 4, 2017 ; accessed on October 4, 2017 (Swiss Standard German). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Hans Stricker: Our city of St. Gallen . Ed .: School administration of the city of St. Gallen. St. Gallen 1970, p. 297 .
- ↑ edited by Maria Hufenus with the help of Monika Rüegger and Ernst Ziegler: DATA ON THE BUILDING HISTORY OF THE CITY OF ST.GALLEN FROM THE BEGINNING TO 2000. 2004, pp. 16, 23, 25, 26, 51–53, 65 , accessed on 4. October 2017 .
- ^ St. Galler Tagblatt AG, Switzerland: Frustration in prison becomes Olmalust . In: St.Galler Tagblatt . ( archive.org [accessed October 5, 2017]).
