Oberuzwil
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 Switzerland
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| Canton : |
 Canton of St. Gallen (SG)
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| Constituency : | Wil |
| BFS no. : | 3407 |
| Postal code : | 9242 |
| UN / LOCODE : | CH OBE |
| Coordinates : | 727 077 / 254 577 |
| Height : | 560 m above sea level M. |
| Height range : | 502–860 m above sea level M. |
| Area : | 14.08 km² |
| Residents: | 6413 (December 31, 2018) |
| Population density : | 455 inhabitants per km² |
| Website: | www.oberuzwil.ch |
 Oberuzwil-Dorf in summer 2010 |
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Oberuzwil is a municipality in the Wil electoral district in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland .
geography
The municipality of Oberuzwil is located in the Untertoggenburg .
The municipality has a size of 1,408 hectares , of which 939 hectares are used for agriculture, 321 hectares consist of forest .
The highest point of the municipality is at 854 meters above sea level , the lowest point at 509 meters above sea level.
The villages Oberuzwil-Dorf (formerly Oberuzwil), Niederglatt and Bichwil belong to the municipality . Bichwil and Oberuzwil-Dorf have the status of a local community . In addition to the actual village, each of the three villages consists of other small villages and hamlets . Buchen belongs to Oberuzwil-Dorf; Bisacht, Engi, Eppenberg, Kreienberg, Langenau, Oberrindal (partly), Ramsau, Riggenschwil, Ritzenhaus and Sonder belong to Bichwil; Niederglatt includes grayling, Güllwies, Häuslen, Heiligenswil, Herrenhof, Hinterbach, Homberg, Löchli (partly), Unter- and Obertobel, Rudeln (partly), Saurenmoss, Städeli, Watt and Wilen.
The municipalities of Uzwil , Oberbüren , Flawil , Degersheim , Lütisburg and Jonschwil border the Oberuzwil area .
It is a hamlet of Oberuzwils on a hill at around 800 m above sea level. M. lying Eppenberg . In the municipality there is also the Bettenauer Weiher , the eponymous hamlet of Bettenau, on the other hand, belongs to the municipality of Jonschwil . The Uze flows through the local community of Oberuzwil, while the Glatt between Löchli and the Giel castle site forms the border with Oberbüren.
population
Oberuzwil has 6413 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2018). Of the inhabitants of Oberuzwil, 4,407 live in Oberuzwil, 907 in Bichwil and 348 in Niederglatt. 126 inhabitants are distributed across the rest of the municipality (as of December 31, 2011). 84.25% of the population are Swiss, 15.75% are foreigners. 44.3% of the population are Catholic, 30.4% Evangelical Reformed and 25.3% belong to another or no denomination .
politics
The municipal council consists of seven members elected by the people and works in the departmental system (departments: municipality president, economy, environment, culture, social & health, education, leisure & youth). The school council president is also a member of the municipal council. The municipality president has been Cornel Egger (CVP) since 1991, who was re-elected in 2016.
economy
Economic history
For a long time, the textile industry was an important industry in Oberuzwil. The companies Heer & Co. and the Dierauer brothers played a key role in this. The Benninger company operated an assembly hall in Oberuzwil, in which the Schützengarten brewery also had a warehouse. The former Hefti tannery also belonged to the same area . The buildings were demolished in 2008 and multi-family houses were built on in 2010 and 2011.
The company Heer & Co. relocated from Thal to Oberuzwil in 1838 and grew strongly until the turn of the century. In 1920 450 people were employed. In 1937 Heer & Co. was taken over by Dollfus-Mieg & Co. and employed only 250 people in the 1960s. In 1987, the company was bought by J. Müller and has since operated under the name of HC Färberei Oberuzwil AG . As a result of the decline of the textile industry in Europe, the company was closed on August 23, 2002 and was deleted from the commercial register on September 30, 2004. In 2009 it was announced that the buildings on the site would be demolished. With the 47 meter high chimney , the last factory building was demolished on April 1, 2011. The area was built on multi-family houses.
The Gebrüder Dierauer AG emerged from a cloth shop opened in 1847 and a shoe factory built in 1870, which was subsequently expanded considerably. The company was sold in 1971 and came into the possession of Fredy Herzog in 1982, who continues the textile business under the current name of Diro's AG .
Current situation
There are a few craft and commercial businesses in Oberuzwil. In addition, local economic policy focuses on future-oriented small and medium-sized enterprises. The largest employers, however, are the two global companies Benninger and Bühler from Uzwil. These are approached by buses from Bichwil and Oberuzwil.
