St. Peterzell

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St. Peterzell
Coat of arms of St. Peterzell
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Canton of St. GallenCanton of St. Gallen Canton of St. Gallen (SG)
Constituency : Toggenburgw
Political community : Neckertali2
Postal code : 9105 Schönengrund ( forest )
9127 St. Peterzell
former BFS no. : 3376
Coordinates : 731 174  /  242220 coordinates: 47 ° 19 '4 "  N , 9 ° 10' 25"  O ; CH1903:  731174  /  242220
Height : 701  m above sea level M.
Area : 9.38  km²
Residents: 1172 (December 31, 2007)
Population density : 125 inhabitants per km²
Website: www.stpeterzell.ch
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St. Peterzell is a village and a former political municipality in the Neutoggenburg district and since 2003 in the Toggenburg constituency of the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland . Since 2009 St. Peterzell has been part of the Neckertal community together with Brunnadern and Mogelsberg . The village of St.Peterzell has about 600 inhabitants.

geography

St. Peterzell is located on the middle course of the Necker . The neighboring communities of the former community were Hemberg , Schönengrund , Schwellbrunn and Degersheim . The community consisted of the villages of St. Peterzell and Wald , which forms a locality with Schönengrund, as well as the outlying areas of Stofel, Rüti, Schönenbühl, Aemisegg, Chäseren, Arnig, Eggen and Hönenschwil.

history

Former Propstei St. Peterzell
Aerial photo by Werner Friedli from 1957
Parish before the merger in 2009

As early as the 11th century, three pilgrimage routes were united in St. Peterzell. Today two sections of the Camino de Santiago meet here . The place name St. Peterzell goes back to a monastery-like institution. This was first mentioned in a document in 1178 as "cella sancti Petri". Originally it was probably a hermit settlement . In 1214 St. Peterzell was called a monastery. In the 1220s, the institution only had the rank of provost and was subordinate to the Benedictine Abbey of Alt St. Johann as a priory . In 1227 the name was transferred to the place. As the provost of St. Johann, St. Peterzell enjoyed a separate administration. The bailiwick rights lay with the Counts of Werdenberg , then with the nobles of Rorschach and from 1340 with the Counts of Toggenburg . Free men mentioned in 1399 were freed from the main and robe fall in 1484 and were given the right to elect Ammann . Between 1524 and 1531 - during the Reformation - the provost was closed. In 1555 the St. Johann Abbey was incorporated into the Prince Abbey of St. Gallen , which in 1565 gave the residents of St. Peterzell and Hemberg the same legal status as the other Toggenburgers through land law . St. Peterzell formed its own court until 1798 . In 1803 the political community and the local community St. Peterzell-Wald were created.

After 1533, Catholic worship was reintroduced and a Catholic parish was established in 1565. The beneficiary letter of 1538 recognized the Reformed parish. The church and the provost building continued to belong to the abbey and St. Johann, but were used equally. The Reformed parish was supplied from 1564 to 1709 from Hemberg. In 1610 and 1650 there were abkurungen. In 1722 the first parity, later Catholic Baroque Church of St. Peter was built. The simultaneous relationship lasted until 1963 when the Reformed Church was built. From 1516 there was a Catholic winter school in the Mesmerhaus, the reformed school in the village was introduced in 1680. From 1865 the community had a secondary school organized as a cooperative, and in 1951 the Upper Neckertal secondary school community was founded with Hemberg. The denominational schools existed until 1959.

Population development
year 1827 1850 1900 1950 2000
Residents 943 1193 1272 1007 1256

In addition to agriculture and forestry, trades and a little industry were added. St. Peterzell has had a railway connection in Brunnadern since 1910. From 1912 postbuses operated between St. Peterzell and Schönengrund, in 1921 the line was extended to Brunnadern. The Dürrenmoos area, which is partly on the soil of Hembergs, was placed under nature protection in 1974.

In a vote on October 21, 2007, the residents of the then political community voted for a merger with Brunnadern and Mogelsberg to form the new Neckertal community on January 1, 2009.

Attractions

There are several buildings in St. Peterzell that are among the oldest Toggenburg houses :

  • Upper Türmlihaus in Furt from 1614

  • Lower Türmlihaus, built in 1620

  • Red House

  • House Bädli

photos

  • Catholic Church and Propstei

  • Interior of the catholic church

  • reformed Church

  • Typical Toggenburg houses in the village center

Web links

Commons : St. Peterzell  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b St. Peterzell. On the website of the municipality of Neckertal, accessed on June 19, 2020
  2. ↑ a b c d e Beat Bühler: Sankt Peterzell. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
    These sections are largely based on the entry in the Historical Lexicon of Switzerland (HLS), which, according to the HLS's usage information, is under the Creative Commons license     - Attribution - Distribution under the same conditions 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0).
  3. ↑ Ways Switzerland on jakobsweg.ch
  4. ↑ The history of the provost's office. On the website of the Propstei St. Peterzell, accessed on June 19, 2020