Rotmonten

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Rotmonten
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Canton of St. GallenCanton of St. Gallen Canton of St. Gallen (SG)
Constituency : St. Gallenw
Political community : St. Galleni2
Postal code : 9010
former BFS no. : 3203031
Coordinates : 746 263  /  256071 coordinates: 47 ° 26 '21 "  N , 9 ° 22' 40"  O ; CH1903:  746263  /  256071
Height : 740  m above sea level M.
Residents: 2707 (May 2017)
Website: www.rotmonten.ch
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Rotmonten is the northernmost quarter of the Swiss city ​​of St. Gallen with around 2,700 inhabitants.

St. Peter and Paul (1969)

Surname

Stefan Sonderegger, city archivist of the local community of St. Gallen, explains that Rotmonten means something like "undeveloped, uncultivated mountain". Martin Arnet derives this as follows: The Latin word "mons" (Eng. "Mountain") occurs in the name. In the first part, Arnet sees the Latin adjective "rudis" (Eng. "Untreated, raw, undeveloped"), that is: uncultivated, uncultivated mountain. - The assumption that the name “Rotmonten” has a connection with the Latin Latin “rotundus mons”, which means “round mountain”, does not make sense with regard to the actual shape of the terrain.

history

The place became famous through the battle near Rotmonten on June 16 and 17, 1405. Until it was incorporated into the city of St. Gallen in 1918, Rotmonten was part of the municipality of Tablat . The Rotmonten community was incorporated into that of the City of St. Gallen on January 1, 2009.

Location and demographics

Rotmonten is largely on the southern flank of the Rosenberg , a hill north of the city center, some groups of houses are on the ridge and individual districts are also on the northern flank of the Rosenberg on the edges of the Hätteren and Klosterfrauenwald above the Sitter valley .

In May 2017, the statistical district of Rotmonten was inhabited by 2707 people. When composing the 2014 figures, some demographic features stood out. At 24% of residents aged 65 and over, this proportion was the highest in the city and 7% higher than the average. The proportion of people under the age of 20, at 20%, was also above the urban average, if only by 3%. The share of working age between 20 and 64 was the lowest of all neighborhoods at only 56%. Equally remarkable is the proportion of Swiss people with 80% (average 70%) in the population and the fact that not a single resident came from non-EU Europe.

The Rotmonten district has the highest rents in the city and the largest living space per capita. Together with the Rosenberg district to the west, it is therefore considered the city's “villa district”.

The district is connected to the city center by lines 5 (as a trolleybus ) and 9 of the St. Gallen transport company (VBSG) .

Schools and public institutions

The University of St. Gallen is at the western end, and the Holzweid continuing education center that belongs to it is fairly centrally located on the northern slope of the quarter. The constant growth of the university is a burden for the quarter, as a lot of high-quality living space is occupied by the university.

With the school houses 'Rotmonten' and 'Gerhalden', Rotmonten has 2 primary schools with 450 students in 16 classes. There are also 6 kindergartens in Rotmonten.

The Peter and Paul Wildlife Park in northeast Rotmont and is an important local recreation area in St. Gallen.

Rotmonten also has a public outdoor pool, the 'Badi Rotmonten', which is located on the northern flank of the hill.

Personalities

Web links

Commons : Rotmonten  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Martin Arnet, The place and field names of the city of St. Gallen, 1990 Flurnamen.cg
  2. ↑ FfS - STADA - registration. Retrieved June 22, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Brief portraits of the 18 quarters of the city of St.Gallen. Office for Social Issues, Neighborhood Work Peter Bischof Amtshaus, Neugasse 1-3 9004 St.Gallen, May 21, 2015, pp. 46-47 , accessed on June 19, 2017 .