The 2,720 people living and working in Oberuzwil (as of December 31, 2007) are distributed across the 3 sectors as follows:
- 1st sector (agriculture): 119
- 2nd sector (industry): 975 (552 of which in the metal industry)
- 3rd sector (services): 1264
The workers employed in the municipality are distributed as follows:
- 1st sector (agriculture): 179
- 2nd sector (industry): 481
- 3rd sector (services): 811
traffic
Oberuzwil is on cantonal road no. 8 ( main road 430) between Gossau and Wil . In the municipality, this road leads past Riggenschwil, through Oberuzwil (Flawilerstrasse and Wilerstrasse) and then along the Bettenauerweiher. The canton road No. 38 (Hauptstrasse 444), which begins at the canton border between Bischofszell and Niederbüren, runs through the Oberuzwil Bahnhofstrasse and ends in the canton road No. 8. The canton road No. 54 connects Niederuzwil with Flawil and leads through the hamlet of Wilen- Watt. A section of the cantonal road no. 10 (main road 431) between Lütisburg and Flawil also leads through the Oberuzwil area, at the height of Ramsau and Oberrindal. The remaining roads in the municipality are municipal roads.
With the construction of the autobahn and the Oberbüren-Uzwil junction, a four-lane road with separate lanes between Oberbüren and Lindenplatz in Uzwil was built in 1968 as a feeder road. A continuation to Oberuzwil was originally planned, but the expansion of the missing section between Lindenstrasse and the municipality border with Oberuzwil was rejected several times by the people of Uzwil.
Oberuzwil is located at the SBB -Bahnlinie Wil-St. Gallen . Uzwil station, which is run by the municipalities of Oberuzwil and Uzwil, is served hourly by long-distance trains on the Lausanne - St. Gallen route. Oberuzwil is connected to the Flawil, Uzwil and Wil train stations by Postbuses.
history
Little is known about the early history of Oberuzwil: Oberuzwil is likely to be traced back to the settlement of the area by the Alemanni in the 6th or 7th century , with an Alemann named Uto or Uzo responsible for the name of his settlement ( = Uzzinwilare ). He thus covered the whole of today's Niederuzwil, Uzwil and Oberuzwil area with several farms. Oberuzwil ( Uzzinwilare ) was first mentioned in 819 and 824, Bichwil ( Pichilinwilare ) and Wilen ( Wila ) in 865.
Sometime in the period between 1222 and 1259, the castle of the nobles of Eppenberg was built on the highest point of the Eppenberg, but burned down and destroyed for the first time in 1403 during the Appenzell Wars. It will then be rebuilt by Ludwig von Eppenberg . It was destroyed again in 1521, this time by a lightning strike. A lack of funds prevented the reconstruction and finally the noble von Eppenberg family died out completely around 1620. The ruins of the castle were used, among other things, for the construction of the Catholic parish church in Bichwil in 1808, so that today there are no more noticeable traces of the castle.
Around 1464, at the behest of the prince abbey of St. Gallen near Bettenau (Gde. Jonschwil ), the moorland to the Bettenauerweiher is dammed by building a dam . This pond is supposed to supply the kitchen of the St.Gallen monastery with fresh fish. In later years ownership of the pond changed several times, but in 1932 it was completely assigned to the municipality of Oberuzwil following a border regulation. The pond today has an estimated volume of around 200,000 m³.
One of the historical landmarks of Oberuzwil is the Evangelical Reformed Church, which was planned and built in 1765/66 by the well-known master builder Hans Ulrich Grubenmann (1709–1783). Master builder Grubenmann donated the font, which is still in use today and can be viewed in the church. Since 1966 the church has been under federal protection of the federal preservation authorities.
With the mediation act of February 19, 1803, Napoléon Bonaparte laid down the future structure of the Swiss Confederation . In this document, the canton of St. Gallen (as the successor to the canton of Säntis ) was defined, thus creating the legal basis for the municipality of Oberuzwil. As a result, the villages of Oberuzwil, Niederglatt, Wilen, Riggenschwil and Bichwil were formed into the municipality of Oberuzwil on July 24, 1803.
On the initiative of the Protestant pastor and some active citizens, the Oberuzwil savings storage facility was opened on January 1, 1851 . This bank is still active today under the name Clientis Bank Oberuzwil AG .
Between 1934 and 1935, the Zurich architect Fritz Metzger built the Catholic Church of St. Gallus . It is built in the New Building style and is considered the most consistent one-room church of this time.
At the Flurhof ammunition depot, which is located between Oberuzwil and the hamlet of Bisacht, the traitor Ernst Schrämli was shot by a firing squad of the Swiss Army on the night of November 10th, 1942 . The 23-year-old Schrämli had stolen some grenades for a German agent and passed on drawings of secret military installations he had made himself for a small fee. He was the first of a total of seventeen traitors who were executed in Switzerland during World War II . This event was written down by Niklaus Meienberg and processed by Richard Dindo in the documentary of the same name The shooting of traitor Ernst S. According to contemporary witnesses, the execution took place in Wildberg.
In January 2008, Niederglatt's status as a local parish was revoked by the canton of St. Gallen. In October 2009, the Oberuzwil community was renamed Oberuzwil-Dorf.
coat of arms
- Above a half-divided and split shield base: (1) made of silver, (2) made of silver and red, (3) two black diagonal bars in silver, a silver mill wheel in blue over a narrow, silver wave bar
The coat of arms gives references to the industry and old noble families, whose castles and possessions were partly in today's municipal area. The mill wheel and the silver wave bar appear in a club flag from 1938. The heraldic figures of the Gielen von Glattburg and the noble von Eppenberg appear in the base of the shield .
Attractions
Arts and Culture
schools
The primary schools in Oberuzwil, Bichwil and Niederglatt belong to the municipality of Oberuzwil . The upper school Schützengarten is also located in Oberuzwil . On December 31, 2010, 776 pupils attended kindergartens, primary schools and the upper school. The Breite vocational school center in Uzwil is also in the immediate vicinity .
leisure
The municipality of Oberuzwil has an indoor pool and an outdoor pool with a beach volleyball field. The community includes several gyms with outdoor facilities (one triple gym and three simple gyms), two multi-purpose halls with stages, shooting ranges, a tennis court and a skate facility. The Alti Gerbi cultural center has a youth room and a toy library . There are also three scout homes and a local museum.
Personalities
- Isaak Gröbli (1822–1917), inventor of the ship embroidery machine
- Jonas Näf (1826–1867), lawyer and politician
- Emil Mäder (1875–1936), politician (KVP) and national councilor
- Emil Abderhalden (1877–1950), physiologist and discoverer of Abderhalden's defensive ferments
- Ferdinand Gehr (1896–1996), painter of sacred pictorial subjects
- Iwan Wirth (* 1970), art dealer
literature
- Karl Beisbardt, Albert Billinger, Franz Deiss, Andreas Eisenring, Ueli Gubler, Bruno Klaus, Mario Klaus, Beat Müller-Bachmann: Oberuzwil: Three villages - one municipality; 1803-2003 . Anniversary font. 2003, 152 pages; Patronage: Oberuzwil municipality.
Web links
- Website of the municipality of Oberuzwil
- Beat Bühler: Oberuzwil. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
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 .
- ↑ Facts and figures on the municipality of Oberuzwil. Retrieved March 7, 2011 .
- ↑ a b Oberuzwil community is now called Oberuzwil-Dorf ( memento from June 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), St. Galler Tagblatt, October 29, 2009
- ↑ Local plan Uzwil / Oberuzwil, Jonschwil, Oberbüren, Niederbüren
- ↑ Numbers and facts from Oberuzwil, Bichwil and Niederglatt. Retrieved March 7, 2011 .
- ^ Constitution of the municipal authority for the term of office 2009-2012. (PDF; 67 kB) (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on December 9, 2015 ; Retrieved March 7, 2011 . 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.
- ^ Oberuzwil local council. Retrieved March 7, 2011 .
- ↑ a b c Oberuzwil anniversary publication: Three villages - one community; 1803-2003 . P. 135 ff.
- ↑ report. In: Tagblatt , December 20, 2007
- ↑ Construction work will begin at the end of May . In: Wiler Nachrichten , May 22, 2009, p. 17
- ^ Entry of "HC Färberei Oberuzwil AG" in the commercial register of the canton of St. Gallen
- ↑ Use the army area again . In: St. Galler Tagblatt , November 20, 2009.
- ↑ Chimney must give way . St. Galler Tagblatt Online, January 29, 2011
- ^ Oberuzwil: Heer company chimney blown up - era comes to an end. (No longer available online.) In: www.tagesschau.sf.tv. Swiss television, April 1, 2011, archived from the original on April 1, 2011 ; Retrieved April 13, 2011 .
- ↑ a b Federal Population Census 2000
- ↑ Construction work awarded . , tagblatt.ch; Proof of canton road number
- ↑ a b c SR 741.272 Through Roads Ordinance, Appendix 2, Art. 3, B. Main roads that are not marked with the “number plate for main roads” (4.57). admin.ch, accessed on May 25, 2011.
- ↑ Traffic obstruction between Niederbüren and Bischofszell ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , sg.ch, accessed on May 25, 2011 (proof of the cantonal street number )
- ↑ Kantonsstrasse No. 54, Uzwil: Node expansion ( Memento of the original from October 5, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , easymonitoring.ch, accessed on May 25, 2011. (Proof of the cantonal street number )
- ↑ POLICE COMMANDO; TRAFFIC ARRANGEMENTS ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 238 kB), luetisburg.ch, page 2, accessed on May 25, 2011 (proof of the cantonal street number )
- ↑ Lindenplatz: First step towards upgrading the center ( Memento of the original from January 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , infowilplus.ch, accessed on May 25, 2011
- ↑ StiASG , Urk. III 217. Online at e-chartae , accessed on June 12, 2020.
- ↑ Michael Hug: The executioner's place. In: St. Galler Tagblatt. May 2, 2011, accessed September 5, 2011 .
- ^ Niklaus Meienberg: The shooting of the traitor Ernst S. Zurich 1977, ISBN 3-85791-201-4
- ↑ Numbers and facts from Oberuzwil, Bichwil and Niederglatt (2nd part). Retrieved March 7, 2011 .
- ↑ uzwil.ch
- ^ Hanno Rauterberg: The imperialist from Oberuzwil . In: Die Zeit , No. 40/2005
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